Fengjia Town, Xiangfeng Township, Mingfeng Town, Pengxi County, Sichuan Province

After the construction of Fengcheng in the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375), Anhui people who "have no Hui and no business" first got into Yudong, and then merchants from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places also came in droves. This is where stalls are set up and shops are opened. By the Zhengtong period (1436-1449), there were many shops in the city, the market was becoming increasingly prosperous, and new streets were developed in the city; by the Qing Dynasty (1644), East-West Street and Chengnan Street were developed in the south of the city; in the north of the city, in addition to the development of Chengbei Street, new streets were also developed. An east-west street. By the beginning of the Republic of China (1911), the two-mile-long North-South Street and the two East-West Streets in the south and north of the city were lined with large and small stores next to each other. There were really 360 rows, and there was no shortage of them.

The largest store in Yudong is Xinchanghao opened by Wu Si from Shaoxing, which is also famous in Tongdong. The facades of the four major stores are second to none. On weekdays, there is a constant flow of shoppers, and their doors are like a market. There are hundreds of people standing in the store. Followed by Anhui Cheng Shaomei's Taihezhai, Li Tongshun, Hengchang, Jiang Dashun, Zhang Yongtai, Hengtai, Gongda, Ye Dachang, Dafeng, Qian Changyuan, Jiang Yongli, Dong Tianji, Liang Wanli, Song Lichun, Yongtaichang and other North and South grocery stores, Beijing and Guangzhou stores, etc. For cheap and high-quality clothes, you can go to silk and cloth shops such as Song Yuyuan, Song Yuchang, Zhenfengheng, Qianfengtai, Qunyi, and Zhangfumao. For homespun cloth, you can go to Chen Qingtai and Sun Yutai Clothing Stores; there are several old shops here. In the Ming Dynasty, they helped Yu Tung Cheang export "furong shirts and scarves" to Southeast Asian countries; during the Anti-Japanese War, they dared to boycott Japanese goods and sold "Avenging Cloth". The tea shops are Hong Xinshun, opened by Anhui native Hong Peizhang, his predecessor, and Fang Yixing, opened by Fang Jinsheng, his predecessor. Most of the tea comes from Anhui, my hometown, and is genuine and highly trusted by the masses. They also operate straw mats, especially wedding mats and joint mats, which are carefully made by themselves. This is Yu Dong's own unique style, which later became popular. Yudong's teahouses and wine shops are all over the streets and streets. Pinquanju, Li Yihe, and Cuijia Teahouse are all well-known. Mingfeng Tower, Chunsheng Pavilion, Lao Qingyuan, Yuxin Tower, China Garden, Guangfu Garden, Guangjuyuan are all old brands, including century-old hotels such as Sanitary Ware, Zhou Yuchang, Wang Yongmao, Sanyi Mao, Jiang Guangmao, Houshengchang, and Heliben, Guisheng, Chenjia and other hotels. Most of them are doing business well and are full of guests. . In particular, Sanyi Mao Li Liansheng's braised mutton thread noodles are one of the best in the East. People from all over the country and eight towns come to have a bowl of it on cold days. Rice stores include Nan Santai, Bei Santai, Zhang Tianji, Jiang Longxing, Zhang Yuanji, Zhang Longmao, Ding Dafeng, etc. The service attitude is good, one liter and two liters are sold as usual, and one bucket and two buckets are delivered to your door; Yudong's big store also has Wang Fulong, Fan Futai, Tong Chengtai, Zhao Dashun, Fu Shuncheng and other brick and mortar shops, Tong Chengtai, Jiang Haiji, Zhang Fuhe and other flower shops, Li Tongshun bad house. There are also salt shops opened by the Jiang family, Daxianguan Salt Store opened by the Fang family, and Tongxing Taitung Oil Store opened by the Shi family.

The tea and food industry in Yutong is also very prosperous. Jiang Binghong's craftsmanship is the best, Guangfeng is also a well-known tea shop, Song Dingda and Chen Wanchun are more famous, especially Li Fuxing's Jiaoer, which was eaten by Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty and is famous all over the country. Huguang eldest brother Zhang Yongsheng’s wontons are thin-skinned, filling and full of flavor, while Zhang Fufu’s wontons have a unique flavor; among the big cake shops of the Yu, Yin, Chen, Xu, Jiang, Wang and Zhao families, Jianghai Chengjia’s ancestral pastries are the best. , which is both crispy and soft, sweet, salty and fragrant. Jiang Haicheng, who is now in his eighties, is still working hard. Visitors from Shanghai, Nantong and other places bring some back to eat, and customers from Liujia, Baochang, Sijia and other places come to visit every day. There are also seasonal snacks such as Lao Qianji's sugar porridge, Jiang Guisheng's sweet-scented osmanthus dumplings, "Chenghuang Empress's" baked beans, Jiang Guangmao's fried snails, Cai's baked potatoes... etc. The North Dechang noodle shop is also a rice shop. Her dried tea is the most famous, and the Shen Xiangfeng family’s tofu is the best. The Ding family’s noodles are uniform in thickness, long and continuous. Liang Zhaoqi, Wang Jinsheng, Zhang Huaiqing and other companies specialize in grinding and grinding noodles. In Yoneko's dry mill, those who process dry noodles before the end of the year, as well as the ones above who process tofu, are very busy.

Yudong also had Shen, He, Zhang, Zhu and other big smoke lamps. Many rich and young people were defeated by these guns. On the contrary, the tiger stoves of the Tang, Wang, Cui and Cao families are crowded with people.

Yudong, formerly known as Yuqing, is the salt industry center of Tongdong. Yantingchang was built in the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716) of the Tang Dynasty, and Yuqingzhai was set up in the tenth year of Kaiyuan (722). According to "Wenwen Tongkao", Yudongchang was set up in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-) (Yuanfeng's "Nine Cities"). "Zhi"), seventeen years later, there was only one Yuqingchang in the East of Taiping and Xingguo. During the Tiansheng reign of the Song Dynasty (1023-), Lu Sichang ("Taiping Huanyu Ji") was added. By the Yuan Dynasty (1271-), Yu Zhongsha was formed. Due to the expansion of land and the increase in salt production, the official divided Yuqingchang into three buildings. Yuxi (there was no Yuxi in the Song Dynasty), Yuzhong, and Yudong ("Wanli Tongzhou Chronicle"). It was not until the middle period (1368-1396) when Fengcheng was built in Yudongchang in the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375) that there were Zhang Shineng, the Yudongchang ambassador (i.e. field official), and Cheng Huijian, the deputy envoy. , Enter the Yimen from the west archway. To the east of the gate is the Earth Temple, to the west is the God of Wealth Temple. Inside is the department room. There are three couplets in the east and west halls. There are four wing rooms in the hall. The west exit of the second hall is the Bin Temple and the study room, and there are three halls in the west. There are couplets, lotus ponds at the front and back, and the last three halls, with the residence in the west and the wing in the east (picture attached is "Lianghuai Salt Law Chronicles"). In the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1735), Wang Xin, the ambassador of Yudongchang, rebuilt the Yudongchang Office. In the fourth year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1739), Ambassador Wang Jiajun of Yudongchang rebuilt the old office ("Guangxu Tongzhou Chronicle").

Looking at Yudong's construction of the field, it can be seen that from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, many field officials were granted titles by the emperor. In the 278 years of the Qing Dynasty alone, 58 people changed. Most of them are 13 officials (eighth grade), 8 tribute students (eighth grade), 7 juren (ninth grade, the same below), 6 supervisors, and 2 tributes. The others are all tribute, bagong, and supervisor , Yinjian, mostly from all over the country, including 9 from Zhili Prefecture, 8 from Zhejiang, 4 each from Shuntian Prefecture and Jiangxi, and the rest are from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and other places , no locals. These field officials stick to the yamen on weekdays. When they go out, they take a 6-person sedan (the ninth graders take a 4-person sedan). There is a gong in front of them to clear the way, and then they raise the words "avoid", "quiet" and "yudongchang luck judge ambassador". The broker (that is, the field official) was closely followed by the guards surrounding the sedan. He was majestic along the way. Passers-by gave way immediately when they saw him and knelt aside to wait for him to pass... If there was someone who was ignorant of the current affairs and blocked the way, The player was pressed down and hit 20 big boards.

These field officials are not only in charge of land, money, grain and salt affairs, but also take care of civil litigation. They often extort people in the name of building water conservancy and building roads, but very few actually serve the people. For example, Wu Jun, a native of Wanping in Shuntian Prefecture, lived from the 58th year of Qianlong to the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803-1823), and Xu Qingwei, who succeeded him, lasted for 245 years until the first year of Xianfeng (1828-1851). . There are only a few in ten or eight years, usually only two or three years. Especially in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), Yuan Guofan and Lai Fengli were replaced in one year. In addition, in the thirty-sixth year of Guangxu (1904), there was a letter from Lou Cishu in one year. , Bian Chengrong, and Tang Yugong became "short-lived officials." Especially in the second year of Tongzhi (1863), Li Yuqing, together with the officials of Jiaoxie, Miaowan, Caoyanchang, etc., the prefect and the Tongzhou branch... etc., took the disaster relief and embankment protection funds into his own pocket, causing Fanggong Dike to burst. Tens of thousands of people were drowned, and the people sued them to the capital. The emperor ordered all these corrupt officials to be dismissed from their posts as punishment. In the early years of the Republic of China, the former Qing Dynasty field officials remained in office, and it was not until the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917) that they were driven out of the historical stage.

In the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), the people of Yudong, led by the 14th Red Army, burned down the storehouse where the money and grain account books were kept in the Yamen. In 1941, during the Anti-Japanese War, the public angrily demolished the government office and transported it to a key dam to block the Yan River waterway so that the Japanese invaders in Sijia could not invade eastward by water. Since then, Yudong Yamen disappeared from the people's sight at the same time as the feudal dynasty.

(Yudong Yamen faces the moat on the east side of Zhenhai Tower, is adjacent to Dongyue Temple across Furong Pond to the south, faces the Chenghuang Temple across the Miao River to the west, and faces the Chenghuang Temple River waterway traffic to the north.)

Faguang Temple, formerly known as the Taoist Dongyue Temple, was built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is the only famous ancient monument in Haimen.

In 1986, it was listed as a "Cultural Relics Protection Unit of Haimen County" and was repaired. In 1987, it became the "Yudong Buddhist Activity Site in Haimen County". In 1992, it was upgraded to Faguang Zen Temple. The garden behind the temple has small bridges, flowing water, rockeries, goldfish ponds and other landscapes.

Chant

Yudong Faguang Temple

Dongyue Temple is fragrant in Wanli, and Haimen is better than ancient mountains today. wind.

The towering deity of Faguang Temple is majestic, and the self-contained Zen shows sincerity.

On one side of the flowing water, there is Zhang Huihai, and on the other side of the mountain there is a vacuum.

The wind and dust forget all worries, and the garden is full of red maple leaves.