Who knows the ancient history of Xinhuang County, Huaihua, Hunan?

Yelang Ancient Country Xinhuang, the name of a county in Huaihua City, Hunan Province. Yelang, ancient county name, today's Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County was once called Yelang County. Corridor, that is, in and out of the aisle, the text refers to the Xinhuang traditionally is the Central Plains in and out of the southwest must pass through. Cradle, meaning the birthplace of things, the text refers to explore the birthplace of Chinese civilization. The purpose of writing this article is to follow the footsteps of the ancient Yelang people, through the corridor of Xinhuang, in and out of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the southwest, from point to point, from near to far, to explore the genes of ancient Chinese civilization. First, Xinhuang: archaeological discoveries show that the earliest discovery of Hunan's first human remains in Xinhuang, Xinhuang and its surrounding area is the birthplace of civilization in southern China Where is the earliest discovery of the first human remains in Hunan? Xinhuang. Xinhuang is the westernmost county in Hunan Province under the jurisdiction of Huaihua City, and further west into Guizhou Province. Huaihua is the "train dragged out of the city", located in the Central Plains and the southwest of the key, Qian Dian must pass through the place, the ancient Qian Dian gateway, Xiang Qian Chuan E Gui five provinces, known as the gateway, Hunan Province, Hunan Province, Xiang Gui Railway and the Jiao Liu Railway, Hohhot to the Beihai 209 National Highway, Xiamen to Chengdu 319 National Highway and Shanghai to Kunming 320 National Highway, are intersected here. Xinhuang is located in the center of the Central Plains and Southwest China. Xinhuang is at the "gateway" between the Central Plains and Southwest China, above the "throat". The period from 3 million to 10,000 years ago is called the "Paleolithic Age". Is there any Paleolithic in Hunan? Archaeologists have searched limestone caves for many years in the hope of finding Paleolithic artifacts, but have not been able to do so for a long time, and in 1987 the Paleolithic site of Daqiaoxi, Xinhuang County, appeared out of nowhere, filling the gap of no Paleolithic site in Hunan. The archaeological discovery showed that in the Yuan River basin, more than 100,000 years ago, the first human beings in Hunan used their hands to open the chapter of Hunan's prehistory. Since then, Hunan Paleolithic archaeology has entered a new world of singing and beautiful flowers, and a number of Paleolithic sites have been discovered in the Yuan, Li, Zishui and Xiangshui basins, whose history began about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. A series of archaeological discoveries show that the ancient human beings in Hunan, after tens of thousands of years or even hundreds of thousands of years of long years, for the development and conquest of the three Xiangshui, for the creation of Hunan civilization, the history of the initial step is also the most difficult. Hunan Publishing House published in January 1994, edited by Wu Xinfu, Hunan General History?6?1 Ancient Volume, page 4-5 records: "In May 1987, in the province's cultural relics census, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County found eight Paleolithic sites, namely, Jiangkou, Caojiaxie, Bailin, Xincun, Shawan, Changleping, Shijiaping, Shiduoxi, and more than 100 pieces of chopping and smashing tools, scraping tools, pointed tools, stone flakes, stone combs and other objects were collected. These eight sites where Paleolithic tools were unearthed are located on top of the first and second terraces on the west bank of the Bac Wu Shui River, a tributary of the Yuan Shui River, ...... about 50,000-100,000 years ago." "Since the discovery of the first batch of Paleolithic cultural sites in Xinhuang and other places in 1987, Hunan cultural relics and archaeologists have successively censused hundreds of Paleolithic sites and ...... unearthed thousands of Paleolithic specimens. The distribution of sites is still dominated by the Yuan and Li basins". Among the representative sites are: Shatian site in Lianshan Township on the left bank of the Drainage Water and Huangmao Township on the right bank of the Wushui Water in Huitong County, Pengjiaxi site in Jiangdong Township on the right bank of the Drainage Water in Jingzhou, Tingzixi site in Jiangkou Town on the right bank of the Chenshui Water in Mayang County, and Xiaoxiakou site on the right bank of the Bac Wushui Water in Zhijiang County. In late October 2002, the author, together with Mr. Lin He, a famous expert in cultural anthropology and folklore, carried out a comparative research study on "Chinese Civilization Gene and Hunan", starting from Changsha, passing through Chenzhou - Yongzhou - Guilin - Huaihua - Guilin - Huaihua. -From Changsha, he traveled through Chenzhou - Yongzhou - Guilin - Huaihua - Qiandongnan to conduct a comparative study on the position of rice culture, moral culture and folk culture in the origin of Chinese civilization in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang and Yuanjiang rivers, and after arriving at Huaihua, he met with Liu Zhizhi, deputy director of the Party History Office of the same city, After arriving at Huaihua, he traveled with Liu Zhifeng, deputy director of the Party History Office of the city and deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Society for Minority Literature, and was invited to have academic exchanges in Xinhuang County. The comparative study of this trip confirmed some of the views that the two had put forward: "Hunan is the world's rice kingdom and the important birthplace of Chinese civilization", "Chinese civilization is not up and down 5,000 years, but more than 10,000 years", "the source of Chinese civilization 10,000 years ago". The source of Chinese civilization 10,000 years ago was in the Yangtze River Basin", and "the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River are the important birthplace of civilization in southern China". There are four main bases: First, the upper reaches of Xiangjiang and Yuanjiang (including Qiandongnan) are the earliest birthplace and spreading area of the world's rice culture; second, the Dong, Miao, Tujia, Yao and other ethnic minorities have made important contributions to the ancient Chinese civilization; third, the earliest Silk Road in China was the Silk Road on the water from the southwest to the west, which is 1,000 years earlier than the Silk Road to the West, which was opened by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty; third, the earliest Silk Road in China was the Water Silk Road from the southwest to the West. -Silk Road 1,000 years earlier; Fourth, Hunan and Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing and E. A large number of archaeological discoveries show that the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River is the important birthplace of China's southern civilization, Xinhuang from ancient times to the present day is the corridor of the Central Plains in and out of the Southwest region. Second, Yelang: Xinhuang was once known as Yelang County, the ancient Yelang culture has distinctive regional characteristics Where is the ancient Yelang country? Is Yelang arrogant? Where is the county of Yelang? In this regard, in recent years in the ancient Yelang people have lived in the place, people are exploring, discussing, arguing. Historical records, archaeological remains and generations of Yelang culture, is to answer these ancient doubts. Xinhuang County, located in the western border of Hunan, used to be Yelang County. Some people ask, "Is it true? The answer is yes. Xinhuang has a long history, belonging to Qianzhong land of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qianzhong County in the Qin Dynasty, and Yelang Country in the Han Dynasty. Tang set up the Yelang County, the Five Dynasties to the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty for the shake County. Qing Jiaqing twenty-two years (AD 1817) set up shangzhou Zhili Hall. In 1956, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County was established. The history of Xinhuang's establishment has been recorded in many square records. In the preface of the "Records of the Hall of Xinhuang County" compiled in the fifth year of the Qing Dynasty, it is written: "Xinhuang County is an ancient Yelang country". The establishment of the history of the volume also contains: shangzhou ancient Qianzhong County, the upper reaches of Chu and the northern gate of Yuan also, in the Han Dynasty belonged to the Yelang State. ...... Tang ZhenGuan eight years (AD 634) analyzed the LongBiao set up night Lang, Langxi, Siwei three counties, under the witch state, the county land belongs to the night Lang. In the second year of Wu Zetian (691 AD), Wushu Prefecture was changed to Yuan Prefecture, and Yelang was analyzed to set up Weixi, which was located in the area of present-day Laohuangcheng. Yuanhe County Records: "Yelang County was changed to Eshan in the first year of Tianbao". Jiaqing Yitongzhi: "Tang set night Lang County, later changed to Eshan, five generations for the barbarians". Tongzhi Zhijiang County Records: "the water around the cool armature scattered cottage, the former county of Yelang". Yuanzhou Prefecture Records: "the ancient government (now Zhijiang County) two hundred and forty miles, hole holes interlaced, deep streams, bordering Qian Barbarian ...... contained in the former county of Yelang, when that is the ancient wangzhou rule." The Commercial Press in March 1986 published "Dictionary" and Shanghai Rhetoric Publishing House in August 1980 published "Dictionary" on the night Lang County, respectively: "Tang ZhenGuan five years set up, in today's Hunan XinHuang DongZhouZhongXian realm. It was abolished in the Five Dynasties. The Northern Song Dynasty was reset in the second year of Daguan, and then abolished in the second year of Xuanhe." "Tang Zhenguan five years (631 AD) set up. The seat is in the southwest of present-day Zhijiang, Hunan Province." History called the ancient county of the night Lang there are three, in the southwest of present-day Guizhou Shichian County, Tang Wude four years to set, Zhenguan first year of abolition; two in the present-day Guanling County, Guizhou, after the abolition of Liang Dabao in the Southern Dynasties; three in the present-day Xuanwei County, Yunnan, the Han set up, after the abolition of Liang Dabao in the Southern Dynasties. Yelang, the name of the ancient country in the southwest of China during the Han Dynasty. The center of the night Lang location, so far there is no conclusion, the academic community's understanding of the divergence is also very big. Liaoning Education Publishing House published in June 1998, "Qian Gui culture" (by Huang Tieming) that: "the Warring States period, in addition to the State of Chu Qianzhong land, the State of Qin Qianzhong County, Qian Gui territory are the territory of the great Yelang country." Sichuan People's Publishing House published "Yelang culture tracing" (Tang Wenyuan, Liu Weiguo) introduced: "After the Han Book", "the Warring States period Yelang", "east of Jiao-toe, west of Dian, north of Qiongdu State. "From the successive literature, Fangzhi records and the liberation of the archaeological data after the corroboration of most scholars in the field of history that the center of the Yelang should be in the western or southwestern part of present-day Guizhou." The territory of Yelang in its heyday included the whole province of today's Guizhou, as far as Xinhuang in present-day Hunan in the east, Yulin and Nandan in present-day Guangxi in the south, Qujing and Luliang in present-day Yunnan under the jurisdiction of the west, and present-day Chuannan in the north. Sima Qian's "Historical Records?6?1 Southwest Barbarians" said, "Southwest Barbarians ruler to the number of shi, Yelang the largest." During the Heping years of Emperor Chengdi of Han Dynasty (28 -25 BC), the ancient Yelang Kingdom ended when the rebellion of Wang Xing of Yelang and his clansmen was quelled. In the first year of Yuanjian (122 B.C.), Han envoys Wang Ranyu, Bo Shichang, and Lv Yueren were ordered to Yunnan to explore the road to the Body Poison, and returned via Yelang. Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" reads: "The king of Yunnan said to the Han envoy, 'Which of the Han is greater than me?' And the Yelang Hou also, to the road is not accessible so, each thought a state Lord, do not know Han big". Dian Wang arrogant, the Yelang Hou also arrogant, historical fact. But later because of the metaphorical arrogance for "Yelang arrogance". With the change of the ancient Yelang, the history of many writers and scholars because of Yelang and left a thousand songs. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the immortal lines "I heard that Wang Changling moved to Longbiao and sent this message from afar" when he was relegated to Longbiao (i.e., today's Qianyang): "The poplars have all fallen and Zi Gui cries, and I heard that Longbiao has passed through Wuxi. I send my heart with the bright moon and follow you to the west of Yelang." Ancient Yelang, beautiful scenery, mountain color haze, formed on this piece of land Yelang culture, passed down from generation to generation, the legacy remains, so that Xinhuang has become China's present day rice culture, Drum Tower culture, Wu Nuo culture preservation of the most complete area, unique ethnic customs, with obvious regional characteristics and ethnic characteristics. Third, the corridor: Xinhuang has always been the Central Plains in and out of the Southwest region of the road is by the animals along the mountain ranges and water systems out of the road is by the people of the mountains, water bridge repair out of the road. "In the ancient times, the people were few and the beasts were many, and the people were not able to defeat the beasts, insects and snakes", so they lived a life of constructing trees as nests to avoid the beasts. People live by the water, walk with the water, constantly walking footprints, gradually formed a trail-like road. However, the "Great River Valley" is still in the state of "washed out road". As early as 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, during the era of Yao, Shun and Yu, it was very common to travel by car on land, by boat on water and by sled on mud. During the Xia Dynasty, Emperor Yu opened land and water routes to nine states, including Jingzhou, part of Hubei and Hunan. After the unification of China by Qin Shi Huang in 221 B.C., he began to build roads on a large scale throughout the country, centering on Xianyang, the capital of Qin, and extending to all parts of the country. Road construction in the Han Dynasty than the Qin Dynasty had a big development, appeared "the sea for a switch beam, Chi mountains and swamps of the forbidden, is to rich merchants around the flow of the world, the trade of goods do not pass" the situation. The Tang Dynasty, on the basis of inheriting the layout of ancient routes, adopted the form of eight-direction radiation, forming a complete road network centered on Chang'an, the capital, and the national trunk roads (stagecoach routes) stretched out from Chang'an and radiated to all parts of the country. Liu Zongyuan analyzed the interrelationship of the trunk roads as follows: "From the four seas and oceans, the total is divided to the pass, and from the pass, the bundles are combined to the king's capital"; "The meeting of all nations, the coming of the four barbarians, and the way of the world are all within the state". Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic of China and contemporary, the layout of the national routes are based on the ancient routes, according to the new needs of the continuous expansion and improvement, the difference is that the center of radiation changed in Beijing. From ancient times to the present, there are two main routes from the Central Plains to the Southwest China, one is to enter Guizhou and Yunnan from Sichuan, where the Shu Road is difficult and hard to reach, i.e., to enter Sichuan's Maozhou and Songpan from Shaanxi, and then go to Guizhou and Yunnan via Luzhou and Xichang, and the other one is to enter Guizhou and Yunnan from Wuchang, Changsha, and Yuanling via Xinhuang. In the sixth year of Jianyuan of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty (135 B.C.), Tang Meng, the order of Panyang, wrote a letter saying, "It is true that with the strength of Han, and the richness of Ba Shu, the passage of the Yelang Road for the placement of officials. It is very easy." Emperor Wu made Tang Meng as the Zhonglang general, leading 1,000 generals and 10,000 supply wagons to enter Yelang (present-day Anshun, Guizhou) from Fuguan to build the road, which was only opened when he marched into Yelang in the sixth year of the Yuan Ding era (111 B.C.E.). From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the stage road into Guizhou and Yunnan was passed through Sichuan. The Yuan, Ming and Qing stage routes to Guizhou and Yunnan were through Hunan into Guizhou. In June of the twenty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1391), "officials were sent to repair the road from Huguang to Yunnan". The Yunnan official road of the Qing Dynasty belonged to the official south road, and the route started from Beijing through Zhengdingfu, Kaifengfu, Wuchangfu, Changshafu, and then through Guiyangfu to Yunnanfu. The distance from Beijing to Changsha, Guiyang and Yunnan Province was 1721 kilometers, 3667 kilometers and 3936 kilometers respectively. "The journey to Jingchu in the east will be finished, and the road to Qianyun and Yunnan in the west will be long". The reason why Xinhuang can become the necessary road for the central plains to enter and leave the southwest region is that: in the Wuling Mountains and Xuefeng Mountain Range, which are the remnants of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Xinhuang formed the bac Wushui River Valley terrace leading to Guizhou, and this river valley terrace has become the gateway for the central plains to enter and leave the southwest region, and this is the reason why the stagecoach road, commercial road, national highway and railroad have been developed in the area since ancient times, which is much earlier than the Silk Road that crosses the Eurasian continent. 1000 years earlier than the Silk Road across Eurasia, the Southwest Silk Road, the early 1970s to repair the Xiangqian Railway, the construction of the Shangrui Expressway are passing through this place.