The ancestral land of the Zheng clan in the world - Xingyang
In Henan, west of Zhengzhou, there is such a county-level city. Located 15 kilometers west of Zhengzhou, it is the closest county-level city in Henan Province to the provincial capital, with a population of 590,000 and an area of 908 square kilometers, which is less than one-tenth of the area of China, which is called Little China by locals. Among them, the built-up area of the town is 17 square kilometers. This is the hometown of chess, the ancestral land of the Zheng family, the hometown of valves and the hometown of construction machinery. This is Xingyang.
When I first saw this word, I didn't know how to pronounce it, but when I arrived in the local area, I learned about the various cultures of Xingyang and came into contact with the local humanities before I found that this county-level city with an area of less than one-ten-thousandth of the motherland has so many stories.
The surname Zheng is one of the Chinese surnames, ranking 7th in the "Hundred Family Names". The surname Zheng originated from the surname Ji, and the ancestor of the surname was Zheng Huan, the first monarch of the Zheng Kingdom. After the fall of the Kingdom of Zheng by Korea, the people of the country changed their surname to Zheng. Since the establishment of Xingyang Commandery in the Three Kingdoms, the people with the surname Zheng in the world have all come from Xingyang.
Among the people with the surname Zheng, since ancient times, there is a saying that "the Surname of Zheng in the world is out of Xingyang" or "the Zheng clan of Xingyang is all over the world", so the main origin of the Zheng surname originated in the area of present-day central Henan. Destroyed by Korea during the Warring States period, it was scattered to eastern Henan and Shandong, Anhui and other places.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Zheng clan of Gushi in Henan followed Wang Chao and Wang Zhenzhi into Fujian. The ancestor of the famous national hero Zheng Chenggong in the Ming and Qing dynasties was both the ancestor of this time. The Cheng migration to Taiwan began with Zheng Chenggong, and the spread overseas began in the Qing Dynasty, and is now distributed in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Canada, the United States and other countries.
Zheng Huan, Zheng Wu and Zheng Zhuang were the three generations of kings after the founding of the Zheng kingdom, and were called Taishizu, Erzu and Iii ancestors by the descendants of the Zheng clan respectively, and were honored as the "Three Dukes of Zheng". In order to commemorate the great deeds of the three dukes of the Zheng clan and carry forward the fine cultural tradition of their hard struggle, it is now the standard of Xingyang City.
Xingyang as a place of contention for successive generations of warriors: in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, and there was a great battle here; in 230 BC, after Qin destroyed Korea, in order to strengthen the control of the Central Plains, Ao Cang was built at the foot of Xingyang Guangwu Mountain, storing a large amount of grain and dispatching heavy troops, making Xingyang a famous military town; Chen Sheng and Wu Guang personally led a large army to besiege Xingyang, where they fought with the Qin army, and later Wu Guangzhan died in Xingyang; during the Chu-Han War, Xingyang was the center of contention, and Liu Bang and Xiang Yu confronted and fought repeatedly here for a long time. In the end, the world is divided by the divide.
The black horse comes from the mount of the overlord Xiang Yu in the "Western Han Dynasty", which was known as the world's first horse during the Xiang Yu period. The black horse is a black horse, the whole body is black satin-like, the oil is shiny, only the four horseshoe parts are white and snowy, the back of the black horse is short and straight, and the limbs and joint tendons are strong and developed, such a horse has a talking head, called "stepping on the clouds".
During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Lü Bu fought at the Tiger Prison Pass battle in Xingyang, which is the famous "Three Ying Battle Lü Bu" in history. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, fought a decisive battle with dou Jiande, a separatist force in the area of Xingyang Hu prison pass and Niukouyu, and defeated the enemy's 100,000 troops with 3,000 iron horses, forcing Wang Shichong, who was occupying Luoyang, to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, laying the foundation for the Tang Dynasty to unify the world, which is the famous "Battle of tiger prison" in history.
Xingyang is the birthplace of Chinese chess. More than 2200 years ago, Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, and Liu Bang, the king of Han, launched a fierce battle of attack for 4 years with Xingyang as the main battlefield, and took the chasm of Xingyang as the boundary, dividing the world in the middle, becoming one of the most wonderful fragments in the long river of Chinese history According to the "Historical Records", "The one in the west is Han, and the one in the east is Chu."
In this way, history has made the gap into the "Chu River and Han Boundary". As the "Chu River Han Boundary" gap, it not only stayed in Xingyang, the "famous county of the East", in the splendid process of Chinese history, but also on the chess board of Chinese chess, and achieved the reputation of Xingyang as the capital of Chinese chess.
Li Shangyin Park is also located in Xingyang, relying on the Li Shangyin cemetery, based on the characteristics of traditional Chinese gardens, with Li Shangyin's poetry culture as the background, ten steps and one scene, and the scenery contains poetry.
For thousands of years, the lone cypress tree as a ferry port of the Yellow River, waiting for passers-by in a hurry, and now the peak turns around, history has given him a new mission - the most critical building on the main trunk canal of the national south-to-north water diversion line - the yellow project is here! And with it, the South-to-North Water Diversion Gubaidu Feihuang Tourist Area.
Huancuiyu Scenic Area is a comprehensive scenic spot with natural landscape as the main body, ancient castles as the features, thousand-year-old stone flowers as a strange, red culture, Xianxiao culture and Ancestral culture as the background, integrating sightseeing tourism, leisure vacation and camping adventure. The Taihang macaque is the most famous.
There are more than ten views on the location of the Xiling clan and the hometown of the Xiling clan: there are three places in Henan: Kaifeng, Xingyang, and Xiping; hubei has four places: Yichang, Yuan'an, Huanggang, and Haoshui; Sichuan has three places: Yanting, Mao county, and Leshan; and Xia County in Shanxi, Fei County in Shandong, and Hangzhou in Zhejiang. In Xingyang we also saw the Shrine of Our Lady of Changzu.
Xingyang, as the county-level city closest to the capital of Henan Province, has historically produced many famous figures, social sages and benevolent people, such as Shen Buhao, a legal figure in the Warring States period, Zheng Qian, a scholar of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, and Wang Bowen's father and son of the Song Dynasty. They have left behind many stories, and here their descendants live and reproduce in this land.