During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Cangzhou logistics was very active.
Here, I might as well talk a little about the economic situation of Cangzhou coastal counties before the Song Dynasty, because the economy always has a continuity problem. If you want to understand the economy, you need to understand the logistics situation in Tang and Song Dynasties.
Cangzhou is an important starting point of the northern section of the Maritime Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty. According to the geographical records in the History of Jin Dynasty, "Yanshan (including present-day Huanghua, Haixing, Mengcun and northern Wudi) has four towns: Haifeng Town, Hairun Town, Zhentou Town, which were the four major logistics towns in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In Tang Dynasty, Cangzhou Port was composed of seaport and river port, and it was composed of various river port berths in counties and cities along Wudi River, such as Nanpi, Mengcun, Yanshan, Haixing and Huanghua. Haixing has four berths. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wudi Port in Cangzhou (east of Yangcheng Reservoir in Haixing today) was the home port of water transport in Hebei. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Cangzhou had such a large-scale port, which not only showed that there were rich products in the mainland that needed to go to sea by water, but also showed that there were a lot of fish and salt in the coastal areas of Cangzhou that needed to be transported to the mainland. This kind of logistics embodies Cangzhou's rich products and strong water transport capacity, which will inevitably bring huge economic benefits to the region, and it is by no means a poverty-stricken area.
Cangzhou was a land of salt production in Song Dynasty.
Binhai county in the east of Cangzhou is the Yanshan Mountains. Salt mountain, as its name implies, can be called salt-producing texture. There is a clear record in the Ming history: "Salt mountain produces salt, and there is salt mountain 80 miles east of the city, hence the name." Yanshan Mountain is a unique salt-producing place in history, and no land can be achieved without salt.
The Yanshan Mountains were occupied by Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, in order to make Qiang Bing rich, Guan Zhong, the minister of Qi, took the parishioners here to cook salt (boiled water, near the Wudi city entrance). So people live on salt and fish. The old "Records of Yanshan County" contained: "Gaocheng (the name of Yanshan County) is more than 100 miles northeast, and the land is close to Park Yu (now Haifeng Town, Huanghua City). The people are salty and cook salt. Yanshan Mountain is also a natural fishing ground. There are inexhaustible fish and shrimp salts in the sea, which promotes the economic prosperity of the seaside. Historically, "fish and salt are the best in the world. "Yanshan Mountain Salt, formerly known as Nantian (Beitian is in Lutai), has enjoyed the reputation that the south is better than the north for thousands of years. In the history of salt industry in Yanshan, there is a conclusion in the old "Records of Yanshan County": "Salt was politics, which began in Qin and Han Dynasties, flourished before Yuan Dynasty, and declined in Ming Dynasty, and only existed in Qing Dynasty. "The decline of the Ming Dynasty was due to the blockage of waterway transportation. However, after opening up the three major channels for transporting salt by land, there is still a proverb: "The endless salt mountain can't fill Cangzhou. "
Song Dynasty is the heyday of salt production in Cangzhou coastal area. Yanshan saltworks 12, with an annual output of 56,000 packages, each with a net weight of 578kg. The saltworks * * covers an area of 65,438+0,628 hectares and 33 mu. In the Song Dynasty, there was a saying that "every family cooks salt". At that time, a lot of seafood was transported to the mainland through three channels: Ma Jiahe in the south, Wudi River in the middle and Liuhe River in the north. It's a busy scene.
Cangzhou culture flourished in Song Dynasty.
The prosperity of Cangzhou economy in Song Dynasty will inevitably promote the development of cultural undertakings in this area. In the book Ode to Cangzhou (Hebei People's Publishing House) published in recent years, 49 famous poets in the Song Dynasty wrote 72 poems praising Cangzhou's beautiful natural scenery. Among them are five poems by Su Shi, a literary leader after the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. He wrote a poem "Sailing from Hebei to the South of the Yangtze River", praising the beauty of taking a boat to Yanshan and boarding the Tianjin Building.
At dawn, the east wind rises and the spring breeze is messy.
Lang Guan started to return to the ship and traveled thousands of miles every day.
In the morning, the rudder is in the clear, and at dusk, it rides down Jining.
Mr. Nangong will go before me, and I want to go to Guazhou when I have time.
Where can I find a gentleman in the south of the Yangtze River?
There are also poems praising the beauty of Cangzhou people, such as Liu Xinlao:
Jiangling met yesterday, and the shogunate called it a guest of honor.
Goodbye, Mingguang Palace, Mr. Goose View.
Now I see my son on three sides, and it's rough to pursue my minister.
Wandering in the clouds, I want to say goodbye to Prime Minister Yin.
At dusk, I fell on the river's lake, next to Qu Zi.
I can't see joy, but my son is really cute.
Encounters become happiness, drunkenness becomes innocence.
The scholar is in the field, comparing himself with Wei and Xin.
Trying is a big mistake, but it's hard to repeat it.
There is a lot of frost and dew at the end of the year, so it's time to go back to farming.
This poem is about the first meeting between Su Shi, a native of Meishan, Sichuan, and Herry Liu, a native of Dongguang, Cangzhou, in Jingzhou, Hubei. They were all very young at that time. Su Shi is brilliant, optimistic and open-minded; Herry Liu, who is loyal to honesty, can't put down his books. The two men left a deep impression on each other. Soon, both of them were Jinshi and held important positions in the court one after another. Being an official with the DPRK, I had an occasional encounter with Jingzhou, and I had more natural contact. The most enjoyable thing to get along with is a period of time in Yangzhou after leaving Beijing. Because of their different opinions on the New Deal advocated by Wang Anshi, they were sent out of Beijing respectively. In Yangzhou, Su Shi met Herry Liu, Liu Gongfu, Sun Juyuan and other colleagues. They spent several months together, writing poems word by word, and spent precious time singing and appreciating each other. In fact, Su Shi and Herry Liu are not kindred spirits. Although they all hold different views on Wang Anshi's New Deal, their political views are not the same. Although the party struggle is becoming more and more fierce, the leaders of two different parties, Su Shi and Herry Liu, are fighting for gentlemen. For the country, we can compete openly, but there is no personal attack or frame-up between us.
In addition, there are four poems by Su Zhe, which are listed as one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Cultural celebrities such as Lu You, Wen Tianxiang, Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Huang Tingjian and Zhu all have poems praising Cangzhou.
Wang Anshi once wrote Crossing the River:
Crossing the river in the north, I miss the good gentleman of the Millennium.
Flax grows in the crown of the tree and will hurt itself.
Good morality is still like this, and when it is good, it will be closed.
Knowing Yin is self-cultivation, not for business.
There are only three families, and the temple is full of objects.
If you teach your son to talk empty words, he will only get bad results.
The poems of these celebrities show that Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty was a land with developed economy, smooth water transportation and talented people. After hundreds of years of historical changes, Cangzhou has also become a beautiful and prosperous cultural history.