Laojuntang Village, Zhangjiawo Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin
Laojuntang Village is located 1 km south of Zhangjiawo Town Government, with Saida Avenue in the east and Saida Avenue in the south. Jinlai Road, adjacent to Xinlao Road in the west, is only 1,000 meters away from Tianjin South Railway Station, with convenient transportation. The village has 1,890 acres of land, 729 households, 1,733 people, and 53 individual and private enterprises. The collective income in 2014 was 20 million yuan. The village's main economy comes from factory land leasing.
Laojuntang Village was built before 1293 and is an ancient village in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. According to the inscriptions left in the village, the village was named Xiqiaotoupu at that time. According to a poem written by Yao Junyuan, a gentry in Yangliuqing Town, "Qinzhou Written Certificate - Camping at Ciqikou Road", Xiqiaotoupu "has been like a cloud of armored generals for many years, and the king ordered him to be in Si Jing's army. Outside Qiaotoupu, Xixi City, there is a temple." The bells are heard all night long.” This poem was composed by the author who camped here when he was on the coast to prevent Japanese pirates from the late Jiajing period to the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.
1. The rise and fall of the original Xiqiaotoupu
According to the "Zhangjiawo Town Chronicles", Xiqiaotoupu (today's Laojuntang Village) was first built in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty (AD Around 1293), the specific location is south of the East-West Road at the bottom of Henan Dixia. It is five or six miles away from the north-south official road of the nine provinces in the west and seven miles away from Xiaofangzhuang (today's Xiaodianzi Village). At that time, Xiaofangzhuang was under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. In the twenty-fourth year, that is, in 1287 AD, 1,512 troops were stationed in Qingzhou and 656 hectares of wasteland were reclaimed. Xiaofangzhuang was among them. There are unearthed cultural relics to prove that Xiqiaotoupu Village may have been the farm of Xiaofangzhuang. branch point. ). It is eight miles away from Chaomidian Village. It is said that "Chaomidian" is the commemorative name of the village left by King Yan when he swept north. Chaomidian Village is located on the official road of the nine provinces. At that time, only these three ancient villages were inhabited. Stretching 20 miles to the northwest from Xiqiaotoupu is Liukou (today's Yangliuqing), 40 to 50 miles to the northeast is Zhigu Village (today's Zhigu, Tianjin), 40 to 50 miles to the southwest is Jinghai, and further on Go south to Qingxian County.
After nearly a hundred years of development, Xiqiaotoupu Village has begun to take shape. The transportation is very convenient. The waterway has the ancient Haihe River Road (Chilong River) flowing from east to west. According to the legends of our ancestors, boats were indeed used. Today, the shadow of the river is It is still there, about 1 km east of the village and west of the village. The upper reaches of the Haihe Ancient Road is in Gongzhuangzi Village, Zhangjiawo Town, and the shadow of the river has disappeared. Dry roads extend in all directions, leading to Tianjin Qikou in the east and the official roads of nine provinces in the west. The Dawei Road running from the southwest to the north in Pudongpu leads to Jinghai in the south and Tianjin in the north. The north-south dry road may have arisen after the river dried up. Perhaps there was the Niudaopo River Road first. .), and increased the way of David. The south side of Papu is also called Dual Road, which is a road that overlaps vertically. The distance between David Road and Dual Road is less than 1 mile. There are also Dixia Road in Henan and Xiyuanzi Tonggao Village Back Road in Hebei.
Around 1376-1401, due to the diversion of the Yellow River and flooding, the ancient village shops were washed away. However, there was a temple in the village that was preserved because it was built on a high platform. The name of the village came from the monks in the temple. The master-disciple tradition has survived.
2. The revival of Houjipu Village
In 1402, King Zhu Di of Yan launched the Jingnan Campaign. The Wang family of Henan Province fought meritoriously with the army, and their fiefdom was in this ancient village. The terrain here is broad and There is a river running through it, making it a geomantic treasure. After the Wang family thanked the emperor for his kindness, he built his own home at the east end of the village and built the Earth Temple to the east of the ancient village ruins. West Qiaotoupu was continued.
In 1404, a man surnamed Li from Hebei Province (an immigrant from Shanxi) moved from East Ditou to West Qiaotoupu and built a platform on the north side of the river. Around 1718, villagers built another terrace in the Hebei direction of the Laopu site, forming a unique way of integrating one terrace in Henan, one terrace in Dazhuang, Hebei, and one terrace in Xiaozhuang, Hebei. Later, Zhu, Yang, Zhang, Xiao, Zhou, Su and other surnames moved in, and Xiqiaotoupu was revived. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Baojia system was adopted in the administrative structure. There were two chiefs and deputy chiefs in the village, with Hebei as the chief and Henan as the deputy. They jointly completed all the affairs of the whole village.
3. Changes in the historical name of Xiqiaotoupu
In Xiqiaotoupu Village there is the ancient temple of the original Shiguo. The ancient temple worships Taoist ancestors and worships Taishang Laojun, so it is called "Laojun". Hall".
Laojun Hall usually has a constant flow of incense, especially the temple fair held on the 15th day of the second lunar month every year. People from a radius of more than a hundred miles come to seek medical advice and burn incense for restoration. Businessmen and artists from all walks of life also come to attend the temple fair, which promotes the economic development of the ancient village. , and also enriched the people's spare time life, and West Bridge Head Pavilion is now a prosperous scene. As time goes by, the four words "Xiqiaotoupu" are gradually forgotten by people, and "Laojuntang" gradually becomes the name of the village, which is still used today. (adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});
Near Laojuntang Village there are Yangliuqing Museum, Tianjin Shuigao Manor, Tianjin Tropical Plant Sightseeing Garden, Jingwumen·China Wulin Garden, Tianjin Xile Children's Leisure and Tourism Zone and other tourist attractions have specialties such as Shawo radish, Panshan persimmon, ear-eye fried cake, whitebait in white sauce, winter bamboo shoots and shrimp rolls.