Where is Song Wu's hometown?

Many friends in Shandong think that Song Wu is their compatriot, and Shandong people are proud of having such a hero in Shandong. So, Song Wu should be from Shandong, right? But if you ask again: Which county in Shandong is Song Wu from? Shandong friends can't answer.

In fact, this problem has been clearly explained in Chapter 22 of Water Margin: Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi, and his younger brother Song Qing fled to the villa in Chai Jin, Cangzhou, and met Song Wu.

Song Jiang helped Han up and asked, "Who is the first step? High surname? " Chai Jin pointed: "This man is from Qinghe County. Wu and Song ranked second. I have been here for a year. "

Then the question comes: Does Qinghe County belong to Shandong Province?

Look at the map, the boundary between Shandong and Hebei, from Dezhou to Linqing, is bounded by the Grand Canal. Qinghe County is in the west of the Grand Canal, and Qinghe County obviously belongs to Hebei Province! Song Wu, the proud "Shandong hero" of Shandong people, is not from Shandong. Isn't this a joke? If, because Song Wu used to fight tigers in yanggu county, Shandong Province, he was hired as the captain of the criminal police by yanggu county (equivalent to the captain of today's * * Bureau), and Wu Dalang has moved from Qinghe County to yanggu county to settle down, isn't it too reluctant to turn Song Wudang into a native of yanggu county, Shandong Province?

A friend from Shandong argued with me that Qinghe County belonged to Shandong Province in the Song Dynasty. This is, of course, "moving mountains and toppling the sea", and the administrative division of "province" began in the Yuan Dynasty. The provincial administrative division in Song Dynasty is called "land", which is equivalent to the "province" in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties until today, but its jurisdiction is slightly smaller.

In order to find the exact evidence, I specially asked my friend to lend me the records of Qinghe County. Looking up the historical evolution of Qinghe County, we know that Qinghe County was located in the early years of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty. In the era of Emperor Gaozu, Qinghe County was first established here, and later it was changed to Qinghe Prefecture many times. After the Han and Yuan Dynasties, it was designated as a county. The jurisdiction is equivalent to the surrounding areas of Qinghe County in Hebei Province today, including several counties and cities adjacent to Shandong Province and Hebei Province today. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was changed to Qinghe Prefecture. The Northern Wei Dynasty is still called Qinghe County. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the county-level administrative divisions were abolished, and after the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, it was restored to Qinghe County. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the county was established as a state, and the county was under the jurisdiction of the state. Qinghe County in the early Tang Dynasty belonged to Zhou Bei, and the state government was located in Qinghe County. In the Song Dynasty, Zhou Bei was renamed Zhou En, and the state governance was still located in Qinghe County, under the jurisdiction of Hebei East Road, and the road governance was located in Daming House. Although there was no organizational system in Shandong Province and Hebei Province in the Song Dynasty, there was already an organizational system of "Tao" (Tao is smaller than the province). Therefore, there is a saying in the Water Margin that "timely rain in Shandong and jade unicorn in Hebei". Shandong and Hebei here don't mean "provinces", but "roads". Later, the Yuan Dynasty established provinces, which were also split on the basis of "Tao" in Liao and Song Dynasties. The Grand Canal was built in the Sui Dynasty. Of course, it was only after the Sui Dynasty that the Grand Canal was used as the border between Shandong and Hebei. In this way, Qinghe county belongs to Hebei in history, not to Shandong. The Water Margin was written in Yuan Dynasty and published in Ming Dynasty. Shandong people "assumed" Song Wu as a fellow countryman, which should be after the Ming Dynasty.

According to the original record of Water Margin, after Song Wu killed the tiger, he was invited to "an upper household here". He introduced himself and said, "The villain is from Qinghe County, a neighboring county here." Yuanfeng Jiuyu records that Yanggu County belongs to Dongping County of Jingdong West Road and Qinghe County belongs to Qinghe County of Hebei East Road in Song Dynasty. These two counties don't belong to the same county, so Song Wu calls himself "a trainer in Qinghe County, a neighboring county".

In fact, even in the contemporary broadcast of Shandong Kuaishu and Pinghua, Song Wu was not said to be from Shandong. For the first time, Gao Yuanjun's Shandong fast book "Song Wuchuan" said, "I learned that Song Wu lived in Qinghe County, Guangfu, Zhili." . "Zhili" refers to the capital, and Guangfu refers to Guangping, which is located in Yongnian County, Hebei Province. There were prefectures and counties in Zhili in Song Dynasty, but Guangping Prefecture and Qinghe County were not Zhili. Hebei Province was called "Zhili" in Qing Dynasty, which shows that Gao Yuanjun's statement was the title of "at that time" handed down by the ancestors of Qing Dynasty. Wang Litang's Yangzhou commentary Song Wu also said for the first time: "Who is Song Wu? He is from Qinghe County, Guangping Prefecture, Beizhi. " "Northern knowledge" refers to "northern knowledge". There were two capitals in the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing and Beijing, so today's Jiangsu Province is called "South Zhili" and today's Hebei Province is called "North Zhili". In this way, Wang Litang's statement may have been handed down by her grandfather in the Ming Dynasty.

It is only in Jin Ping Mei that it is said for the first time: "During the period of Song Huizong, there was a romantic child in Qinghe County, Dongping Prefecture, Shandong Province ... who took the surname of Ximen, but he only kept the word' Qing'." Here, Qinghe County was obviously returned to Dongping Prefecture, Shandong Province. Shandong people recognized Song Wu as a fellow countryman, probably here. Jin Ping Mei was published in Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty. The author is from the Ming Dynasty, and he already has the concept of "province". Press: Dongping House was located in the Song Dynasty, diverted in the Yuan Dynasty, and changed to a state in the Ming Dynasty. It belongs to Wenshang, Pingyin, Dongping and Liangshan (1Liangshan County was established in August, 949, but there was no "Liangshan County" in Song Dynasty), Feicheng, Yanggu and Dong 'e, and there was no Qinghe County. It can be seen that Xiao Xiaosheng in Lanling is also talking nonsense and has not been verified. He not only incorporated Qinghe County into Shandong territory, but also described Song Wu's native place as yanggu county, and the place where he fought tigers was described as Qinghe County. He returned to yanggu county from Cangzhou to visit his brother, passing by Qinghe County, and accidentally killed the tiger. -Xiao Xiaosheng of Lanling corrected Song Wu's route mistake when he returned to Qinghe's hometown from Cangzhou, but gave Qinghe County to Shandong people.