For thousands of years, the Nanjin River basin, which is half village and half township, has been shuttling on the water, and the trees on the embankment are like smoke; Beautiful villages and bustling streets are integrated, dotted with scenic spots and landscapes, forming a colorful landscape painting, which is loved and eulogized by literati in past dynasties.
From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty for more than 400 years, the crude salt produced by Dingxi, Cao Yan, Baiju, Liu Zhuang and Xiaohai salt fields in Xinghua entered Nanjin from Chuanchang River by barge Yanhe (now Bangbang River), and then passed through Lingting Pavilion (old pavilion) to Gaoyou and Yangzhou in the west and Hailing (now Taizhou) in the south. Ships bound for xinghua city will enter Chelu River from Shipyard River and reach Nanjin. In addition, merchant ships, passenger ships and official ships from Hailing (now Taizhou), Yangzhou, Jiangnan and Anhui also pass through this water area, so the Nanjin waterway is very busy.
During the Jian Yan period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1 127 to 1 130), Xinghua set up a postal delivery agency, and built the "Nantang" postal road by using the Nanjin River embankment, which stretched for more than 30 miles, to deliver official documents and military and political elements by fast horses. This ancient post road covers the sun and winds southward, from Xinghua, Wu Liting, Balipu, Jiajiazhuang (now Weijiazhuang in the development zone) and Mengjiayaopu (now JOE and Jiahuan in the development zone) to Hekou Puyi and Gaoyou Post Station.
On the "Kuaidun" on the east side of Balipu (now Balipu Village, Lincheng Town) where the post road passes, a very tall wasteland is covered by lush trees. This is the tomb of Kuai Tong, a military strategist under Han Xin, and is known as a "soldier fairy" with a history of more than 2,000 years.
Kuai Tong, a famous native of Fanyang (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province), is famous for his resourcefulness and eloquence. Chen Sheng and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will use their strategies to cede more than 30 cities in Yan and Zhao. Han Xin used his trick, so they settled the land together. Later, Kuai Tong advised Han Xin to stand on his own feet, which was not adopted. In BC 196, when Han Xin was executed by Xiao He and Lv Hou in Weiyang Palace, he shouted: "I regret that I didn't take a shortcut, but my daughter cheated me. Isn't it heaven! " Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang wanted to cook and kill Kuai Tong. Kuai Tong cried in grievance. Liu Bang rebuked: "You taught Han Xin to rebel and offended Han Xin. You should be cooked. What's wrong? " Kuai Tong replied: "If Qin loses a deer, the world will chase it, and the best will get it first." . I heard that the dog barked at Yao, and Yao was unkind. Dogs only know that they are the Lord, and they bark if they are not the Lord. I only knew Han Xin at that time. I don't know, your majesty. What crime have I committed? "Liu bang felt right and forgave him. After Kuai Tong was pardoned, he fled to the coastal area of Chu (now Xinghua), where the witchcraft was extremely flourishing, fearing that Liu Bang would break his word. After his death, he was buried by local "natives" on the mound on the east side of Balipu, so he was called "Kuaidun", and the clear water next to him was called "Kuaidun River", which joined Nanjin. Kuai Tong wrote strategic works such as Meaningful, Kuaizi and Warring States Policy. Kuai Tong's tomb was recorded in the Old Records of the Lake Wall, which was the Xinghua County Records written by Hu Shunhua, the magistrate of Xinghua County in the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1559).
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chai Mo 'an, the head of Xinghua's "Four Saints" (the west side of Dongyue Temple), built a garden-style Taoist temple on the south Jinjiang River in the south of the city, devoted himself to studying Taoist theory, and wrote a book "Hundred Hearts Proverbs". In a poem, he praised: "Less dry donors and less copying dikes, wild cranes fly alone." There are water and mountains waiting for me, so don't teach me to pollute my summer clothes. Later, people changed this "Taoist Temple" to "Chai Xian Temple", thus becoming a major landscape along the Nanjin River.
In the first year of Hongxi in the Ming Dynasty (1425), Gao Gu, known as the "five-generation elder", was attracted by the charming scenery of "smoke and willow flying lightly", as if he had entered a fairyland on earth, so he wrote a poem praising: "The sky is high and the road looks south, and the smoke trees are vast and blue." In the spring scenery of Wanjing people, several birds are singing in the sunset, the shadows of countless branches are soaked in the water of the bridge, and catkins are facing the wind. How many sails have gone from here, and the strip is in a hurry. At the same time, this scenic spot was named "Nanjin Tobacco Tree" for the first time and included in the "Ten Scenes of Zhaoyang".
In the 18th year of Ming Chenghua (1482), in order to solve the drinking water problem caused by brine flowing backwards to pollute Nanjin River, Liu Tingzan, the magistrate of Xinghua County, built several hexagonal double-eaved "well pavilions" on the post road beside Nanjin River, and each pavilion was hung with the words "Nanrong" inscribed by Xinghua calligrapher Lu (grandson of Lu Rong, director of the Ministry, "Liaocheng Han Festival"). "Jingting" is another cultural landscape on the ancient post road in Nanjingu.
In the tenth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (153 1 year), Zong Zhouci, then the magistrate of Mahu (now Yibin, Sichuan), returned to his hometown Xinghua and lived in seclusion in Baihuazhou (now Machine Tool Factory) outside Nanjinjiang. On the solstice of winter in the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552) and in the spring of the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), Zong Chen, a scholar and writer from the Central Plains, retired from Beijing to Baihuazhou in Xinghua, and built a "Lotus Pavilion" next to his father's Zhou Zong Bookstore to study and recuperate. At that time, his good friend Lv Xixing, the author of the Romance of the Gods, Han, a philosopher known as a saint in the East China Sea, the prime minister who returned to his hometown, and Wang Shizhen, a famous writer in the Ming Dynasty, all visited Baihuazhou and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Nanjin tobacco trees, leaving many poems handed down from generation to generation.
In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1559), Song Jiezhi, a native of Xinghua and former deputy envoy of Henan Inspection Department, built a private garden building "Jia Jie Garden" (also known as "South Garden") on the crib near Nanjin (now garden village, Zhaoyang Town). Later, Xie Xuelong, the grandson of the Ministry of Punishment, built and expanded the Xie Jia Garden on a large scale, making it the largest and most beautiful cultural landscape along the Nanjin River.