The historical and cultural situation of Zhenze.

Zhenze, a famous historical and cultural town in Jiangsu Province, is located in the southwest of Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, adjacent to Zhejiang Province. Known as "Wu Tou Yue Wei" in ancient times, it is the "West Gate" of Wujiang City. It is 90 kilometers east of Shanghai, 54 kilometers north of Suzhou and 45 kilometers west of Huzhou. The "3 18" national highway and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal pass through the territory, and the land and water transportation is very convenient. Zhenze is named after its proximity to Taihu Lake, and its history can be traced back to the late Neolithic period.

Zhenze Town covers an area of 57 square kilometers, with 45,547 mu of cultivated land and 36,528 mu of water area, with a total population of 50,000. The town has complete infrastructure: 220,000-volt, 65,438+065,438+00,000-volt substations, 25,000-ton underground water plant, mobile communication transmitter, Internet service, power guarantee, adequate water supply and convenient communication. It was rated as a national health town, a famous historical and cultural town in Jiangsu Province, and a new small town in Jiangsu Province.

Zhenze has a pleasant climate, fertile land, developed agriculture and a long history of planting mulberry and raising silkworms. It is one of the five major mulberry townships in the south of the Yangtze River. Since the mid-Qing Dynasty, the silk industry has flourished, and "Tibetan dried silk" has been exported to overseas. The textile and garment industry is very developed, such as Shen Xin Garment Group and Su Long Silk Textile Group, with annual sales exceeding 300 million yuan, which have entered the ranks of provincial enterprise groups. In addition, the cultivation of aquatic products such as Macrobrachium rosenbergii, soft-shelled turtle and crab, the cultivation of edible fungi in vegetable base, the cultivation of vegetables in greenhouse and the completion of ten thousand pig farms have greatly enriched the vegetable basket.

In recent years, Shenzhen's economy has developed vigorously, its market has become increasingly prosperous, its society has been stable, and people's living standards have been continuously improved. Since the reform and opening up, the people of Zhenze have worked hard, fully tapped their own potential, and vigorously developed industrial production according to local conditions, basically forming the "four little dragons" with key enterprises as the main body, that is, "one-stop silk spinning industry; Color steel plate, trailer industry through train; Non-ferrous metals and foundry industry are one-stop; Automobile and motorcycle maintenance, auto parts sales through train. " In recent years, the private economy in Zhenze has developed rapidly, basically forming a 1 private economic development zone covering an area of 2,000 mu. A large number of foreign businessmen came to Zhenze to invest and set up factories, including 12 foreign-funded enterprises and 1 foreign-invested development zones.

Zhenze has a long history, outstanding people and beautiful things, and the Ciyun Tower is towering, leaving behind the "wind of Sun and Wu in the Three Kingdoms"; Yuji Bridge arched, inheriting the great achievements of ancient sages; The alleys are long and the ancient rhyme still exists; Shi Jian Palace and Fansiqiao tell a story of a hundred years' ups and downs. Wang Xi, an astronomer, is well-read, integrated with heaven and man, and combines Chinese and western cultures. His new law of filial piety has been praised by academic circles for 300 years.

Zhenze town-evolution

The word "Ze" in Zhenze is next to the word "Water". Just like Shengze and Kanazawa, as the name implies, it is a place name with the characteristics of water town and countryside.

The Qing Dynasty's "Hundred Cities Smoke and Water" said: "Zhenze Town is in the west of Shuangyang Village, and there is Taihu Lake in the north." Book is called' Zhen Ze Di Ding' because of its name. "

Taihu Lake, known as Zhenze Taihu Lake in ancient times, is the third largest freshwater lake in China, also known as Juqu, Lize and Zhenze, with a vast haze of 36,000 hectares. Zhenze Town is named after the light of Taihu Lake. However, although it is borrowed, it is not groundless and far-fetched, but justified and worthy of the name.

The preface to Song Ling Lu compiled by Hong Wudou in Ming Dynasty said: "Since the source of water is here, it is said that the earthquake will end and the words will end." 90 miles southwest of the city, there is a bridge leading to the end. "Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu Yue" says that there is a bridge to be modeled and the remains are still there. "

A Qing poet Vae also said in the Seven Wonders "Great Immersion in Taihu Lake": "The source of great immersion is close to the source, and Qiu Lai is also bitter. Losing his name of Zhenze has existed since ancient times, and the traces still reach the end of the bridge. "

In the fourth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1726), due to the heavy grain and numerous prisons in Wujiang, the county was ordered to be divided into counties, and the third place name of Zhenze appeared in the west of Wujiang County. Zhenze Town is under the jurisdiction of Zhenze County, but the Yamen of Zhenze County is located in Songling (now Wudu Hotel), which is separated from the Yamen of Wujiang County. In January of the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), the two counties merged and became Wujiang County.

Forty-one years later, in May of 1953, the original Taihu Administrative Region of Wuxian County was changed to Zhenze County, which was also moved by the nickname of Taihu Lake. In fact, the second Zhenze County has nothing to do with the administrative subordination of Zhenze Town, just across the lake. However, the second Zhenze County did not exist for long, and was revoked in March 1959. Up to now, apart from the names of two counties, only the name of Zhenze, a famous historical and cultural town, still exists and shines forever.

Just as Shengze people like to use Shengze as posthumous title, Liri people like to use Lichuan as posthumous title and Tongli people like to use Tongchuan as posthumous title, Zhenze people, especially silk merchants, like to use Zhenchuan as posthumous title. Zhenchuan, famous for Lisi Silk, is famous in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai and other silk producing areas and markets.

Zhenze town-administrative division

Zhenze Town Zhenze Town is one of the nine towns under the jurisdiction of Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province. Located in the southwest of the city, adjacent to Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. After the merger of Ba Du Town in 2003, the area of Zhenze Town reached 95. 1 km2, with a population of 85,249. It has jurisdiction over 20 communities (Taiping, Lian, Factory, Garden, Dangkou, Qiaobei, Xinmin, Printing and Dyeing, Xinsheng, Tanqiu, Hong Sheng, Yonghe, Maota, Yang Fan, Vegetables, Yu Sheng, Langzhong, Xibaiyang, Tanyu and Nanma) and 27 village committees (Donggang, Hongzhou, Tang Sheng and Xingqiao).

Zhenze town-history

In ancient times, the area around Fansiqiao was a shallow lagoon bay, "first it was a torrent, then it was a Zeju, and it died in a foreign land". The sea changed, and the sediment deposited and accumulated into land. The ancestors reclaimed land, scattered sparsely and gathered into villages.

Judging from a large number of Neolithic pottery and pottery fragments (belonging to Majiabin-Liangzhu culture) unearthed near Lize Lake, it seems that Zhenze's ancestors have thrived here.

1982, Geng, a farmer from Tashuiqiao, found three broken sacred cow heads at the bottom of the lake, which were sent to Shanghai Natural Museum for identification by Wujiang County Cultural Center at that time. They are considered to be specimens before Shang Dynasty, and some ancient settlement sites collapsed and sank into the water. It can be inferred that the ancestors of Zhenze had domesticated and raised sacred cows as livestock in ancient times, and the primitive farming culture began.

In the 29th year of Tang Kaiyuan (74 1), Zhang Jingzun, the secretariat of Huzhou, set up an earthquake museum here, which was the beginning of the naming of Zhenze. Librarians, inns, that is, guest houses, are playing an increasingly important role in transportation.

In the early years of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhenze was near the Imperial Capital, and the imperial court set up an inspector as the town. This is when the name of Zhenze Town began. At that time, it was purely for guarding the capital Lin 'an and for military functions. In the Yuan Dynasty, after many wars, there were only dozens of residents in Zhenze, and the villages and towns were depressed.

In the Ming Dynasty, the southeast coast of China was prosperous in commerce and the commodity economy was active. The Ming court sent letters many times to encourage agriculture and mulberry, and the Zhenze area was suitable for silkworm rearing and became an important producing area of lake silk. Lake silk is famous for its high quality. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most of the raw materials of all tributes, silks and satins in Jiangnan No.3 Weaving Department rely on lake silk, and Zhenze naturally becomes the production and marketing center.

Zhenze ancient town was born of silk. During the Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty (1465- 1487), the number of households in Zhenze increased to three or four hundred. In Hongzhi's Wu Jiangzhi, Zhenze became one of the four earliest towns in Wujiang (the other three are Wang Ping, Tongli and Lili). During Jiajing period (1522- 1566), it became an important town in the southwest of the county. Qingganlong's "Zhenze County Records" described the market situation of Zhenze at that time as "there are many buildings and department stores. With trade as the industry, there is no virtual day. "

In modern times, the development of raw silk trade made Zhenze increasingly prosperous, becoming one of the famous silk markets in China and the largest town in Zhenze County at that time. In the early years of the Republic of China, after the merger of Wujiang and Zhenze counties, it was still the second largest town in Wujiang County, second only to shengze town, with silk, silk, cocoon and mulberry leaves. "On the occasion of the listing of cocoon silk, the hub hit the shoulder, especially in other cities." In the 1920s, when the Japanese made a field trip to Zhenze, they saw that "Nanxun and Zhenze are only twelve miles away, and the ships are busy, which is the junction of the two provinces. Both towns have bustling streets, especially Zhenze Town in Jiangsu Province. There are many rich people who live at home and accept their houses in Lisifazhuang. "

From the Republic of China to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, that is, 1929 to 1957, Zhenze Town was also upgraded to a county-owned area, and its jurisdiction exceeded the town to the four townships. Zhenze has been one of the seven towns in Wujiang since it was merged into the countryside, and now it has become the central town in the southwest of Wujiang.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Zhenze Town had a total area of nearly 57 square kilometers and a population of more than 43,000 (excluding migrants). It is the economic center of industry, commerce, agriculture and secondary industries.