Who knows the history and origin of Zhaowang Town in Huxian County?

Zhaowang Town is located in the northeast of Huxian County 13km, adjacent to Haizi Village, Zhao Ling Street Office at the westernmost end of the east-west central axis in Chang 'an District.

According to the old records of Huxian County, the first market town of Zhaowang Town flourished in the Ming Dynasty and met in Huxian County. According to historical relics, this north-south street stretches for more than one kilometer from the south to the north of Dazaojiao Village and the north to the south of Pingping Temple (Laoye Temple). There are many shops along the street, especially in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, where grain, cotton, oil and groceries are distributed.

Xianyang, Xingping, Ganxian, Liquan, Jingyang, Sanyuan, Gaoling and other counties gather in Xianyang Gudu across the Weihe River, and cross the river by boat day and night. The surrounding provinces of Shandong, Shanxi and Henan are full of merchants.

In the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862), the Hui people attacked Huxian for a long time. In order to ensure the supply of the war, Zhaowang Town was looted by the Hui-Han War. Because it is an important distribution center of grain, cotton, oil and miscellaneous grains in Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, it has become the hardest hit area in the Hui-Han War. The commercial street was reduced to ashes and razed to the ground in the fire, and more than half of the people in the town died.

The inscription "Emperor Yi in the Early Qing Dynasty", which was recently discovered in Dongcun, reads: "The flower gate is a torch, the city is a city, and the north and south are more than two miles, all of which are sand and stones."

Prove that there is a tall and beautiful landmark "Flower Gate" in the south gate of Gleditsia sinensis. It proves the historical fact that Erli Long Street, where shops are concentrated and prosperous, became ruins in the fighting, leaving only rubble to burn.

In the 1960s, the ancient street south of Guandao Wharf (beacon tower) was dug by the production team all the year round, and a large amount of rubble, ashes and unburned wood were excavated. The old man talked about that history and confirmed the historical facts with each other.

Zhao, a villager in the fourth group of Xicun, still retains this grain store handed down from generation to generation, which is engraved with "Zhaozhen South Street". This can at least prove that before the "Huihuan", in addition to the main street in the North and South Erli, there was a short cross street between the east and the west as the south street, and there was also a grain store.

The commercial street in Zhaowang Town suffered the greatest disaster in the chaos, and the well-known big business office "Yuan Taihe" (a plaque created by Yang Cuo in Nishimura, with a width of 50 cm and a length of more than 2 meters, has been preserved to this day).

The "Big Dyeing Workshop" and the two most influential pawn shops in Heather and Beishi, "Nandang" and "Betang" no longer exist.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, after 50 or 60 years of interest-bearing, the town re-formed a number of influential new firms: Yongyicheng (founded by Zhang Zijia of the village), Tianshuntong (founded by Liu of Dongcun), Jiyihe (inspected), Hengyisheng (inspected by Zhaocun) and Fushantang (founder unknown).

The Liu family has made a family history. At that time, there was a legend in the town that the farmland was easily cultivated by the Liu family where the Hui people burned down the "northern pawnshop".

One morning, the man plowed the land and made three plowshares in one place. Finally, he dug out a piece of cast iron with a shovel, and the man threw it in the field. Liu Laohan came to the field to see that there was too little plowing in the early morning. The reason is that the man told the story of plowing the iron block with his fingers. Liu Laohan carefully looked at the iron block for a long time and ordered the man to take it home. The man said, I will give it to him.

Liu Laohan said, I'll buy us a whip, which will be enough for you.

In fact, this piece of iron, wrapped in mud and blackened, is the gold nugget left by the burning of the pawnshop in the north, and God also helped the Liu family "Tianshuntong" to become a firm second only to "Hengyisheng".

With regard to the origin of the historical name of Zhaowang Town, Zhaowang Town is adjacent to Zhoufengjing Zhou Wenwang Temple, and also located on the bank of Lingfenchi (Lake) in Zhou Wenwang. According to the inscriptions on the east gate of Zhaowang Town East Village: "Yu Xiu Lingzhou" and the inscription on the north gate: "Looking at Guqi from afar", it shows that this ancient place has an indissoluble bond with the Zhou people who moved eastward.

Moreover, according to historians' research, before the Yuan Dynasty, China was named after its place of residence, so it was originally named Zhouwang Town. Because there is almost no difference between Zhou and Zhao in the pronunciation of ancient dialects, we can still hear three ways of writing from the pronunciation of modern dialects, namely, Zhen, Zhou Wangzhen and Zhao Wangzhen.

Xi 'an, Chang 'an, Huxian and even Sanqin, there are countless similar transliteration village names.

Zhao changed his name in the Ming Dynasty, but he was never named after Zhao's surname "Wang". In history, 92 princes of Zhao were sealed, and the specific source needs further research.

Among the ancient towns in Huxian County, it can be called a thousand-year-old town, and it is the four ancient towns of Zhaowang Town, Qin Zhen Town, Ganting Town and Pangguang Town.

We can't disrespect history just because Huxian abandoned Zhaowang Town. According to the Records of Huxian County and the Folklore of North Township of Huxian County edited by Mr. Wu Shuren, Dawang Town, a famous historical town in Xi 'an, was established here from the 11th year of Hongzhi (1498) to the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644).

Ten years ago (1732), it was renamed dawang town.

According to 1986, the newly revised Records of Huxian County, Qin Dou Town in Huxian County was changed to Qin Dou Town around the first year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty (1426).

Within ten years after liberation, people used to call Dawang Town Dawangdian or Dawang Street.

Qin Zhen is called Qin Dou Street, and Zhaowang Town is called Zhaowang Town, indicating that Zhaowang Town has an earlier history.

But before the Ming Dynasty, the town was an ad hoc administrative and military institution, which first appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

According to the song dynasty "era" volume seven "states and counties? The general code of "Town" said: "The town will be in charge of the class in the later Zhou Dynasty ... the system of the Song Dynasty. If the land is not a state, it will be a military commander; If the residence is not a county and there is tax, it is a town or supervised by officials. "

According to historical records, a large number of towns were set up in the Song Dynasty. With the development of commodity economy, the old city has added commercial elements. In the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court actively promoted and encouraged temple commerce, and traffic from all directions passed through Puji Bridge on Fenghe River from the east. The north-south ancient official road passing through the town leads to Gao Qiao and Xianyang ancient crossing, especially longxing temple, which is quite large. The temple fair brought by Byodoji is the original crepe shape of a commercial market town.

At that time, because of the war and famine in Guanzhong, there were many fewer villages than now. Most of the gardens in the Han Dynasty were royal gardens, and many villages in Huxian County were developed by immigrants around the Ming Dynasty.

According to the reconstruction of Byodoji Monument in the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), it was called Zhaowang Town in the fifth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, which proved that it was wrong to set up Zhaowang Town before Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, which was nearly 300 years late.

The inscriptions in Zhaowang Town can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, and the cultural relics unearthed from the north ancient city wall and another star of Zhaowang Town East Village can be traced back to the garrison traces of Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties. This is an ancient town with a heavy historical accumulation.

Zhaowang Town takes Shang Jie as an independent town and is divided into towns, with Dongbao in the east and Xibao in the west, which is the title of Qing Dynasty.

Known as Dongzhen and Xizhen in the Ming Dynasty and before, there are inscriptions to prove it.

Until now, people still call it East Zhaowang Town and West Zhaowang Town.

The ancient meeting was July 21; July 22; August15; September 23; September 25; On September 28th, during each session, Shaanxi Opera sang for nine days, and there were also Chenghuang Temple (February 8th and April 8th), Byodoji and longxing temple (1 month 16). Temple fairs are celebrated every year, and acrobatics are very lively.

It can be concluded that the Street Businessmen's Congress Day on July 22nd is actually the God of Wealth Festival of Zhao Gongming's birthday.

Zhaowang Town is rich in historical and cultural relics. 200 meters to the east of the town is Lingzhaotang in Wang Jingwen, Zhou Feng. The temples in the town, such as longxing temple, Byodoji, Chenghuang Temple and lay temple, are all temples with a long history and large scale.

Zhaowang Town is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, and he should not have been marginalized by history. Before liberation, a geomantic master once outlined the geomantic omen of the ancient town: "Lingfen is in the east, Black Dragon is in the west, (Heilongjiang) Qinglong is on the left, White Tiger is on the right, the plate is full of abundant surroundings, the screen faces south, Wang Wen's aura, Ruilian's morning dew, Qinglong's north and south, driving the town to lie in the middle, extending in all directions, and Zhong Ling is beautiful.

It is called the Golden Corner because it is located at the junction of Huxian County in Chang 'an, more than ten miles away in Fiona Fang, and it is an important distribution center for commodities, agricultural products, means of production and economic exchanges. More than half of them earn money from Chang 'an to pay taxes to Huxian county.1People born after 960 don't know. We say that it has been forgotten by history, and it is just a golden corner abandoned by Huxian County.