On the occasion of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Wuxi, I donated to the District Archives Bureau a copy of the "Practice Field List" of Jinkui County in the 60th year of Qianlong (1795).
Since the early 1980s, when I was still in high school, I loved stamp collecting, and in the 1990s, I began to shift the focus of collection to "Wuxi local historical materials", which has been collected ever since. The collection covers many aspects of Wuxi's history, especially in the "Wuxi Map", "Land Historical Materials", "Tax Historical Materials" and "Education Historical Materials". I not only collect, but also study the background of the era of each collection, and often publish some articles on Wuxi historical materials in combination with the collection. Among them, the article "No Postmark of This Day" in the history of Wuxi Postal was published in the July 1987 issue of Hong Kong Stamp World magazine. The collection has participated in many exhibitions in provinces, cities (counties) and won many awards, and provincial and municipal television stations and newspapers have repeatedly reported the historical value of their collections. On July 13, 2006, the Shanghai Daily (English Edition) published the "Identified Map of the Old Town" (search the Old City map authenticated on the Internet to see the article and pictures), reporting on my collection of "Guangxu 22 Years (1896) Colorful Lithograph "New Reconstruction of the Geographical Map of shanghai County's Chengxiang Concession", accompanied by large color photos. I have also brought my collection to life, donated or provided archives (reference rooms) to relevant departments for inclusion many times, and provided more than 50 precious historical documents or materials for the compilation of "Qianqiao Street Chronicle". In August 2012, he was awarded the honorary title of "Moving China's Outstanding Cultural Inheritor" by the "Moving Chinese Cultural Figures Selection Committee". In the section "Characteristic Cultural Families and Pacesetters" in the sixth article of "Culture and Sports" of the Qianqiao Street Chronicle, which is being compiled, my resume and some collection catalogs are included.
This is the URL of the article reprinted by China Economic Network in Shanghai Daily (English Edition).
At present, the collections that I can collect mainly include "maps", "tax invoices", "land historical materials", "education historical materials", "stocks", "newspapers and periodicals", "public security law historical materials", "various types of books" and so on.
This "Practice Field List" has been through vicissitudes for 226 years since Qianlong 60 years (1795), but it has been preserved quite perfectly, and the seal on it is also very clear. Although its specifications are not as large as the current A4 paper, it carries a very important page in the history of Wuxi land and is also a precious cultural heritage.
Wuxi has been the land of fish and rice since ancient times, and fish, rice and living are inseparable from the land. Therefore, people cherish the land on which they depend, and pay more attention to the various land documents in their hands.
In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), in order to increase the taxation of Wuxi County, the then Qing government divided Wuxi County into two counties, bounded by the Ancient Canal (now Zhongshan Road in the city center was originally the Chuancheng Canal). To the east and north is Jinkui County, and to the west and south is Wuxi County, and the two counties are governed by the same city. In January of the first year of the Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution, Wuxi County and Jinkui County were merged into Wuxi County. Since then, all kinds of literary and historical materials in Wuxi have added historical materials named Jinkui County, and the same is true for land historical materials.
According to the "Wuxi County Land Chronicle", in the 4th year of Shunzhi (1647), Fengwen measured the land, and in the 2nd year of Kangxi (1663), Wu Xingzuo of Zhixian County cleared the field and plotted it to the owners as Yongye, and there is no relevant historical data left at present.
The land list (i.e., land certificate) issued during the Qianlong period did not undergo on-site measurement, but was only based on the owner's self-recognition, and after registration, it was exchanged for the "Practice Field List". Wuxi County renewed the certificate in the 58th year of Qianlong (1793), and Jinkui County renewed the certificate in the 60th year of Qianlong.
The "Practice Field List" is a black print of rice paper woodcut, 11 lines of inscription, stamped with vermilion 6.8×6.8cm with a border "Jinkui County Seal" Manchu Chinese print, the original specifications are 18.3 × 27.9cm, the full text is as follows:
Jinkui County Zhengtang Zhang, for the grain to be corrected to give a list, abide by the case, serve
Xian Rao (ch rectification) Juntian correction, re-creation of the hill book and other reasons, in addition to clarifying the grain return of the karma of the right case one by one, the household management of the field grain detail number to the list, abide by this list, rely on the household after opening the practice field number, in case of granting and receiving services, that is, at any time to invest taxes, the order to the county to collect the transfer, indicate the hill book, must not be hidden, so that the field number (chu n error) is wrong, TiTian avoids service (the lower part of the word on the original is "big", the computer can only type the lower part of the word "dog", I don't know if it is the same word), To the dry investigation must be to the field single.
Counting the opening area of the capital Map A business household Fang Xinyi
Pipe Industry Youzi No. 2,240 Takada 5%300
Qianlong Lu picked up the year month and day to give
County Jinzi No. 2044
According to the font number of "excellent" on the "Practice Field List", it was found that the holder of the "Practice Field List" at that time was "Fang Xinyi", a member of the current Xibei Town Eight Scholars.
The relevant reports of donations can be seen by searching for "Gong Ming Land Certificate" on the Internet.
Huishan District, where I am located, is a newly established district, and since there is no inheritance, it can be said that the archival historical materials are the thinnest of all the district archives bureaus in the city. Although my donation is not the first time in Huishan District, I hope to become a move to throw bricks and jade, and I sincerely hope that more people will follow up and contribute to enriching the cultural heritage of local archives.