The History and Culture of Tongan Town

Tongan Town is famous for its water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, idyllic scenery, famous mountains and rivers, and scenic spots of the Five Mountains. According to legend, Qin Shihuang shot an arrow at Xiangyang Mountain, so that Yangshan still has the scene of missing its peak and shooting blasphemy. Located at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, 402 jade articles from the Spring and Autumn Period have been unearthed, which is of great academic value to the study of Wu culture. There are many piers in Yangshan Mountain, and there is an ancient temple-Yuxing Building, which is known as "Wuzhong Putuo".

Tongan Town has been recorded in historical books since the Spring and Autumn Period. There are Yangshan and Taihu waters in the territory with a long history. There are the "Strange Southeast" Dashishan Scenic Area and the Millennium Jin Shu Ancient Street. The annual Lotus Temple Fair and Tree Yamanashi Festival have become two major tourist events in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Cuiguan pear, Yunquan tea, Myrica rubra, Tongxin rice and Taihu Lake are famous for their aquatic products. Jin Shu straw mat is a tribute to the royal family in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and its embroidery products have been exported at home and abroad since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Neolithic cultural site 1956 was discovered by the Cultural Management Committee of Jiangsu Province in the cultural relics survey, and relics such as stone axes, knives and pottery pieces were excavated in the farmland of Qianjiayuan (now Qianxincun).

The site of Wu State (1986) is located at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain in Tongan Township. The era is the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, covering an area of 3 square meters. 402 jade articles were unearthed, including cong (remnant), bi, Jing, ring bracelet, yellow, axe, dragon, double arch ridge ornament, parrot bow ornament, bird ornament, animal ornament, rectangular jade ornament, tiger ornament, tube, pearl and turquoise rafter. The large number and exquisite quality of jade unearthed here prove that there were large-scale handicraft workshops in the court of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period. The modeling style of unearthed artifacts is of great academic value to the study of Wu culture.

Shang and Zhou sites are recorded in Wuxian Zhi 1994 edition: "Shang and Zhou sites are mostly distributed in Xishan." Among them, Pengshan in Tong 'an is also a place, and its cultural connotation is mainly the Wuyue culture with geometric printed pottery and primitive porcelain. Pengshan, 36.5 meters above sea level, is located 4.5 kilometers southwest of Tongan Town, 3 kilometers east of Yangshan, 2.5 kilometers west of Taihu Lake coastline, and near Pengshan Lake in the south. The site is distributed along the hillside at the southern foot of Pengshan Mountain, with high terrain in the north and low terrain in the south. Cultural relics are distributed in the east of Pengshan Village and the west of Yao Chang, with a length of about 300 meters from east to west and a width of about 80 meters from north to south. The cultural layer is more than 1.5m, and some cultural remains have been destroyed. More than 80 stones and pottery were collected in the survey. Stone tools include chisels, knives, sickles, etc. Pots, tile bellies, jars, bean handles, bean fields, primitive porcelain cups, etc.

Tongan Gu Jing Site is located in West Tongan Plantation, Jin Shu Town, Tongan Township. 1In mid-February, 986, the Cultural Management Society of Wuxian discovered four ancient wells more than 2,000 years ago, including two kinds of earth pit wells and Taoquan wells, all of which were cylindrical, with pit diameter 1 m or more, depth 1 ~ 2.2 m and smooth pit walls. Among the unearthed artifacts, there are black pottery pots with ears, round-bottomed concave pots, and four-system glazed pottery pots. According to the archaeologists' analysis of the shapes, textures and ornamentation of the artifacts unearthed from the wells, these ancient wells are relics from the Warring States to the Han Dynasty, which provide new physical data for studying the changes of Taihu Lake waters, the well-building methods from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Han Dynasty and the appearance of ancient culture in China.

According to the 1994 edition of Wuxian annals, Huashan site is located in the northwest of xushuguan town (that is, in the area of Groups 3 and 4 of huashan village, Tongan Town), belonging to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, with an area of 7,000 square meters. In the general survey organized by the Provincial Cultural Management Committee in 1956, it was found that the cultural layer was about 1.5 ~ 2 meters thick. The collected specimens include a perforated stone axe, a stone graupel, a stone shovel, a triangular stone knife, a chisel, a chisel, a concave jar with a round bottom basket pattern, an original porcelain bowl, a tripod, and a hard pottery jar with a folding scale pattern, a mat pattern and a diamond pattern. The site is a county-level cultural relics protection unit.