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The history of Fengxian

Today, the southwest of Fengxian County, namely Zhelin Town, was inhabited by human beings three or four thousand years ago. Qin, Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties belong to Haiyan County, and Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties belong to Huating County. In the fourth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1726), Huating County was formally established. According to legend, Zi You, a Confucius student, came here to give lectures, hence the name "Fengxian". 1May 1949 14, Fengxian was liberated all over the country and belonged to Songjiang District, Jiangsu Province; 1March, 958, Fengxian was placed under Suzhou District, Jiangsu Province; 1958165438+10 was placed under the jurisdiction of Shanghai by Jiangsu province in October.

The history of Fengxian-Fengcheng

Fengcheng is located in the southeast of the county seat, 7 kilometers away from the county government/kloc-0. It used to be the county seat of this county, but now it is the seat of the urban and rural government. 1985 was converted into a county seat, where the town government is located.

The whole town is square, with Pudong Canal in the north, Nanfeng Road in Sichuan in the east, Shuguang Middle School and Bus Station in the south and Xinfeng Road in the west. It is 2.28km long from east to west and 1. 12km wide from north to south, with a total area of1180.5mu (subject to the data of the County Urban and Rural Construction Planning Institute,

According to Xu Shuo's "Jia Zhiyuan Hezhi" in the Yuan Dynasty, this place was originally named Qingdun, also known as Dunming, and was named after the pirates made a fire on the dock when they invaded. In the first year of Yuanfeng, Song Shenzong (1078), the site was set up with Qingdun saltworks, which were later shaded by trees and renamed Qinglin. In the eighth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1 172), after the construction of the main road to protect the pond, salt people and fishermen lived in groups and gradually became villages, and Qinglin was renamed Qingcun. In the 19th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1386), Qingcun Fort was built to defend against the Japanese army, and thousands of Qingcun houses were set up. During Zheng De's reign in Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Qianhu Building in ShouQing Yu Village. When the county was established in the fourth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1726), the county department was first stationed in Nanqiao, and moved to Qingcun City in the ninth year of Yongzheng. Since then, a county town in Fengxian has replaced Qingcun City. In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), after the county department moved to Nanqiao again, the place was a tower and a city system with a county judicial department. Houdai District, City Hall, Fengcheng Square and other administrative institutions have a wide jurisdiction, including Touqiao, Fenshuidun, Dongxincheng, Caiqiao, Liangdian, Zhoujianong and a part outside the pond.

This ancient city has walls. Ming Zhengde's "Songjiang Prefecture Records" contains: "The east of Qingcun is one hundred miles away from Jinshan, surrounded by six miles, and it is twenty feet and five feet high. The pool light is twenty feet high and seven feet deep. There are four city gates, and there is a building at the top of each city gate. There are four moon towers outside, one for ten enemy towers and twenty-eight arrow towers. " Qing Guangxu's "Rebuilding the Records of Fengxian County" contains: "It is six miles around, 20 feet high and 1,766 feet high. Ganmen 4: Chaoyang in the east, Fucheng in the west, Zhenhai in the south and Chen Gong in the north, each with its own beauty. Entering the city is all land, so there is no water gate; There is Siyue City outside, 130 Wopu, which was built in the tenth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1732). It has a photo wall, an instrument door, a hall, a hall, a swallowing room and a prison. Confucian Temple, built in the 25th year of Qing Qianlong (1760), includes Wan Ren Palace Wall, Xingxingmen, Chi Pan, Dacheng Hall and the Education Department attached to the east. Swallow Temple, built in the 15th year of Qing Daoguang (1835), has Toumen and Daonan Academy, and is affiliated to the Xizi Bureau. Zhaowen Academy, built in the 10th year of Jiaqing (1805), has Zhao Qiang, Toumen, Yimen, lecture hall, Wenchang Pavilion and other buildings. Chenghuang Temple, built in the 19th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, has a mirror wall, a head door, an instrument door, a singing platform, a lobby, two halls and a bedroom. Wanfo Pavilion, built in the Ming Dynasty, has halls, pavilions and other buildings, surrounded by walls and guarded in front of the building screen. In addition, there are Kuixingge, Tongshantang, Xiannongtan, Wu Miao and other classical buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Fengcheng Street is cross-shaped and divided into East Street, South Street, West Street and North Street. In the old society, there was another street north of the street called Fengxian Street, which was later called Guyouli. According to legend, Ziyou has been here, hence the name.

In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), Fengcheng was shelled by the Japanese army, and the county government, Confucian temple, academic department, academy and some city walls were destroyed.

Fengcheng is the underground activity center of the early * * * production party in this county. During the Agrarian Revolution, party member Liu Xiao and Li Zai founded Shuguang Middle School in Pangong Temple, and the central branch of Shuguang Middle School, Pudong County Committee and Youth League Committee were sealed up by the authorities on 17 (1928).

After liberation, Fengcheng has always been the seat of party and government organs in districts, townships and communes. With the development of coastal areas and the establishment of municipal farms, Fengcheng has become the second largest town in Fengxian. Fengcheng is a distribution center for agricultural and sideline products in dongxiang county. The countryside is as far away as the coast during the May 4th Movement, Liaoyuan Farm and the neighboring places such as Touqiao, Situan and Ping 'an. The market is bustling all year round and customers are overwhelmed. The economic structure of commercial and material supply outlets is diversified. 1984 There are county material supply stations, supply and marketing cooperatives, cooperative stores, industrial companies, sub-commercial companies and individual industrial and commercial households at the end. Fengcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative and other 9 commercial units have 58 service outlets, 6 purchasing stations and 6 processing plants. The total commercial sales this year reached 30.7383 million yuan. With Cross Street as the center, there are commercial downtown areas on both sides in the southeast. In addition to various commercial outlets, there are farmers' markets and small commodity markets. Fengcheng city Supply and Marketing Company is the comprehensive contact point of the Ministry of Commerce, and it is rated as "National Advanced Grass-roots Supply and Marketing Company" for its convenient service. At the end of the year, there were 253 individual industrial and commercial households with 54 employees per kloc-0. Industries include handicrafts, hardware, department stores, catering, aquatic products, fruits and services, with a monthly turnover of 200,000 yuan. Rural market trade is active, coastal specialty fish and shrimp flood the market, and short-distance vendors flood. The market price is restricted by the market in Tangqiao area, and the goods sell well. The annual listing was 59,800 yuan, with a turnover of1126,400 yuan and an average daily listing of 164 yuan, with a turnover of 3,086 yuan.

There are six factories including county ginning factory, cement shipyard, wool spinning factory and mirror factory. The civilian life glasses produced by the mirror factory are products managed by the Ministry of Light Industry, and the box-type travel glasses are exported to Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. There are also 16 instrument factory, machinery factory, grain and oil factory, wood carving factory and Huguang lock factory run by villages and towns. The products of woodcarving factory are traditional folk handicrafts, which are exported to Japan and other places. 1984, there are 4,286 employees in the township, with an output value of 31918,700 yuan and a profit of 4,090,200 yuan.

Fengcheng is the land transportation hub of dongxiang county. Fengcheng Bus Station, located outside Lihutang, newly built 1982. Belonging to the second-class bus station, it is the largest bus station in the suburbs of Shanghai. The bus lines are Xifeng Line, Xituan Line, Xiwu Line, Xiliao Line, Fengzhe Line and Tangsi Line, which are cobweb-like, and extend to Situan and Tuandong in the east, Ping 'an and Wu Si Farm in the south, Nanqiao and Xi Du in the west, Tangqiao in the north and Zhelin and Liaoyuan Farm in the southwest. Daily departure 180, daily average traffic flow 10000.

Fengcheng is also the cultural, educational and health center of dongxiang county. Schools include Shuguang Middle School, Fengcheng Middle School, Fengcheng Primary School, Dongmen Primary School and Kindergarten. Shuguang Middle School is a key middle school in the county. Recruiting students from all over Dongxiang, the enrollment rate is very high over the years. Hospitals include county Fengcheng Hospital and township hospitals. Fengcheng Hospital is a regional general hospital in Dongxiang, with 29 departments and 250 beds, which can carry out various operations such as orthopedics, thoracic surgery, urology and viscera. Fengcheng Theater was built in the former site of the old county government. 1983 new cultural center building.

The street was originally a stone street paved in the light years of the Qing Dynasty, and was expanded into a cement street in 1975, with a width of 10 meter. There are many buildings on both sides, such as township governments, traffic stations, neighborhood committees, post offices, pharmacies, restaurants, hotels, cultural centers, department stores, hardware companies, grocery stores, banks and kindergartens. There is a new residential complex outside the inner retaining pond.

There are many inscriptions on Japanese atrocities in the town, which are irrefutable evidence of Japanese imperialism's invasion of China.

The former site of Shuguang Middle School and the Li Martyrs Monument are county-level cultural relics protection units. Fengxian ancient city wall, today there is a section of Gongchenmen crossing the city wall, and the Ming Dynasty city wall about 40 meters long is buried under the high mound in the northwest corner. Fengcheng Wanfo Pavilion still exists, the main hall structure is relatively complete, and the sculpture has the artistic style of Ming Dynasty.