From Dongmenbo along the banks (hatchbacks) of Chelu River, 5 kilometers to the east to Daijia Village in Linhu, north to Wangheng Village on Baitu River, and south to Nanyaoshe along Xingjiang River, this area of more than 3 square kilometers in Fiona Fang is called "the hometown of thousands of islands". For thousands of years, in order to overcome the drought and flood disasters, the industrious and intelligent people have worked hard to create pieces of "banks" that are not only convenient for drainage, but also beneficial for irrigation and transportation. Here, with warm climate, abundant sunshine and abundant rain, it is especially suitable for the growth of fruits and vegetables, and it is the "fruit plate" and "vegetable basket" of the people in Xinghua and surrounding areas.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (143-1424), Xu Mi, a poet of Yuan Wailang of the Ministry of Government and Industry, resigned and returned to Xinghua, his hometown where he missed day and night. He took a fancy to the acquisition of Xujiazhuang (now Daxudui in Duotian) on the north bank of Chelu, 2 kilometers east of the city, which was a "treasure house of geomantic omen" in the center of the "vegetable basket", and built a garden-style building complex-"Xu Manor" as his seclusion in his later years. The "Manor" is famous for its exquisite architecture and elegant environment, and has become a cultural landscape in the eastern suburbs of Xinghua. In the "manor", Xu Mi, who lives in retirement, raised a clever, clever and human swan. At that time, Gao Gu, an official and a university student (deputy prime minister), expressed admiration for his best friend Xu Mi's feelings of "staying in the park with a clear ambition and being quiet and far away": "A thousand years of trees shade the mountain, and the hidden place is definitely not a Jiuqu Bay. Poetry, wine and piano books are only popular, and old age is rare like leisure. " Later, Xu Mi died in the "manor", and the swan died because of its attachment to its master, which was a much-told story.
During the reign of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1426-1435), Xu Dajing, the grandson of Xu Mi, who was well-known in Shuntianfu (now Beijing), built a tall pavilion near the Chelu River in Xu Manor, named it Wen Goose Pavilion, and expanded the garden complex of Xu Manor. Later, Xu Laifu, a famous person in Xinghua, wrote a story about the goose pavilion, which praised the beauty of the scenery of Xu's manor and wrote poems to express his feelings: "There are geese in the lonely pavilion at the stream of Jiuqu Bay. Most people have few guests, but there are many clouds. Wild birds rush into the blue mist, while fish swim in the blue waves. At sunset in Ping Ye, I listen to lotus picking songs. "
At the turn of summer and autumn in the early years of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (about 1488), Yang Guo, a native of Xinghua, won the first place in the country, and assistant minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, witnessed thousands of fruits and vegetables on the compartments in the north of Chelu, Henan Province, and made a great contribution to poetry: "The five colors in Dongling have been passed down from the old, and the nine colors are now seen in Asia and Sichuan. After the rain, the new vines are swaying, and the flowers are fluttering in front of the wind. Sweet Zhu Huohuai Queen Mother, bad color and golden memory of Fu Xuan. In order to love the white jade, Shao Pingtian must be built to hang the crown. " At the same time, he named the poem "The Melon Garden of the Compartment" and named the scenic spot "The Melon Garden of the Compartment" for the first time according to "Zhou Li".
in the 9th year of Wanli in Ming dynasty (1581), Ling Dengying, a magistrate of Xinghua, after reading Yang Guo's poem "A Melon Garden in a Compartment", took the opportunity to visit the "Thirty-six Ducks" and "Seventy-two Shes" in the north hatchback of Chelu.
There are seasonal melons and fruits with different shapes on the piled banks floating on the water surface, including white and huge bamboo shoots and melons, yellow and tender cucumbers, blue and slender loofah, pink and thick wax gourd, emerald green melons, watermelons, slightly melons and pink strips. There are orange-red futon-shaped pumpkins that are eaten as food, and torn melons commonly known as "Grandma Hum"; There are turquoise stick-hammer-shaped crisp melons, pear-shaped cantaloupes, collapsed melons and pear melons that are eaten as fruits; There are golden-red golden-red golden-bellied golden melons used as sacrifices or medicines ...
Ling Dengying stood beside the melon garden, listening to insects such as crickets, Jin Lingzi and Weavers singing in the vines, under the grass and on the riverside, watching butterflies and bees flying among the leaves on the melon flowers, smelling the rich fragrance of melons and fruits, and entering the exotic melon garden in a trance, which could not help but trigger poetry: "Outside the green gate of planting melons, vines and leaves are blooming." Melon cooked food is poor, and ion is continuous. The wind comes from the south, and the ice plate recommends the cold jade. In an instant, the climate changed and crickets chirped. The line is not too healthy, and the poem has a legacy. " At the same time, he once again named the unique summer and autumn beauty here as "hatchback melon garden" and included it in the "Twelve Scenes of Zhaoyang".
It is particularly worth mentioning that there is a rare and precious characteristic melon and fruit in Xinghua that has been lost in the "hatchback melon garden", which was once listed as a tribute. In the sixth year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (181), Zeng Gui, a poet who was then the transport envoy of both Huai and Huai Dynasties, tasted the dew fruit presented by Shi Bing from Xinghua County in Yangzhou, so he wrote a poem entitled "The dew fruit sent by Xie Shihengzhai to Xinghua", praising the dew fruit produced on the cribs on both sides of Chelu River: "There is a shower of dew, and it is full of rain ...... Who can bloom it? Sprinkle a thousand poplar branches. "