Qin Han Jian County, Sui and Tang Dynasty reform towns, the Qing Dynasty with the "Jiangnan Province" and the two provinces divided into north and south governance,
Wu Taibo was the starting point of the founding of the country, the birthplace of the cowherd weaver girl, the hometown of the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong.
In the place where Qin Shi Huang toured the east, Li Bai left a thousand-year-old poem here, and the famous generals of the New Fourth Army, Su Yu, Huang Huoqing, and Peng Chong, once opened up a base area here.
Maybe here, you take a gentle step, but go straight across two provinces; In fact, more often than not, jiangsu residents go to Anhui to buy breakfast, and anhui residents go to Jiangsu to go to work.
From Nanjing Jiangning to Ma'anshan Dangtu, from Jiangsu to Anhui, one step away, but it is two rules in the north and south
From Nanjing Jiangning to Ma'anshan Dangtu, from Jiangsu to Anhui, a step away, but in the form of the north and south, the place is probably unique in China.
This town is Danyang Town in Dangtu County, Anhui Province.
The historical town of Danyang has developed economy, prosperity in culture, and merchants. Since ancient times, it has been an important commercial and trade town in the southeast of Anhui Province, which is "one foot on two places, and the chickens are singing and smelling two provinces". Known as "Jiangdong Important Town" and "Jinling Gateway"; Nowadays, it is an important window for Anhui Province to face the economically developed areas such as Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang.
One foot across two provinces is not a dream
Danyang Town is about 50 kilometers away from downtown Nanjing, and the whole town is like a pocket stretching out in Anhui Territory, except for the northern part of Jiangsu, the other three sides are Anhui. Walking on the streets of Danyang, it seems that there is no place different from other towns, only to the center of the street, the provincial boundary monument erected on the side, you can tell you that this is the junction of Suzhou and Anhui provinces.
The street of Danyang Town is only about 1,000 meters, and Jiangsu and Anhui have each set up a police station on this street, and both are called Danyang Police Station. A street is jointly managed by two provinces, which is also rare in the country.
On the border line of Suzhou and Anhui, there is a small alley called "Yixin Lane", the south side of the alley is Anhui, the north side of the alley belongs to Jiangsu, "Yixin Lane" becomes the dividing line between the two provinces, standing in the alley is equivalent to one foot across the two provinces.
Here, many places can achieve a foot across two provinces, in addition to this 'one heart alley', there is a road even stranger. This road is called Xining Road, from Anhui to Danyang Town, because the road was built in Jiangsu, so the road belongs to Jiangsu, but the two sides of the road and the other end are all Anhui territory.
"Such a road may not be available in the whole country." People in Danyang Town said that it is precisely because of the special geographical environment of the local area that they often encounter some thieves committing crimes at the border, and when they are taken to the police station, they realize that they have inadvertently arrived in Jiangsu.
It is said that there was a funny story in the local area
A chicken thief, after the Jiangsu police showed their documents, but shouted to appeal and accuse, it turned out that he had always thought that he was in Anhui territory, Jiangsu police arrested him, related to the jurisdiction of the issue, in the face of his own accidental entry into Jiangsu, this thief even said that the terrain is too complicated. ”
Standing on the provincial border, in fact, there is no so-called desolation, and the most prosperous town is probably here.
On both sides of the provincial boundary, residents of Suwan and Anhui provinces chatted while choosing dishes, and neither side felt that the other was from another province.
"We all live on the same street, usually we don't say anything about Anhui, Jiangsu, but according to the location of the town, the Anhui area is called Nanzhen, and the Jiangsu area is called Beizhen." Chen Liping, a 91-year-old man who has been living in Danyang Town, said,
In addition to feeling kind, such a name also has the effect of preventing people from other places from being confused and lost.
"Because both sides of us are called Danyang Town, people from other places can't figure it out, they won't find a place, and with the South Town and North Town sayings, it will be very easy, and all our relatives will not talk about Danyang, or talk about North Town or South Town." Due to the special geographical location, it is very common to "work in Nanjing during the day and return to Anhui to stay at night".
In Danyang Town, more than 10,000 people work in Jiangsu during the day and return to Anhui to stay at night, or work in Anhui during the day and return to Jiangsu at night, and these people flow back and forth at the provincial border every day.
Beizhen is in Jiangsu, so service-oriented enterprises and supermarkets are the majority, while Nanzhen is in Anhui, so there are more labor-oriented industries, so Jiangsu can bear hardships will go to Anhui to work, and young people in Anhui like to work and have fun in Beizhen.
Because they are connected together, there is no economic difference between the south town and the north town. However, the intermarriage of men and women and the migration of hukou can see the difference between the two places in the two provinces.
Girls in Jiangsu marry in Anhui and never move their families, and women in Anhui marry in the past, and the hukou is moved together.
The reason is simple, the social security and welfare benefits of the two provinces are very different.
The historical origin of "Little Danyang"
Danyang Town, Dangtu County (and Danyang Subdistrict, Hengxi Town, Jiangning District) is the oldest town in the area around Hengshan, with a history of more than 2,200 years, and legend has it that Wu Taibo's first stop in the south was here. Later, Wu Taibo migrated northeast to the vicinity of present-day Dantu and established the capital Zhufangcheng. The earliest historical "Danyang" is here.
Qin Shi Huang unified the world and set up Danyang (Yang) County (the jurisdiction is equivalent to the area of present-day Nanjing, Ma'anshan, and Wuhu), and the rectangular (pointed) ancient city structure of Danyang City surrounded by mountains and rivers and surrounded by four waters can still be found. Later, with Danyang County, it was called "Little Danyang".
Danyang City, since the establishment of counties in the Qin Dynasty, has always been the seat of the county, until the Tang Dynasty was downgraded to a town, the late Qing Dynasty administrative division into the south and north two towns, respectively, by the Anhui, Jiangsu two provinces under the jurisdiction of the present, collectively known as Xiao Danyang.
(According to the "New Chronicle of Zhizheng Jinling": "· · Danyang County was abolished and Danyang Town was stored, but Zhenjiang had Danyang County, so it was also called Xiao Danyang, and Zhenjiang was Great Danyang. ”)
The name of "Danyang City" comes from the Ancient Zee at the foot of Hengshan Mountain - Danyang Lake. Danyang Lake is one of the five major freshwater lakes of China's ancient "five lakes and four seas".
"Kindergarten Qionglin" said: "Poyang in Raozhou, Grass in Yuezhou, Danyang in Runzhou, Dongting in Ezhou, Taihu Lake in Suzhou, this is the five lakes under the heavens."
The Ming Dynasty's "Chronicle of Taiping Province" contains: Danyang Lake "seventy-five miles from east to west, ninety miles from north to south, and the great dip of The Great Dipping of The Taiping"; The Qing Dynasty's "Taiping Fu Zhi" contains: Danyang Lake "Hui, Chi, Ningguo, Guangde Zhuxi Huiye ... Baichuan Huitong is three lakes: Yishiusu, Ergucheng, and Sandanyang, and Danyang is the largest, and the total name of the cover is also". It can be seen that people familiar with history will know the name of "Qu'a" from allusions and poems, Qu'a is Danyang, many people think that it is Danyang of Zhenjiang, in fact, retrospectively, the Danyang of Zhenjiang at that time has not yet existed.
The Book of Wu of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms states: "Uncle Wu Jingshi was Danyang Taishou, and Ce Nai zaimu was involved in Qu'a". The "Biography of Jiang Biao" says: "Shu Zhiqi (Sun Ce) hates, and Liu Xuan according to Qu A...",
Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty wrote a poem called "Shi Zuo ZhenJun Joining the Army JingQu A Zuo", the poet went down the river from Jiangxi to Nanjing, and the Qu A who passed through could only be Xiao Danyang, not Great Danyang. It can be seen that in the Jin Dynasty, Tu Danyang was still known as "Qu'a".
Today, outside the ancient city of Xiaodanyang, five miles east of The Foot of Hengshan Mountain, there is still a high-terrace village called "Qu'a Fang" in the territory of Tu Danyang Town. There are Neolithic ruins from three or four thousand years ago, which were across the water from Danyang City in ancient times, commonly known as Hedong.
Since then, we can see the antiquity of this little Danyang.
In the Qing Dynasty, with the division of Jiangnan Town, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces were established, but coincidentally, Danyang was also divided into two, and from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the two provinces, even if the Republic of China or the New China period, there were no changes and changes.
In this regard, dear friends, what do you think?