Origin of Wei Zhuang in Puxi, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province

It is said that more than 600 years ago, Weijiazhuang area was still a vast wasteland. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), Xu Shicheng, the magistrate of Xinghua County, mobilized immigrants from Suzhou and Kunshan to settle here, aiming at planting grass and reclaiming land for growing grain. The first people who came here were Wei, Wang, Qu and Yang. Because Wei was the first to arrive, Zhuang was named "Wei Zhuang". Later, due to the influence of the whirlwind of eradicating the "Wei anti-Yu party" in the late Ming Dynasty and the single biography of Wei surname by several generations, the popularity of Wei surname did not flourish. At present, there are only nine Wei surnames left in the village. Qu, Wang and Yang account for more than half of the village.

Weizhuang, commonly known as Weijiazhuang. In the middle of the city, at the northeast end of the country. 22.5 kilometers away from the county seat. Baitu River in the south, pig iron, Liu Lu village and grain seed farm in the west, Hainan town in the north and Caofeng village in Chang Rong town in the east. With more than 2,000 households 1 10,000 population, 1 10,000 mu of grain fields and 3,000 mu of wasteland, it is the largest village in xinghua city.