In ancient times, due to frequent floods in towns and villages, people wanted to control water with fire, so they changed the word "Tong" and "Yang" beside the word "fire" in the river to "Tong", forming today's "Huxi River". Xinhua Dictionary notes the word "He Sui" as a special word in He Sui Town, Chao County, Anhui Province. Tongyanghe Town is located on the north bank of Chaohu Lake, between Chaohu Lake and Hefei City, 25 kilometers away from Chaohu City and 30 kilometers away from Hefei City. Huainan Railway, He Yu, Miaozhong Highway and Binhu Avenue pass through the territory.
"It has been thousands of years since the Qin and Han Dynasties to ask foreigners to drown." . In 239 AD, the ancient city Chaozhou River mysteriously disappeared in Toarey Yang. It left a legend of "Chaozhou, Changluzhou" to future generations, and cast a mysterious veil on this land.
The ruins of the ancient city are located in Tangzui, Yangtong Town, along the Chaohu Lake. It sank into the lake because of the earthquake and is called Atlantis in the East. In recent years, archaeologists discovered the ruins of the ancient city under the lake on the lake beach in front of Tangzui village in this town, which initially confirmed this legend.
After the fall of Chaozhou ancient city, the surviving people chose Hukou River to live and multiply. Yangtong Town can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. According to historical records, Yangtong Town was built in Xichun period of Southern Song Dynasty (1174-1189), with a history of nearly a thousand years. Although Huyang Town was formed earlier, it developed and prospered in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and formed a certain scale. Huyang Town was established in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, which was the prosperous period of Huyang Town, with a permanent population of nearly 5,000. The boat is like a wisp, the merchants are like a cloud, and the street view is bustling. At that time, it was an important town in Xixiang, Chaoxian County, and an important business distribution center.
There are four streets and six lanes in the town, namely North-South Main Street, East Street, Qiaodong Street, Nantou Street and Chajia Lane, Lijia Lane, Liu Jia Lane, Jinjia Lane, Bajia Lane, Luojia Lane and JOE Lane. The streets are paved with bluestone slabs, and the houses in the old streets are all brick and wood structures, with blue bricks and tiles, shops in front and squares in the back. Most buildings are pavilions on the second floor. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there were various shops in Beijing, Guangzhou, Za and Shan, various weaving, milling, sugar making and brewing workshops, more than 300 bamboo and wood shops, teahouses, restaurants, tourist theaters, ancestral temple pawn shops and factory craftsmen's shops, including "Zuyiyuan", "Yitaihe" and "Changchun Garden". In the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), Mr. Zhang Zhizhong returned to his hometown to visit relatives for the first time, and gave a banquet for five tables at Letaoxuan Restaurant in Yangtong Town.
The two most famous dishes are the big dish of dried shredded vegetables and the sauce meat roll. The big plate of dried silk is made of qianzi, thousands of slices, peanuts, Toona sinensis and red pepper. Sauced meat rolls are tofu skin, thousands of pieces. After frying, eat it with a small dish dipped in vinegar, and it will be memorable after eating. The traditional food in Yangtong Town is fried lion's head, which is different from the lion's head that is usually eaten. That is, the dough is pressed into cakes, cut into pieces with a knife, kneaded into flower rolls by hand, steamed, cooled, fried in warm oil and then fried with slow fire. It's completely fried and delicious.
The most famous food is "a Dai Yu cake". It is made of glutinous rice as the base material, walnut kernel, green plum meat, sweet osmanthus, kumquat, sugar and sesame oil as the main ingredients, and refined by a unique "four-embedding" method.
Legend has it that in the early Ming Dynasty, Yu Tonghai, the founding minister and Chaohu native who was named "Yu Guogong" by Zhu Yuanzhang, returned home dressed in gold and sailed to yuxikou. While waiting, he met Zhou Dashan, a young salt merchant with fine features and imposing manner, and they had a good talk. Knowing that Zhou Dashan was not married, Yu Tonghai took the initiative to betroth his daughter to him. Shortly after Yu Tonghai returned to his hometown and Nanjing, his arrow wound recurred. On his deathbed, Zhu Yuanzhang went to visit and asked Yu Tonghai what his unfulfilled wishes were. Yu Tonghai said that only my daughter's lifelong events have not been dealt with, and only the emperor has to worry about it.
Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter, who was sealed in Tonghai on the spot, was adopted daughter, Princess Jinhua, Zhou Dashan as adopted son, Hou Dingguo and Yu Dashan. After Yu Tonghai's death, Zhu Yuanzhang personally arranged the marriage between Princess Jinhua and Yu Dashan. Shortly after their marriage, Yu Dashan took his wife "Princess Jinhua" to live in Xixiang, Chaohu, Toarey Yang. Now there are thousands of people in Dayu Village, Xiaoyu Village and Yushu Village, and that is another story.
During the Spring Festival, Princess Jinhua of Yushan brought some cakes produced by Yangtong Town to her adoptive father Zhu Yuanzhang to pay a New Year call. Zhu Yuanzhang tasted the walnut cake produced by Wang's pastry shop and was amazed at its color, fragrance, taste and shape. He was very happy and ordered the governor of Anhui Province to take this cake as a tribute. Because of its high shape, color and grade, it was named "Yipin Jade Belt Cake".
The existing old street in Yangtong Town is about 200m long from north to south and nearly150m long from east to west. There are more than a thousand ancient houses and shops, and the style is still antique. Among the preserved ancient buildings, four are of great value for historical and cultural research and cultural relics protection. First, purlin Chen Shibei. On the wall of the East Gate of Toarey Yang Old Street, there is an announcement of the county government, namely "Tang Zheng Chen Shi", which is engraved with an announcement prohibiting gambling, smoking, slaughtering livestock and singing obscene Lu operas, so as to maintain social order. Second, Li Hongzhang pawnshop. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, who lived in the main hall, was very powerful. He opened pawnbrokers in many cities and important market towns, and his nephew Li Dahai was in charge of pawnbrokers in Zhendong Street, Toarey Yang.
Pawnshop covers an area of 1000 square meters with a building area of 850 square meters. It is a brick-wood structure with two compartments, the front hall and the back trading hall. It has two floors, tall and spacious, and wood carving, brick carving and stone carving are all very beautiful. The drainage system of patio is scientific and unique, and the rain is dry. The building is well preserved, and provincial archaeologists came to Yangtong Town to inspect and identify it, calling it one of the well-preserved ancient buildings in Anhui Province, with a typical Luzhou style. Third, the bunker group.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Yangtong Town was occupied by the Japanese army, and they built a bunker group in the north of the town. Today, there are still two intact bunkers in the old railway station, which is the criminal evidence of Japan's invasion of China and a living teaching material for patriotism education. Fourthly, the first experimental cultural center for farmers in China. Yangtong Town is located between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, surrounded by mountains and waters, with developed farming culture. Historically, folk songs, yangko and fisherman's songs have been handed down from generation to generation, enjoying world-renowned and far-reaching influence. After the founding of New China, the Party and the government attached great importance to the construction of rural cultural undertakings.
1950 In the spring, according to the instructions of the Central Ministry of Culture, the first farmers' cultural center in the country-the farmers' experimental cultural center of Huang Lu Normal School in northern Anhui was established. The Cultural Center is located in the old street of Toarey Yang, with brick and wood structure, covering an area of more than 800 square meters. From 65438 to 0964, under the leadership of Jin Lu, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Central Rural Cultural Task Force came to Yang Jiong to carry out rural cultural work.
Meanwhile, Li Huanzhi, a famous musician, lives and works with farmers in Chaohu Lake. He absorbed the musical elements of folk songs, yangko and fishing songs in Toarey Yang, and carefully created the folk song "Good Chaohu Lake", which was widely sung inside and outside the province and caused a sensation in the north and south of the country. Enduring. Chaohu Lake is as good as Taihu Lake in Wuxi and Shanxi.
Yangtong Town has a long history, outstanding people and rich cultural heritage. Yu Tonghai, Yu and Yu, the founding ministers of the Ming Dynasty, trained the navy in Tonghekou, which made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Kenong, one of the "three generals" in Chaohu Lake, was born here, adding elegance to the Millennium ancient town. Mr. Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist, wrote an inscription for the ancient town "Yangyanghe, an ancient town in Jianghuai".