Green shadows and colorful natural beauty
Yankee Village is located in the eastern suburb of Guangzhou, adjacent to Dongshankou, and originally belonged to Yongtai Township, Panyu.
People lived in this land 960 years ago. In the third year of Tianxi in the Northern Song Dynasty (1020), the Huang people had started a business in Shimenkou in the middle of Yangji Village. At that time, Yangji Village was still a small pier on the river beach, which was alluvial into a block by the Pearl River water, and its shape was quite like a folk rice screen, hence the name "dustpan".
Time flies, starting from the Jiayou period, due to the war, the imperial court appointed to Guangdong to handle affairs or recommended by the same clan, the ancestors of Yao's Fang Zu, Li's Deep Sea Zu, Li's Lai Nanzu, Qin's Shi Haozu, Yao's Junda Zu, Yao's Riting Zu and Liang's Guiming went to the village to build a foundation. Most of them are immigrants from Shaanxi, Henan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Pudong. In this blank land, strive to develop their own homes.
Li Donghua in Yangji Village is one of the former city gates.
Gradually, in the dustpan, according to the four surnames of Yao, Li, Qin and Liang, and the five living directions of southeast, northwest and middle school, the village structure of "four societies and five agreements", "three Yao, two Li, one Qin and Liang" was formed. During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Jibo Village.
At this time, the Huang people who first set foot here have faded out of this land. According to legend, when the first Yao family moved back to Yangji from Boluo, they developed together with Huang in Shimenkou, Yangji Village. However, in Yuanfeng period, Yao was prosperous but Huang was weak, and there was a big gap between the two nationalities in population and strength. Yao people began to deliberately annex Huang. They came up with a method of "drawing lots to match families" and put pressure on the yellow race. Not surprisingly, the Huang clan lost the lottery and joined the Yao clan, changing it to Yao. Later, people surnamed Huang left Yangji village one after another, and Shimenkou area became the settlement of Yao people.
After becoming a village, Jibo Village has its own township government deliberative body named "Elder Group" and "Yong Tom". Members of the clan group are selected from the gentry class of the four clans who are over 60 years old and have the right to make decisions on village affairs. After the decision is made, "Yong Tom" members are responsible for the specific implementation.
The name of Jibo Village remained in use until the 1930s. Coincidentally, there was also a "Jibo Village" with the same name in Xinjiao Town, a suburb of western Henan in Guangzhou. Because of the same name, both "Poji villages" sent representatives to discuss the renaming plan. Finally, the "Jibo Village" in Xinjiao Town was renamed as "Nanji Village" because it was in Henan. Jibo Village in the eastern suburb was renamed Yangji Village because there are several Yangtaoyuan on both sides of Shaheyong. There is also a saying that the name changed at that time was actually "Yangji Village", which means "carrying forward the glory of ancestors".
Green shadows and colorful natural beauty
At that time, Yangji Village may be poor, but the scenery is very good.
Yangji Village is located in the alluvial plain of the Pearl River Delta, near the Pearl River. The terrain here is flat, high in the north and low in the south. There are several small docks in the southeast of the village: Yanwharf, Wharf Head and Beauty Wharf. There are several hills scattered in the north: Muyingang, Baishan, Honggangzui and Wangshan. On the vast alluvial plain around the village, there is endless fertile land.
According to the records of Yangji Village, the original topography of Yangji Village is that the center of the village is slightly higher, the east and west are inclined, the north is higher and the south is lower, just like a water turtle with its head facing Baiyun Mountain and its tail ending in the Pearl River.
Yangji Village is surrounded by water on three sides, with abundant water resources in the east, Pearl River in the south and Shahe in the west. There is a row of bamboo forest belts at the entrance to the east village, and a row of neat ancient banyan trees along the sand river at the exit to the west. At the south exit, there is an east-west water pine pit, and two rows of towering water pine trees stand on both sides of the pit. At the north exit, there are more than ten tall chestnut trees. There is a teacher named Bo Yun in Yangji Village, who once said with emotion: "Bamboo groves in the east, ancient banyan trees in the west, loose tents in the south and film industry in the north." It is about the colorful natural beauty of Yangji Village. Yangji village stands quietly in these fertile fields. At that time, there were four archways in the southeast and northwest of Yangji Village: Xiongzhen, Tailai, Chang Gung and Yonggong. Today, Yangji Village still retains the replicas of Tailai Square and Xiongzhen Square. They are the only communication channels around Yangji Village. Yangji village was a very remote village in the eastern suburb of Guangzhou at that time. In order to prevent bandits and other big villages from invading, a "city wall" with a height of several meters and a thickness of more than 2 meters was built around the village, and four gatehouses also became the portals of the village. At night, the entrance is closed with several big Chinese fir trees, and the upper floor of the archway is higher, which makes the night watchman safer.
The main street extending from the four archways is the main road for villagers to farm, and it also connects more than 80 streets and lanes in the village, colluding with the houses in the village. Aoer has 6 ancestral halls, 5 public temples, 4 temples, 3 social study rooms, 7 family rooms, and more than 400 Ming and Qing style houses with oyster shell walls, pile mud walls and Redmi stone toe walls.
Two thousand mu of fertile land
During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Yangji Village reached its peak, and its area was much larger than it is now. Before liberation, Yangji Village was adjacent to the junction of Shipai and He Lin in the east, Xianshahe Street, Sports Institute and Zoo in the north, the intersection in the west and the Pearl River in the south, with an endless 2860 mu of fertile land. Even in Huangpu, Boluo and Tanxi, Dongshan New Hepu and other places, there are land in Yangji Village.
Although Yangji Village has thousands of acres of fertile land alluvial from the Pearl River, it was always a poor village before the reform and opening up. Yao Zhenjiang, the old village head of Yangji Village, recalled that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, only a few large families in the village could raise a pig. Before the reform and opening up, most of the land in Yangji Village was used to grow vegetables, and it was one of the main vegetable production bases in Guangzhou. Under the planned economy system, unified pricing, unified acquisition and unified marketing only sold about 50 kg of vegetables in 4.6 yuan for a long time. At the end of 1970s, villagers earned more than 3 yuan for a month's hard work, while workers earned more than 30 yuan a month. The poverty of villagers' life can be imagined.