History of Xijiao Village in the Western Suburb

There are two theories about the origin of the western suburbs. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, due to frequent wars, heavy corvee, and years of natural disasters, people's production in Hebei was severely destroyed, and the population of Hebei was greatly reduced due to death, exile and exile, and the villages were depressed, resulting in the desolate scene of "Chun Yan has nowhere to go, and Beijing is a thousand miles away". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to resume production as soon as possible and develop the economy of auxiliary areas, in the twentieth year of Hongwu (1384), the imperial edict "Those who moved to Zeze, Shanxi" was promulgated. Lu Erzhou has no country, but goes, calms, guides, Taikang and other places to cultivate self-cultivation. " After Judy became emperor, he moved to Beijing. At this time, he also fought from Jiangxi, Shanxi and the desert (in Inner Mongolia). According to historical records, during the reign of Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle, both set up bureaus in Guangji Temple in Hongtong County, and set up a special relocation management organization-Yongle 14 (14 16). Judy, Ming Taizu, ordered Shanxi people to settle fields in places like Calm, Jinzhou and Haocheng, and people from Pingyang, Datong, Yuzhou and Guangling moved to counties in central Hebei in Yongle 15. At that time, the people who were moved were concentrated in Hong Tong by county, registered and established the state, issued "Take a photo, Zichuan", and then moved in droves. At this time, the people moved to Hebei. Therefore, some new villages even retain the names of villages where immigrants originated. According to the survey, there are 1 13 villages in the suburbs of Shijiazhuang. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were more than a dozen relocated villages such as Dong Jiao, Xijiao, Majiazhuang, kong zhai, Tancun, Wangcun and Huaidi. For example, in Huaidi Village, the villagers named it Huaidi to commemorate the party under the big locust tree. Regarding the origin of the name of the village in the western suburbs, according to Mr. Song Zixiu, his village, he had been to Hongdong County when he was working in Shanxi in his early years, and there were four corners in the southwest of the county: east, west, south and north. I don't know if it's a coincidence or if the immigrants there still use the original village name. Some people in his village once went to Shanxi to seek roots and ask their ancestors, and once burned incense and worshipped in front of the ancestral tablets.

Although these two statements have different descriptions of the construction process of the village, they all agree that the western suburbs were newly built when Shanxi migrated to Hebei in the early Ming Dynasty, and their construction time can be roughly set in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, around 1384, with a history of more than 600 years.

I have to mention Mr. Lu Lao here. He is very helpful to our investigation. He is a retired cadre of the Association for Science and Technology. In fact, we are going to do an investigation with a given task. The old man and several other farsighted old people (whom we have never met) have already felt some worries. I told him bluntly that I had been to Huaidi village for investigation before, and most of the villagers there didn't like being called city dwellers, but seemed to prefer rural life. Then I asked him what the attitude of their villagers was, and I told him that this was also part of our investigation. The old man didn't talk at first, but later he told me that most young people in the village were afraid of being called rural people by outsiders, and even the name of the village was changed to "Urban Garden". Now their hukou is actually a city hukou, and then he took out a few pages of pamphlets for me to read. This is the preface to a book called Talking about the Western Suburbs drafted by him and several others. The main idea is to prevent the disappearance of the history and culture of the village, and collect information and write a book to educate the descendants of the villagers while there are still several old people familiar with the history of the village. However, this book was drafted in 2002, but now it has been shelved, probably. The old man sighed, but he said he would always start over. He also showed us a lot of materials, including inscriptions copied by him and others, and the plan of the village before liberation. At that time, the village was very large, with about 23,400 mu of cultivated land. At that time, there were many temples in the village, such as Huanggu Temple, Wuxian Temple, Guandi Temple, Sanguan Temple, Laozutang Temple, Quanmiao Temple, Wudao Temple and Songzi Old Mother Temple. Wang Gui will talk about temples and inscriptions in the western suburbs in the next section. )