History of Taishun

1. Does anyone know the history of Taishun County, Zhejiang Province?

[Edit this paragraph] Historical evolution In the third year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1452), the county was established. The name "Taishun" means "return".

In the third year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1452), the imperial court sent troops to suppress the peasant uprising team led by Deng Maoqi and Ye Zongliu on the Zhejiang-Fujian border. Fifty-eight, fifty-nine, and sixty-five are 12 miles apart, and Pingyang County's Quiren Township, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and forty-three are six miles away from each other, and the county is set up to govern Luoyang. Emperor Jingtai said that "the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the people are obedient." "This means giving him the name Taishun. He was subordinate to Wenzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Chief Envoy Division. In the Qing Dynasty, the affiliation remained unchanged. In the third year of Xuantong (1911), the Revolution of 1911 broke out, Zhejiang was restored, and Taishun came under the jurisdiction of the Wenzhou Military and Government Branch. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), the Wenzhou Military and Government Branch was abolished. In the third year, Ouhai Road was built, and Taishun belonged to it. In 2016, the road was abolished and a two-level system of provinces and counties was implemented, with counties directly under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province. In 2021, the administrative supervision district system was implemented. Taishun belonged to the 10th County Supervision District of Zhejiang Province (renamed the Fourth Special Administrative Supervision District). In 2022, it was renamed the Third Special Administrative Supervision District. In August of the same year, it was renamed as the resident county of the special administrative area. Named Yongjia Administrative Inspectorate District. In March 23, it was renamed the Eighth District Administrative Inspectorate and Security Commander's Office). In April 1936, the province was reorganized into administrative inspection areas. Taishun County was once placed under the Sixth Administrative Inspection District (today's Lishui area), and in May it was reclassified to the Fifth District (Wenzhou) Administrative Inspection Commissioner and Security Commander's Office. In August 1949, it was affiliated to the Fifth Commissioner's Office of the People's Communist Party of Zhejiang Province. In October, the Fifth Commissioner's Office was renamed Wenzhou District Commissioner's Office and renamed Wenzhou Commissioner's Office, with Taishun belonging to it. In 1967, it came under the jurisdiction of the Wenzhou Military Control Commission and the Left Support Joint Command of the Chinese People's Communist Party. In December 1968, it was affiliated to the Wenzhou Regional Revolutionary Committee. In September 1978, it belonged to the Wenzhou District Administrative Office. From September 1981 to present, it is under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou City.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the county seat was 130 miles east from the Pingyang boundary of Fenshuipai (now part of Guishan Township, Wencheng County) (walking mileage, Huali, the same below), and 100 miles south from the Minxiapu boundary of Zhangkeng. It is 10 miles from the Minshouning boundary of Huangni Pass in the west, 100 miles from the Jingning boundary of Shangyan in the north, 100 miles from the Ruian boundary of Pingxi (now Yangshan Township, Wencheng County) in the northeast, and 100 miles from Changongbu (now Huixi, Wencheng County). It is 100 miles from the Qingtian boundary of the Township), 10 miles from the Shouning boundary of Dongxitou to the southwest, 170 miles from the Pingyang (today's Cangnan County) boundary of Yuehuyang (today's Cangnan County) to the southeast and the Fujian Fuding boundary, and 50 miles from the northwest to the Shouning and Jingning County boundaries. inside.

In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the villages of Ge Teng (Sheng) Ling, Zhangjiayang, Zhuojiakeng, Dongxitou, Shuanggangdu and other villages in the first district of Shouning County, Fujian Province were placed under the jurisdiction of Taishun, and were assigned to Taishun respectively. Boundary monuments were erected at Cunqiaotou, Dongxitou and Shuanggangdu on Lijiashan Mountain. From then on, the two counties were bounded by Dongxi (now named Shoutai River), covering an area of ??9 square kilometers.

In January 1948, the 37th year of the Republic of China, Baizhang District was partially governed by Huixi, Liangxiang, and Wengshan (formerly Rongcheng and Township) and Baiyun (formerly Xinchuan Township). The land was placed under the newly established Wencheng County, covering an area of ??180.5 square kilometers. It is now the township of Huixi, Shuangxi, Jiyang, Donglong, Yangshan and Guishan in Wencheng County.

In 1998, Taishun County governed 11 towns and 27 townships, with a population of 343,300.

In 2001, Taishun County governed 11 towns (including 1 ethnic town), 24 townships, 1 ethnic township, 6 neighborhood committees, and 518 village committees, with a total population of 348,069 people. 2. What is the history of the Zhuang family in Taishun, Wenzhou?

We now call the first day of the new year "New Year's Day".

The word "Yuan" originally means "first" and "beginning", and the word "Dan" originally means dawn or morning. But in history, different dynasties and generations have different regulations on which day New Year's Day refers to.

In 1911, the first day of the Lunar New Year was changed from New Year's Day to Spring Festival. Although it is collectively called the "Spring Festival", villagers in the mountain city of Taishun are still accustomed to calling the Spring Festival the "New Year".

The New Year's Day is the most important festival for Chinese people.

While people from all over the world celebrate the Spring Festival, they also create colorful New Year customs.

Some of them have disappeared, and some still exist and continue to this day. The New Year customs in various places in Taishun are generally similar.

According to the information obtained through the investigation, in the author’s opinion, the differences in festival customs within the county are mainly due to the place of migration, nationality and living habits. caused by influence? In fact, each of us has the experience of celebrating the New Year, but not many of us have investigated and studied the customs of the New Year. As sons of the mountain city of Taishun, should we understand or investigate and study the local culture that is inseparable from our homeland?

I secretly think that as long as we all take action and do some surveys, we will be able to collect a large amount of valuable local cultural materials in a few years. The author's investigative writings are indeed vulgar.

As the saying goes, "throwing a brick to attract jade", then I am afraid that these words of mine cannot even be called a "brick". However, I still have the thought of being "excessive", that is, I hope to inspire everyone to investigate and study our local culture.

If you can patiently read my survey information, besides thanking you, I also hope to get your advice! Sweeping the dust one year ago "If you have money but no money, just clean up and celebrate the New Year." Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, every household has to go out to clean the kitchen, hall and other places before the New Year. Years of dirt and grime must also be removed from the cabinets, corners and under the bed. This is called "sweeping the dust".

When sweeping the dust, be especially careful to dust the chimney, because when the Kitchen God returns to heaven on the 24th, he turns into a stream of smoke and walks down the chimney, so of course his "walk" must be cleaned clean. According to records, the Spring Festival custom of sweeping dust has a history of more than 4,000 years in our country.

By the Tang and Song Dynasties, sweeping dust at the end of the year had become a must for every household. According to Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Lu" of the Southern Song Dynasty, during the Spring Festival in Lin'an, "every household, big or small, would sweep the doors and gates to remove dust and filth, and clean the courtyards."

In the Ming Dynasty's "Da Dai Li", dust prevention at the end of the year was also stipulated as a kind of etiquette. In the old days, no matter how busy people were, they still had to clean up and sweep away all the garbage in the house to get rid of bad luck and good luck in the new year.

According to legends in some places in the county, it is believed that after the Kitchen God left, the affairs of the human world were not without the control of gods. The Jade Emperor would send a god to take care of "government affairs" for a few days on behalf of the Kitchen God, and this god was very Pay attention to cleanliness. If you neglect him, he will go back and report to the Jade Emperor like the Stove King, and people will be punished by the Jade Emperor. Therefore, before the Kitchen God goes to heaven and the God of Heaven arrives, the door must be cleaned.

The day of sweeping the dust depends on the date of worshiping the Kitchen God. For example, in Sankui, Yayang, Guihu, and Lingbei, the Kitchen God is worshiped on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and dust is generally swept around the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. . In places like Xiahong, where the Kitchen God is worshiped on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeping begins on the 16th of the twelfth lunar month.

In general, a dust sweep must be carried out before the Kitchen God returns to heaven for the New Year. On the day of sweeping dust, some places in Taishun still have some customs about getting rid of the old and welcoming the new.

On the day of sweeping the dust in Lower Hongbei Valley, if the child at home is not safe, that is, as the saying goes, "disobedient", you have to find a hat that the child has worn in the closet and throw it away. Go to the top of the mountain. In Yangxi and Siqian areas, they found a set of clothes worn by children and threw them into the stream to float away.

I hope that the old year can take away the unlucky things, and when the new year comes, good luck will come. Although much of the dust-sweeping custom is filled with people's wishes for good things, it also has practical significance. After sweeping, the dusty and dirty house suddenly becomes bright and clean, and looks completely new, which is very beneficial. Human health.

2. Doing New Year’s Goods·New Year’s Food Customs The biggest festival of the year is the Spring Festival, and the food is also the richest. After the small New Year, the villagers in mountain cities start to buy new year's goods.

The market days vary across Taishun. In some places, the market is held every three days, while in other places, the market is held every seven days.

But the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month is a market day specially set up for everyone to buy new year's goods.

The goods from the north and south outside the mountains, the local specialties in the mountains, etc. are piled up like mountains, and the flow of people is like a tide. The atmosphere of the New Year has become more and more intense with the lively scene of buying new year's goods. Merchants and shops usually close early on the afternoon of the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month and go home to celebrate the New Year. They do not resume operations until the sixth or seventh day of the first lunar month. Therefore, every household must prepare necessary items for the New Year, such as fish, meat, fruits and vegetables, before the end of the year. , tobacco, wine, sugar, tea, scented paper candles.

Children also pull adults by the hem of their clothes, follow them to the market to ask for their favorite candies, and then carry back a big bag, which is enough to satisfy their craving for a while. For children, perhaps the reason why they like to celebrate the New Year is that in addition to being able to avoid being beaten and scolded by adults during the first month, the happiest thing is that they have their favorite "New Year's goods" to eat.

Food is the most important thing for the people. The importance of diet in people's lives is self-evident, and New Year diets have formed rich dietary folk customs.

Southern my country mainly grows rice, and rice is people’s staple food. Taishun villagers even made a big fuss about "rice" and created food with local flavor.

For example, Po Cake from Luoyang, bacon smoked with pork in Sixi and Sankui areas, pork smoked bacon in Guihu area, maltose from Shiyang, Yayang and other places, etc. Everyone who has been to Shancheng and visited Shancheng's restaurants will all praise Shancheng's unique "Po Cake" that is both a meal and a dish.

It is said that making Po Pancake is very labor-intensive. You must first soak the best rice and grind it into a rice paste of moderate thickness, then spread it on a hot pan and fry it into a complete pancake with even thickness. Then take out a piece of pie crust and spread it flat, put on a layer of stuffing made of minced meat, mushrooms, fungus, shrimp, scallops, peanuts, sesame, egg shreds, scallions, etc.; put another layer of pie crust, and put Put a layer of stuffing on it; put a layer of crust on it, and another layer of stuffing. Repeat this several times, then roll it into a long strip, flatten it, and place it on a pan to fry over a slow fire. 3. The history and culture of Taishun Covered Bridge

Due to Taishun’s geographical remoteness and traffic congestion, before the 1970s, almost no one knew about Taishun’s important position in the history of China’s bridge development. It was really “hidden in the sky” People in purdah don’t know it.”

It was not until the late 1970s that the covered bridge kingdom of Taishun was discovered by knowledgeable people. Xia Suixiang, a cultural relic worker in Taishun, first realized the important value of the covered bridge and began to investigate and write articles to promote it.

In October 1980, experts from the writing team of "History of Ancient Bridge Technology in China" edited by Mao Yisheng went to Taishun to inspect covered bridges and determined that the Hongqiao technology that was prevalent in the Central Plains during the Northern Song Dynasty had not been lost among the people. , can be confirmed in Taishun. After that, experts, scholars and news media continued to visit Taishun for inspection and interviews, and the covered bridge began to gain fame.

It was the book "Taishun" published by Beijing Sanlian Bookstore in 2001 that fully introduced Taishun Corridor Bridge to the world. The chapter "Dream Circle Corridor Bridge Road" in the book focuses on Taishun Corridor Bridge. The history, culture, etc. of the bridge are explained so that people can have a more comprehensive understanding of Taishun Covered Bridge. Taishun Covered Bridge has become a well-known cultural tourism resource. Almost every day, tourists come to Taishun to admire the beautiful covered bridge and explore the simple and profound local past.

Covered bridges are constantly being discovered in Taishun. According to statistics, 33 covered bridges of various shapes have been discovered so far. These covered bridges that have gone through wind and rain can be well preserved to this day, which makes them even more precious.

According to the "Traffic Chronicles of Taishun County", there were 476 bridges built in the county before the founding of the People's Republic of China, including 33 covered bridges of various types, 15 of which were listed as national key cultural relics protection units, and 18 The covered bridge is listed as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. There are more than 30 well-preserved wooden arcade bridges from the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties in the territory. Their large number, skillful craftsmanship, beauty of shape and harmony with the surrounding environment are unique in the history of world bridges.

Taishun is the area with the most concentrated and abundant existing covered bridges in China. It has become the county with the most "national treasure-level" covered bridges in China and is named the "Hometown of Covered Bridges in China".

Taishun and covered bridges have become a geographical and cultural concept and a cultural symbol with a specific meaning of life for Taishun villagers.

These magnificent buildings with great visual impact hide the wisdom of Taishun’s ancient ancestors and are attached to fragments of the ancient spirit, thought and culture. . 4. Taishun's folk customs

Taishun is known as "nine mountains, half water and half farmland". The territory is crisscrossed with valleys, high mountains and long roads, undulating mountains, green peaks, thousands of meters long. There are 179 peaks above, with an average altitude of more than 490 meters. Below, Ningbo Travel Agency will introduce Taishun customs to you_Taishun local folk customs:

Customs of the She ethnic group

On April 2, 2013 (the third day of the third month of the third lunar month), Zhejiang’s first Taishun She Customs Tourism and Culture Festival and Wenzhou’s fifth Ouyue “March 3” She Customs Tourism Festival were held in Taishun County. With the theme of "Chinese Dream, Mountains and Harbin Love", this festival diversified the rich regional culture of Taishun to people.

County Song

"Tea Picking Dance" (established in 2005), a song originating from Taishun, the hometown of tea in southern Zhejiang, was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The Great River North and South was written by Zhou Dafeng. Because of its strong Jiangnan characteristics, it was designated by UNESCO as an "Excellent Music Textbook in the Asia-Pacific Region" in 1983.

Hundreds of Family Banquets

Taishun’s “Hundred Family Banquets” are historically known as “making blessings”. They began in the Northern Song Dynasty and were extremely popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They originated from Zhangzhai Village in Sankui Town. , the ancestors drank reunion wine together on the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, in order to "gather relatives, discuss clan affairs, pray for a good harvest, and ensure peace." In 2007, Taishun was listed as an intangible cultural heritage "Traditional Festival Protection Base" by the provincial cultural department for its "Hundred Family Banquet". In the spring of 2010, more than 6,000 tables were set and 60,000 people attended the banquet, which was also recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Yaofa Puppet Show

Yaofa Puppet Show, also known as "Qionghua Puppet", was included in China's national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006. The representative inheritor is Zhou Erlu. Yaofa Puppetry has a history of hundreds of years in Taishun. It uses gunpowder to drive puppets to perform. It is the most special kind of all puppet performing arts. At the same time, Taishun Yaofa Puppetry is also a national intangible cultural heritage of China. The only gunpowder conservation project on the list. 5. What is the history of the Zhuang family in Taishun, Wenzhou?

We now call the first day of the new year "New Year's Day".

The word "Yuan" originally means "first" and "beginning", and the word "Dan" originally means dawn or morning. But in history, different dynasties and generations have different regulations on which day New Year's Day refers to.

In 1911, the first day of the Lunar New Year was changed from New Year's Day to Spring Festival. Although it is collectively called the "Spring Festival", villagers in the mountain city of Taishun are still accustomed to calling the Spring Festival the "New Year".

The New Year's Day is the most important festival for Chinese people. While people from all over the world celebrate the Spring Festival, they also create colorful New Year customs.

Some of them have disappeared, while others still exist and continue to this day. The New Year customs in various places in Taishun are generally similar.

According to the information obtained through the investigation, in the author’s opinion, the differences in festival customs within the county are mainly due to the place of migration, nationality and living habits. caused by influence? In fact, each of us has the experience of celebrating the New Year, but there are not many who have investigated and studied the customs of the New Year. As sons of the mountain city of Taishun, should we understand or investigate and study the local culture that is closely related to our homeland and inseparable from it?

I secretly think that as long as we all take action and do some surveys, we will be able to collect a large amount of valuable local cultural materials in a few years. The author's investigative writings are indeed vulgar.

As the saying goes, "throwing a brick to attract jade", then I am afraid that these words of mine cannot even be called a "brick". However, I still have the thought of being "excessive", that is, I hope to inspire everyone to investigate and study our local culture.

If you can patiently read my survey information, besides thanking you, I also hope to get your advice! Sweeping the dust one year ago "If you have money but no money, just clean up and celebrate the New Year." Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, every household has to go out to clean the kitchen, hall and other places before the New Year. Years of dirt and grime must also be removed from the cabinets, corners and under the bed. This is called "sweeping the dust".

When sweeping the dust, be especially careful to dust the chimney, because when the Kitchen God returns to heaven on the 24th, he turns into a stream of smoke and walks down the chimney, so of course his "walk" must be cleaned clean. According to records, the Spring Festival custom of sweeping dust has a history of more than 4,000 years in our country.

By the Tang and Song Dynasties, sweeping dust at the end of the year had become a must for every household. According to Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Lu" of the Southern Song Dynasty, during the Spring Festival in Lin'an, "every household, big or small, would sweep the doors and gates to remove dust and filth, and clean the courtyards."

In the Ming Dynasty's "Da Dai Li", dust prevention at the end of the year was also stipulated as a kind of etiquette. In the old days, no matter how busy people were, they still had to clean up and sweep away all the garbage in the house to get rid of bad luck and good luck in the new year.

According to legends in some places in the county, it is believed that after the Kitchen God left, the affairs of the human world were not without the control of gods. The Jade Emperor would send a god to take care of "government affairs" for a few days on behalf of the Kitchen God, and this god was very Pay attention to cleanliness. If you neglect him, he will go back and report to the Jade Emperor like the Stove King, and people will be punished by the Jade Emperor. Therefore, before the Kitchen God goes to heaven and the God of Heaven arrives, the door must be cleaned.

The day of sweeping the dust depends on the date of worshiping the Kitchen God. For example, in Sankui, Yayang, Guihu, and Lingbei, the Kitchen God is worshiped on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and dust is generally swept around the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. . In places like Xiahong, where the Kitchen God is worshiped on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeping begins on the 16th of the twelfth lunar month.

In general, a dust sweep must be carried out before the Kitchen God returns to heaven for the New Year. On the day of sweeping dust, some places in Taishun still have some customs about getting rid of the old and welcoming the new.

On the day of sweeping the dust in Lower Hongbei Valley, if the child at home is not safe, that is, as the saying goes, "disobedient", you have to find a hat that the child has worn in the closet and throw it away. Go to the top of the mountain. In Yangxi and Siqian areas, they found a set of clothes worn by children and threw them into the stream to float away.

I hope that the old year can take away the unlucky things, and when the new year comes, good luck will come. Although much of the dust-sweeping custom is filled with people's wishes for good things, it also has practical significance. After sweeping, the dusty and dirty house suddenly becomes bright and clean, and looks completely new, which is very beneficial. Human health.

2. Doing New Year’s Goods·New Year’s Food Customs The biggest festival of the year is the Spring Festival, and the food is also the richest. After the small New Year, the villagers in mountain cities start to buy new year's goods.

The market days vary across Taishun. In some places, the market is held every three days, while in other places, the market is held every seven days. But the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month is a market day specially set up for everyone to buy new year's goods.

The goods from the north and south outside the mountains, the local specialties in the mountains, etc. are piled up like mountains, and the flow of people is like a tide. The atmosphere of the New Year has become more and more intense with the lively scene of buying new year's goods. Merchants and shops usually close early on the afternoon of the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month and go home to celebrate the New Year. They do not resume operations until the sixth or seventh day of the first lunar month. Therefore, every household must prepare necessary items for the New Year, such as fish, meat, fruits and vegetables, before the end of the year. , tobacco, wine, sugar, tea, scented paper candles.

Children also pull adults by the hem of their clothes, follow them to the market to ask for their favorite candies, and then carry back a big bag, which is enough to satisfy their craving for a while. For children, perhaps the reason why they like to celebrate the New Year is that in addition to being able to avoid being beaten and scolded by adults during the first month, the happiest thing is that they have their favorite "New Year's goods" to eat.

Food is the most important thing for the people. The importance of diet in people's lives is self-evident, and New Year diets have formed rich dietary folk customs.

Southern my country mainly grows rice, and rice is people’s staple food. Taishun villagers even made a big fuss about "rice" and created food with local flavor.

For example, Po Cake from Luoyang, bacon smoked with pork in Sixi and Sankui areas, pork smoked bacon in Guihu area, maltose from Shiyang, Yayang and other places, etc. Everyone who has been to Shancheng and visited Shancheng's restaurants will all praise Shancheng's unique "Po Cake" that is both a meal and a dish.

It is said that making Po Pancake is very labor-intensive. You must first soak the best rice and grind it into a rice paste of moderate thickness, then spread it on a hot pan and fry it into a complete pancake with even thickness. Then take out a piece of pie crust and spread it flat, put on a layer of stuffing made of minced meat, mushrooms, fungus, shrimp, scallops, peanuts, sesame, egg shreds, scallions, etc.; put another layer of pie crust, and put Put a layer of stuffing on it; put a layer of crust on it, and another layer of stuffing. Repeat this several times, then roll it into a long strip, flatten it, and lay it flat.