Baisui Square is adjacent to the Yangtze River and is located in front of the Zeng family’s house between Yuliang North Road and Jiuhua Gate. It is a birthday celebration square built by the Zeng family for Mrs. Xu. The archway is made of bluestone, and the arch is inlaid with a three-character porcelain plaque "Centenary Square" fired in Jingdezhen. The whole archway is beautiful and majestic.
The Zeng family was a member of the Zeng Guofan family, the leader of the Hunan Army. After the failure of the Taiping Revolution, the Zeng family returned to their fields and settled in Jiujiang, where they made a fortune by selling tea and rice. When Mrs. Xu of the Zeng family was 99 years old, the Zeng family celebrated her "100th birthday" according to the custom of "doing nine but not ten". They made preparations for a long time. First, they expanded the land and rebuilt the mansion on the original homestead. The main building of the new mansion was a two-story building. There was a "return"-shaped patio in the courtyard, and there were many wing rooms separated by wooden walls on both sides. The carvings are exquisite and lifelike, both simple and modern in architectural style. There is a bluestone "Centenary Square" built in front of the house. On the day when the house was completed, the Zeng family organized a banquet to celebrate in Jiujiang hotels. The news that the Zeng family congratulated Mrs. Xu on her birthday spread throughout Xunyang. It really became a household name, known to all women and children, and the Centennial House was also known to all. Become known to everyone.
After the Revolution of 1911, the Zeng family began to decline, and the "Centenary Square" also became obsolete and dilapidated due to the erosion of hundreds of years of wind and rain, especially many floods. At the end of the last century, when Jiujiang City carried out unified planning for municipal construction and expanded Binjiang Avenue, it was demolished in 1990 after repeated negotiations with the descendants of the Zeng family. The Legend of Jiujiang 1
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Citizens looking for the truth tell about the unstained lotus growing out of the mud in the lotus pond
The lotus pond was in the former school, which is opposite the current Chaoyang Primary School. It was opened by Su Zhizhong, the prefect of Chenghua County in the Ming Dynasty. It covers an area of ??about five acres and was filled up during the Republic of China.
The lotus pond is named after Zhou Dunyi's "Shuo on Love of the Lotus". Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), courtesy name Maoshu and Lianxi, was a native of Daoxian County, Hunan Province. He successively served as the commander of Fenning (now Xiushui) in Jiujiang and the military guard of Nankang Army (now Xingzi). He founded Lianxi Bookstore in Jiangzhou. In his later years, he resigned and lived in seclusion in Lianxi, Jiujiang. During his lifetime, he had a message: "My descendants will be natives of Lianxi, Jiujiang." He died in Jiujiang in 1073 and was buried with his mother, Mrs. Zheng Tai, and his wife in Lishu Ridge at the northern foot of Mount Lu. Zhou Dunyi, "inherited from Confucius and Mencius and from Cheng Zhu", is the founder of Neo-Confucianism in my country during the Song and Ming dynasties. He occupies an important position in the history of Chinese culture, philosophy, thought and education, especially his upright character and noble sentiments, as in " Like the lotus in "The Theory of Love and Lotus", it is deeply revered by future generations.
Zhou Dunyi loved growing lotus and praised the lotus as "coming out of the mud but not stained, washing the water without being stained, clearing the ripples without being evil, straight from the middle to the outside, not creeping or branching, fragrant and clear from afar, neatly planted, and can be viewed from a distance." The noble quality of "not to be played with". His lofty state of being clear-minded, not seeking wealth, and being indifferent to fame and fortune greatly influenced the scholar-bureaucrats of later generations. In the eyes of literati, the lotus has become a symbol of integrity, self-discipline, uprightness, indifference to fame and fortune, and no pursuit of wealth.
Although the lotus pond in Jiujiang City has long been filled in, its name has not disappeared, but has been replaced by a road name. Lianhuachi Road starts from Xunyang Road in the north and ends at Gantang South Road in the south, with a total length of about 300 meters. To the north of the middle section of the road was the Lianxi Academy, which was founded in the 50th year of Qianlong's reign (1785). Its former site is today's Jiujiang Repertory Theater. and the area near the city’s No. 5 Middle School. This road is long, quiet, winding and winding, and it is quite interesting to walk along it. The Legend of Jiujiang 1
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Citizen Cai Houchun talks about the beautiful memories carried by the misunderstanding of Meichenpo
Meichenpo is located in the downtown area of ??Xunyang. It is adjacent to Wugui Factory in the east, Xunyang Road in the south, facing the Lotus Pond, Confucius Temple in the west, and Dazhong Road in the north. It is about 200 meters long and about 7 meters at its widest point. It was originally a natural slope. In the old days, there were several sidewalks running up and down the slope, extending in all directions. Most of the houses here were originally small residential buildings. Since the early 1990s, developers have been engaged in real estate development here and have leveled this slope.
Regarding the origin of the place name "Meixianpo", a more detailed statement is as follows: During the Chongde period of the Qing Dynasty, a businessman named Mei who had been doing business abroad for many years returned to Xun to settle down. He bought land and built a house on the slope, and opened a cloth shop on the street in front of the slope. This man especially liked "Periwinkle" (common people call it "Four Seasons Plum") and planted several plants in front of the house where he lived. This kind of flower has many flowers, a long flowering period, luxuriant flowers and full of vitality. In autumn, the flowers wither, but the four-season plum blossoms still bloom so dazzlingly. This is true even in winter, so it has the reputation of "spring every day" and "plum blossoms all year round". When the nearby residents saw it, they loved it and came to ask for and plant it. For a time, plum blossoms bloomed up and down the slopes. This is how "Meixuan Slope" got its name.
It is worth pointing out that when people in Jiujiang pronounce this place name, there are often two misnomers. One said: "Mei Dingpo". This may be a typo, because the right side of the word "撧" happens to be the word "ding". It is in line with the saying "The eldest son reads part of it, and the dwarf reads half of it." The second one is: "Coal Slope". This is probably a mistake of hearing and speech among Jiujiang people. As long as everyone pronounces the three words "Meixianpo" quickly in Jiujiang dialect, it sounds very much like "Coal Slope".
Today's "Plum Blossom Slope" has neither "mei" nor "slope". But it left people with good memories, as well as expectations and yearning for the future of Xuncheng. The Legend of Jiujiang 1
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Citizens looking for truth tell that Huanpu Road embodies the thousand-year history of Jiujiang
Huanpu Road is about 1 mile long from the mouth of the original Longkai River to today's Dazhong Road.
Jiujiang was once called "Pancheng" in history. The source of Longkai River is "Penshui", and its interface with the Yangtze River is called "Penshuitou". "Pen River" originates from Qing Huan Mountain in Ruichang, with a total length of 150 miles. Because there is an ancient well on the top of Qing Huan Mountain, shaped like a basin, it is named, also called Huan River. Historically, the Pen River flowed into the Yangtze River through the Longkai River. Jiujiang people called the river estuary "Pen Pu", which is how it got its name.
Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty once wrote in "Pan Paishui": "The lakes and mountains are beautiful everywhere, and I love the head of Pan Shui the most. The water flows from the southeast into the river." Bai Juyi lived by the river at that time. In the famous long poem "Pipa Xing", he wrote: "The land near the Huanjiang River is low and humid." Because of the great influence of "Pipa Xing", later generations built an ancient "Pipa Pavilion" at "Pan Pukou" (the Pipa Pavilion currently located on the east side of the bottom of the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge is not the former site of the ancient Pipa Pavilion) to express their respect for Bai Juyi The road next to it was named "Panpu Road" out of admiration and nostalgia.
In March 1861, the British imperialists signed the "Jiujiang Land Lease Treaty" with the local authorities in Jiangxi based on the "Sino-British Treaty of Tianjin" and the "Sino-British Charter of Commerce" and transferred the Jiujiang Passenger Terminal (today's Agriculture, Industry and Commerce Shopping mall) and a large area of ??land east of the original Longkai River were designated as British concessions. In 1862, the British filled up the Penpu Port in the concession, carried out extensive construction, built roads and houses, and widened the original Penpu Road. At that time, Jiujiang people called it "Foreign Street". The British Consulate, the Japanese Consulate, the British Police House, the Court, the French Catholic Church and the Catholic Hospital were built on this street. This road is a powerful testimony to the political, economic and cultural invasion of the Chinese people by British imperialism under the guise of "trade" and the "concession" as its stronghold.
From January to March 25, 1927, Jiujiang workers and citizens, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and with the support of the Northern Expedition Revolutionary Army, took back the British Concession and Penpu in one fell swoop. road. This feat of the Jiujiang people has been recorded in the history of China's modern revolution. Today's Penpu Road still retains some original buildings and relics, such as the former site of the Japanese Consulate. It is a witness to history and an excellent teaching material for the people of Jiujiang to be patriotic and anti-imperialist.
Penpu Road has a profound cultural heritage. It records the historical origins of more than a thousand years from Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing" in the Tang Dynasty to the British Concession in the late Qing Dynasty. It is a strong evidence that Jiujiang has become a famous historical and cultural city. .
Citizen Lan Ping talks about Xiyuan
The epitome of Jiujiang City
Xiyuan is located in the center of Jiujiang, starting from Yuliang North Road in the east and Dazhong Road in the south. It reaches Hongxuan Lane at the west gate of Huancheng Road in the west and Binjiang Road in the north, with a total area of ??6 hectares. During the late Qing Dynasty, this was the seat of the Jiujiang Government Office. A large garden was built on the west side of the Government Office Gate, called the West Garden. The West Garden was famous for its typical Jiangnan garden architectural style at that time. In 1918, the government demolished the government offices, sold the foundations, moved them and rebuilt them, and the West Garden gradually withered. Later, many people occupied infrastructure and built houses here, and West Garden gradually became a residential area. Later generations replaced the name of the West Garden with the name West Garden in order to make it easier to pronounce. This is how the West Garden got its name.
In 1938, the Japanese invaders occupied Jiujiang. In order to centrally control the Chinese, they forcibly moved the residents west of the Longkai River to the Xiyuan area. Later, refugees from Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and other places also settled there. In West Park. Therefore, during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiyuan was called a "refugee area". From the Anti-Japanese War to the eve of liberation, most residents of Xiyuan were poor people in the urban area. Some of them sold fish and vegetables, some pulled rickshaws, some helped people carry water, and some sold Jiujiang-style snacks. All walks of life are relatively complete in Xiyuan. In this small community, there are people who open grocery stores, wine shops, doctors, private schools, and fortune tellers. It can be said that Three teachings, nine streams, and seventy-two practices are all available. The Little West Garden can be called the epitome of Jiujiang City.
Xiyuan is praised for its "five unique features". First, the roads and alleys are intertwined and intricate. According to statistics, there are 92 lanes in the entire Xiyuan District. The longest lane is 250 meters and the shortest lane is only 30 meters. The widest road is 4 meters and the narrowest is 1 meter. Second, the lane is deep and deep. For example, Jiefuli is 30 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. The names of the lanes in Xiyuan are full of cultural color. They refer to the Fuyuan, which means great blessing; Tongrenli is taken from the sentence "The saints treat everyone equally, and they treat people as close as they are" in Han Yu's "The Original Man"; Tongli is taken from "Dangdang". The sentence "Book of Jin" "If you share the same virtue, you will share the same heart". Third, temples are scattered among them. The fourth is dotted with water wells. Before the Anti-Japanese War, there were more than twenty wells in Xiyuan. Now, except for the thousand-year-old Langjing, there is only one well left. The fifth is environmental sanitation. In 1954, Xiyuan made positive contributions to Jiujiang’s title of “National Sanitation Model City”. In 1962, Xiyuan people carried out comprehensive renovation of all lanes of all sizes in the entire area. Since 1963, Xiyuan people have been awarded the honorary title of Sanitary Model Community in the region and the city in successive years.
Although Xiyuan is just a small piece of land in the center of Jiujiang City, it condenses Jiujiang’s political ups and downs, economic rise and fall, and cultural heritage in the past century. In 2003, the Jiujiang Municipal Government demolished and renovated the houses in the Xiyuan area. The demolition area reached more than 80,000 square meters, involving more than 1,460 residents and enterprises and institutions. In 2005, it was built into a shopping, leisure, tourism, catering, and entertainment complex. An integrated large-scale urban shopping plaza. The century-old West Garden has since become a piece of history and will forever remain in the memory of Jiujiang people. Legend of Jiujiang 2
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Preserving the city’s history
One day, I went to look for an ancient house with a few friends. After wandering around the riverside city for a long time, I couldn’t figure out where the “Yue Shimen” was. I asked pedestrians on the roadside, but they didn’t know why, let alone give them any advice. Tired of walking, I simply sat down with my friends on the banks of the Xunyang River and called friends who knew more about Jiujiang’s history. It turns out that "Yue Shimen" is on the riverside, and the ancient house we are looking for is not far away. Looking at the tall buildings rising up like a race along the river, we suddenly feel a little unfamiliar with the city we live in.
It is said that Jiujiang is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2,200 years. But look at the current city, how many historical relics are there? Not to mention the old houses before the Qing Dynasty, there are only a handful of buildings from the Republic of China period. Fortunately, many old place names in Jiujiang are still there. Old place names are another kind of relic, which are the "business cards" of a city's history.
Place names that really cannot be preserved should be introduced, recorded, and preserved in local chronicles as historical relics, so that more historical materials can be found, so as to leave something for future generations. Legend of Jiujiang 2
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Collections of old place names
Excerpted from Jiujiang Daily and Yangtze River Weekly
Yuliang Road starts from Binjiang Road in the north to Taling South Road in the south, with a total length of about 1 kilometer. When mentioning Yuliang Road, you must mention Yuliang Tower, and you must mention Yuliang. Yu Liang was a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When he was the governor of Jiangzhou, he "tried to build a building at the end of the Huanjiang River" and was "known as Yu Liang Tower". The road to the east of the building is named Yuliang Road, which is cut into two sections by Dazhong Road, namely Yuliang North Road and Yuliang South Road.
Kaopeng Road is connected to Xunyang East Road in the south, opposite the Municipal Government Courtyard, and Beisi Road in the north. It is 180 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. It is the birthplace of primary and secondary schools and technical secondary education in Jiujiang City.
Li Gongdi, commonly known as Xiaoba by Jiujiang people, spans the lake, starting from the south gate in the north to the east gate of Gantang Park in the south, with a total length of more than 300 meters. When Li Bo was the governor of Jiangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, he built a dike on the lake to facilitate cross-strait travel. Later generations named it "Li Gongdi" to thank and commemorate him.
Dufu Alley is located in the middle of Xunyang District, starting from Dazhong Road in the south, to Dudufu (now the Jiujiang Military Division Station) in the north, and connected to Chaisang Road, with a total length of 135 meters and a width of 12 meters. During the Three Kingdoms period, Governor Zhou Yu guarded Chaisang and built a mansion here. Later, the road leading to the mansion was called Dufu Lane.
Xiao Qiao Lane is now the Chaisang Branch Road, starting from Chaisang Road in the east and ending at Dutian Lane in the west. It is about 300 meters long. It is named after Xiao Qiao, the wife of Zhou Yu, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms.
Dutian Alley The street near Dutian Temple is called Dutian Alley. It is at the foot of Yanzhi Mountain in today's Xunyang District, starting from Dazhong Road in the south and Binjiang Road in the north, with a total length of 500 meters.
The official card clip is about 1.5 kilometers west of the Binxing Subdistrict Office, extending to Chun'anli in the east, to the aircraft dam in the south, to the Jiujiang Cement Shipyard in the west, and to the Yangtze River in the north. There are sections of Beijing Road, Nanjing Road and Jiurui Road. It used to be called the "Bad Card Holder" because it has always been a strategic location due to its important geographical location.