In 2021, Cangzhou local popular song "Cangzhou Cangzhou" sung in local dialect, which sings: Cangzhou Cangzhou, is the bright moon shining in the wilderness, Cangzhou state, is the spring and autumn of the millennium.
Let's interpret Cangzhou from the word "Cang". "Warehouse" refers to the building where grain is stored. The meaning of "cang" is a body of water that can provide food, such as rivers, lakes and seas, Dianpo pit ponds and so on.
In the second year of The Northern Wei Dynasty (517 AD), Emperor Xiaoming took the meaning of Canghai and established Cangzhou. The Northern Wei regime was founded by the Xianbei people, the most famous emperor was the famous Northern Wei Xiaowen Emperor, Emperor Xiaowen was an outstanding ethnic minority reformer, after he moved the capital from Datong to Luoyang, he implemented a series of reforms, let the Xianbei people wear Hanfu, speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, and actively integrate into Chinese civilization, and later even changed his surname to "Yuan", Tuoba Hong transformed into "Yuan Hong".
Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei was the grandson of Emperor Xiaowen, who ascended the throne in 516 with the era name Xiping. In the first year of Xiping, there was a great drought in the hejian area, and Emperor Xiaoming issued an edict to help the people; in the second year of Xiping, there was a revolt of Mahayana Buddhists along the coast of the Bohai Sea, and after the uprising was suppressed, in order to strengthen the rule, a new state was established in this belt, taking the meaning of Canghai and taking the name Cangzhou, which is the origin of the name Cangzhou.
By the way, Emperor Xiaoming was actually a small emperor, who took the throne at the age of six, and the power of the state was concentrated in the hands of his mother, Empress Hu, who listened to the government and did many things, but behaved inappropriately, and raised male pets like Wu Zetian, and was disgusted by the growing Emperor Xiaoming, and suspicion between mother and son occurred repeatedly, and finally on March 31, 528, Empress Hu poisoned and poisoned her own son, Emperor Xiaoming, who was only 19 years old when he died. After Emperor Xiaoming's death, there was only one girl under his knees who was less than a full moon. The country could not be without a monarch for a day, and Empress HuLing declared her to be a "prince" to the outside world, and she was proclaimed emperor, pardoning the world, and using the Xiaoming Emperor's era name Wutai. On April 1, 528, the girl ascended the throne, becoming the first woman in Chinese history to ascend to the throne of the emperor, earlier than Wu Zetian. Empress Dowager Hu saw that the people's hearts had been decided, and regretted that she had impersonated the emperor with a baby girl, so she deposed the baby girl emperor on the same day and replaced her with Yuan Zhao, the son of Yuan Baohui, the king of Lintao, as emperor. This little girl was hastily enthroned and deposed, so that in history even her name has not been left, and historians generally call her "Yuan Girl". Yuan Girl created many firsts and smallest emperors in Chinese history, the earliest female emperor to ascend to the throne (not Wu Zetian), and probably the shortest-reigning emperor (less than a day). ）
At the beginning of the founding of Cangzhou, Cangzhou was called "Cang", which fully explained several characteristics of Cangzhou:
First, water bodies are abundant. In ancient times, the Yellow River from Cangzhou into the sea, Cangzhou Plain is actually the Yellow River alluvial formation, the river channel, there is a "nine rivers between" name, the word between the rivers has appeared when the Warring States, then should refer to the Yellow River into the sea of this area. We can imagine the appearance of ancient Cangzhou in the area around the Yellow River into the sea in Dongying today. Even today, you can see from the map of Cangzhou that Cangzhou has Baiyangdian, Grand Canal, Bohai Bay, rivers such as Ziya River, Tuotuo River, Fuyang River, Xuanhui River, Huanglang Canal, Canglang Canal, Xiaobai River, Laoyan River, Zhangwei New River, Ziya New River, South Drain River, North Drain River, Jiedi River Reduction, Machang River Reduction River, Xingji River Reduction River, etc., as well as various trunk canals. There are also Dalangdian, Nandagang Wetland, Yangcheng Wetland and so on.
Second, indigenous aquatic products are abundant. In the Cangzhou area of the "Chronicle of The Chronicle of Cargo Colonization", "there are fish salt and dates and chestnuts", and when Cangzhou was established, the state ruled "Rao'an", which means that rich people can be safe.
Cangzhou aquatic products include blackfish, white fish, barracuda, striped fish, octopus, squid, swallow fish, mackerel, tongluo fish, flounder, cuttlefish, silver pomfret, sea crucian carp, spear-tailed goby fish... Shrimp have hairy shrimp, white shrimp, Pippi shrimp, spotted shrimp, Yuanbao shrimp, the most famous or large shrimp, also known as oriental shrimp, is one of the eight treasures on the sea. Crabs include tiger crabs, flower cover crabs, Chinese river crabs, and the most delicious of course is the pike crab. Pike crab is a National Geographical Indication product. There is a natural anti-counterfeiting mark - there are three wart-like protrusions on the crab shell, so it is also called three warts pike crab. Bai Juyi has a poem: Lu steamed bear paw rotten, seafood crab claw salty, comparing crab and bear paw, indicating that crabs have also conquered the taste buds of great poets.
As for the Botou duck pear, golden jujube, etc., everyone is familiar with it, and will not be repeated. Let's focus on salt.
Salt, is the gift of the sea to mankind, Cangzhou coastal terrain is flat, the beach is wide; wind and rain, sufficient sunshine, evaporation is exuberant, providing extremely superior natural conditions for salt, so since ancient times, there has been a large area of salt pans, is an important salt-producing area in China. Cangzhou, Hebei Province, is the country's largest industrial salt production area, the daily output of industrial salt relative to the total annual output of Taiwan's Cloth Bag Salt Farm, is the most important salt field in China's industry.
Third, there are many poems. The sea of vicissitudes is the ocean of literature. Because there are many rivers, especially the opening of the Grand Canal, Cangzhou used to develop water transport, sails and trees, famous buildings, shops, wine and fragrance, salt merchants gathered, literati inkers or climbing the building to give poetry, or put wine in the wind, or berth captain Lu, so there are many poems left.
As early as 2005, the country's first regional literary map ——— "Cangzhou Literary Map" was produced by Cangzhou Literature Institute. The figure is on the whole map of Cangzhou's political district at 1:98,000, using specific symbols and characters to mark the contents of the literary masters of Cangzhou from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the contemporary Cangzhou literary masters, the literary activities of the national literary masters in Cangzhou, literary relics and scenic spots, folklore story clusters, literary stories, the hometowns of famous writers, literary institutions, literary newspapers and periodicals, literary societies and writer communities. According to the origin and birthplace of the literary scholars, the figure is marked with relevant information from 372 Cangzhou literary artists from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the contemporary era, and the comprehensiveness and detail of its annotations are amazing. Among them, the section "National Literary Activities in Cangzhou and Literary Exchanges with Cangzhou" records 84 entries for Zhang Jiuling, Li Bai, Du Mu, Han Yu, Su Shi, etc. In 1947, when Commander-in-Chief Zhu De commanded the "Battle of Qingcang" in Hejian, he wrote eight poems of "Sentimental Events", which are also recorded in the map. In addition, Cangxian Cui Erzhuang "Xiangyun Lou" and Dongguang "Shengyun Jingshe" two Ji Xiaolan reading office, poetry transmission place, Maogong Academy, Liu De Tomb and other literary attractions 36 places are also marked with special symbols on the map.
In the examination of the Cangzhou Dynasty, 8 Wen Zhuangyuan and 8 Wu Zhuangyuan emerged, and contemporary poets, scholars, calligraphers and painters were even more talented. The main writers from Cangzhou are:
Wang Meng, a native of Nanpi, is a People's Artist and honorary chairman of the China Writers Association.
Jiang Zilong is the vice chairman of the China Writers Cooperation
Liu Huaizhang, author of the novel "Riptide",
Liu Xiaofang, Editor-in-Chief of Great Wall Magazine,
Mr. Li Xiyue is a famous military writer,
Mr. Liu Xi is the author of the popular novel "The Legend of Swallow Li San" and the novel "Apocalypse of War",
Mr. Jia Man is the Vice Chairman of the China Writers Association,
Mr. Han Huanfeng is the president of Canghai Printing Agency...
The shore of the Bohai Sea, the banks of the Grand Canal, the mountains are high and the water is long, and the hometown of Cangzhou.