"Half an acre of square pond is opened, and the sky and clouds and shadows wander together."
There are many old streets and famous towns in Changwu area,
Each flower in each eye,
It's hard to say how famous you are.
But the lake pond is an exception
- Call it a town, more like a city.
The ruins of Yancheng and Xucheng in the Spring and Autumn Period were found here, and the Changzhou School of Words and Changzhou Painting started here, and legends such as Nanxia Zhanzhao and "Four Households and One Boss" were interpreted here...... It is the spiritual hometown of many locals, and it is also a perspective window for friends from other places to walk into Changzhou.
The depth of history and culture, the rise and fall of industry and commerce, the market situation and the rise of fireworks all form a unique lake and pond imprint.
How to relieve homesickness?
Why the new rhyme?
Wencheng, people, industry,
One side of the lake pond and one side of the city.
▲Night view of the city of Hutang
One
"If you want to know Changwu, you will know Hutang."
In 1958, the villagers of Yancheng Village drained the water of the Yancheng moat and accidentally dug up a canoe and a batch of bronzes, primitive celadon and other 25 precious cultural relics, opening the archaeological legend of "seeing Yancheng in spring and autumn". This canoe, carrying more than 2,500 years of spring and autumn smoke and clouds, is moving forward in the long river of history.
Tracing back to the river, the Neolithic pier site Jinjidun here has witnessed the evolution of Liangzhu culture.
There are Cailing River and Yong'an River in the east, Changgou River in the west, Hutang River in the west, Datong River connects the canal and Taiqi Lake, each water system is moisturizing things silently, giving birth to the mind of Hutang people.
According to the Song Dynasty's "Xianchun Piling Chronicles", the original name of the lake pond was Fudang, which was named after the ancient stone arch bridge located on the Datong River - Fudang Bridge, and later took the homophonic Hutang Bridge. The area around the bridge has convenient transportation, gathering Jia into a city, and it became a famous market in the south of Changzhou in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
In the glimmer of the small bridge and the bustling streets, the historical context has been inherited. Traditional skills such as tiger head shoes and hemp cakes, traditional dramas such as lake pond beach springs, and traditional arts such as bamboo carving, lake pond face sculpture, and lake pond paper-cutting are impregnated with the style of the Hutang people's small town.
On July 18, 1993, the Wujin County Government moved from Changzhou City to Hutang Town. In November 1999, the original three towns of Hutang, Mahang and Minghuang merged to establish a new Hutang Town, which became an important component of Changzhou's "Golden South Wing" and realized the rebirth of "town to city".
▲Yancheng Spring and Autumn Ruins Park
Two
"The crape myrtle of the academy reflects the gold list, and the stone bridge is clear and well-known in the court."
From the famous poet Yang Wanli to establish the first formal academy in the history of Changzhou - Biling Chengnan Academy, to the private school education throughout the towns and villages during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and then to the Wujin People's Education Experimental Zone built during the Republic of China, it has now become a gathering place for high-quality education in Wujin.
In the imperial examinations of the past dynasties, there are 79 people with the surname of Hutang Zhang, and 18 people with the surname of Yun, especially since the Song and Ming dynasties, there are celebrities such as Zhang Shou, the anti-Japanese national hero Zhang Bangding, and the master of science. The Yanghu literary school of the Qing Dynasty and the Tongcheng faction each led the way; Changzhou word school, leading a generation of word style; The modern Wenjing school provides an important theoretical basis for the reform of the Qing Dynasty; Yun Nantian is a pioneer in boneless painting and is respected as "decent sketching".
In modern times, Li Gongpu, one of the "Seven Gentlemen", Yun Yiqun, a news educator, Wu Chengzhi, a dramatist, Chen Dieyi, a famous publisher and writer, Chen Xieyang, a conductor, Xu Subai, a bamboo carving artist, Wang Jiada, the originator of tin opera, and Jiang Shangda, the founder of Zhenhua Power Plant, a textile industrialist...... People come and go, lakes and mountains, and they are all deeply branded with lakes and ponds.
▲Akikikuku, Kyonanda Saku
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The lake has been prosperous since ancient times, the cultural context is prosperous, and all industries are thriving.
In particular, the cotton cloth, combing grate, and bristle industry in the traditional handicraft industry are well-known in southern Jiangsu.
Taking weaving as an example, during the Tang and Song dynasties, the lake pond was one of the five major silk weaving places in the south of the Yangtze River, and "Tou Erluo" was popular throughout the country; To the Ming and Qing dynasties, the lake pond is dominated by home textile homespun cloth, imitating the Shimen cloth of Shimen in Zhejiang Province and the rare cloth of Songjiang, and the products sell well in Nanyang, North Korea and other places; At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, almost every household was engaged in textile in the agricultural slack season, and there were many shops on the north and south streets, with more than 200 shops such as bad fang, homespun cloth, iron shop, dyeing workshop, cocoon shop, etc., which was known as "the first big town outside the south gate of Changzhou".
In the mid-90s of the last century, the private textile industry in Hutang entered a glorious period, and gradually formed a complete textile system with complete categories of cotton, linen, chemical fiber, spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing and garment and other industrial chains.
The yarn-dyed fabric production base and trading market are the largest in the country, with the output of denim accounting for 20% of the national total and the corduroy output accounting for 28% of the national total, becoming a weaving industrial base covering Jiangsu and radiating the whole country.
In November 1983, Mr. Fei Xiaotong spoke highly of the lake after his inspection. As one of the sources of the "Southern Jiangsu Model", the economic and social development level of Hutang has always been in the forefront of the province and the country's townships.
In 1984, Hutang became the first 100 million yuan town in Changzhou City, and in 1985, it was listed as one of the 29 key industrial satellite towns in Suzhou, Xichang and Changzhou that are open to the outside world, and won the honor of "Star of China's Townships" twice, becoming "China's first batch of well-off counties".
▲Hutang Town Science and Technology Industrial Park
In recent years, Hutang Town has actively guided the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, accelerated the development of emerging industries, and basically formed a modern industrial system based on advanced manufacturing industry and with modern service industry as the main body.
In 2023, the regional GDP will reach 37.2 billion yuan, ranking 15th among the top 1,000 towns in terms of comprehensive strength in China. At present, there are more than 70,000 enterprises and self-employed households in Hutang, of which the service industry accounts for more than 70%, ranking first in the city's townships.
The still water flows deeply, agitating and striking.
Today's lake, which has long been indifferent to the entanglement of "town" or "city", is actively cultivating characteristic business districts and theme blocks, vigorously developing the first store economy and experience economy, and creating a lake with the integration and symbiosis of modern fashion and classical charm with the spirit of crossing mountains and seas.
Source: Changzhou Propaganda
Editor: Jiang Xintong
Review: Qian Xiaosong Ju Liaoyuan
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