According to legend, Zi Chan, an outstanding politician, thinker and prime minister of the State of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period, died in 522 BC. During his 26 years in power, he was honest and clean, dedicated to the public, greedy for money, and his family was penniless, and there was no savings at home to arrange his funeral. His son and family had to bury his body on the top of the mountain in the southwest of Xinzheng, pointing the grave in the direction of Zheng State to show that they did not forget their roots. This matter was known by Zheng's people, and men, women and children took out their own jewelry to help with the burial. However, in order to make his father clean all his life, Zi Chan's son refused to accept it, so people had to throw these jewels into the river in Zi Chan's fief. Jewelry is shining with golden waves in the green river. From then on, this river was called Jinshui River.
This is the most popular and beautiful legend of the origin of the name Jinshui River. However, in Historical Records of Zheng, there are only a few descriptions of the people's reaction to the death of Zi Chan: "After five years of success, Zheng Xiangzi died, and everyone in Zheng Zhong cried, and he was as sad as a close relative." Although the public's affection for future generations is no different from the legend, after all, Jinshui River is not mentioned, as are Zuo Zhuan and Guoyu. The name "Jinshuihe" is associated with the distribution of property, which comes from Jia's talking about forest in Yuan Dynasty.
"If the child dies, the family has no surplus wealth, and the child cannot be buried, the people of China will mourn. Husband's clothes, woman's pearls and jade, gold and silver jewelry are hard to see. His son was buried in Xingshan at his own expense. People in China know that Shenjiang River is famous for its golden water. " This record has a complete story and detailed description. The legend of Jinshui River comes from the people. The legend must have originated in or before the Yuan Dynasty, and the name "Jinshui River" came into being in the Northern Song Dynasty.
History says: "(In the spring of three years, General Chen) led (Beijing) water to Zhongmou, which was named Jinshui, and it reached more than a hundred miles west of the capital. It was beneficial to public and private interests to put its water across the Bianhe River, set up Doumen, enter the ditch, cross the moat, and merge into the river in the east." In the early years of Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu sent troops to dig artificial channels to solve the problem of drinking water and water transportation in Kaifeng, which originated from the water system flowing through Zhengzhou in the southwest of Zhengzhou. Because it originated in the west of Kaifeng, the five elements of China and the West are gold, hence the name "Jinshui River". Jinshui River, Bianhe River, Caihe River and Zhangwu River together form a waterway transportation network, which makes Tokyo's shipping developed and its economy prosperous. Because of its clear and sweet water quality, Jinshui River has become the main drinking water source in Tokyo and the supplementary water source for rivers and ponds. However, due to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jinshui River became an abandoned river. Today's Jinshui River is no longer one of the "four major canals of water transport" in the Northern Song Dynasty, but its name is in the same strain and has been passed down all the time.
So the beautiful name Jinshui River came into being. Its charming scenery was once listed as one of the "Eight Scenes of Zhengzhou" and it has the reputation of "Golden Water and Blue Waves". Si Xingju, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once described the picturesque scene of fishing boats singing in Jinshui at night and Ruyan Liu landing on the shore: "Guancheng is surrounded by the Jinhe River, with clear light surging and green waves rippling. On both sides of the strait, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the mountains and rivers are getting bigger and bigger. Pingzhou basks in the net and listens to the sound of fishing. There are guests on Liufei Bridge. I realized that the waves were clear and muddy, so I chatted and sang. "
The name of Jinshui River has changed several times in history. The Jinshui River in Shui Jing Zhu is called "water control". Guancheng county outer city, ancient Guanguo city also. That is, Zhengzhou was ruled today, and Zhou Wuwang sealed Guan Shu. Du Yu said: It is also true that there is a Guancheng in the northeast of Jingxian County. It is usually called water management. That is to say, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wuwang named his third brother Guan Shu Guancheng in Zhengzhou and established Guo Guan, so "Guanshui" was named after "Guancheng". Sui Zhi records that there is Zheng Shui in Guancheng. Then there is a "positive water" and a "new positive water", which actually adds a new word to the "positive water" for future generations. The original text reads: "Because of Ben Zheng, Henan Zheng is Xinzheng, hereinafter called Xinzheng also." Water injection also means Xinzheng, not Xinzheng. Why use Shiqiao water as Xinzheng water? Li cited it, why not refute it? When the book was called Zhengshui, later generations added new words. "So" Zheng Shui "is naturally" Zheng Shui ",which is beyond doubt.
Notes on the Water Classics: "It is not enough to inject the water from the ditch into the east." Press "Universe" again: "Zhengshui is a family ditch. No, the surname is also. " The Biography of Jin Shu Xi is inaccurate. No, no, no, no,no. Or cloud, communicate with pi and Pingzi. Zheng Ping of Chunqiu Zhuan is also called Pi, and his land does not occupy his surname, so he takes Ming Gou as his surname. "So Jinshui River (Zhengshui), also known as Bujiagou, is named after a surname that does not live in the local area. This is a change from popular tradition to popular tradition, which not only takes domestic water as management water, but also turns management water into Zheng water.
Jinshui River also has a common name, and it is forbidden to enter Yatang. Qing Qianlong's "Zhengzhou Zhi" contains: "Jinshui River, commonly known as Nihe River, is a water school in the west of Zhengzhou City, one mile away." This is because in the rainy season, the Jinshui River flash floods, and sediment is trapped in it, hence the name.
From "water control" and "Bujiagou" to today's "Jinshui River", Jinshui River has flowed for thousands of years, like a ribbon, surrounding Zhengzhou citizens from west to east, and has formed an indissoluble bond with Zhengzhou.