Ye Changling, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, made a textual research and said: "To the south of Yang She, the north, south and isolated mountains stretch for more than 20 miles, and the harbor and branch are divided, and the water is flat and deep. Looking at the regional form, the ancient Jiyang Lake is here, which seems suspicious. " It turns out that this area used to be a deep lake in ancient times. The name of the lake is "Jiyang Lake"!
History: "Jiyang Lake" was formed before Qin and Han Dynasties. In the second year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 28 1 year), Jiyang County was established, and the county name was taken from the name of the lake. Jiyang County was today's Yang Shezhen of Zhangjiagang City. The newly established Jiyang County has a vast territory, starting from Fushan in the east, reaching Ligang in the west, Gushan and Tanghe in the south, and reaching the coast in the north-there are no Taicang and Shanghai in Sri Lanka, and the Yangtze River estuary is located in Yang She and Fushan, with an area of not less than 2,000 square kilometers. Jiangyin County was born in Jiyang County, which is another name of Jiangyin.
Beibei is a famous rice producing area, and the "Shanghai White" japonica rice produced in the past was once famous for its white and fragrant glutinous rice. Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the late Qing Dynasty, there were four streets, namely, east, west, north and south. Goods from the north and south, cotton cloth, department stores, wine sauce, medicines and other commodities were concentrated in the west street, and there were more than 30 rice shops, which were concentrated in the east, south and north streets respectively. Before the Anti-Japanese War, Beiji Town had electricity and owned more than 10 rice mills. There are rice samples in front of the rice shop, which can be purchased wholesale. Businessmen from northern Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui and other places flocked to the dock, and the transaction was very active. Beibei has become a grain distribution center in Dongxiang, Jiangyin. The scale of the "Mi Wharf" here is second only to Wuxi Lisan Bridge, ranking second among all towns and villages in southern Jiangsu. Like almost all ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the streets in Beixu are built by water. Because there are four rivers across the town, there are four old streets in the southeast and northwest of the town. Bai Juyi has a poem: "Blue waves rippling, east and west, north and south waters, red column 390 bridge". In my opinion, he described my hometown, Beixu. In the past, the streets of Beixu used to be very lively, with goods sold in the north and sold in the south, restaurants, dyeing houses, brothels, pawn shops, fish markets and rice markets, and Taoist temples. The first rice mill opened by Rong Desheng brothers is in North Street. Speaking of rice, I think of a great event: in Xuantongyuan, Huai 'an 1000 hungry people ate in Beixu with a large number of people and little martial arts, but they didn't know that Beixu was the hometown of Nanquan and the birthplace of Jiangnan Boat Boxing, and a big conflict and duel took place. The Huai army is outnumbered and its skills are inferior to those of others.
There is also a folk custom of practicing boxing and martial arts in this area, which is called Jiangyin's "hometown of martial arts". In the late Qing Dynasty, Xu Taihe, a native of Beikui, was a famous water escort. He is a martial arts teacher in many schools in Shanghai and the Soviet Union, and also a famous representative of China Nanquan. 1923 spring, attended the first national Wushu congress in Shanghai, and Zhang Xueliang wrote an inscription for his boxing photos. Xu Taihe later wrote the book Introduction to Nanquan. A boat boxing with the characteristics of water town is popular in Beixu, which belongs to a kind of Nanquan. It moves back and forth, jumps up and down and fights vertically. It is fast and powerful, and can be carried out on board. Locals also like to dance knives, guns, sticks, halberds, steel forks and other martial arts equipment on the boat to keep fit.