There is no record of "Wazi Street" in Shanghang County Records, Shanghang County Land Catalogue and other documents, and the search for "Wazi Street" became a concern at that time. After discussion, experts and scholars pointed out that according to folklore, there are nearly 10 places in the county, such as Lingzitou (now south of Sun Square), Leipingli, between Juren Lane and Hangzhong Road, Gangbei Street (now the middle section of Renmin Road), the northern section of Renmin Road to Heping Road, the eastern section of Jiefang Road, and the section formerly called Wazi Street (Lane Heping). Now let's look at how "Wazi Street" was formed.
There has been such a saying in the local area since ancient times: "There is Guofang Village in front of Shanghang City". Guofang Village is in the south of Xinjie (later changed to Gangbei Street, now Renmin Road), far from the old county government. Beimen Street near the county government used to be a bustling commercial street, and people lived close to Beimen Street and Xinjie Street. People need bricks and tiles to build houses, so they dig kilns nearby to get burnt soil. It is said that there were 13 brick kilns around the county government. However, "broken bricks are available, and broken tiles are discarded." With the increase of bricks and tiles from the kiln, more and more broken tiles are piled up. Since then, people have been stepping on this waste tile market for a long time, and it has become Waziping. Hakkas who migrated from the Central Plains settled in Waziping and built houses, forming "Wazi Lane" and "Wazi Street", where thousands of Hakkas live.
After the Hakkas settled in Wazi Street, the county government moved to the main street (now Jiefang Road) and became the most prosperous commercial street in Shanghang. Residents around Gangbei Street, including Wazi Street, are also gradually developing around the street. They used the old houses in Wazi Street as incense houses, and some of them were rebuilt and expanded into ancestral temples for family names. According to the survey, there are more than 20 ancestral temples with surnames, such as Wen Jia Temple, Lijia Temple, Zhou Jia Temple, Zhangjia Temple, Dingjia Temple, Wang Jia Temple, Tangjia Temple, Lei Jia Temple, Liaojia Temple, Lanjia Temple and Zou Jia Temple. Many Hakka descendants set out from here to make a living in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan Province and other places, and even overseas. It is said that the number has increased to tens of millions. In this way, Shanghang became the cradle of Hakkas, and spread to eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian from the Southern Song Dynasty. It is another "ancestral home" of Hakka people after the stone wall in Ninghua.
The name "Wazi Street" has been handed down by many descendants who moved from Shanghang. They didn't even know about Shanghang, but they remembered "Wazi Street". Therefore, this name has always been remembered by descendants of Hakka surnames who have emigrated abroad. Now, following this name, they have traveled thousands of miles from Wan Li to Shanghang, looking for the footprints of their ancestors and remembering their achievements in opening up territory. In 994 (the fifth year of Chunhua in Northern Song Dynasty), Shanghang County was established, which was one of the earliest counties in Tingzhou Prefecture. Beautiful mountains and rivers, fertile fields, vertical and horizontal rivers, convenient irrigation, abundant rainfall and pleasant climate. The unique natural environment is conducive to farming economy and suitable for Hakka ancestors to recuperate; Tingjiang River and its main tributaries, Brewmaster River and Huangtan River, run through the whole territory, which is convenient for the development of shipping and suitable for the development of Hakka people. During the late Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, it was a treasure trove of geomantic omen that Hakka ancestors dreamed of.
According to Hakka genealogy, dozens of surnames went to Shanghai in the hundreds of years from the end of Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty. Hakka ancestors brought advanced farming techniques and advanced China culture to the Central Plains. With hard-working hands, they are self-reliant, open mountains to cultivate fields, build water conservancy projects, build homes, develop Shanghang mountain resources and promote economic development. "The city Jinshan produced gold in Kangding (A.D. 1040), and in Huang You (A.D. 1049 ~ 1053), the number of books contributed by China was 1672". In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "cigarettes and paper were two major commodities, and the total income in the old society was hundreds of thousands. The population is also increasing year by year. There was no population record in Shanghang during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but the population of Tingzhou Prefecture can be used as our reference index: 1085 (Yuanfeng eight years in northern Song Shenzong) had 8 1456 households, which increased from 1253 ~ 1258 (Southern Song Dynasty). Cultural and educational undertakings have also made great progress. When the county was founded in the Song Dynasty, there were Confucian houses. The government gives instructions to educate students, people donate money, the government allocates land for study, helps poor students with the collected land rent, and rewards outstanding students. The society also promotes the school's cultural and creative association to vigorously develop education. Folk books, poems and paintings, folk songs, dragon lanterns and puppets became popular, and Hakka culture became increasingly prosperous. "Tingzhou County Records" Shanghang said: "The cultural relics in clothes are quite large; Rites, music, poems and books are really beautiful. "