Majiadang is located in the southwestern border of Funing County, Majiadang Township, which is adjacent to Jianhu County in the east, bordering Huai'an City in the west, and Baoying County in the south across the swings, as part of the ancient Shiyang Lake. Shyangdang, Chengchengdang, Shazhuangdang and Qinggoudang converge here and are connected together for more than a hundred miles across. The area of the swings is nearly 30,000 acres, which is an important production area for aquatic products and rushes, and a good place for sightseeing and tourism.
Majiadang is a beautiful place, with water and land, unique geographical conditions, forming a distinctive natural scenery. After a long period of construction and development, Majiadang is even more "scenic". Here, the river is longitudinal, the water is clear to the bottom, the lotus root is colorful, and the wild rushes are flying. A small boat swings into the deep reeds, spring to see the abundant water grass, summer to see the shade of the ramp, the autumn is the bushes and reeds shake yellow, winter is the reeds fly, like a paradise. The harbor is dense, the reeds are boundless, it is a blessed place for fish, shrimp and crab to live, and it is also a natural place for poultry raising, it is suitable for growing lotus root and mushroom, and it is also suitable for mussels to raise beads, the 30 kilometers of economic forest road is like a green belt, stretching in the embroidered land. The natural village of Madang looks like a turtle in the water, commonly known as turtle land, with the saying that it will not sink after a long period of rain. Four new fishermen's villages along the river and the water, the houses are arranged in an orderly manner, schools, stores, health care rooms, villages through the telephone, through the car, through the tap water, grain fields into a piece of fish ponds into a square, look at the water township, juice strand of yellow flowers compete for spitting, golden rice floating fragrance, the old farmers sowing to meet the morning moon, the young and strong fishing with the evening voyage. The scenery of the water town is intoxicating, mesmerizing.
Majiadang formation, there is a moving legend, according to legend, the Ming Dynasty, Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple decadence, who is not willing to repair. At this time, there is a northern Suzhou people Ma Liang passed by. In the Jinshan Temple's "on the edge of the book" wrote down "Ma Liang alone to repair the Jinshan Temple, without half a spade of soil in Jiangnan" of the bold words. He did what he said, the organization of tens of thousands of people with a boat from the north of Jiangsu to transport soil south, day after day, year after year, Jinshan Temple was repaired, and that the soil after the depression has become a vast swamp, the descendants of commemorating the Ma Liang, this swamp is called the "Ma Jiamang".
Majiadang, swinging is the water, the history of how many times there have been drought and flooding, "rain when the line, a sea, dry years everywhere can walk. A.D. 1774 (Qianlong 39 years) river overflow Huainan Lao Damkou, 1808 (Jiaqing 13 years) of the Huai block of lotus ponds, 1835 (Daoguang 15 years) drought, 1876 (Guangxu 2 years) spring of brine backed up, so that the people here are displaced, clothes do not cover the body, food does not feed the stomach. "In the summer of 1933, Zhang Zhigao, the leader of the Siyang bandits, fled Majiadang after robbing Yilin. Officials and soldiers to pursue, the army gathered, broke the earth pike, the people of Majiadang suffered from the suffering of the soldiers and bandits. 1944 January, after the martyrdom of anti-Japanese general Ma Yuren, his nephew, Ji Yuting rate of the remaining thousands of people into the garrison. In October of that year, it accepted the reorganization of Huang Kecheng's troops and became an important anti-Japanese army. in November 1949, it started to fight against the bandits, which lasted for 3 months and ended victoriously. At this point, Majiadang really get rid of natural disasters and banditry, the old look for a new face.
"Eight hundred and eighty-sixty-four swings, Majiadang is the first swing", Majiadang has always been a fishery production base. During the Republic of China period, there were professional fishermen who specialized in marine and river fisheries. For a long time, they have no place to settle on land, year-round drifting in the rivers and lakes, school-age children can not read, many generations of illiterate fishermen. 19 years, Funing County Government in Majiadang fishermen land settlement pilot. 378 families of fishermen in Majiadang. The 378 fishermen in Majiadang set up the Hongliu Brigade, 280 Lianjia fishing boats in the outskirts of Funing Town formed the Ride the Wind Brigade, and 100 Lianjia fishing boats scattered all over the county formed the Hongbin Brigade, which all settled in Majiadang Aquatic Commune. The fishermen were either collectively or individually engaged in fishing for quercus, and the county aquatic department often sent officers down to the sea with their boats to guide and buy them at the same time. Due to the improvement of the equipment, the fishery production is rising, and the fishermen's life is improving day by day. In recent years, the fishery production in Majiadang has gained great development again. The total number of people professionally engaged in fishery production in the whole township has reached more than 1,000, and there are 620 fishing motorized vessels with loading capacity of 3,115 tons and total mechanical power of 4,335 horsepower. Annual total marine capture production of 35,000 kilograms (including: 2,400 kilograms of fish, other types of 11,000 kilograms), freshwater fishing 2,227,000 kilograms (including: 772,000 kilograms of fish, shrimp and crab l81,000 pounds of pine, shellfish 1,274,000 kilograms), freshwater aquaculture area of 9,400 acres, with a total output of 988,000 kilograms (including: 636,000 fish) kilograms, shrimp and crab 352,000 kilograms), the fishery revenue of 26.8 million yuan. Production of fish, crabs, shrimp through the Yima line highway and the Yiyan waterway south channel, a steady supply of market, to meet the needs of urban and rural people's lives.
An old poem says: "Chrysanthemum yellow osmanthus fragrance early, Huaiyang all boast lake crab". The big weed crab produced here, with green shell and white belly, rich crab roe, tender meat and delicious flavor, has been a delicacy since ancient times, and became a tribute to the royal family as early as in the Ming and Qing dynasties. At the beginning of the founding of the country, Majiadang big crabs can be found everywhere, the annual output of more than 500,000 kilograms. Sheyang River, North Jiangsu Irrigation Canal downstream after the construction of the gate, crab, fish back to the mating channel blocked, resulting in the extinction of the crab, the 70's, the county department of multiple management every year in the seaside breeding crab seedlings, brought back to the stocking, but the effect is very little. Reform and opening up for the MaDang people put on the golden wings, the deserted beach water slough into a gold beach silver slough, they are on the township fishery rectification, all the township waste ditch, waste ponds, waste land as well as low-lying farmland to organize, all changed into different sizes of aquaculture ponds, aquaculture area of 14,500 acres, built a base of 6,500 acres of intensive cultivation, size of the crab pool of 561. Ascending the Ma Dang Xiaojie lookout platform, far away, the reeds in the crab ponds, one next to another, or garden, or square, or large, or small, scattered, as if in the water, "into the GuaZhuFeng". 20 miles long flood control dike such as a long dragon on the water, constituting a reliable barrier to the harvest season, into the crab ponds, only to see a big green crab, and then the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab, the crab. As if there were no one else, everywhere rampant, crab body fat, crab crab thick, so-called "a belly of gold phase jade quality, two cheeses bright moon in the autumn river". Fishing farmers, in the pool outside the branches of the river, with cards, fishnets, fish traps and other fishing shrimp, laughter and clamor, for the usual quiet swings in the area added a few points of the atmosphere of joy.
In recent years, the local government in the big fish, crab article at the same time, but also put their attention to the development of local resources, to create local landscape features up. They do not affect the flood control, flood storage, flooding under the premise of the development of 5,000 acres of outside the swing, river lotus planting, the formation of ten miles of waterways, ten miles of lotus, swing in the lotus leaves standing, the water beads flashing, crystalline as jade, the lotus wind gusts, around the fragrance of the white lotus swaying in the sky between the blue leaves, appearing exceptionally bright, beautiful, in which, such as in the fairyland. Thousands of years of history of the ancient temple of Huaidong_Dongan Temple, the restoration project has been laid; in the center of Ludang construction of Maliang water park color groundbreaking; 50 acres of hanging jun center is under construction; and water resorts, tourism, sightseeing, vacation, convalescence in a body, Majiadang will be to provide guests with the characteristics of the water township services.
"Oriental winds come full of spring", Majiadang, the water town of northern Jiangsu pearl, along with the pace of reform and opening up, will become more affluent, more beautiful, more desirable.