The ruins of the city wall pictured above
Pictured above are the ruins of the city walls
The picture above is Guanyin Shikan
Pictured above is a spring ditch
Pictured above is a spring pond
Qiao Zhai - is one of the forty-eight villages of Pu Huang. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Hubei Huanggang had Puzhou Capital and Huangzhou Capital, and there were many cottages. There have been more than 300 large and small cottages, all of which have built walled cities and walled forts, scattered in the Dabie Mountains in the Wushui River Basin in eastern Hubei, of which the most famous villages are forty-eight, called "Puhuang Forty-Eight Villages", mainly distributed in Luotian County, Haoshui County, Huanggang County (now Tuanfeng County), Macheng City and Huangmei County.
Macheng City has Dongshan Village, Shima (also known as Shizi) Village, Yunwu Cottage, Tazi Cottage, Dongyizhou Village, and Zhushan Village. The pagoda cottage here is the village of Yandian Village.
The last years of the Ming Dynasty were a period of intertwined class contradictions, ethnic contradictions, and contradictions within the imperial court. All kinds of forces in Pu Huang took advantage of chaos to perform on stage and perform mighty and majestic live dramas.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Gao Yingxiang's rebel army invaded Huangpi, Huang'an, Macheng, Huangzhou, Pushui, and Guangji. The following year, Luo Rucai led the rebel army to capture Yingshan and Luotian. Then, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to Huang'an and Macheng. Xuan fought with the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ming Dynasty, Terracotta Warriors and Horses, at the Yin Mountains of Macheng, and the Ming army was defeated. The retired official of the Ming Dynasty and the inspector of Gansu, Mei Zhihuan, summoned the people to build a village to protect themselves, which was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's Huangzhi Village.
In the next 10 years, Zhang Xianzhong, Ge Liyan, and Zuo Jin Wang three out of the yellow. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Tang Zhi, the leader of the "Lirenhui" in Macheng, raised the banner of rebellion and led tens of thousands of troops to meet Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang changed Macheng to Changshun Prefecture," ordered Zhou Wenjiang (周文江) of Macheng to lead the prefecture, Tang Zhi (唐志) to be a guerrilla, and occupied Huang'er Prefecture (蕲黄二州) and Shouchang (寿昌) and Wuchang (武昌), placing Governor Zhi Prefecture (知州) and Governor Governor (governor) to guard it. Zhang was called the King of the West in Huangzhou. At the same time, Yao Minggong, the retired chancellor of the Ming Dynasty, fought against the rebels at the Bahe River. Gentry from all over the world followed suit. Each cottage relied on dangers and obstacles, "fortifying the city of stone, building a version according to the household registration, and gathering and avoiding the land and guarding it... The fiefdom of the king of Gujing Domain in Puzhou, the late king Zhu Yunyu, was a descendant of the King of Chu. I don't know when I will take the throne. Most of the heroes of the beginning of the incident pretended to be ordering the crowd. ”
In May 1646, Zhou Wenjiang of Macheng contacted Huang'an Geng Yingqu and summoned the congregation to call for an anti-Qing, and the villages responded one after another. On May 15, huang'an was besieged, and on June 4, Macheng was attacked, and Xu Yong, the commander-in-chief of Huangzhou, ordered his deputy Tang Guochen to hold the capital of Huangzhou, and led his Qing army into the Macheng Pagoda Cottage, Zhou Wenjiang was captured, and Geng Yingqu escaped. At that time, Huanggang Chen Yuzao led the zhai army to take Huangzhou, and Qingqian Zongtian Longmi and General Deng Kegang revolted anyway. Geng Yingqu fled back to The Rooftop Cottage to prepare for another uprising. The Qing general Zu Kefa and Xu Yong led 7,000 people to Huang'an, one after another, and Huang'an Zoudun, The Great Buddha and other villagers shaved their hair and returned to obedience. Yao Gong and other villagers persisted in the struggle, and by the autumn moon, they ran out of ammunition and grain, and the breakthrough and the Qing soldiers were defeated in a bloody battle. After the Qing army surrendered to Zhuzhai, the combined forces surrounded and suppressed the Tiantai Cottage, and Geng Yingqu abandoned the village and fled to Guangshan, and the hongyan village was stationed for a while.
Zhou Wenjiang was the owner of Yandian Qiaozhai Village, a native of Macheng Shunhe, who fought with qing soldiers until the cottage was breached, did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty until his death, and was awe-struck by the great righteousness of the floating queen, unyielding, and his national spirit was commendable and fearsome.
When I was a child, I heard my grandfather tell me that the surrounding cottages were all breached by the Qing army, and only the qiaozhai was finally breached. At that time, there was a song and ballad circulating: "Qingshan Pavilion da a flower, Yanjiazhai is not bad, qiao zhai qing frog." The meaning is that Qingshan Village, Geda Village, Yanjiazhai these beautiful cottages have all been breached by the Qing army, only the qiaozhai has no source of water, but it is difficult to break through. Why? At that time, the Qing soldiers had been storming the cottage for several days and nights, but the village was still as solid as a rock, and the soldiers in the village copied the trail down the mountain, fished a few large fish from the pond under the mountain into the village, and then threw them into the Qing soldiers' formation from the mouth of the village. This incident fully reflects the wisdom and tenacity of yandian ancestors.
The anti-Qing struggle that lasted for more than a hundred years in the forty-eight villages of Puhuang only the spirit of resistance of the people of eastern Hubei will last forever! For thousands of years, the Edong people have flowed with the blood of the warriors, and the warriors have the elegant style of the literati, and Su Dongpo once said with deep feeling when he degraded Huangzhou that there have been many different people since ancient times. What's the difference? Heterogeneity is bloody, heterogeneous is indomitable, heterogeneous is creative, heterogeneous is scattered and released.
It is estimated that the Hu family only moved the Qiaozhai around 1780, at this time the war in the Qiaozhai has been calmed for more than a hundred years, but the spirit of resistance and struggle of the national heroes has been passed down through the ages in the hearts of future generations and will never be immortalized.
When I was a child, I often cut firewood and herded cattle in the cottage, the walls and houses of the cottage are very strong, the ancient village is elegant, because in my childhood heart I do not know the origin of the cottage, always with a naïve and curious heart to go home to ask grandpa, grandpa is also half-understood, until today to figure out the origin of the cottage, here to make a little introduction, left for the descendants of the hometown to dig from the depths.
Author: Yandian Hu Chengguang