Peach returns with a peach

The origin of Tianmen and Qianjiang was discussed earlier, and now the origin of Xiantao is explained, in fact, the origin of Xiantao is relatively simple, Xiantao City was ancient for Qiuyang County, and in 1986 it was renamed Xiantao Town in the station (administrative office).

The origin of the peach place name is said to be named after the local people who rushed to buy the peach picked by the fairies to honor their parents. This is supported by a beautiful myth and legend: a long time ago, a group of fairies went to wish the queen mother a birthday with a peach in their hands, and when they traveled to this place, they saw an oasis below where people rushed to the market, but set up a stall to sell peaches to explore the people's customs. Buyers are one after another, or they respect their parents, or they know their children. The fairy was touched, and she threw peaches in the air. Whiskers, ten miles of peach forest, peach blossoms burning, peach peaches, fragrant wafting in all directions. The name "Xiantao" comes from this.

Is this really the case?

According to relevant records, in ancient times, south of the Han River, there was a tributary named "Jinrui River", and the river water was entered by The Old Rock Head and circled around Longhua Mountain (actually a protruding earthen platform on the delta on the shore of the Han River, like a high mountain. After the south stream, it turns to the east, forming a delta terrain of "phoenix-neck diversion", known as Chicken Beach. Later, because the water flow of the Han River slowed down to this point, the fishing boats passing on the water anchored here, forming a dock, which was named "sharp knife mouth" (the pointed land that extends into the water is called the mouth). During the Ming Jiajing period, the boat people thought that the "sharp knife mouth" was unlucky, so they called it "Xiantaodu" according to its peach-shaped terrain. In the tenth year of Jiajing (1531), the prefecture government of Qiuyang sent officials to command shipping affairs here. Jiajing forty-three years (1564) garrison bandits. Since then, merchants have gathered and become increasingly prosperous. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's rebel army approached Qiuyang, and the official government increased its troops to garrison the garrison, named it "Xianzhen Sentinel", and then set up an administrative agency called "Xianzhen Office" to form a market town. The post-harmonic sound is Xiantao Town, which has been inherited to this day. In 1952, The county was moved to Xiantao Town. In 1986, the county was withdrawn to establish a city, and the county was named Xiantao City. It is said that the word "沔" in Qiuyang County is difficult to write.

Xiantao City was formerly known as Qiuyang County. During the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, it was the domain of Jingzhou, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States belonged to Chu, qin belonged to Nan County, and Han and Jin were Yundu and Jingling. In the second year (503) of the Southern Dynasty Liang Tianjian, it was established as Qiuyang Commandery (沔阳郡). In the early years of the Sui Dynasty (605), Xing County (Western Wei) was rebuilt as Qiuyang County, named after the city north of Shuishui. According to the "Chronicle of The Names of Qiuyang", the name of Qiuyang was first mentioned in the Zizhi Tongjian. The Sixth Year of Jin Ji Yongjia: "(Zhou) Yan (then serving as a military advisory wine) began to (Jing) Prefecture, Jianping exile Fu Mi rebelled against Du Tao (the leader of the Xiangzhou rebel army), and Beibei attacked Wang Zhen on Qiuyang. It can be seen that there was a place name of Qiuyang at that time, provided that if it were not for the Tang Dynasty's compilation of the history of Jin. However, the "Shen Yuezhi" (Shen Yue was a person of Qi Liang' time) said that "Tao Kan was the assassin of Jingzhou, and the first rule of Qiuyang", indicating that there was already Qiuyang at this time, but it was only a village to examine Qiuyang or Qiuyang City. The Tang, Five Dynasties, and Song Dynasties were Fuzhou, the Yuan was changed to Qiuyang Prefecture, the Ming Dynasty was Qiuyang Prefecture, and in 1913 it was changed to Qiuyang County. In 1951, the southern part of the territory was established in Honghu County. In 1986, the county was abolished and established as a city (county-level city). In 1994, it was listed as a municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the province.

Xiantao now administers the 3 subdistricts of Ganhe, Longhuashan, Shazui and 15 towns of Zhengchang, Maozui, Xunhe, Sanfutan, Huchang, Changpikou, Xiliuhe, Pengchang, Shahu, Yanglinwei, Zhanggou, Guohe, Qiucheng, Tonghaikou and Chenchang.

Shazui Street

Originally a swamp, it was silted up to land, and during the rainy season, turbid water with sediment flowed from the mouth of the mound dragon. It was collected during the Ming Dynasty, so it was named Shazui.

Wadi Street

Originally, a river passed through this place, but because it dried up, it got its name.

Longhuashan Subdistrict

It is named after Longhua Mountain (not a mountain). Longhua Mountain is actually a protruding earthen platform on the delta on the shore of the Han River, like a high mountain, hence the name.

Hui town of Chucheng

The city is named after the city to the north of the river.

The town of Zhahe

In ancient times, the underground river was called 剅, because it was the outlet of the underground river, and later developed into a set, so it was named.

Maozui Town

Originally named Sanhuaidi, it was named after the ancient locust in the land. In 1705, Mao surname set up a shop in Shazui, River Beach, hence the name.

Yanglinwei Town

It is named after the tail end of the poplar forest on the ancient embankment.

The town of Sanfutan

The original name was Sanfu Embankment, which was named after the three-volt heat fence. After the water stained into a pool, hence the name.

The town of Xiliuhe

In the past, when the Yangtze River was in flood season, the river flowed backwards to the west, hence the name.

Changpikou Town

The original name was Chang Shui Kou, the Han River was stained into a pond, after which it needed to flow through the water, and then silted up, it was changed to the name of The Valley.

Tonghaikou Town

It is said that there was groundwater gushing out, which was said to come from the sea, hence the name.

Sand Lake Town

Sui has established a town and was once governed by Yusha County. Later, it became a lake swamp and was named Sand Lake.

Note: Xiantaoduo is named after the town of Pengchang, Huchang, Zhengchang, Chenchang, Zhanggou (Zhangjiagou), Guohe (Guojiahe) and so on.

Pengchang Town

In the past, it was a white mud lake, and it was first formed in the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, because the residents had the surname of Duo Peng, so it was named.

Zhengchang Town

Originally named Dayou Street, it was named after the construction of Dayou Nunnery in the fourth year of Qing Xianfeng (1854) in honor of a jianghu woman named Li Gu.

Chenchang Town

It is named after the chen surname who opened a shop here at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Huchang Town

In the early Qing Dynasty, chengji, because the surname of Hu was mostly, hence the name. It is said that in the early years, the name Wu Jiachang was named after the Wu family, and the Wu family declined. During the Guangxu period, the Hu family produced three consecutive lifters and changed their name to Hu Jiachang.

Zhanggou Town

According to the Jiajing Period "Qiuyang Zhi", the name of this place is Canglang, and there is a Canglang Pavilion. During the Qianlong Dynasty, there were many foreigners, and zhang mou in Jiangxi settled in Xiaogou, which gave Zhangjiagou its name and later formed a market town.

Guohe Town

Located on both sides of the Tongzhou River, originally a swampland, uninhabited, in the early Ming Dynasty, there were Guo surnames who came here to build land around the embankment, and after the increase of outsiders, a market town was formed, so it was named Guojiahe.

Attached: The origin of the place name Xiantao

Xiantao belongs to the ancient cloud Mengze, the terrain is low-lying, the Yangtze River, Hanshui (also known as Xianghe), Dongjing River (also known as Nanxiang River) flood season, often flooded into disasters, there is "ten years and nine waters" said. Therefore, the name of Xiantao has distinct regional and local characteristics.

1． Jianghan Water Town

Most of the ancient and modern place names of Xiantao are related to water, and the names of places called "ditches", "rivers" and "lakes" alone are unknown. The village's settlement along the river is called "bay" and "beach"; the island in the middle of the river is called "Zhou"; the middle of the two rivers is called "Jiazhou"; the sharp land that extends into the water is called "mouth"; the place where the flood collapses and the confluence of rivers is called "mouth"; the flood rushes into a deep pit called "pond"; the bottom of the pot in the low lake is called "蔸", "collapse", "埫", "sea", etc., which more vividly depict the characteristics of the water system, water surface, water shape, and altitude of the place name. Such as Xiliu River, Guojia River, Xunhe River, Zhangjiagou, Paihu Lake, Shahu Lake, Lirenkou, Maozui, Shazui and so on.

2． Plains landforms

Xiantao, located in the middle of the Jianghan Plain, has a flat overall landform and uneven specific landform, which is the so-called "big flat and small uneven". Those who are high out of the flat land are called "platforms", "gangs", "ridges", "mountains" (actually firewood barren islands), "peaks", etc.; the lakeside is called "shores"; the heads of the highlands are called "embankments" and "brains"; the people's embankments are called "Yue" and "embankments"; the embankments are called "embankments"; the embankment slopes are called "slopes"; the barrages are called "dams", and so on. Such as Jinjiatai, Zhangwan, Mopanzhou, Pozichang, Poplar Peak, Yufan Peak and so on.

3． Economic life

Xiantao is the land of fish and rice, and there are many place names for handicrafts. There are also place names related to water conservancy, construction, specialties, etc. Such as Yang Linwei, Lotus Pond, Oil Press Bay, Groove Fang Bay, Archway Bay, Kuixing Pavilion and so on.

4． Clan religious culture

The surname is a family, and the name of the village bay named after the surname is one of the prominent features of Xiantao place. Historically, various religions have flourished in Xiantao, such as the "temple" and "pavilion" of Confucianism, the "temple" and "temple" of Buddhism, the "palace" and "temple" of Taoism, the "hall" of Christianity, and the "temple" of Islam. Such as the Temple of Literature, Red Temple, White Temple, Zhujie Temple, Guanyin Hall, Wenchang Pavilion, Three Officials Hall and so on.

5． Historical events

Since ancient Chu, there have been many historical events in Chuyang. For example, when King Zhou Zhao led his troops to cut down Chu, in the northeast corner of Maozui, he took a ferry boat with glue glued by the locals to cross the Han River, the boat disintegrated in the middle of the stream, King Zhao, etc. drowned, and the body was salvaged ashore and lined up across the river, the place was originally named Heng funeral mouth, and later changed to hengkou. Chen Youyu was the leader of the peasant army who grew up in Qiuyang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and competed with Zhu Yuanzhang for the Jiangshan, and his footprints were all over the territory of Qiuyang, and the many place names and legends related to his marching and fighting were very wonderful. Qiuyang is one of the famous cradles of the "Xinhai Revolution" and the "Old Soviet Zone", which later became a "tug-of-war" area for the White Army, the Red Army, the Japanese Army and local armed forces, and there are quite a few place names related to these histories. Such as Hengkou, Wangtai, Paomaling, Xiachabu, Tunjia Mountain, Dougu Bridge, Xuyuankou, Red Army Dam, Red Zone, Chiling, Military Embankment, Surrender Bridge, etc.

6． Myths and legends

Xiantao people revere the gods, worship witches, and are so imaginative that place names related to myths, legends and stories abound. Such as Xiantao Town, YuWangGong, Fairy Mountain, Qinglong Bay, LongsiTan, Eight Han (belonging to the Xiliu River), Stone Land (belonging to Yang Linwei), Zushigou, etc.

7． Blessing psychology

Because of the "Shahu Qiuyang Prefecture, ten years and nine harvests" led to the emergence of one by one auspicious avoid evil, praying for well-being and grain abundance, and the name of the village came into being. Such as Daxing Embankment, Yongxing Embankment, Yongfeng Embankment, Qianqiu Embankment, Fuxingtai and so on.

The information is compiled according to the "Xiantao Geographical Names Network"

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History of Xiantao

　Xia and Shang were jingzhou domains, Zhou was the state of Yunguo, the Spring and Autumn Warring States belonged to Chu, Qin belonged to Nan County, and Han and Jin were Yundu and Jinling. In the second year of Liang Tianjian (503), Heyang County was established as Qiuyang County, which was named because the county was located north of Qiushui. In the following dynasties, most of them were prefectures, prefectures, and counties. In the third year of the Sui Kai Emperor (583), the county of Chuyang County was changed to Fuzhou. In the third year of Daye (607), Fuzhou was changed to Chu prefecture, and Xing County was rebuilt to Qiuyang County. The prefecture was renamed Qiuyang Commandery (沔阳郡), and the county seats were all located in present-day Chucheng (沔城). In the fifth year of Tang Wude (622), he changed the name of Qiuyang Commandery to Fuzhou, and the prefecture was moved to Jinling County, and Qiuyang County belonged to Fuzhou. In the seventh year of Zhenguan (633), the state was moved back to Qiuyang. In the first year of Tianbao (742), the prefecture was changed to Jinling Commandery. In the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (758), Jingling Commandery was abolished, Fuzhou was re-established, and the prefecture was ruled by Qiuyang. In the second year of Baoying (763), the prefecture was moved to Jingling, and Qiuyang became a subordinate county. Five generations later, in the fourth year of Liang Kaiping (910), the Baisha Micro Science Institute was established in the southern part of Puyang. It belongs to Gangneung Province. In the fifth year of the Later Jin Dynasty (940), Shengfu Prefecture was made a defensive prefecture under the site of Jingling and Qiuyang. In the third year of Song Qiande (965), the Baisha Hui Science Institute was changed to Yusha County, which belonged to Jiangling Province. In the third year of Dao (997), Yusha County was changed to Fuzhou. In the second year of Baoyuan (1039), Chuyang County was demoted to a town, which belonged to Yusha County. In the sixth year of Xi Ning (1073), Fuzhou was abolished, and Yusha County was reduced to a town, which belonged to Jianli County, Jiangling Province. In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1086), Fuzhou and Yusha County, Qiuyang Town still belonged to Yusha County. In the third year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1236), Fuzhou was Fuzhou Road, with Yusha as the auxiliary Guo County. In the fifteenth year (1278), Fuzhou Road was changed to Qiuyang Province, which belonged to the Xuanwei Division of Jinghu North Road in Henan Province, with jurisdiction over Jingling and Yusha Counties, Fuzhi and Yusha County. In the first year of Ming Hongwu (1368), Qiuyang Province was changed to Huguanghang Province. In the ninth year (1376), the province of Chuyang was demoted to a prefecture, and the prefecture governed the city of Chuyang. And Yusha County into the prefecture, directly under the Huguang Political Department, leading Jingling County. In the tenth year of Jiajing (1531), Qiuyang Prefecture was changed to Chengtianfu. In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), The prefecture of Chuyang was demoted to Sanzhou. In the third year of Qing Shunzhi (1646), Qiuyang Prefecture was changed to Anlu Prefecture, and Wenquan County was placed in the southern part of the prefecture, and the county was ruled by Xindi Town. Wenquan County was abolished for thirty years and merged into Qiuyang Prefecture. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Qiuyang Prefecture was changed to Qiuyang County, and the county rule was Chucheng, which belonged to Jianghan Province, Hubei Province, and was directly under Hubei Province. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chuyang Special Office was established. In October 1949, according to the instructions of the Hubei Provincial People's Government, the People's Democratic Government of Qiuyang County was renamed the People's Government of Qiuyang County, and the county administration was moved from Pengchang to Qiucheng. In June 1951, the southern border of the county was established in Honghu County. In the same year, the Chuyang Special Office was abolished, and Qiuyang County was changed to Jingzhou Prefecture (changed to a district in 1970). In April 1952, the administration of Qiuyang County was moved from Qiucheng to Xiantao Town. In March 1968, the Revolutionary Committee of Qiuyang County was established. In December 1980, the People's Government of Chuyang County was restored. On May 27, 1986, with the approval of the State Council, Qiuyang County was abolished and Xiantao City was established; In October 1994, according to the approval of the State Council, Xiantao City was changed to a provincial municipality.