Where is the Watuan Dam (Rubble Dam, Wazhe Dam) in Jiangxi?

The famous tile dam was originally an ancient ferry by Poyang Lake and a distribution center for immigrants in the early Ming Dynasty. Government officers and soldiers will gather the arranged immigrants at Waxieba, and then board the ship and send them to Anqing and other places. Because of the age, with the decline of legends, the descendants of immigrants gradually forgot the specific ancestral home and fixed their memory concept on the "Waba", as if "Waba" had become their original home and the home of a homesickness complex, just as East China and other provinces only remembered the "big locust tree". In fact, the original residence of Waxieba immigrants is distributed in Raozhou and Jiujiang counties of Jiangxi Province. The migration destination of Waxieba immigrants is mainly Anqing House and its surrounding areas. According to the first volume of the History of Chinese Immigrants: "1389, twenty-two years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty: By this time, there were about 270,000 immigrants from Raozhou and Jiujiang in Jiangxi who moved to Anqing." In this immigration, Wang played an important role because of his large population. As a result, there are a large number of Wang residents in Anqing today, such as Tongcheng, known as the "Thirteen Kings in Nine Miles".

On September 9, 2065438+0/KLOC-0, Hefei Evening News published an article by Freeman Shen, saying that "most of our ancestors in Hefei moved from Maoshiba in Poyang County, Raozhou District, western Jiangxi Province in the Ming Dynasty." 1949 When I was in the first grade of primary school, I heard my grandfather say, "Our Yang family has passed down from generation to generation, saying that our surname Yang in Momeitang, Hefei, moved from' Wazheba' in Jiangxi in the late Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, peasant troops such as Zhang and Zhang burned down Fengyang's imperial tomb, and then they traveled around the country, passing through Hefei. At that time, many Hefei people were scared to flee to other places, resulting in a small population in Hefei, so one of our ancestors moved from' Wazheba' in Jiangxi to Dongxiang, Hefei County, Luzhou, South Zhili. " So, what is the relationship between this "tile dam" and the "rubble dam" in Freeman Shen's article?

In Hefei dialect, it is often said that bricks are broken, and broken bricks are called bricks, and broken tiles are called "broken tiles" or "broken tiles" (the word "eight" here, like the word "eight" extending in all directions, means "the most"). A tile or an earthenware is broken when it is broken, and it is even more broken when it is broken into many pieces, so it is called "broken tile" or "20% broken tile".

I remember when I was a child, guests came to dinner at home, and adults always carried the square table against the wall to the middle of the room. But because the room is muddy and uneven, the table is unstable. At this time, the adults will order: "Hey, go to the yard and pick a tile to stabilize the legs of the table." So I ran to the backyard and picked up a broken tile.

My neighbor's children and I went to the pond to play "floating", that is, everyone picked up a broken tile, bent down and threw it on the surface of the pond. The broken tile floats and jumps on the water, and then sinks into the water to see who can throw the broken tile farthest. At this time, the winning child said, "I throw far, and my strength is greater than yours." Other children said, "Far from being strong, you threw a' 20-fold tile' (sound' disappear', meaning' thin'), which is relatively light and not easy to sink." It can be seen that in Hefei dialect, "Wazhe" is "Maoshi" and "Wazhe Dam" in Jiangxi is "Maoshi Dam" in Jiangxi.

A friend of mine surnamed Zhou once said, "Our ancestor surnamed Zhou moved from Wazheba in the west of Jiangxi to the foot of Zipeng Mountain in Xixiang, Hefei in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to escape the rebellion. At that time, there were many earthen kilns in Wazheba. My ancestors burned earthen kilns, so my family taught our descendants to care for earthen kilns from generation to generation. Until now, my earthenware is not used. It should be put in the corner well. Never throw it away or damage it. This is the rule set by our ancestors. "

Based on this, I infer the origin of the name "Rubble Dam": there are many brick kilns beside a river dam, and kiln households sell baked tiles or earthenware, and the defective products are thrown on the ground at will. After a long time, the ground was covered with broken tiles, so this place was named "Rubble Dam (Wazheba)".

According to Freeman Shen's article, Shen Le, the ancestor of Bashang, moved to Hefei in the early Ming Dynasty. According to my friend Zhou's account and my grandfather's words, from the beginning to the end of the Ming Dynasty, people from the "Maoshiba" in Jiangxi moved to Hefei one after another.

Jiangxi Waba is located in Lianhu Township, west of Poyang County 10 km. After a long historical evolution, the word "dam" gradually disappeared, and the tile dam has now been changed to "tile".

According to research, it was once an ordinary village in the south of the Yangtze River and an ancient ferry, located in Lianhu Township, about 10 km west of Poyang City, Guyi County. The Yangtze River and Xinjiang enter the Great Lakes from here.