Chapter I Basic Situation of Rural Areas
Village history (1)
In the eighth year of Tang Wude (625), he successively served as the secretary of Xuanzhou, Chizhou and Southern Yan and the assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, and retired as an official. His family moved from Danyang County (now Xuancheng) to Jiudu Zhengcun, Zhenshan Town, Jingxian County. Since then, people living here have taken the name "Chacun". Chaji Village is built 1398 (until 2022).
From the ancient village of Chaji to the heyday of Ming and Qing Dynasties, tribal settlements with long time span, reasonable village layout, diverse architectural types and exquisite sculpture were built, which were in harmony with the beautiful landscape environment. She has high historical value, artistic value and scientific value. It is worth studying and suitable for traveling.
Judging from the ethnic residence, Chaji occupied Zhenshan Town (Houan Township for a long time after liberation). ) 6 administrative villages (Chacun, Jiyang, Fuchun, Shandong, Xia Tong and Guanyang). These six administrative villages all have good geomantic omen, among which Chacun and ji yang, the earliest cradles, are the most prominent, and the two administrative villages are connected together (1950 regional division)-the locals commonly call them "Chaji".
Chaji village is surrounded by mountains and waters, with three streams of water. The whole village is herringbone in a basin with high northwest and low southeast. Chaji used to be called Chacun, and Gui, who was included in the Qing draft, said in the preface: "My surname is multi-ethnic, and Wu Anduo is multi-ethnic, while my surname is dozens of miles, and I am the most famous fireworks artist." "Stretching for dozens of miles", that is, Didi Village and Guanyang Village, Yangchong Formation on the thick shore, Bafang Formation and Shazhou Formation on the front shore. The first five places used to be called "tea villages", such as Guanyang, which is called Tea Village Guanyang. After liberation, Chacun was divided into villages, and the above five places were divided into two parts, with the stream passing through the village as the boundary, Xincha Village in the northwest, Jiyang in the southwest, Chaxian County as the name, and the second village initials as the township name, hence the name Chaji. Later, the lower part of the village was divided into individual villages, named after Fuchun Bridge where the village committee was located.
Before the Ming Dynasty, Chaji was a place where many surnames lived together. You can test some current place names, such as Xucun, Jinjia (at the head of the village, near Xu Xi), Huajialong (in the west of the village), Lanjialong (in the village, near Xu Xi and Cenxi), Chenjialou (in Mayuanli, near Xu Xi) and.
These original surnames all live by mountains and rivers, just as Xin Qiji, an outstanding patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, described them as "low eaves and green streams." Drunk Wu local drunk, gentle voice, white-haired old man who is it? The eldest son is weeding in the bean field on the east side of the stream, and the second son is busy knitting chicken cages. I like children's scoundrels best. I lie on the stream and peel lotus flowers. "What an original taoyuan village.
In the lower part of Chaji village, the old eight surnames live together, collectively known as the lower eight surnames, namely, Ge, Wang, Ji, Mou, Lan, Hu, Yao and Shen. Shen Qiancheng became Dr. Song Guanglu Shenmu, who lives in the present Shageng area. It is said that in the Song Dynasty, he committed the great crime of genocide. Before an imperial envoy came to arrest him, his family 100 people jumped into Jijiatang and drowned. There are still traces of Jijiatang. (This tragic event is recorded in the Wei family tree of Ji Village in Jingxian County. ) Jijiatang was so gloomy that it was buried in paddy fields in the future. The king in this incident moved from the present to the present, and it is said that Wang Village took shelter here. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Zongdao, a master of Kanyu, lived in seclusion with his nephew in Taohuatan and invited Master Zhang to give directions. When Master Zhang saw that Ge was very prosperous, he found that he was his servant, so he said, "You can't follow Ge, you can only follow Ge", which means that if you follow Ge, you will become scum, and if you follow Ge, you will be able to nourish your surname and help you find it, and you will be able to "cover up". Then in geomantic omen, the surname Cha gradually developed, and he bought the surname Ge as a servant. From then on, the surname Cha became Dafa, which lasted for dozens of miles and was called "Cha (Gai) for half a day", becoming a prominent family in southern Anhui.
Some place names in Chaji have a lot to do with history. The most basic organizational cells of society are Li in Song and Yuan Dynasties and Jia in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Therefore, there are not only eight or four place names in Chaji, but also many names called Li, such as "Li Dayuan" in Jin, "Xiangpuli" in the parking lot now, "behind Baogong Temple" and so on. , but.
Some place names of Chaji were named after some celebrities at that time, such as Longguantan, Zhaoguanmen, Yimen, Jinguangding and Zhaiguandang. Later, when Guanguan Lane was in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, due to the migration of Fanchang County Government and the Political Department of the 52nd Kuomintang Army, Chaji had a short-term abnormal prosperity, and there were many banks and pawn shops in this lane.