Jin Xiang Zhen, Cangnan County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Jinxiang Township

Jinxiang town is located in the Jiangnan long plain area of Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, bordering on the East Bay, 120 degrees 36 minutes east longitude, 27 degrees 26 minutes north latitude, 23 kilometers away from the county seat. Jin township has a long history of more than 600 years. It is a military Acropolis in the Ming Dynasty with profound cultural heritage.

Historical evolution

According to the annals of Cangnan County, Cangnan today was the land of Ou people in Dongyue during the spring and Autumn period.

Jinxiang is close to the sea. In ancient times, it was an ocean. Later, with the outward movement of the coastline, Yingling (now Shishan) gradually surfaced. In 1384, when the city was built, there was a prophecy that "the earth came from the sea", which accurately and artistically revealed the vicissitudes of nature. During the Warring States period, it belonged to Yue first and then to Chu. In Qin Dynasty, it belonged to central Fujian. From the Han Dynasty to the Jin and Kang dynasties, it was under the jurisdiction of Minyue state, Donghai king, Huipu, Zhang'an, Kangning, Luoyang, Anyang and Angu counties. After the fourth year of Taikang (283), except for Angu and Yongjia, they all belonged to Pingyang County. Pingyang was named Shiyang at the beginning and Hengyang later. In 914, it was renamed Pingyang.

Ming Hongwu 20 years (1387) built Chengyuan, home jinxiangwei, for coastal defense in southern Zhejiang, under the jurisdiction of Pumen, Zhuangzi, Shayuan 3. The name of Jinxiang town was first found in Longqing (1567-1572) Pingyang County annals of Ming Dynasty. In 1661, Jinxiang and other coastal residents moved inland for more than ten li. In the ninth year of Kangxi (1670), the people of Jinxiang returned to their hometown. Xuantong three years (1911), renamed Jin township.

In 1932, it was called Jin township. It belonged to the Fourth District in 1935, Jiangnan District in 1938, Yishan District in 1939, Jiangnan District in 1947 and Jinxiang District in 1950. In March 1958, it was called management area, and in September of the same year, it was renamed brigade, belonging to Jinxiang people's commune.

In January 1962, it was renamed people's commune, belonging to Jinxiang district. In February 1984, Jinxiang township was established, with jurisdiction over six townships, namely Dayu, Shipeng, Yanting, Huli, Laocheng and suburb. In February 1985, it belonged to Jinxiang district. In February 1987, it was a town directly under the county, with three offices in Huli, Laocheng and suburban areas. In 2005, it has jurisdiction over 4 offices and 61 administrative villages in urban area, suburb, old city and Huli. The total number of households in the town is 20022, with 73105 people.

In 2011, Yanting Town, Dayu town and Shipeng Township were abolished, and their administrative areas were merged into Jinxiang township. After the adjustment, Jinxiang town has jurisdiction over 7 residential areas and 79 administrative villages. The town government was originally stationed at Yingxu Road, and later moved to Wuyi village due to construction.

In 2016, the jurisdiction of Jinxiang town was adjusted and Dayu town and Yanting town were added. After the adjustment, Jinxiang town governs 5 communities (7 residential areas and 66 administrative villages) including Shipeng, urban area, Huli, old city and outskirts. The town government is relocated to Wenyuan Road, Wuyi village, and the original site (square house) is vacated to repair Jinxiang Museum.

Jinxiang was called Yingzhou in ancient times. Yingzhou was within the scope of "Hengyu shipyard" where Zhou Yu trained the Navy during the Three Kingdoms period, and belonged to "Huipu area". "Xiaojin township" rose in the late Tang Dynasty. 250 years later, in 1129, the third year of Zhao Jianyan, Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinzhou township was established, which belongs to Pingyang County. As for why it is called Jinzhou Township, some people say that when Jinzhou Township floated from the sea, there were wrecks with gold, silver and jewelry; some people think that it was because there were JINZI mountain and Fuchuan mountain in the south of Jinzhou Township, each named after one word. From the rise and fall of Yongquan temple, the stone horse in huangnaiao, the funerary ornaments of shiwengzhong and the cliff carvings in Meiling, we can see that merchants gathered and gradually prospered from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. Jinxiang region in the Three Kingdoms period, under the "Luoyang county.". In 1894, when the villagers of Jingtou village in Yunyan Township excavated the tomb at the foot of the mountain, they found "Zhuman's wife's Dihu", a stone with inscriptions. "Bi" is the ancient term of "contract" and "contract", that is, the land lease for Zhuman to buy land and bury his dead wife. Zhuman was the Lijie Duwei in the fourth year of Xiankang (294) of Jin Dynasty. It can be inferred that he was stationed near jingtouben at that time. Jingtou is only 30 li away from Jinxiang. It can be seen that people lived in this area during the Jin Dynasty. In addition, in June 1997, the investigation found that there were ancient stone shed tombs in Tongqiao village of Qianku town. Stone shed tombs, also known as branch stone tombs, generally appeared from the late Neolithic to the early iron age. This proves that before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancestors had lived and multiplied in the Jiangnan area, tracing the history of the surrounding areas of Jinxiang back to ancient times for thousands of years. As for the present Jinxiang City, there are no words to test whether there were sea water shocks or were submerged from time to time.

By the time of emperor Chen Zhuzhen (587-589), there was a "jin'ao Temple" in Lingfeng, the northern suburb of Jinxiang, commonly known as Wai temple, which was the earliest temple with inscriptions in Jinxiang. According to the county annals during the reign of Qianlong, Lingyun Temple (commonly known as Dongsi) was built in Lingfeng during the reign of Xiantong in Tang Dynasty (860-874). Yongquan temple and siguping nunnery in Meifeng, Jinxiang, were built in 1079, Yuanfeng, Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that there were "one thousand monks and eight hundred nuns" in history and they were famous. Later, they were burned and destroyed in Shunzhi, Qing Dynasty. Recently, it has been rebuilt to protect historical relics. When moving the ancient tomb, we found the burned bones, which can be used as the material evidence of "burned once". It can be seen that some high-lying areas around Jinxiang were inhabited in succession from Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty to Jin Dynasty, southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, and were quite prosperous in Song Dynasty. The stone carvings of Ma Xianggong on the ancient Meifeng road definitely prove that there were many merchants in the past.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were townships and capitals below the county level. From the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, we can see that "Jinzhou township", which belongs to Pingyang County, is the origin of the name of "Jinxiang". As for why it is called "Jinzhou township", it is said that when the Jinxiang area floated from the sea, there were wrecks with gold, silver and jewelry; some people speculated that there were JINZI mountain and Fuchuan mountain in the south of "Jinzhou township", each named after one word.

In 1387, in order to resist the Japanese invaders, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Tang He to build a city in Jinzhou Township, which was renamed Jinxiang Wei. In 1661 of Shunzhi reign of Qing Dynasty, the imperial court carried out the policy of "forbidding the sea to move the boundary". The residents in the area of Pumen in Jinxiang moved ten li inward, and the cutting wood was the boundary. All the coastal houses outside the boundary were burned down, and all the residents moved from outside the boundary to inside. The place where they were moved was full of sorrow, and all the benefits of fishing and salt were lost. In the ninth year of Kangxi reign (1670), the imperial court ordered the "exhibition" to restore Jinxiang and other places, and called jinxiangwei "jinxiangzhai". Later to the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, there was Li Geng's "Jin Zhen Tu Ji". It can be seen that in the Qing Dynasty, there was no "Jin township" name.

During the period of the Republic of China, the title of "Jinxiang" began to appear and remained unchanged until the founding of the people's Republic of China. In 1981, "Pingyang County" analyzed the county, and a new "Cangnan county" was built. Jin township was subordinate to "Cangnan county".

From north to East and south to west, there are many fishing ports in Jinxiang, such as Badao, Yanting, Shipeng, Dayu and Xiaoyu. Eel fry, prawn, shad, box fish, yellow croaker, swimming crab, etc. are all available, so that the most precious yellow lipped fish (commonly known as Huanggan) also appears in the vegetable market from time to time (now it is extremely rare). There are also clams, clams, salted fish, rock milk, yellow mud snail and other fresh seafood. "Tu tou Tiao Yu Shao Cai Gan" and "Qingshui juanmen climbing vegetable basket" are the true portrayal of the abundance of seafood.

Jinxiang is a famous historical city against Japanese invaders. Although the climax of the Anti Japanese war was set off in the Jiajing period of the middle Ming Dynasty, its representative was Qi Jiguang. The prologue was in the Hongwu Period in the early Ming Dynasty, and its representative was Tang He. Tang He was 160 years earlier than Qi Jiguang.

Anti Japanese war is a long-term war that has gone through several centuries, and it is a major event that can not be ignored in the history of our country.

From the 14th century to the 17th century, the samurai who failed in the domestic scuffle in Japan became pirates. With the support of some feudal lords and temple landlords, they colluded with the local tyrants, hooligans and Pirates of our country and frequently carried out smuggling and looting, which became a major disaster for the coastal people of our country.

According to historical records, Japanese pirates were recorded as early as the early Ming Dynasty, especially in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the three or four years after the 31st year of Jiajing, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were killed. In coastal areas, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian suffered the most, affecting Shandong and Guangdong. In the face of the invasion of Japanese pirates, the coastal army and people rose up to fight against Japanese pirates, performed a series of solemn and stirring live dramas, and finally won the final victory.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were two different attitudes towards the invasion of foreign enemies among the upper class of the imperial court. One is determined to resist out of national righteousness, such as Tang He. On the other hand, he tried to use external hostile forces to serve his own interests and political conspiracy, such as Hu Weiyong, the Prime Minister of the left at that time. Hu Weiyong's shameful behavior of leading wolves into the house further sets off Tang He's awe inspiring righteousness of resisting Japanese invaders.

The Jinxiang Acropolis, designed and supervised by Xin Guogong Tang He, has two characteristics: one is militarization; the other is the "eight trigrams" layout of Nanjing Forbidden City After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Zhu Hongwu's national policy was Zhu Sheng's nine character strategic national policy of "building walls high, accumulating grain widely, and slowly becoming king". It was also the historical background of Zhu Yuanzhang's order that Tang he should "merge the sea to set up a guard" and set up 59 guards along the coast of Zhejiang Province. The layout pattern of Nanjing forbidden city is the same as that of Jinxiang, that is, Liu Ji's Bagua city. There are "Xuanwu Gate" and "Xuanwu Lake" in Nanjing, which are named after "Qinglong, Zhuque, Baihu and Xuanwu" in the eight trigrams. Therefore, Jinxiang "dig Tian River" has been transformed into a pool for three years. Xia Shouan, a teacher of Jinxiang middle school, named it "kan Chi", which is also from the eight trigrams“

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