The Shangqiu to Yongcheng section of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal is the longest navigable canal in eastern Henan, and was used for about 700 years from the excavation of the Sui Dynasty (605 AD) to the abandonment of the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty (1335-1342). In the Ming Dynasty, dredging and dredging, the "Shangqiu County Chronicle" of the 44th year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty recorded: "The Bian River (Sui and Tang Grand Canal) is in the southern part of the city, or the Yun that is, the Yingdang Canal, originating from the Dashi Mountain in Xingyang County, and the Yuan to Yuanzhong siltation. Ming Jiajing was once neglected, and now it is restored to Pingluyi. "The prosperity of canal shipping for more than 700 years has left a large number of place names related to the Grand Canal on the banks of the canal.
The names of the Grand Canal are derived from the canal, and these place names are either canal stations, or canal river cities, or canal shops, or canal military passes, or canal temples, or related to canal ferries. Each place name has its historical background and source, is the historical accumulation of the Grand Canal culture, and is a witness to the prosperity of the Grand Canal. The Yongcheng section of the Grand Canal starts from Huzhuang East of Houling Township in the east to Mazhuang Village in Mamu Township in the west, and the place names related to the Grand Canal from east to west are: Huzhuang, Twenty Lipu, East Eighteen Lipu, Shili Fort (Xie Hotel), East Qili Shop, Wuli Fort, East Daying, Sui Dikou, North Street, Xiaomen Street, South Street, Sanli Daokou, Wuli ZenTang, West Qili Shop, West Eighteen LiPu, West Twenty Li Shop, Wangtang (Tiangong Temple), Yanyang, Li Dian, Bu (Shop) Zi, Ma Mu (Berlin Shop), Zhengdian more than 20 place names. At present, some of these place names have disappeared and can only be found in the county records, but most of them are still in use.
Huzhuang was called Yiyong Ji in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was called Jiazhuang in ancient times, and was built across the Grand Canal. According to Qing Guangxu's "Yongcheng County Chronicle", "HuYanzan's tomb is in Hujiazhuang in the east of the city", Huzhuang folk also have the legend of Huyanzan and Huyanqing, and the county chronicle also records that "during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Hu Yanlin took his family members to Hebei to take up posts in Yongcheng Beiguanzhuangdian (now Yanji Village)", and there are still Hujialin (tombs) in the north of Yanji. This shows that the Huyanzan family is indeed related to Huzhuang, according to the remaining place names of Beiguanzhuang and Nanguanzhuang, combined with the analysis of Song Dynasty historical materials and folklore, it is likely that the descendants of Huyanzan once led an army to garrison the Grand Canal in Huzhuang, or the descendants of Huyanzan had a job field or Zhuangtian in the area north of Huzhuang, and Huzhuang was once the settlement of the Huyan family. Now Huzhuang no longer has the Hu surname, but there are still traces of the history recorded in the Yongcheng County Chronicle of the Qing Dynasty. The Grand Canal is particularly important in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the lifeline of the Great Song Dynasty, in order to ensure the safety of the Grand Canal, the Northern Song Dynasty stationed troops in the Grand Canal, some important generals stationed in the Grand Canal in sections, do not rule out that huyanzan's descendants once led the army to garrison the Huzhuang Grand Canal section, its people live here, Hujiazhuang hence the name.
East Twenty Mile Shop and West Twenty Shop are symmetrically distributed in the center of Yongcheng City, and the same situation is also the East Eighteen Mile Shop and west Eighteen Mile Shop, east Seven Mile Shop and West Seven Mile Shop. Shop is a common name on the Sui and Tang Dynasty Grand Canal, which means shop and shop, which is dedicated to the past merchant ship guests and various travelers to eat and rest, and sell a variety of daily necessities. The prosperity of the shop is driven by the prosperity of the Grand Canal River City, what is the River City? It is the market formed by the river, and the place where the merchant ships rely on the canal to do business are on both sides of the canal. The Northern Song Dynasty Japanese monk Cheng Xun traveled through the Grand Canal and wrote a canal diary of "The Tale of Mount Wutai of The Tower", which has a detailed record of the Grand Canal River City. Although the shop was formed in the river city, but it could not be formed at will, the Northern Song Dynasty had a special institution to manage the Grand Canal, and there were strict regulations on the setting of the post stations and shops on the Grand Canal. According to the historical records of the Song Dynasty, there is a station in the Grand Canal for five miles, a shop for ten miles, and a palace for a hundred miles. Yongcheng has twenty-mile shops, ten-mile forts (shops), and five-mile forts (shops) that all meet the regulations, but why do eighteen-mile shops appear? Eighteen to twenty miles is only two miles, too close, which may be related to the more prosperous river markets in the two places, or to the local interests caused by the management of the Grand Canal. In the same case, the distance between Wuli fort and Qili shop is also very close, the size of the shop is generally small, and it is not possible to test whether it is an official setting.
Yongcheng is an important county town on the Grand Canal. According to the Tang Dynasty geographer Li Jifu's "Records of Yuanhe Counties", Yongcheng was established in Yongcheng County in the sixth year of the Sui Dynasty (610 AD) to set up Yongcheng County, and the seat of government was three miles northeast of Mafu City, and the county seat was moved to Mafu City in the fifth year of Tang Wude (622 AD). Mafu City is the old city of Yongcheng. According to historical records, during the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, Yongcheng County was a city across the city, the Sui and Tang Grand Canal from northwest to southeast from the middle of the city, the city was built along the two banks of the Grand Canal, forming the characteristics of narrow and long east and west, short north and south, and the pattern remains unchanged to this day. Cheng Xun wrote a passage about Yongcheng in the "Records of The Five Tai Mountains of The Heavenly Platform": "At the time of the fifth hour, after sixty miles, the ship stopped at Fucheng Futing in Yongcheng County, Bozhou ... ... On the third day, Ding You, the sky is clear, the hour is clear, the boat is out, the boat is dragged from the big ship, the bridge has no pillars, it is handed over with a large wood, and the iron knot is left, and the bridge after Suzhou is the same. "Yongcheng is an important dock on the Grand Canal, because the county town is built on the embankment, the terrain is higher, and the city is not broken by floods many times, so the folklore spreads the legend of the city of Yonggu, and the legend says that the Sui Emperor passed through Yongcheng three times and found that the city was intact, and gave the name of Yongcheng. Zhongshan Street in the county is called North Street, Laodong Street is called South Street, the two are parallel distribution, North Street is actually the abbreviation of Dahe North Street, South Street is the abbreviation of Dahe South Street, this place name is completely consistent with Suzhou, the street pattern is also completely consistent with Suzhou, the two streets are sandwiched between the Grand Canal, North Street is the North Causeway of the Grand Canal, South Street is the South Causeway of the Grand Canal, Yongcheng across the Grand Canal in the Tang and Song Dynasties to form a city, and the streets on both sides of the Grand Canal are streets. Later, the Grand Canal was silted up and abandoned, and the pattern of the north and south streets did not change, and it is still the same today.
Xiaomen Street in the easternmost section of Laodong Street, it is the easternmost end of the south causeway of the Grand Canal in the city, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Xiaomen Street was the main street of the east exit of Yongcheng, originally the South Causeway of the Grand Canal, and later the Grand Canal was abandoned, and the North Street became the main street, and in order to correct the deviation of the east-west street along the Grand Canal, it did not conform to the geographical situation of the city, the North Street was changed to the north, extended to the east, built the East City Gate, the North Street became the Gate Street, and the south side left a small gate for the convenience of going out for the safety of the city defense, when digging the moat, a small gate was left for the convenience of going out. The inner city street facing the small gate is called xiaomen street. Tracing back to the roots, Xiaomen Street was brought about by the influence of the Grand Canal, which reflects the traces of the streets of Yongcheng, Tang and Song Dynasties.
The East Camp, also known as the Sui Causeway, is the place where the Yongcheng East Grand Canal garrison is located, because this is the gateway into the city of the Grand Canal, so since the Song Dynasty, successive generations of garrisons. The "Yongcheng County Chronicle" of the 29th year of Qing Guangxu records that there is also a lock key pavilion here, which is likened to the place where the key is locked, which is extremely important for clamping down on the county seat of Yongcheng and controlling the Grand Canal of the Yongcheng section.
The symmetrical place names on both sides of the Yongcheng Grand Canal are a peculiar phenomenon, similar to the situation in Yongcheng, which is also found in Suzhou. This symmetrical place name is related to the Northern Song government's measurement of the length of the Bian River. According to the "History of Song", shen Kuo, a great scientist in the fifth year of The Xining Dynasty (1072), was ordered by Emperor Shenzong of Song to measure the length of the canal, providing a scientific basis for the management of the Bian River. The place name of the Yongcheng section of the canal is related to the Shen Kuo measurement. Since the ancient society was centered on the official position, the axis of symmetry of Yongcheng's place names should be in Yongcheng County, which was located in the north of the old public security bureau compound at the intersection of zhongshan street and Paifang Street, and yongcheng county had been here since the establishment of the county in the fifth year of the Sui Dynasty (610) until the end of the Qing Dynasty. According to the records of the Ming and Qing dynasties "Yongcheng County Chronicle", the county Yaqian is the general shop, this general shop is the official landmark building, it is on the north bank of the Grand Canal Yongcheng Wharf, is the official guest house and hotel, the Northern Song Dynasty poet Li Qian said in the poem "Send Du Temple To Zhi Yongcheng" poem: "Guanshe Sui Hebei", "Guanshe" refers to the official institutions such as Yongcheng County Yahe Zongpu, the Northern Song Dynasty Chengxiang Boat Yongcheng in the city "Fu Ting" to stop the ship to stay, it is likely to be here. The main shop is the official setting of Yongcheng, which is authoritative and measuring, and the distance to the east and west eighteen mile shop should be counted from now on. The reason for the symmetrical place names formed in the east and west of Yongcheng is actually the result of the official layout, which is related to the official formulation of metering standards for navigation on the Grand Canal. The equidister shops of the Grand Canal are conducive to the government's collection of merchant ship transportation costs, to the regular supply and supplementary supply of merchant ships, to the maintenance and maintenance of the Division of Labor in the Grand Canal, to the distribution of garrison occupation of the river section, and to the orderly passage of the north and south banks of the Grand Canal.
Yongcheng Chongfa Temple and Chongfa Temple Pagoda is also a Buddhist building built because of the prosperity of the Grand Canal, Yongcheng Xiguan and the Grand Canal related temples have Xixia Temple, Chengtian Temple, the temple still exists in the 1960s, the famous poet Zhang Qi of the Northern Song Dynasty once wrote the poem "Bozhou Yongcheng Xixia Temple Has a Feeling", the famous Northern Song Dynasty lyricist He Zhu once wrote "Title Yongcheng Chengtian Temple", the Qing "Yongcheng County Chronicle" recorded that Chengtian Temple had found "Tang Xiu Chengtian Temple Statue Stele", the temples are on the north embankment of the Grand Canal. Sanli Daokou is a Grand Canal in the west of the city and the intersection of the north and south passages formed, Wuli Zen Hall is a temple from the north embankment of the Grand Canal of the city, Wangtang ancient Jinshan Temple, Yongcheng Museum Director Li Junshan once found the Jinshan Temple Pagoda in Wangtang Village, Wangtang Pagoda is the Jinshan Temple Pagoda, located on the north embankment of the Grand Canal.
Located on both sides of the Grand Canal, It was originally on the north bank of the Canal, because it was closer to the city, it was an ancient city, and it was also in the Sun of the Canal, so it was named Yuyang. It is an important pier on the Grand Canal, where the famous Northern Song Dynasty calligrapher Cai Xiang wrote the famous long narrative poem "The Journey of The Yang Dynasty", where Su Rui also wrote poems. According to the "History of the Song Dynasty", Yuyang was one of the six town-level tax collection agencies officially set up on the Tongji Canal section of the Grand Canal during the Northern Song Dynasty. According to the Northern Song Dynasty Chengxun's "Records of The Five Mountains of The Heavenly Terrace", "Before four o'clock, after thirty-four miles, to the town of Tanyang, go to Bozhou for a hundred miles, there is a bridge, the name of the City Bridge." After three hundred steps, there is a bridge, and this town is also within the county. According to the Ming Jiajing Jiachen (1544) edition of the "Yongcheng County Chronicle", the Yongyang Temple is a famous temple in Yongcheng, the temple is towering into the clouds, on the south bank of the Grand Canal in the town of Yuyang, the archaeological expert Li Junshan identified that the Pagoda was built for the Northern Song Dynasty, is the sister pagoda of the Chongfa Temple, and was built by many pilgrims during the prosperous period of the Grand Canal. These temples all belong to the Grand Canal temple culture and are the names brought about by the influence of the Grand Canal.