Exhibition site
Baoshan has no mountain, why is it called Baoshan? If you have such a question, then you can go to the exhibition hall on the fifth floor of the Baoshan District Library and learn about a "Baoshan Mountain" that once existed. The 610th anniversary of the Baoshan naming exhibition, which opened yesterday, collected 60 cultural relics, including a rubbing of the original stele of baoshan stele, which confirms the origin and origin of the name of Baoshan.
Tang Jihui, the curator of this exhibition, is a native of Baoshan, and when he was a child, he and his friends wondered why there was no mountain in Baoshan and set up a "death squad" to find the mountain. They set out from the stone bark street of the city, drilled into the grove, broke into the basement, and rummaged through the garbage dump, but to no avail. One evening after the rain, everyone lined up on the embankment of the Yangtze River, looking at the endless river water and the steamships with whistles, suddenly realized that there was no mountain in Baoshan.
When tang jihui grew up, he finally understood that there was a mountain in Baoshan Mountain, but it had long been washed away by the river without a trace. In the ming Dynasty Yongle Decade (1412), Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan, who was in charge of shipping, built an earthen mountain on the south bank of the yangtze river exit, more than 300 meters square and about 100 meters high, it is rumored that the local people used to vaguely see a mountain appearing on the seashore, and the built earthen mountain is exactly where the shadow of the mountain is found, so the folk legend is that it is "Baoshan".
"Collected Poems of Xingzhi" on display
"Baoshan" is equipped with a beacon tower, which burns smoke during the day and ignites at night, although it is 30 miles away from the sea, but the field of view is vast and the goal is remarkable, as a navigation symbol to provide a safety guarantee for shipping. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was well aware of the importance of "Baoshan", because after the dredging of the Wusong River in the second year of Yongle (1404), Wusongkou became one of the starting points for grain transportation from south to Hokkaido, so in 1412 Ming Chengzu wrote an inscription and ordered people to make a stone monument, that is, the "Imperial Treasure Mountain Stele", and the name of Baoshan was born.
Unfortunately, Baoshan has been flooded since ancient times, and the tide of the Wanli Decade (1582) completely washed away the earthen mountain, but fortunately, in the fourth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1576), the stone stele was moved into the old town of Baoshan in Pudong and preserved unharmed. A villager moved it into Takahashi Park (now part of Takahashi Junior High School), which was built in 1927.
When Tang Jihui went to Gaoqiao Middle School to visit this monument, Chen Yong, head of the school history museum, introduced that in 1985, the People's Government of Chuansha County and Gaoqiao Middle School jointly invested more than 20,000 yuan, referring to the Style of the Ming Dynasty, to build a stele pavilion for the Royal Monument. The imperial monument stands in the center of the stele pavilion, the height of the stele is 160.5 cm, the height of the stele is 47 cm, the width is 94 cm, the thickness is 30 cm, there is the word "imperial system" in the seal book, and the dragon is carved on both sides, in order to protect this cultural relic, the school has specially made a glass frame, through the glass, the inscription is clearly visible. The school borrowed the Baoshan monument rubbings for this exhibition.
Most of the exhibits are from Tang Jihui's personal collection, and since 2008, he has consciously visited old book stalls and auction houses to collect materials related to the history of Baoshan. The exhibition is divided into three parts: "Red Light," "Light of Humanity," and "Light of Education," and there are front-page newspapers published by the People's Daily on May 28, 1949 entitled "Shanghai Bandits Have Become Turtles in an Urn, Our Army Captures Wusong Baoshan, and the Two Divisions of the Northern Enemy Surrender," Feng Guohua's manuscript "On Actively Eliminating Adultery and Long-term War of Resistance" with Huang Yanpei's inscription, Jiang Dun's poems at the end of the Qing Dynasty and a postcard on Shipi Street in Baoshan Old Street, and a group photo of Pan Guangdan, Hu Shi, Mei Yiqi, and Feng Youlan at the Southwest United Congress during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Qian Weichang took a group photo with relatives and friends before studying in Canada, as well as Tao Xingzhi's "Collection of Xingzhi Poems" and Tao Xingzhi's student Liu Jiping's letter to the Shanhai Engineering Group.
Although the "Baoshan" has sunk into history, baoshan will eventually be as stated in the imperial monument: the name of Baoshan will exist for eternity, and the name of Le Ming will be the same as Qiankun. Tang Jihui said: "Culture is the soul of the city, each district has a different culture and character, I hope that through this exhibition, we can let everyone retain the memory of Baoshan and retain nostalgia." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)