Cangbu, ancient Cangzi port. According to legend, in the second year of the Western Han Dynasty (109 BC), there were gods and immortals who rode a dragon to ascend to heaven in the Cangbu Lake, and got the name "Riding Dragon Town".
Cangbu Ancient City Stele
In the second year of Emperor Zhonghe of the Tang Dynasty (882 AD), the "Zhonghe Festival" was later known as the "Dragon Rising Head" and "Spring Dragon Festival". Originally, this festival was on the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year, and later the birthday of the land god was included, and it has been changed to the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, which is also the day of the birth of the legendary Yellow Emperor. Since the "Zhonghe Festival" flourished in the Tang Dynasty, on this day, the emperor would hold sacrifices and farming ceremonies, symbolically giving the people a hundred grains to show their efforts to engage in farming and weaving. It is also clearly stipulated that the local holiday is the day, and the local officials will also celebrate this festival with the people, feasting and drinking Neutral wine. On the first day of February of this year, Huangzhou Thorn Shi chose the ancient town of Riding Dragon along the lake to celebrate the "Zhonghe Festival", praying for smooth wind and rain and abundant grain; praying for the protection of the gods and the safety of the people of Guotai to show auspicious celebrations. However, he thought that the word "riding a dragon" was suspected of offending the emperor, so he renamed "riding a dragon town" to "Zhonghe Town".
Brick carvings of ancient buildings in Cangbu
Due to the superior geographical conditions, there are lakes in the southwest of the town, and in the second year of the Han Wu Emperor YuanFeng (109 BC), Huang Zu, the Xia Taishou of the Eastern Han Dynasty, led troops to train in the lake, so it was named Wu Lake, also known as Huanghan Lake. At the same time, it has always been a place where soldiers and families must fight for the mouth of the Yangtze River, which originates from the dabie mountains of Henan Province. In the first year of Ming Hongwu (1368 AD), the Ming Dynasty, which was still in the early stages of conquest, took advantage of the water transport from Wuhu Lake directly to the Yangtze River to control the Dabie Mountains of Eyu-Anhui. A grain storage depot was set up here to collect military grain. Wuhu Lake is a tongjiang lake, Nantong Yangtze River, dry water for the lake, fengshui for the river, the land is based on the Gangbin Lake, for the traffic fortress. Because of the warehouse and set up a port, warehouse (commonly known as cangzi), warehouse also, port, dock also, changed "Zhonghe Town" to "Cangzi port", referred to as Cangbu.
Cangbu Wuhu Canghan Wharf
Cangbu to Hankou steamship Canghan
In the winter of the sixth year of Qing Tongzhi (1867 AD), in order to resist the Taiping Army, Duan Futang, a local gentleman of Cangzibu, and other merchants donated funds to build the city. The city wall is made of red sand and stone, about 1.5 feet high, about 6.34 miles long, with a moat and six gates of Qiyun, Zonghai, Wuxi, Tongyuan, Rucui and Gongchen. Ming and Qingcangbu were both garrisons of the Inspection Department, and during the Republic of China, they were the fifth district offices of Huanggang County. After 1949, the Cangbu Town Government and the Cangbu District Office were established. In 1951, Xinzhou County was separated from Huanggang County, and Cangbu was listed as a county town along with Chengguan and Yangluo. In 1983, Xinzhou County came under the jurisdiction of Wuhan City. In 2000, Cangbu Town was changed to Cangbu Street.
In June 1951, Xinzhou County was separated from Huanggang County to become the tenth district
Before the reclamation of Wuhu Lake in 1965, from May to October every year, the sails flowed from the lake into the river, west to Hankou, Yichang, Chongqing, and east to Huangshi, Jiujiang, Nanjing, and Shanghai. Cang (port), Yang (Luo) ancient yi road north of Hong'an, Macheng, extending to Yuwan, nantong Yangluo dry road into the Yangtze River, Cangbu once became a transit station for water and land goods and merchants in eastern Hubei, known as "Little Hankou".
Cangzibu to Hankou ferry ticket
Cangbu, since ancient times, has been a place where merchants gather, wuhua tianbao, and people are brilliant. The Wusheng Temple in Cangbu still has the inscription of Xu Yuanquan, a general of the Republic of China Army:
Those who know me are only spring and autumn, wei zhen Huaxia, angry and powerful,
Zhongyi is invincible, vigorously keyan Liu Hanzhuo;
The living people come not to be confucius, the sun in the sky, the river in the underground,
Shun Chengxin has self, and the heroic spirit should shake the tide of Wu Lake.
In the early Ming Dynasty, wu lin, the founding shangshu of the founding state, who helped Zhu Yuanzhang, and the ming dynasty had a door of resistance to the Qing Dynasty Wanshi zhonglie, who "the father will not try, and the son does not pay attention to the field"; in the Qing Dynasty, there was Liu Yong and Liang Guozhi who entered the Qing Dynasty, and the great master examination of Liang Guozhi who dared to give direct advice and was deposed by the official Taishi -- the famous mountain chief of Yuelu Academy, who was later revered by scholars as "Taishan Beidou"; during the Jiaqing period, he was a person who traveled to Beijing in Hunan and Hubei provinces, and during the Jiaqing period, he was a person who traveled to Beijing in Hunan and Hubei provinces, and he was honored by Sangzi, and he contacted the friendship between the southern and northern villages and advocated the construction of the Huguang Guild Hall - Li Junjian, the governor of Cangchang; Lu Pu, who was given a golden plaque of "Uncle and Nephew Lianfang" by the Tongzhi Emperor. Lu Ying's uncle and nephew are two soldiers in the same section.
In modern times, there is a saying that "a history of the Republic of China, half of the Cangbu people"... It doesn't seem to be too much!
Chiang Kai-shek wrote the inscription for the Cangbu Wan clan genealogy
Jin Zhaolong, the captain of the wartime death squad, Xia Shoukang and Xiao Yaonan, the military and political leaders of Hubei during the Beiyang period, Xu Yuanquan, Lieutenant Generals Cheng Shouzhen, Xia Sheng, and Cai Wenye of the Republic of China, Wan Yaohuang, chairman of Hubei Province of the Republic of China, Tao Shuzeng, a famous water conservancy expert, Tao Xisheng, a master of social history, Lin Yingcan, deputy division commander of the Nationalist Army who was martyred in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wan Yiwu, a Kuomintang navy rear admiral who participated in the Chongqing cruiser uprising, and Ruan Lingyu and other movie stars, were one of the eight female stars who were popular all over the beach in the 1930s." Model beauty" Ye Qiuxin, one of the founders of Chu opera, Master Shen Yunxiao, and Huang Zhengxing, who sounded the first whistle in the "Erqi" strike, are all Cangbu people; the Buddhist holy land of Cangbu Bao'en Temple, also walked out of the current Buddhist gate Taidou Ben Huan old monk. Today's Cangbu Street still retains the architectural style types such as Xuyuanquan Mansion, Xiaojia Manor, Xia Mansion, and Zhengyuan Middle School, and has been awarded the provincial historical and cultural town.
Prophetic "Erxiantang" Summer Mansion DISCOVERY
Xia Sheng (1893-1953), the owner of the Xia Mansion, was a Longwangdun of Cangbu. After graduating from Cangbu Higher Primary School, he was admitted to Huangzhou Prefecture Normal School. When the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, Li Liejun, the commander-in-chief of the right wing of the Northern Expeditionary Army, recruited troops in his hometown, and Xia actively enlisted and was promoted to warrant officer platoon leader. After being admitted to the Jiangxi Army's General School of Martial Arts, he graduated in 1913 and served as the commander (company commander) of the Ammunition Column of the Hukou Front of the Yuan (Shikai) Army in Jiangxi. After the failure of the "Second Revolution", he joined the "Chinese Revolutionary Party" organized by Sun Yat-sen in Shanghai in 1914. In 1916, he was sent to teach in Sumatra, Nanyang Islands, and a year later, he was transferred to the Malay Peninsula to serve as the principal of the Yuhua School. In 1918, he returned to China and served as a senator at the General Headquarters of the Hubei Jingguo Coalition Army, which supported the "Dharma Protection Movement" in Fengjie, Sichuan, and was rotated to the director of the General Bureau of Raising Wages. In 1920, he was transferred to the First Echelon Regiment of the Yunnan Jingguo Coalition Army as the chief of staff of the colonel, the deputy commander of the independent mixed regiment, and the chief of staff of the third mixed brigade of the Yunnan Army. In 1921, he entered the Yunnan Army Higher Military School for further study, and after graduating, he was transferred to the Right Wing General Headquarters of the Yunnan Northern Expeditionary Army as chief of staff. In 1923, he was transferred to the Yunnan-Guangdong-Guizhou United Army as a deputy commander and the director of the Guangzhou Bomb Factory.
In January 1924, he was appointed as the anti-smoking deputy of the Grand Marshal's Office of Guangzhou, and was appointed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen as a delegate to the first congress of the Kuomintang in the Hankou Special Region, and actively endorsed the three major policies of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers". In 1925, he became the chairman of the Management Committee of the Guangzhou Arsenal. In 1926, the National Revolutionary Army carried out the Northern Expedition and transferred Sun Yuebu of the Ninth Division of the Third Army to serve as the chief of staff of the major general. "Ninghan Split", sent by Feng Yuxiangbao to study at the Japanese Army Infantry School in 1929. In 1932, he returned to China as chief of staff of the 12th Division of the Third Army, and in July he participated in the "suppression of bandits" war launched by Chiang Kai-shek and served as commander-in-chief in Hubei, Henan, and Anhui; in August, he resigned and returned home to live in Jian for about half a year. His question was introduced by Ding Guanquan, the head of the Hubei Security Department, and joined the "Revival Society". In 1933, he became chief of staff of the 87th Army Division and rejoined the Kuomintang. In 1935, he was transferred to the head of the Fujian Provincial TaxAtion Inspectorate. In 1936, he served as chief of staff of the 71st Army and chief of staff of the 87th Division in Changshu, Jiangsu Province.
After the "August 13" Incident in 1937, Xia accompanied the commander Wang Jingjiu and led his troops into the Battle of Songhu, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. Although the troops suffered heavy losses, they still insisted on a hard defensive battle for more than two months, until Shangfeng ordered the evacuation and fang moved Zhenjiang to reorganize. In the meantime, Xia asked the commander to fight the Japanese army to the death, and Wang saw that the strength of his troops was damaged and did not allow it. Clashes ensued, and Xia resigned and returned home. Wang cherished Xia Cai, regardless of the previous suspicions, sent personnel to bring heavy gold to the Xia family to urge him to return, but Xia insisted on not complying. In 1938, he was transferred to the Military and Political Department as a counselor and deputy director of the Guilin Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs and deputy director of the Military and Political Affairs Office of the Guilin Xingying Military and Political Department of the Military Commission. In 1940, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the Guilin office of the Ministry of Military Affairs. In 1942, he was transferred to the Deputy Director of the Evaluation Department of the Central Military Commission. In 1943, he entered the 29th training session of the Central Training Corps, and in 1944, he entered the second phase of the First Class General Officer Class of the Army University. In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, he Yingqin was the plenipotentiary delegate to the surrender, and Xia was appointed as an attaché of the delegation because of his proficiency in many Chinese words. When he returned to Nanjing in 1946, the Evaluation Office of the Central Military Commission was abolished, and the general class of the Central Training Corps was transferred to prepare for retirement, during which he was hired by Wan Yaohuang, chairman of Hubei Province, a villager, as the education chief of the Hubei Provincial Training Corps. In 1947, he was appointed as a staff officer under the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing. In October 1949, he served as a high counselor at the headquarters of Wang Yixu in Chengdu, and in December he participated in the uprising with Wang. In 1953, he returned to his hometown and died of illness.
Xia Sheng Mansion
In the same year of 1924, he and his brother Xianjue demolished the old house of their hometown and spent 10,000 yuan to build a Western-style east-west two-way mansion, and the hall name was "Erxiantang" with the "first" character of the brothers.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, two Japanese Kou took a traitor interpreter to the countryside to fight and kidnap, found this unusual bungalow, sneaked into the box and cabinet, a Japanese army searched for a letter, handed it to the Han traitor's interpreter, and the translator saw that the letter was mostly anti-Japanese anti-Japanese war words, even called "bandit, bandit, big bandit", frightened and ran back to the stronghold. The next day, a small group of Japanese devils came and set fire to the house, and the house was burned in the west, and after the Japanese army left, the villagers put out the fire and saved the east side.
The floor slab inside the Xia Sheng Mansion
The surviving Xia Mansion is a brick and wood structure, a two-storey Western-style building of about 350 square meters, and two Roman columns on the outside of the Chinese-style long stone pillars at the main entrance, with a stone plaque of "Purple Qi Coming East". The outdoor doors, windows and walls are full of Western-style decoration, and the foot of the house is about 1.2 meters high, all made of long stone. The interior is a three-bay room, and the staircase is made of cement components and wooden floor slabs, a building material rarely seen in the countryside at that time. Upstairs and downstairs rooms are built with Western-style fireplace fire walls, and the building as a whole is basically intact. After 1949, it was confiscated by the government, and then owned by the village, and after the reform and development, the current households were purchased for 10,000 yuan.
The late Mr. Zhang Jiannan, former vice chairman of the CppcC National Committee of Xinzhou District, once introduced: Cangbu was once the political and cultural center of the western part of Huanggang because it was the hometown of Xiao Yaonan, Xia Shoukang, Wan Yaohuang, Xu Yuanquan, Tao Xisheng, and other important people of the Republic of China.
Xia Shoukang ran Qihuang Middle School, Li Kainong ran Wuchang Buddhist College (now existing), Tao Xisheng ran Yuying School (now exists), Xu Yuanquan ran Zhengyuan School (the predecessor of present-day Xinzhou No. 2 Middle School), Zhu Huaibing, Zhu Dingqing ran Jingyi School (the predecessor of present-day Xinzhou No. 3 Middle School), Wan Yaohuang ran Yang Pei School; Xu (Yuanquan) Mansion, Wan (Yaohuang) Mansion, Xia (Sheng) Mansion and a number of other mansions were also built on both sides of the Pouring River and Cang (Port) Yang (Luo) Post...