The history of Jinqiao in jinqiao town

Jinqiao has a long history. Xia, Shang and Zhou belong to Hengxiang State, the Warring States belongs to Pang Yi, Chu State, the Western Han Dynasty belongs to the post-Middle Wu State, and Tian-qi Wu was ruled by Qiyang County for four years (A.D. 264), which has remained unchanged after the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jinqiao, the county seat of ancient Qiyang, was once a fief for Hou and Bo for three times. In the fourth year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (AD 630), Qiyang County was moved from jinqiao town in Qidong County to Laoshan Bay in Qiyang County (however, the ancient city site has not been found in Laoshan Bay, and the historical records are unknown. At present, Qiyang County has only three years of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, that is, Wuxi Town, the present county town where the city was built in A.D. 1453). According to historical records, during the Yuan Dynasty, a sudden flood destroyed Jinqiao, an ancient town in Qiyang, and Jinqiao was later relocated. After the founding of New China, Jinqiao was the second district of Qiyang County; 196 1 year was transformed into jinqiao district of qidong county; Jinqiao town was founded in1April, 1995, when the district was withdrawn and merged with the township.

According to the Records of Qiyang County and Qidong County, Qiyang County was established from the first year of Sun Haoyuan in the Three Kingdoms to the fourth year of Tianqi (264 ~ 280), and the area around Xiqiaoqiao Village in Jinqiao Town is now "the first city in the county", "the first-class county" and "the special county". It governs 0/5 towns in Qidong County/Kloc, including jinqiao town, Hongqiao, Baihepu, Fengshiyan, Bai Di, Lingguan, Shuangqiao, Guoping, Jiang Niao, Guiyang, Hezhou, Shiliang, Yangjiaotang, Huangnitang and Panshi.

Qiyang County was established in the early Wu Dynasty, which is the first time that the name of Qiyang appeared in the history of China. Because Jinqiao in the county is located in the south of Qishan (ancient Qishan, now Qishan in Hengnan County), it is named Qiyang. Qishan (ancient Qishan) is located at the junction of Qidong, Hengnan and Hengyang counties.

The origin of the name Jinqiao (1)

Jinqiao, formerly known as Golden Basket Bridge, is also known as Jin Lan Bridge.

Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago, there was no bridge in Jinqiao, Qiyang County, and a 50-foot-wide white river cut off the north-south thoroughfare.

On the south bank of the river lived a farmer named Zhou Jide. One day, his two sons crossed the river to see their grandmother, and they both drowned. Zhou Jide was cruel. He cut down 18 trees in the front and back of the house and used them as bridges. But the next day, two wooden piers seemed drunk and fell in the middle of the river.

Not wood, not stone? Zhou Jide gritted his teeth and sold all his possessions, and dozens of stones were built by the river.

Farmers on both sides of the strait, who doesn't want a bridge? As soon as Zhou Jide took the lead, thousands of families came. It's really a hundred dollars, a kilometer, and if you don't have money, you will contribute.

100 More than 7749 days went down the river to fish for stone feet, and there was still a field in the middle of the river to fish for! Hundreds of pounds of square stone-put it down, it was swept away by quicksand. In a hurry, Zhou Jide cocked his skull and smashed it on the stone pile. This collision only hit a broken bamboo basket called Huapo.

This old woman is called Huapo, and everyone knows her. Because the bridge has been built for forty-nine days, she comes to dinner every time. Thousands of meters, thousands of people eat, poor * * * of course, with a word "bitter", without her bowl, unexpectedly, she saved Zhou Jide's life today.

The bridge was not built, and the leader was so anxious that everyone bowed their heads sadly. At this time, I only heard the old beggar say with a smile, "I have eaten your food for forty-nine days." This broken bamboo basket is my meal! " Say that finish, threw the bamboo basket into the white river.

Strange to say, a yellow bamboo basket fell into the river and immediately sent out thousands of golden lights, which blinded people. The river and quicksand quickly dodged to both sides of the river, and in an instant, the solid riverbed was exposed. Then, I saw the bamboo basket become longer, bigger and higher. One end of the horizontal basket reaches the south bank and the other end reaches the north bank, and the bow and bamboo poles of the basket become dazzling golden bridges.

The people who built the bridge were stunned one by one. When everyone woke up, the old woman had already left. Not only the old lady Huapo has disappeared, but also Zhou Jide has disappeared. Everyone was in a hurry, but Zhou Jide's voice came from mid-air: "Thank you folks, I went to the South China Sea with Guanyin Bodhisattva."

Everyone looked up and saw a colorful auspicious cloud floating on the bridge. Sitting on the lotus platform is a majestic jade-faced bodhisattva, and there is a man standing next to him, Zhou Jide. At this time, everyone realized that the old woman named Huapo was Guanyin in the South China Sea. Everyone knelt down in fear and prayed.

It is said that the broken bamboo basket is a treasure basket used by Guanyin Bodhisattva when picking lotus. To commemorate the appearance of Bodhisattva, this bridge was named Golden Basket Bridge. Later, people built the Golden Basket Temple near the bridge, carved the statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva and Zhou Jide, and incense filled the air all year round.

The Origin of Jinqiao (2)

According to legend, Jinqiao in Qiyang County gathers by the river, but there is no bridge connecting the two sides. City residents want to cross the river for business, so they have to cross the river by boat. At that time, the river was very wide, dozens of times larger than it is now, and the current was particularly urgent. On the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there will be monsters in the river, making waves and devouring people and animals.

The residents of the county hired many skilled people to subdue the monster, but it was useless. These highly skilled people were swept away by monsters and never came back. People in the county town were always in fear. One day, a nun came to the county seat and told the people in the county seat that she had come to subdue the monster. Residents in the county town have lost confidence in this matter, and she advised nuns not to die in vain.

Finally, the nun went to fight with the monster for three days and nights, and there was nothing she could do. She had to take out a shiny treasure shaped like a basket from her body and throw it at the monster. She found the monster trapped inside and sank to the bottom of the water. Since then, I have never heard of the chaos of monsters, and the water surface has calmed down a lot, and it is no longer rough.

Although monsters no longer haunt, it is inconvenient for residents on both sides of the strait to get in and out, so they discuss building a bridge. But every time they bridge, as long as they are close to the middle of the river, there will be waves, which makes it impossible to build.

Just as people in the county town were worried about this matter, the nun who fell demon last time came to the county town again, telling everyone that the monster only surrendered temporarily and needed to repair something to contain it, so as to maintain peace forever. The residents of the county saw the nun casting spells that day and had long regarded her as a fairy middleman. They were secretly worried when they heard that she was only temporarily subdued. As soon as they heard that there was something to suppress, they were all busy asking what they needed.

The nun didn't say much, but cast a spell to reduce the river surface, which was originally more than 200 feet wide, to the white river, which is now 50 feet wide, and asked the residents to build a bridge where the law was played. After more than a month, the bridge has been repaired, and the nun shouted the Buddha's name and flew to the sky. At that time, it was glittering. It turns out that Guanyin Bodhisattva has been transformed, and people in the town sincerely bow down and don't mention it.

To commemorate the lost magic weapon of Bodhisattva here, the people of this county named it Golden Basket, and later changed it to Golden Basket, hence the name Golden Basket Bridge. After the changes of the times, the ancient county has become what it is now. For convenience, the name of the town was changed to' Jinqiao'.

Ancient county town

From the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty, the site of Qiyang Ancient County was located in the northern edge of Wuxin Town, jinqiao town. "Notes on Water Classics" contains: "Yuxi River crosses the south of the county and enters Hunan". Yuxi River passes through Baihe River in Qidong County today. Streams in Yuxi often reach the long pond connected to Jiubu in the south. There is a pebble bed at the bottom of the pond, which is said to be the ruins of the moat and the main waterway of the ancient city. There is also an ancient post road leading to the neighboring big cities in the south of the city. There is a shop town business circle opposite the city, and there are ruins such as a school yard and a point platform on the east side of the city.

The textual research of Qiyang Ancient City specifically points out that Qiyang Ancient City is located in jinqiao town, Qidong County. During the period of the Republic of China, Li Fu quoted Li Jianxun's Textual Research on Qiyang Ancient City in Qiyang County Landscape, pointing out that Qiyang Ancient City was located in jinqiao town, Qidong County. 1962 edition of Hengzhouzhi contains: Qiyang "Wu to Sui belong to Jin Lan Bridge in Qidong, now jinqiao town in Qidong County. 1985 10, field investigation confirmed that the ancient city was near Changdeng dike of Jin Lan Bridge in jinqiao town. Changdengbei is located in the northern edge of the existing Xinfang Town, where there is about 50,000 square meters of land slightly higher than other neighboring farmland. The soil is developed from Quaternary laterite, which is the first-class soil for building a city. Behind Xinfang Town is a hill, and in front is an open big town, which is surrounded by mountains and waters, and the land is densely populated. There are ancient tombs such as Lingshangwan, Youzitang, Huangjiawu and Majuantang on the hills behind. The tombs are large in scale, and the unearthed Han bricks, pottery, bronzes and copper coins are ancient in shape. About 50,000 square meters of ground is slightly higher than other adjacent farmland, and the soil is developed from Quaternary soil, which is the first-class soil for building cities. The streams in Yuxi often rise to the south of the north. There are nine connected long ponds in the south of the city, with pebbles at the bottom, which are the ruins of a moat. Yuxi River has always been used by wooden boats and is the main waterway of the ancient city. In the local title deed, there are many place names about the edge of the city. There is a mouth pond next to Changdeng North called Suburb Pond, and there is a shop town opposite it. At that time, it was a business district outside the ancient city. There are tinkers and tables in the east of the city, which is the training place. Passing through the ancient post road in the south of the ancient city, it leads to Paishan to Hengyang in the northeast, to Baoqing (now Shaoyang) and Yongzhou in the northwest, and to Guiyang and Changning in the south, which is the official road connecting the ancient city with surrounding big cities. There is a post temple and a horse farm in the east of the old city, which should be the location of post stations and post horses. There is a main temple in the northeast of the ancient city, a temple with a jurisdiction of 1900 meters, and an entrance to the city wall in the east. This place name handed down is the circumstantial evidence of the ancient city architecture here.

Qian Qian Qiaozhen Street and Xinqiaotou area belong to ancient Qiyang County, and there are county courtyards, schools, kiosks, business districts, post roads, racetracks, post temples, manager temples, management temples and management bridges (today). In fact, the word "Changdengdi" is the dialect homonym of "inside the wall". Place names such as Puzi Town and the mouth of the city wall are circumstantial evidence of the construction of the ancient city here.