History of Baihou Town

Baihou used to be called "Baihou", but it was changed to Baihou after the Republic of China, meaning "more talents". Baihou Town is located in the east of dapu county, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. It is the nearest town to the county seat, with only 1 1 km, and the tea-saving line runs through it. The town covers a total area of 94.2 square kilometers, with 7038 hectares of mountains and 785 hectares of cultivated land. Jurisdiction over 14 administrative villages (Hounan Village, Houbei Village, Xinle Village, Caonian Village, Ruanqiao Village, Jiuzhaili Village, Maoshan Village, Qutan Village, Henggan Village, Dongshan Village, Nanshan Village, Sougou Ping Village, Wutang Village and Bailuo Village), with 285 villagers' groups and 3,000 people.

Baihou Town is the hometown of overseas Chinese. According to statistics, there are more than 30,000 overseas villagers and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in the town, mainly distributed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, North America, Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province and other countries and regions. The number of relatives of the "three groups" in the town has reached 1.4 million, accounting for more than 40% of the town's population.

Baihou Town is the "hometown of cadres". Baihou talents are distributed all over the country and all over the world, especially in education, politics and business. Yang, Yang Yingbin, Liu Zhaolun, Xiao Yuehua, Yang, Yang and Xiao Ruchuan are all Baihua people.

Baihou Town, with simple folk customs and beautiful scenery, is a famous cultural town with a long history. Since ancient times, the style of writing has flourished and talents have emerged in large numbers. The allusions of "a family of poets and calligraphers" and "Miyake, a belly and four heads" spread to Kyushu. There are twelve scenic spots, such as "Twelve Scenes in the Back of the Mountain", "Morning Bell in Masi Temple", "Under the Old Rongyin", "Facing the Cuisine in the West Rock" and "Sunset in the East Profile", which are known as the "hometown of culture".

In 20/0/0, Kloc was awarded the fifth batch of "China Famous Historical and Cultural Towns" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and National Cultural Heritage Administration, and it is one of the four famous historical and cultural towns in China, Meizhou City.

Textual research on the place name of "Baihou"

Baihou was called "Baihou" in ancient times, and its name can be seen in the cliff stone carving of Caigudong. "At the age of 42. There are four fallacies in digging this cave: there are immortals in Baihou Cave, and mountains and rivers are centuries old. ..... Division: In the first year of the Jubilee, mid-spring was ugly, and the first mountain was rich. Qian, a stonemason, was born in the first year of Longxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 163). He set up this stone at the age of 42. In other words, in the first year (1205), "Dong" was a resident institution in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1403), Zhu Diling, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, presided over the compilation of Yongle Dadian, and the "Baihou" in the General Plan of Lake Chaozhou House was under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou House. In addition, in March, 2007, the author personally went to Zhangtiankeng in Ruanqiao Village for archaeology, and found an ancient tomb in Dinghai period (1587), which was rammed with glutinous rice ash, with a total area of about 80 square meters, a large scale and a solid structure. The tombstone is granite, 1.2 meters high, and the word "Baihou" is engraved directly above the tombstone. According to Yuan He Shi Bian and Shanglong Lu, Bai Hou is the surname.

The descendants of Mi surname (pronounced miē in ancient times) and Zhuan Xu Emperor (zhān xū) took the fief as their surname. According to legend, Lu Zhong, a descendant of Emperor Zhuan Xu, married Ghost Fang and gave birth to six sons. Among them, the sixth son is called Ji Lian and his surname is Mi. Xiong Yi, the descendant of Ji Lian, established a vassal state in Jingshan area, with Danyang as its capital. In 740 AD, Xiong Tong, King Jing, proclaimed himself the King of Wu. His son moved the capital to Ying in 689 AD and changed his country name to Chu. When King Chu Ping was in power, Prince Jian was killed because the Jin army attacked Zheng's internal staff. Xiong Sheng, the son of Prince Jian, fled to Wu and went to Wu Zixu. After Wang Zihui, the grandson of Chu, succeeded to the throne, Chu recruited Xiong Sheng to return to China as a nest doctor and sealed him in Baiyi (now southeast of Baoxin, Xixian County, Henan Province), which was called Bai in history. Jin attacked Zheng, Zi Xi sent troops to save Zheng, Bai made a promise, launched a coup, killed Zi Xi, imprisoned, and set out to reform the political affairs to win the hearts of the people, but ended in failure. After he committed suicide, all his descendants took the ancestral fiefs as their surnames, and some took "Bai Gong" and "Bai Hou" as their surnames. The early Bai family was mainly distributed in Qin, Chu and Wei. Song and Ming dynasties were distributed in Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Fujian. Bai originated in Shaanxi and Henan. As can be seen from the above, "Baihou" originally came from a place name named after a surname. This may be related to the immigrants of past dynasties. On the one hand, many surnames come from place names, on the other hand, surnames are used as place names, which is a unique social phenomenon in the production stage of small-scale peasant economy.

The semantic evolution of "Hou";

During the period from Jiajing to Kanggan in Ming Dynasty, the word "Hou" was changed to "Hou" in Tai Po County Records (film version). It was a defensive facility used to resist foreign invasion in feudal times. In the 25th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1686), Song Sijing, the county magistrate, made the following record on the printed version (film version) of "Geography": "White Crane Society; Fangpingtou Fangqu Beach, Fangpingtou, Xiaxia Village, Xishan Fangdong, Fangnorthwest Pingjiu Pavilion (southwest); Shibian Tian Xin Fangshan Michi Bamboo (Xibei) is located in the north concave head of Wudou, Zhangtiankeng, Yuliangping, Meishutan; You Jiuzhai Village Songbaikeng Wushikeng Shishicheng Village (Baihou); Originally divided into three clubs: Nanshe, Beishe and Baihua, now they are merged into one. The sound of "Hou" changed to "Huan" is the same, but it has lost its original meaning.

In the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi (1688), scholar Yang advocated adding a horizontal word "Bai" to the word "Bai", and abandoning the word "Tu" next to the word "Bai" as the word "Hou", which means "Bai Hou governs the land and has hundreds of titles. (Hou: The ancient second rank was still used in the Qing Dynasty. "Book of Rites": "The rule of the monarch is the rule of the monarch, the monarch, the son, the public, etc." ) Since then, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, some villagers called Baihou Baihou, which has stabilized. In the Republic of China, Tai Po came under the jurisdiction and became a celebrity of Baihou.

Among the three elements of place names, sound, form and meaning, sound and form carry the communicative function of place names and reflect their practical use value. "One" is the soul of a place name. When naming it, it contains all kinds of human and geographical characteristics of geographical entities, which embodies its potential historical and cultural value. Therefore, in practical application, the inheritance and development of righteousness should be placed in a crucial position. The place name of Baihou evolved from the simple surname of Baihou in the late Song Dynasty to Baihou with historical and cultural connotation in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, from which we can see the expectations of our ancestors for this land, which is the place name heritage of Baihou Town.

The white monkey is known as the "hometown of culture". In the early years of Qing Emperor Kangxi, three sons of Hou Nan Jinshi Yang were all Hanlin. A new school was established in the waste department in the late Qing Dynasty, and Hounan Buti Primary School was the earliest school in the county. In the 14th year of the Republic of China, private Baihou Middle School was founded, which actively publicized Tao Xingzhi's educational thoughts and sent a large number of talents. Baihou Kindergarten was founded before the Anti-Japanese War, and it is famous all over the country. There are 2 kindergartens, 9 primary schools, middle schools 1, central health centers 1, Changhuan Cultural Activity Center, Theatre and Yang Longsheng Art Museum 1. It is an advanced sports town in the province, and the town cultural station has also been rated as a provincial-level cultural station.