There is no mountain in Baoshan,
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.
Baoshan Stele original stele rubbing
The curator of this exhibition, Tang Jihui, is a native of Baoshan,
When he was a child, he thought with his friends,
Why is there no mountain in Baoshan,
A "death squad" was also set up 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,
It turns out that Baoshan has mountains,
It's just that it has long been washed away by the river.
Tang Jihui explains to the visitors
In the 10th year of Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1412), Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan, who was in charge of shipping, built an earthen mountain on the south bank of the yangtze river outlet, which was more than 300 meters square and about 100 meters high.
According to legend, the local people used to vaguely see a mountain appearing on the seashore, and the built earthen mountain was exactly where the shadow of the mountain was found, so the folk legend called it "Baoshan Mountain".
"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 then 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 tushan mountain for the imperial monument and build a monument pavilion.
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, and 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 created a glass frame, through which the inscription is clearly visible. In this exhibition, the school borrowed the Baoshan monument rubbings.
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", "Humanistic Light" and "Education Light", which are:
1
On May 28, 1949, the People's Daily published a front-page newspaper titled "Shanghai Bandits Have Become Turtles in an Urn, Our Army Captures Wusong Baoshan, and Dachang The Two Divisions of the Northern Enemy Surrender."
Feng Guohua's manuscript with Huang Yanpei's inscription "On Actively Eliminating Adultery and Long-term War of Resistance"
2
3
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jiang Dun restored the poem manuscript
Postcard of Baoshan Old Street Shipi Street
4
5
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
In June 1940, Qian Weichang took a group photo with relatives and friends before going to Canada to study
6
7
Tao Xingzhi wrote the "Collected Poems of Xingzhi" and a letter from Tao Xingzhi's student Liu Jiping to the Shanhai Engineering Group
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The sun and the moon have changed several times,
The rivers have changed several times,
Although "Baoshan" has sunk into history,
The treasure mountain will eventually be as stated in the imperial monument:
The name of Baoshan has survived for eternity,
Le Ming has a long history and a clean slate.
Tang Jihui said:
Culture is the soul of the city,
Each district has a different culture and character,
Hope through this exhibition
Can let everyone keep the memory of Baoshan,
Keep the nostalgia.
New Performing Arts Studio
Author: Zhao Yue
Editor: Wu Xuying
Image: Courtesy of the organizer
Xinmin Evening News Cultural Department