Yizhuang in Beijing was called Yizhuang in ancient times.

No contact. Yizhuang in the southeast of Beijing is a specific place name. The name Yizhuang comes from the late Qing Dynasty. It was the site of Royal Hunt in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and now it is the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone. Yicun in the ancient mortuary is a general term, not a specific place name, and the two are not related.

The origin of the name of Yizhuang in Beijing: the word "Yi" in the ancient style comes from "Da", so the word "Yi" also means "Da", which means "Yi". "Yizhuang" should be regarded as "big" when used in place names, and "Yizhuang" means "Dazhuang", which means the beauty of prosperity and development.

Yizhuang is the product of agricultural society. In a big nation, some are poor and some are rich, and the rich pay to run a righteous village, which includes schools, public fields, ancestral temples and other facilities. In the city, that place called Yizhuang also has a very special purpose: to put coffins.

In ancient times, the word "one" was similar to a person standing with his legs apart, his arms outstretched and his armpits exposed, so it was pronounced "armpit", which was the word "armpit" in ancient times. Later, it evolved into the modern word "one", which originally meant "armpit". "Axillary" and "leaf" are homophonic, so the word "leaf" is also called "leaf". The word "Yi" in the ancient style comes from "Da", so the word "Yi" also has the meaning of "Da", that is, the meaning of "game". Judging from the above-mentioned versions of the word "Yi", it is appropriate to call it "Yizhuang" in place names, which means "Dazhuang" and implies the beauty of prosperity and development.

Then, when we first named this village, why didn't we just call it "Dazhuang" and call it "Yizhuang" in a roundabout way? This problem can be understood only by looking at the location of the village and the names of some neighboring villages.

Yizhuang is located in the northeast corner of Nanyuan (also known as Nanhaizi), a royal garden in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Nanyuan in Ming and Qing Dynasties was twenty miles outside Yongdingmen. From Dahongmen in the north, Dahongmen in the south, Xihongmen in the west and Mazhu Bridge in the east; It reaches Zhenguo Temple in the northwest, xiaohongmen in the northeast, Haizijiao in the southwest and Dahuicheng in the southeast. It is an irregular rectangular royal garden with a circumference of about 120 Li. Historically, this area is just a submerged area under the Lugou Bridge of Yongding River, leaving many ancient rivers and Shui Bo, as well as many springs. It used to be a barren land, with lush vegetation, vast Shui Bo and numerous birds and animals. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called dismounting and flying, which was the place where emperors often went hunting. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it was rectified and a fence was built, which was a forbidden area. There were many elk (four elephants) kept in it, especially in Royal Hunt. Because it is in the south of Beijing, it is named "Nanyuan"; Compared with the imperial city, Xihaizi is also called "Nanhaizi". In the Qing Dynasty, Nanyuan inherited the legacy of the Ming Dynasty and further managed it. There were temples, brick walls, corner gates and many households to strengthen management, which made Nanyuan not only a royal hunting ground in the first district, but also a big training ground for training and reviewing the Eight Banners army. Land reclamation is forbidden in the garden. In the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was at home and abroad, the national treasury was empty and financial resources were scarce. In order to alleviate the embarrassment of the national disaster, Nanyuan had to be banned, and the land in the park was allowed to be rented and reclaimed. After the opening of Nanyuan, many eunuchs, bureaucrats, warlords, tycoons and so on. Like wolves, they competed for food, and successively seized the land in the garden and established private manors. This situation continued until the Republic of China. Thus, villages have sprung up in the garden, and Yizhuang is one of them. As Nanyuan was a royal garden in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most of the people who built manors here in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were rich, powerful and educated, so they all gave the manors an elegant name, such as Qianqingtang, Sanhuaitang, Yushun Village, Yinghai Village, Tuqingtang, Le Yi Village, Zhongxing Village, Heshun Village, Wanju Village, Baoshan Village and so on. There are Guangdezhuang, Tianenzhuang, Fuyuan Zhuang and Renyitang near Yizhuang. Judging from this situation, the name Yizhuang is not difficult to understand, because it is much more elegant to call Yizhuang than Dazhuang.

Yizhuang, located in Daxing District, Beijing, is a small natural village with less than a hundred years. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a part of Nanyuan Park in Royal Hunt. It is located in the ancient Yongding River basin, with low terrain and dense springs. Years of rivers, rain and spring water converge into several large water surfaces. Because the terrain is south, the jishuitan in the north of the Forbidden City is in the north, called Beihai Zi, so Nanyuan is called Nanhaizi.

Zeguo, a water town on the outskirts of the imperial city, naturally attracted people's attention. Since Liao and Jin Dynasties, feudal emperors have been fishing and hunting here. Living on the grassland, the Mongols who are good at riding and shooting also took a fancy to this water-rich hunting resort. In the first year of the unification of Yuan Shizu and Mongolia, Kublai Khan came to Yanjing, now Beijing, and built a hunting ground with a width of 40 hectares here, named "Dismount Flying". After Ming Taizu Judy moved to Beijing, she drove away the residents living in Haizi, expanded the palace, built a wall around 120, and expanded the hunting ground of Yuan Dynasty for her own use.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Nanhaizi was also called Nanyuan. Although Xiyuan and Beiyuan were built later, they were still the largest hunting grounds in Beijing at that time. There were only four gardens in Nanyuan in Ming Dynasty, and it increased to nine in Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, thirteen "corner gates" were opened, and several palaces and temples were built in Nanyuan, making Nanyuan more magnificent and solemn.

Since the imperialist powers stepped into Nanyuan in the late Qing Dynasty, Nanyuan, which was painstakingly managed by Ming and Qing dynasties, was devastated. In order to make up for the emptiness of the national treasury and stabilize the political power, the Qing government set up Nanyuan Supervision Reclamation Bureau in June of the 28th year of Guangxu, sold Nanyuan land and attracted "an acre of vacant land in Nanyuan for reclamation". Nanyuan, which has been closed for more than 600 years, has been developed. Guangdezhuang and Fuyuanzhuang, the famous eunuch Li in history, and Zhenyazhuang in the northern warlords' section were all changed to place names, which have been passed down to this day. Nowadays, the glory of hunting grounds, palaces and manors has been difficult to reproduce, and only some remaining stone tablets and names such as Dahongmen, xiaohongmen, Jiugong, Luquan and Jiaomen have witnessed this history.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the government sent troops to Nanyuan, and specially built the "Jingyuan Railway" to facilitate Beijing's guarding and transporting military supplies. The passage of small trains brought this place into the track of economic development, and then the navigation of Nanyuan Airport led Yizhuang to the soaring waterway. Nanyuan Airport originally trained pilots for aviation schools, but by the 1930s, it had become one of the larger airports in North China. There are weekly flights to Shanghai and Guangdong, which is by far the earliest airport in Beijing.

In the 1950s, the appearance of Nanjiao Farm and Hongxing People's Commune made it an important non-staple food base in Beijing, supplying fresh milk, fresh fish and a large number of eggs and vegetables to the people in the capital every day.

Once a water town, Zeguo, clear spring water, once a royal hunting ground, and Yizhuang, where hundreds of birds gather and gallop, are more favored because of their current status-Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, a young new city that is driving Beijing's rapid economic development.

Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone is located on both sides of the starting point of Beijing section of Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway, south of the Fifth Ring Road. The surrounding green isolation belt, Sanhaizi Park and enterprise culture park surround the green forest in the development zone, and the Liangshui River and Xinfeng River run through the development zone, which are two green ties connecting man and nature.