Ma Longxiang | Nanmei in "Mei Li Zhi"

Mei Li Zhi is a local history of Wangdian Town, compiled by Yang Qian in the Qing Dynasty, supplemented by Li Fusun, and supplemented by Yu Shu. Wangdian was called Meili in ancient times, and Nanmei Village was named after the south of Meili, and later the Jin Ministry of Works Shangshu and ZhenZhi made Wang Kui plant a hundred acres of land, which was called "Nancun" in the Qing Dynasty.

In the Meili Zhi Vol. 1 "Landscape", Hengjing Port and Henggang in Nanmei Village are recorded.

"Hengjing Port is in Linan Sanli." Hengjing Port is located on the north side of Group 12 of Nanmei Village, east of Wujiamuqiao Port, and west into Changshui Pond. In the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the slogan of "let the mountains bow their heads, let the river water make way, ask for land from the river, and ask for grain from the ground", fill the river for fields, only retain the junction section with the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, retain 30 meters on the east side of the railway culvert, and only 20 meters on the west side, which is used to be called Hengjing Lake by locals. Later, Sun Jinqi, a villager in Group 12, raised fish here for several years, which are now abandoned.

"Yokota is in Rinan Seven Miles." Henggang is located at the southernmost end of Nanmei Village, and the Ming Dynasty Tongxiang poet Bei Qiong (Zi Tingju, alias Qingjiang) has a "Henggang" poem in the "Qingjiang Collection": "Go south into Henggang, and the huts take Lin Qiu." The sunset is particularly oblique, and the cold tide is suddenly reversed. Cows and sheep are scattered in the wild, and geese and ducks are floating in the creek. Happy to see a friend, a boat by the fence." The poem depicts a vivid and lively autumn scene of Henggang, the language is simple and easy to understand, and it is full of rich pastoral atmosphere. The Qing Dynasty poet Xu Zai (字都山, also known as Yanxi Jushi) has a poem "Henggang Late Crossing" in the "Yanxi Poetry Collection": "Changlin is a sunset harvest, and the late crossing pontoon bridge is also victorious." Wild boats cross the creek and wind geese, and mountain clouds stay on the shore of the moon to stop gulls. Laughing at the bamboo courtyard to leave a monk's bed, with the agricultural book is Mai Qiu. Lao Pu occasionally came to the righteous hand to ask, half of the common name surname Ai Qingliu." The poem describes the scene of the poet crossing Henggang in the evening: the bridge shadow lies horizontally, the boating water, the geese crossing without a trace, the mountains and clouds staying on the shore, the moon is clear, the gulls and herons are perched, making people immersed in the tranquility of this autumn night in Henggang. Two miles away from Henggang, a large port facing north and south is the famous Dahenggang, excavated in December 1993, with a total length of about 2 kilometers, south of Changshuitang, west of Lianhuaqiao Port, east into the Sea Salt Realm, is the last artificial canal in the history of Jiaxing. According to statistics, the number of people involved in the opening of the river reached more than 15,000 people, and the excavation of earth reached 24,000 cubic meters. At present, DahengGang still shoulders the important mission of water transport channel, and it is also a flood discharge channel for the Hangjia Lake South Discharge Project.

The Meili Zhi, Volume II, "Monuments", contains Song Huai, Beidang and Eight Hundred Wells. "Song Huai is in Jiang Zhuang, a large stone bridge in the four miles of The South of The River, and now there is no longer any existence." The Qing Dynasty poet Wang Ting (字監卿, 号言遠, also known as Mai Ren) has a poem "Yong Song Huai": "The dried branches and dead leaves are still fresh, and the old locust end is like a dragon sleeping." The Junjia Shize has a long history and has been planted for 600 years. After the three gongs, there are many children, and the literary style is more than mol. Dead trees give adults to grow old, and I come to relatively common." According to the poem, this old locust tree, if it were still alive, would be nearly a thousand years old. On the east side of the Nanmei Village Committee, there are still two beech trees, one green beech and one yellow beech, both of which have been in the past two hundred years, these two ancient trees have been used as references for flying waterways, but the health status is worrying, and there are also "pole crack branches and dead leaves are still fresh", which was listed as the protection object of ancient trees in 2002.

"The north swing is in the Southern Wuli Wangjia Pocket, and it is said that the Southern Song Dynasty Gao Shangshu Goose and Duck Pond." The Qing Dynasty poet Jiang Xuan wrote in the "LiuSu Tang Collection" the poem "Beidang Huaigu": "When the youth of The Qing Dynasty was in the twilight, the Heron of Nagisa Chau was uneven. At that time, the pavilion was filled with smoke and water, just like the Shang Shu goose and duck pond." The poet's north swing is extremely beautiful, the pavilions on the shore are surrounded by water, the reeds by the river are green, the gulls and herons on the continent are jagged, and the geese and ducks in the river are flocked, making people immersed in it and linger.

"Eight hundred wells in the big stone bridge." Although the eight hundred wells are nowhere to be found, the story in them is recorded in the "Meri Zhi". In the Qing Dynasty, a merchant named Jiang Shihong took refuge in Nanmei Village, and entrusted a total of 800 taels of silver and 160 silver ingots to his friend Jiang Xuan for safekeeping. Jiang Xuan thought about it again and again, and that night he threw all the silver into the well, which was covered with rubble for safety. After three years, Jiang Shihong came to get the money, and Jiang Xuan hired someone to drain the well water, and when the rubble was gradually removed, there was no silver. Jiang Xuan's mind went blank, and he suddenly felt that his friend's trust in him had become a misdirection, and he was remorseful. After a while, news suddenly came from the well, saying that the silver ingots were there, and Jiang Xuan was overjoyed after hearing it, hurriedly urged the excavation, and finally counted, a total of 158 were dug, and 2 were missing. Jiang Xuan sighed and said to Jiang Shihong, "You can't entrust the poor to keep their belongings. Now that there are two less ingots of silver, what can I do to excuse and justify myself? I really have failed to live up to your trust, so let me stay here and be a well keeper! Jiang Shihong gave up the idea of continuing to search. When the good people heard about it, they called the well "eight hundred wells."

Two bridges are recorded in the Meilizhi Volume II, The Bridge: the Shuangbantang Bridge and the Meitang Bridge.

"Shuangpantang Bridge is in Li nan JiuLi, shi xianggong temple side." The Qing Dynasty poet Shen Ailian has a poem "Shuangbanqiao Xiao Berth": "The hagi flowers are fresh and fresh, and the fishing boats on the south berth of the Shuangbanqiao are fishing." To the far side of the peak green continuously, a thin tower standing cold smoke." Shi Xianggong Temple, now nanshi gong temple, is located in the southwest corner of Nanmei Village, and was built in honor of Shi Quan, a great general who protected the country of the Southern Song Dynasty. Nowadays, on the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar every month, the old ladies who eat and pray to the Buddha come as promised, and the incense is very strong. The distant peaks in the poem are Haining's Dongshan, Xishan, Yinshan and Shishan, and the Slender Pagoda should be the Zhibiao Pagoda standing on the Dongshan Mountain. The people of Wangdian used to have a tradition of climbing the West Mountain in the New Year. Located on the west side of Shi XiangGong Temple, shuangbantang bridge spans changshui pond and is connected to the ma yan natural village, which is now Jianlin Village, and no longer exists. At the beginning of the 21st century, when the land was sorted out in the Garden Hama Park of Nanmei Village, it was found that there was a section of the "Shuangbantang Bridge" bridge stone carved on the side, and the name of the bridge was surrounded by an oval stone carving. Due to the lack of cultural protection awareness at that time, it was subsequently buried, and now it is difficult to find.

"The Meitang Bridge is in the south of the six miles, the bridge South China Sea salt realm, the north of the bridge Jiaxing border, as the boundary, Guangxu two years of haiyan He Danshan raised funds to rebuild." Meitang Bridge spans Henggang and is the boundary bridge between Jiaxing and Haiyan at that time, and the southern area of the back bridge belongs to Qinmin Village (now part of Hengshan Community, Haichang Street) in Jiaoshi Town, Haining City, and becomes the boundary bridge between Jiaxing and Haining. The original bridge was destroyed by the Invading Japanese Army in the 1930s. Until 1991, it was jointly funded by Nanmei Village and Qinmin Village to rebuild it, named "Meimin Bridge". However, the nearby people are still accustomed to calling it "Meitang Bridge". In 2016, due to the needs of the construction of the Hangpingshen Line waterway, the Meimin Bridge was demolished.

The Taoism, volume 5 of the Meili Zhi contains the Temple of Shi Gong, Jiang An, Mao An, and Jiang Zhuang.

"Shi Gong Temple is in the seven miles of Li Nan, the east of the Shuangbantang Bridge, there is a stage in front of it, and the Spring Moon Reward God performs the most." Shi Gong Temple is the aforementioned Shi Xiang Gong Temple. "Spring Moon Reward God" means to reward the gods in the spring. Spring is the season of revival, divine manifestation, and spiritual germination, so folk blessings and various ritual performances throughout the year are often concentrated in this season. Every year in the spring, the stage in front of the Shigong Temple is surrounded by a sea of people, and the townspeople stop to watch the drama performed by the drama team. People came to the temple to light candles and incense, prostrate their heads and pray for a year of smooth wind and rain and family health.

"Jiang An is north of the Great Stone Bridge." The original site of Jiang'an is on the east side of the current village committee, and in the 1950s and 1960s, a nun named Wenxiang presided over the daily affairs of the nunnery. Later, Jiang An was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution". After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang An moved to the prefabricated field on the west side of the Great Stone Bridge, which has survived to this day, and the temple is currently dedicated to Bodhisattvas such as Rulai, Guanyin, Weituo, Amitabha Buddha, and Jizo King.

"Mao'an is on the small stone bridge, and Jiang Xuan is said to be the north of the old house. The small stone bridge has a thatched temple, which is now abandoned. "Mao'an was abandoned in the Qing Dynasty and has no trace. There are relevant records for large and small stone bridges. Meili poet Miao Yuanying (Zi Lu Feng, formerly known as Suiwu) has a poem in "Plum Blossom Creek Ta Chun Ci": "Liu Su Tang is deeply separated from Pu Yao, and the South Village smoke willows are scattered with thousands." The words are very remote, and the big stone bridge crosses the small stone bridge." In the old days, there were Nangang (now Dahenggang) and Laimi Port, the two rivers are separated by fields, only tens of meters apart, and there are large stone bridges and small stone bridges spanning them, which is the only way for the local north-south exchange. The Oishi Bridge was rebuilt in 1994 due to the excavation of Ōjō Port. The Small Stone Bridge and the western section of Laimi Port were destroyed together during the period of agricultural science. The Meili poet Jiang Xuan has a poem in the "Liu Su Tang Collection": "My family has a ling brother, the old monk of the stone bridge." The sutra holds a thousand initiatives, and the zen bed is accompanied by a vine. Drinking springs divide wells, begging for fires and lamps. It is often said that the rooftop road has not been able to go in this life." The poem tells the story of Jiang Xuan's younger brother chanting the Sutra and chanting the Buddha by the stone bridge, and the life of the poor with two sleeves and a fresh breeze.

"The Jiang Zhuang Temple is in the Wang Family Pocket." There is now a shrine temple on the north side of the 10 groups of Wangjiatou in Nanmei Village, and there is a plaque hanging on the lintel, called "Jiang Zhuang She Temple", also known as Jiang Zhong Temple by locals, and there are activities such as eating and praying Buddha on the 20th day of the lunar calendar every month.

The Meili Zhi Volume VI "Garden Pavilion" has Yiwan Garden, Wang's Garden, and Liusu Hall.

"YiWan Garden is in the pocket of the Royal Family in Li Nan Wuli." This garden is another place for the former Ming dynasty official Wang Sanxi. Wang Sanxi (王三西), courtesy name Ruming (汝命), was a scholar of Ming Jiajing in the thirty-second year (1553) who served as an official in Baoding, Hebei (equivalent to the president of the court and the director of the audit bureau of the prefecture-level city today). There are buildings such as the Listening Jade Building in the Yiwan Garden, "Listening to the bamboo thousand poles in front of the Jade Building, Lan Jiuqi on the Youfang Pond." "The birds and flowers in the garden, the bamboo paths are quiet, and the orchids are fragrant, which can be described as a unique cave and full of rich humanistic atmosphere." Unfortunately, Yiwanyuan was abandoned as a cemetery in the Qing Dynasty.

"Wang's Garden is in the South Village, so Wang King's Garden is also." "King Jingo of Qingtang is in the house of King Linan, and it is now abandoned." Laiqingtang and Wang's Garden, which are the residences of Wang Jingo, are located near WangJiatou, which is now in the 10th group of Nanmei Village, and no longer exists.

"Liusutang Jiang Mingfu Kaoru Mansion is in Jiangzhuang Village, Wuli, Li'nan." LiusuTang is the residence of the Ming Dynasty poet Jiang Xuan, located in Jiang Zhuang, Nanmei Village. Jiang Xuan, the character is big, the number Yi'an, also known as Danya, Ming Chongzhen nine years to raise people. In the twelfth year of Shunzhi (1655) of the Qing Dynasty, he served as a Confucian teacher in Jinyun County, Lishui (equivalent to the current director of the Education Bureau), and in the second year of Kangxi (1663), he went to Serve as Zhi County (equivalent to the post of county magistrate) in Fuqiang County, Gansu. During this period, he was dismissed from office because of the tax reduction and exemption for the poor people, and he was ordered not to return to his hometown until the tax reduction was fully repaid. It was not until the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1670) that he was able to show the snow and return to his hometown. Zhu Yizun's "Epitaph of Jiang Jun of Zhifuqiang County" has: "Kaoru has returned, self-proclaimed Nancun retreat, cloth clothes and hats, trekking melons to sell Longjian, not entering the city government all year round, as many as 10,000 poems, hand self-deletion, there are still more than 5,000 songs, known as the Collection of Sutang." Jiang Xuangong was a poet and author of one volume of the Liusutang Anthology and eight volumes of the Liusutang Poetry Deletion. Since 2018, Nanmei Village has vigorously carried out the construction of beautiful villages around the strategy of rural revitalization, with natural villages such as Zhongcun (that is, Jiangzhuang Village) as the main position, fully promoting the creation of scenic villages, and creating a demonstration village in Jiangnan Water Town with the characteristics of residential houses in northern Zhejiang. Jiang zhongcun has successfully created a provincial AA-level scenic village, and is currently actively declaring a provincial AAA-level scenic village, which has revitalized Jiang Xuan's hometown.

The "Tomb Domain" section of the seventh volume of the "Meili Zhi" has two records, Li Yingzheng's tomb and Li Ji's tomb.

"The tomb of Dr. Li Yingzheng of Guozijian is in Jiang Zhuang, Sanli, In the south of The Country, and Zizhou Tongzhi gave Shang Bao Tou Shi Biao for burial." Li Yingzheng, whose original name was Zhengyi (心毅), was a scholar in the first year of the Ming Dynasty (1573) and served as a religious advisor in Lin'an. Li Yingzheng's son Li Shibiao, Zi Xiaju, once served as Tongzhi of Ninghai Prefecture, Shandong, equivalent to the current vice mayor, and after his death, he gave Shang Baocheng and added five official positions, and was buried with his father near Jiang Zhuang in Nanmei Village, and the tomb is no longer there.

"The tomb of Li Ji of the Ming Dynasty is on the side of the ancestral tomb of the small stone bridge in Southern China." Li Ji (李集), courtesy name Yi (绎刍), was a scholar of the 28th year of Qianlong (1763) who served as the county magistrate of Yun County, Hubei Province. Li Ji's tomb is near the small stone bridge in Nanmei Village. Time has passed, and the tomb has disappeared.

The Mei Li Zhi, volume VII, "Property", is recorded in both the white clam and the ling.

"White clams produce Nanmei Jiadang." Meijiadang is located on the south side of Nanmei Village, south of the Sea Salt Realm, and the west side is bordered by Henggang. In the Qing Dynasty, Meijiadang was rich in white clams, and Yao Zhao'ao's "Song of Meixi": "The young fish baby is not ashamed, and the white clams are sold on the street." Where does the blue-edged purple tip come from, and the plum spring wave is green like oil." The white clam, scientific name four-horned clam, is a type of shellfish with a bluish-brown shell and a lilac flesh. To this day, local villagers still habitually call this river a white clam beach.

"Ling's production in Henggang is the highest, and the rest of the ponds are also planted." Jiangnan is rich in diamonds, and the best quality and taste at that time was the red diamonds produced in Henggang, Nanmei Village. The Qing Dynasty poet Li Fu praised the local red ling in the "Xiangcao Juji" with the words "Dream Hengtang Yongling": "Tender jade tastes, and the snow lotus also loses sweet and crisp." "Now Henggang no longer raises Ling, the most concentrated area of Red Ling breeding is in Majiadang, one mile north of Henggang, close to the long pond, with an area of more than 200 mu." Circulation, clear and wide waters have created the unique quality of Majiadang Red Diamond, which is fresh, sweet, white, crisp and delicious, and is highly sought after in northern Zhejiang. The red diamond here is on the market from mid-August every year until the beginning of November, and the fruit hanging period is nearly three months.

Throughout the "Meili Zhi" sprinkled more than 80,000 words, there are more than 1,000 mentions of Nanmei Village. 1,000 words can also become a village chronicle. Every word is like the sparkling light of the lake, flashing with dazzling light; it is also like an old man, lying on a wicker chair, shaking a fan while telling future generations about the long history and beautiful environment, rich products, rich humanities and simple folk customs of Nanmei Village.