Friends who have been to The Town of Silkworm Zhuang in Zhaoyuan City, Yantai, should not be unfamiliar with the place name "Mabu". Within the town's jurisdiction, there are several villages prefixed with "Mabu" (said to be an ancient horse farm), such as the Mabu Chen Family, the Mabu Hu Family, the Mabu Wang Family, and the Mabu Xu Family. Literally, the villages seem to be one and the same. But in practice, they have in the past been divided into different districts.
According to the records of the "Geographical Names of Zhaoyuan County", the Mabu Hujia Village has long been the boundary of Ye County in history, and the original name of the village is called "Ye County Wangjia". Through the name, it intuitively reflects the relationship between here and Ye County.
In the 1940s, many villages were divided between Ye County and Zhaoyuan County, and the reason why the "Mabu Hujia" (Ye County Wangjia) was introduced separately this time was because of its relatively special geographical location - it was once an "enclave" in The territory of Ye County in Zhaoyuan.
(Location of Mabu Hujia Village)
Enclave is a term commonly used in modern geography, and in the Laoye County Chronicle, it is used as a traditional title - "flower arrangement land".
The "Chronicle of The Four Successive Ye Counties" revised during the Republic of China period once had a special record of the flower arrangement land of the "Ye County Wang Family", and the Zhiwen said:
"The village name is Ye County Wang Family, a Mabu Wang Family." It belongs to Jingfu Township in the fifth district, directly east of Zhuqiao Town, and inserted into the territory of Zhaoyuan County. From the Wang family in Ye County, it is twenty miles west to Zhuqiao Town. ”
If you feel that the above description is not intuitive enough, then the next introduction is more clearly described:
"The four neighbors of Zhawangjia Village are half a mile away from Zhaoyuan In Mabu Chenjia Village, half a mile away from Zhaoyuan in the west, seven miles from Hanjia Village in the south, and Xiaoyan Erli in the north."
That is to say, the Wangjia Village in YeXian County is surrounded by villages in Zhaoyuan County, which is obviously in line with the characteristics of "enclaves".
So, how did this "enclave" in Yexian County in Zhaoyuan come into being? Although this point is not clearly recorded in the historical data, it is speculated that there are only the following two major reasons.
The first reason lies in the complex historical origins between Ye County and Zhaoyuan.
Compared with Ye County, Zhaoyuan County was established much later. Since the abolition of Qucheng County during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the jurisdiction of the current Zhaoyuan County has long been under the jurisdiction of Ye County, and although Wang Junmin was a Zhaoyuan person according to the current division of the Northern Song Dynasty, at that time, his place of origin belonged to Luofeng Town, Ye County.
At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, liu yu of the pseudo-Qi set up three new counties on the Jiaodong Peninsula, Namengyuan, Qixia, and Fushan, of which Zhaoyuan County, the main body of which was carved out of Ye County, and the administrative office was located in Luofeng Town, the former Ye County.
Ancient maps were far less sophisticated than they are today, so it makes sense that "enclaves" appeared at the time of county division.
The second reason may lie in the demarcation principle of "the land belongs to others".
According to the "Geographical Names of Zhaoyuan County", although the village of "Wangjia of Yexian County" is surrounded by villages in Zhaoyuan, the first people to build a village here are the people of Yexian County.
According to legend, during the Ming Hongwu period, a group of people surnamed Wang moved from The River Ridge of Ye County to build a village and named it "Ye County WangJia" (it may be called "Wang Family" or "Mabu Wang Family" at first, but later in order to distinguish it from neighboring villages, it was prefixed with "Ye County" and called "Ye County Wang Family"). In the case of unclear demarcation, according to the principle of "land returns to others", the village has been paying taxes to Ye County during the Ming and Qing dynasties, thus forming an "enclave".
(▲ The peach blossoms in Mabu Hujia Village are very famous, and Mr. Cao Jingguang of Qucheng has previously written a special article to introduce it)
Until the early Republic of China, the "Wangjia of Yexian County" still came under the jurisdiction of YeXian County, and according to the division of the 1930s, it belonged to the jurisdiction of Jingfu Township (the township office of Dashaling Village, now part of Jincheng Town, Laizhou City) in the fifth district of Yexian County.
In the 1940s, in order to facilitate management, the Jiaodong base area made adjustments to the zoning of Ye County and Zhaoyuan, and the villages such as Otsukapo in the former Zhaoyuan were assigned to Ye County, and the "Ye County WangJia" in Ye County was correspondingly included in Zhaoyuan.
Due to the change of zoning ownership, the place name "Wangjia of Yexian County" is somewhat inappropriate, so the village refers to the neighboring village and also adopts the prefix of "Mabu". However, since there was already a "Mabu Wangjia" before the Zhaoyuan Territory, the "Yexian Wangjia" was renamed "Mabu Hujia" (there are more Hu surnames in the village). At this point, the enclave of Ye County in Zhaoyuan, "Ye County WangJia", has become history.