Qiantong Village

Qiantong Village

Qiantong village, located 14 kilometers southwest of Ninghai County, is an ancient town with Jiangnan characteristics. It was built in 1233 A.D. in the sixth year of shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty. The cobble path, folk houses, old streets and ancestral halls form their own pattern. There are many exquisite sculptures in these buildings, which accumulate rich historical and cultural heritage and have high historical and cultural value. Qiantong ancient town's water eight trigrams are unique in layout and careful in conception, which can be called a unique one in the south of the Yangtze River.

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Qiantong is located 10 kilometers southwest of Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province. The lianghuang Qiantong Xiachen highway passes through the village. With an area of 68 square kilometers and a population of 26000, it is an ancient village in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history, beautiful scenery and profound culture.

Qiantong ancient village is an extraordinary original folk house of Ming and Qing Dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a rural painting with strong ancient charm and a beautiful section of Jiangnan Silk and bamboo tunes. It was built in the late Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Up to now, there are more than 1300 ancient dwellings. Here, "every family has carved beams, and every family has living water.". Eight trigrams water system, whistling, quiet stealth, flow through every household, not water, better than water. The unique scenery has attracted numerous literati and artists to come here in droves. It reflects the numerous art works of Qiantong ancient village. The former Tong Ancient Village Series "hometown of Tongdizhou" is a member of China Museum Association, a national first-class artist, "the first person to paint the former residence of Chinese celebrities", "the first person to paint the famous town, village and street of Chinese historical and cultural city" and a famous painter Mr. thumb The most famous.

The ancient village is a good place to enjoy the folk culture of eastern Zhejiang. It is not only a tourist town in Zhejiang Province, but also a historical and cultural reserve in Zhejiang Province. When we get to Qiantong, if we can meet the Lantern Festival there, it's a great pleasure in life. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, every day after the 11th day of the first lunar month, Qiantong's streets and alleys have become lively. Farmers from neighboring villages such as zhaxia and Xiaye have gathered from all directions. The sound of gongs and drums has been heard all over the countryside. This is in memory of Tong Hao. Because the water conservancy conditions of Qiantong in ancient times were very poor, whether they could have a good harvest often depended on the weather. Tong Hao took the lead and led the township to experience all the hardships. Finally, he blocked the water from Baixi River and poured it into hundreds of canals and gullies, including the "Bagua water system" of the ancient town, which all originated from this project. Later, the former Tong people were divided into a number of canal protection and maintenance groups based on household units, which were rotated once a year until today. Lantern Festival activities in memory of Tong Hao have been passed down

Baixi water edge canal into the village, door-to-door circulation, the formation of every family even water bridge, every household through the pebble path "unique style.

Qiantong's folk culture is rich in the historical and cultural characteristics of eastern Zhejiang, and it is an enduring traditional cultural boutique, especially the annual Lantern Festival. Qiantongsu has a good reputation as the hometown of five craftsmen, especially the traditional exquisite carving, antique furniture and other characteristic handicrafts, which has a unique historical and cultural connotation. Qiantong is located 10 kilometers southwest of Ninghai County. The lianghuang Qiantong Xiachen highway passes through the village. With an area of 68 square kilometers and a population of 26000, it is an ancient village in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history, beautiful scenery and profound culture.

folk culture

Qiantong ancient village is an extraordinary original folk house of Ming and Qing Dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a rural painting with strong ancient charm and a beautiful section of Jiangnan Silk and bamboo tunes. It was built in the late Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Up to now, there are more than 1300 ancient dwellings. Here, every family has carved beams, and every family has living water. ". Eight trigrams water system, whistling, quiet stealth, flow through every household, not water, better than water. The ancient village is a good place to enjoy the folk culture of eastern Zhejiang. It is not only a tourist town in Zhejiang Province, but also a historical and cultural reserve in Zhejiang Province. When we get to Qiantong, if we can meet the Lantern Festival there, it's a great pleasure in life.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, every day after the 11th day of the first lunar month, Qiantong's streets and alleys have become lively. Farmers from neighboring villages such as zhaxia and Xiaye have gathered from all directions. The sound of gongs and drums has been heard all over the countryside. This is in memory of Tong Hao. Because the water conservancy conditions of Qiantong in ancient times were very poor, whether they could have a good harvest often depended on the weather. Tong Hao took the lead and led the township to experience all the hardships. Finally, he blocked the water from Baixi River and poured it into hundreds of canals and gullies, including the Bagua water system of the ancient town. Later, the former Tong people were divided into a number of canal protection and maintenance groups based on household units, which were rotated once a year until today. Lantern Festival activities in memory of Tong Hao have been passed down.

men of talent come out in succession

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhejiang Dongfang Guozhen launched an army against the Yuan Dynasty, and Tong Boli and others supported the volunteers under the contact of Zhan Ding. Later, due to Zhu Yuanzhang's exclusion of dissidents, the case of Fang Guozhen's soldiers was brought about. Ten people, including Tong Boli, were involved in the former Tong's military service.

In Ming Dynasty, fangzhengxue once taught in shijingjingjingshe and cultivated younger scholars. He came to shijingjingjingshe near the name of the scholars. Qiantong became the holy land of Confucianism. There were many scholars and many scholars.

From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 151 scholars in the former children's examination, including 2 candidates.

General Tong Baosheng, a revolutionary of 1911, joined the restoration society in Shanghai when he was young and became one of the leaders of the society in Zhejiang. In 1911, in response to the Wuchang Uprising, he was elected commander of the rebel army. On the night of November 4, he commanded the rebels to recover Hangzhou, and the next day he was promoted as a temporary governor. Later, he organized a national defense army in Zhejiang to fight against yuan, and called him Cai E of Zhejiang. In 1918, according to the will of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, he led the first division of Zhejiang army to revolt in Fujian Province and unite the southern army in the northern expedition. He died in Xiamen the next year. Zhang Binglin wrote "Tong Shizhang's ancestral hall".

Tong Jianhou, a member of the alliance, graduated from Zhejiang special school of political science and law. In the first year of the Republic of China, he was appointed the first governor of Ninghai County. At present, there are 32 retired cadres in Qiantong village, 17 of whom enjoy the treatment above the county level. There are more than 200 professors, painters, senior engineers, doctors, international students and college students working all over the country.

Old revolutionary base areas

In 1827, according to the spirit of the August 7th Meeting of the Communist Party of China, the Ninghai County Party committee of the Communist Party of China mobilized the peasants and organized the agricultural army to prepare for armed riots. On May 25, 1928, more than 50 people from Qiantong rushed to zhu'ao (now Sanmen County) to stand by and support the uprising beside the pavilion on May 26.

In August 1938, he studied in Tiantai Yuqing middle school and joined Tongshi School of the Communist Party of China. He was ordered to return to his hometown and set up the first party branch (belonging to Tiantai County Committee of the Communist Party of China) to carry out the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement. The former children's branch organized Anti Japanese political work teams, reading clubs and literacy classes for farmers in Tashan Township, held lectures, performed, published wall newspapers and periodicals, and publicized the Anti Japanese war. In 1942, he covered for the CPC special committee of Taiwan to set up an underground transportation station in Qiantong, and successively sent more than 130 party members and activists to Siming Mountain and Northern Jiangsu revolutionary base to participate in the Anti Japanese struggle. In early 1943, the Ningxi Working Committee and the Qiantong District Committee of the Communist Party of China were established in Qiantong, with nine branches under their jurisdiction. In March 1944, the Ninghai Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was established. Three of the four members were former Tongren. Former Tongren became the resident and activity center of the Ninghai Working Committee. There were 33 party members at that time.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the Party leadership and troops in eastern Zhejiang withdrew to the north, and the working committee of Ninghai County lost contact with the higher Party organizations for more than half a year, but still insisted on revolutionary activities. At the end of January 1947, Zhou Songgui, the former children's branch of the County Working Committee, received Gu Dehuan, the leader of the Shanghai Party committee, Liu Qingyang, the leader of the East Zhejiang Party committee, and Zhang Renwei, a military cadre, to Qiantong, and held a cadre meeting (Meihua Village meeting) in a neighboring village to convey the instructions of the central China Bureau and deploy to carry out armed struggle in Taiwan areas. In May 1948, the former children's party organization was destroyed by the Kuomintang. Under the white terror, the majority of Party members scattered and concealed, and persisted in the struggle. In August of the same year, the eastern Zhejiang Council decided to open up Shanyang, 20 miles away from Qiantong, as a revolutionary base, and set up the local armed forces in Ninghai, Hongliu troops. Forty four former party members and activists joined the revolutionary base areas and the armed forces. In December 1948, the Siming iron and steel army and the Taiwan owned iron and steel army joined forces in the former Tong, and held the Jinan liberation conference and the anti hegemony and poverty relief conference. On July 5, 1949, the Chinese people's Liberation Army liberated Ninghai County. The former children's party organization mobilized the masses to actively support it.

In January 1978, Qiantong was approved by the Provincial Department of civil affairs as one of the old revolutionary villages in Ninghai County.

Industrial rise

Qiantong handicraft industry has a long history. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Qiantong's red top leather shoes in Shanghai and tailors in Sanbei and Wuhan had enjoyed high reputation. During the period of the Republic of China, the former Tong's craftsmen went all over the world, and many of them engaged in Arts in Ningbo, Shanghai and even Hong Kong. In the 1960s and 1970s, they emphasized the return of labor and restricted the export of labor. The former Tong people did not want to be tied to less than half an acre of cultivated land per capita. From 1968 to 1970, they reclaimed 1000 mu of sea pond in Baiji and planted all oranges. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the reform and opening up, more than 1000 people go out to work in handicraft industry every year. Carpenters, muddy water, Stoneworkers, sculpture and other workers are all over the country, which is one of the villages with the most skilled craftsmen in Ninghai County. The dragon boat, a foreign trade product carved by Tong Xiaohai, won the first prize of excellent new product in the 9th China Arts and crafts Hundred Flowers Award in 1990. The bamboo and wood carving, screen pattern board and furniture pattern carving produced by Qiantong craft factory are exported to Europe and America. For more than ten years, the former children's art team has been engaged in the construction of Xichang temple, Huazang temple and Laba temple in Gansu Province

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