Xinwu originally had three small market towns: Wushe Town, Laowushe Town, and Huangqiao Town.
Wushen Town is also known as Xinwuzhen and Xinzhen. Shijian was built in 1933 and was initiated by villagers. According to statistics in 1936, there were 92 two-story buildings in the town, and 66 shops including rice shops, butcher shops, hotels, and teahouses. The merchants mainly come from Songjiang, Fengjing, Jiashan and other places.
When Wushe Town was formed, it was adjacent to the river. Because it was the main waterway between Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, hundreds of ships berthed there every day, so it was a well-known water wharf.
Laowu She Town, also known as Husha and Wu She Town. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Wushe Town has been recorded. There is a Mingwang Temple in the town, which was built by people in memory of Wu Yan. In the old days, every 60 years, the villagers would perform social dramas for the Mingwang Temple and hold a speedboat competition. More than a dozen speedboats raced quickly in the city river. It's all in the past. Now the Mingwang Temple no longer exists, the city river is silted up, and private houses have been built.
Huangqiao Town spans the east and west banks of Huangqiao Port. The east of Huangqiao River belongs to Maogang, and the west of Huangqiao River belongs to the original Xinwu. The name of Huangqiao Town has some origins. It is named after Huangqiao Gate
. A long time ago, there were frequent floods here, so people used trees to build a fence more than 200 meters long. It forced the water to flow into the Huangpu River quickly. Because the fence was shaped like a door, it was called Huangqiao Gate.
The villages of Maotian
Maotian is formed by the siltation of the Mao River, so the villages of Maotian are all located around it. Maotian in Xinwu belongs to Changmao in the north-south direction. The village is divided into two parts, namely Maodong and Maoxi. The villages distributed in Maodong are: Xiwang Village, Nansan Village, Xujing Village, Wushe Village, Huangyang Village, Tiandubang Village, Caojiabang Village, Zhuding Village, Pheasant Village, and Changhe Village; they are distributed in Maoxi Village. The villages include Changshe Village and Rukuang Village.
Wushen Village is right next to Wushe Town, and the village name is still used. This village was formerly called Dasheng Village. The village got its name from the people who were forced to hunt birds for a living.
Xujing Village, east of Wushe Village, was originally a pond with wide water and thick reeds. There is a river in the village called Huangnijing, which is a tributary of the Huangpu River. For the elderly people in the village, eel fishing is their specialty. Every year when the sweet osmanthus is fragrant, it is also the time when the eels are getting fat. In this season, fishing stars are red on the Huangpu River north of Xujing Village, and fishing is busy.
Tiandu Bang Village is a rare large village in the suburbs of Shanghai. This village has the most cultivated fields and is the furthest away. In the old society, there was a folk song like this: "Tiandu Bang, Tiandu Bang, red flowers and grass fill the stomach." This ballad is a true portrayal of the villagers' poor life in the old society.
Huangyang Village is located east of Tiandu Bang Village and south of Xujing Village. It consists of three natural villages: Yangjiabang, Huangqiao Village and Zhangjiagang Village. Yangjiabang was originally the name of a beach. The beach is more than 300 meters long, deep and wide. During temple fairs, young and strong young men would hold a rumor competition in the beach and it became famous far and wide.
Caojiabang Village is located in the center of the former New Five Townships. In the past, because this village had more literate people than the neighboring villages, people called Caojiabang Village "Bi Tou". Coincidentally, when the college entrance examination system was restored after the Cultural Revolution, two brothers in the village were admitted to college at the same time.
Zhu Ding Village, bordering Jinshan Mountain. It is far away from the tens of thousands of acres of Mao farmland, and most of the cultivated fields are high fields. The output of cotton, wheat, rice, and rape ranks first in the New Five.
Pheasant Hui Village and Changhe Village were originally called Pheasant Hui. Pheasant Hui Village belongs to North Pheasant Hui, and Changhe Village belongs to South Pheasant Hui. As the name suggests, Pheasant Pool is a place overgrown with weeds, pheasants and other birds inhabit, and where water flows.
Changshe Village is composed of Changbang, Shebang and other natural villages. It is adjacent to Jinshan Xingta in the south and Ru Kuengang in the west.
Ru Kuang Village, and Ru Kuang Port got its name. Rutang Village is on the east side of Rukhou Bridge. Crossing the bridge is Xinbang. Like Changshe Village, Rukuei Village is only separated by Maodong, and its customs, habits and even verbal titles are quite different from Maodong.
Xiwang Village is located at the northern end of ten thousand acres of Mao Tian. When I opened the door, my eyes were filled with fields. Xiwang Village was originally called Sanyang Village. It is named because there are three small lakes here: Baiyang, Xiyang and Dongyang. Zhu Shishi once appeared in the village. He was a scholar at the age of 13, a scholar at the age of 22, and a Jinshi at the age of 28, and became famous in the village.
Nansan Village was a village that was transferred from Gusong to Xinwu in 1972. Surrounded by water on three sides in the south, it looks like a small island
Rivers in Maotian
The main rivers flowing through Xinwu are: Yuanxiejing, Wusheggang, Beishigang, Ruikeng Port, Huangqiao Port and the artificially excavated Jianshe River!
Yuanxiejing is the largest river flowing through Xinwu and the boundary river between Xinwu and Gusong. It got its name from the ancient original river that discharged water into the Huangpu River.
Beishigang, also known as Beigang. It was called Zhujing Port a long time ago and is the boundary river between Nansan, Wushe and Xiwang.
In 1865 AD, in Rukhouang Port, a gentleman named Chen Zongqin organized people to dredge and gradually formed it. It is the boundary river between Xinwu and Xinbang.
Huangqiao Port, named after Huangqiao Town, is the boundary river between Xinwu and Maogang.
The Jianshe River is an artificial river dug by the Xinwu people in 1958.
Bridges in Maotian
Jianshui Bridge is also known as Jichuan Bridge. The construction time of this bridge and the length, width and shape of the bridge cannot be verified.
However, according to "Songjiang Prefecture Chronicles", in 1463 AD, Shi Jiu, the magistrate of Huating County, built a bridge over Yuanxiejing, named Jianshui Bridge. Later, a man named Xie Qiu rebuilt it and renamed it Jichuan Bridge. , until the Jichuan Bridge collapsed in 1738. In 1974, the Maogang salvage team salvaged the stones from the Jishui Bridge and transported them to the stone bank of Zuibai Pond.
According to the records of "Songjiang Prefecture", a stone bridge with "Shanghuan Cave" and "Xiahuan Cave" was built on a river named Chuanxinjing. This bridge was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Made in 12 years. In 1975, it was demolished and the stone tablet that passed through the Jinghuandong Bridge was sent to the Songjiang Museum for collection by those who cared about cultural relics.
The construction of the Xinwu Cable Bridge started in 1974 and was completed in 1975. It is the third cable bridge with reinforced cement concrete structure in the history of bridge construction in my country. Unfortunately, it has long since collapsed due to disrepair.
In addition to the above bridges, there are also Nansan Bridge, Xiwang Bridge and Rukuang Bridge.
Maotian fell
On July 7, 1937, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan invaded China. On the third day of the tenth lunar month of this year, the Japanese invaders landed at Jinshanzui. On the sixth day of October, the Japanese invaders occupied Wushe Town and built two blockhouses in the town. From then on, the Xinwu area suffered eight years of ravages and fell into misery. of abyss.
The Japanese squad leader Yasuda, who was entrenched in Wushe Town, often led the Japanese to burn, kill and loot in the name of "cleaning the countryside" and "suppressing bandits". The appalling Huangqiao Massacre was one of them. One afternoon in the third lunar month of 1938, Yasuda sent an armed motorboat into Huangqiao Port and fired machine guns at villages on both sides of the strait. A woman in Caojiabin Village heard the sound of gunshots. As soon as she opened the window, the bullet hit her and she died on the spot~~~~
During the fall of Maotian, the Japanese invaders committed so many crimes that it is difficult to describe!
Now let’s talk about some talents of Xinwu
Xinwu has unique Maotian, villages surrounded by clear water, Mao Lake shaded by green trees, and more Hard-working and brave people.
The water of the Mao River flows day and night, nurturing the hard-working people of Maotian, and a group of outstanding people have emerged.
As early as the 1960s and 1970s, Xinwu was known as the "Hometown of Culture". The well-known New Five Art Troupe is a red flag for the cultural and artistic activities of the rural masses across the country. The leader of the art troupe once went to Beijing with great reputation. Peasant poet Qi Yongfang and peasant writer Xu Linxiang attended the National Congress of Young Amateur Writers and Active Intellectuals and the National Congress of Advanced Rural Cultural Workers in November 1965 and November 1981 respectively. Xu Ahai, the top bird hunter, honorably attended the National Youth Active Intellectuals Congress held by the Youth League Central Committee in April 1958.
The following will give a detailed introduction
The famous cultural troupe
The New Five Cultural Troupe was once a red flag in the cultural and artistic activities of rural masses across the country. Its formation and development have added a lot of vitality to Shili Water Town.
As early as September 1949, the Shihudang Youth Propaganda Team, the predecessor of the New Fifth Art Troupe, was established. At that time, there were only 5 or 6, and a Huqin. They rapped and sang in conjunction with the work of the Party Central Committee, and were very popular among the masses. In less than a month, the number of members grew to more than 30.
The members of the New Five Arts Troupe come from all walks of life across the township. They adhere to the principles of amateurism, voluntariness, and diversity, insist on writing and performing their own performances, and insist on running the group diligently and frugally.
At first, when the art troupe performed, there was no curtain at the front stage and no cosmetics at the backstage. They used straw curtains instead of curtains and wet red paper and rubbed it on their faces instead of paint. However, their promotional performances were well received by the masses. In the 1950s and 1960s, they were rated as advanced collectives on the cultural front in Shanghai and advanced collectives on the cultural front in Songjiang every year. "Liberation Daily" and "Wen Wei Po" once published a newsletter titled "A Role Model of an Amateur Art Troupe" on their front pages. It introduced the activities of the New Five Cultural Troupe in detail and published an editorial. The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture once held a city-wide on-site meeting on cultural work in a village in Xinwu.
In 1959, the leader of the New Five Art Troupe went to Beijing to attend the 10th anniversary of the National Day on behalf of the Art Club. The agricultural exhibition halls in Shanghai and Beijing have opened the "History of the New Five Cultural Troupe" exhibition.
In 1960, the leader of the New Five Party Committee attended the National Meeting of Heroes and introduced the deeds of the New Five Cultural Troupe. Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House published "New Fifth Commune Art Troupe Drama Collection".
New Five Art Troupe, New Five are proud of you
Farmer poet Qi Yongfang
Who can believe that an illiterate can become a poet? However, where there is a will, there is a way. Qi Yongfang from Wushe Village said: "I have a basket of folk songs that I have kept in my belly for more than 20 years. Today I took off my illiterate hat and started writing poems and singing folk songs."
In 1955, I just took off my illiterate hat. Qi Yongfang started writing articles. Over the past 50 years, he has written many poems, stories, scripts, performances and other forms of literary and artistic works, especially folk songs.
In 1960, he was named the representative of Shanghai's "Meeting of Heroes".
In 1962, he attended the second "Cultural Conference" in Shanghai.
In 1965, he attended the National Congress of Young Amateur Writers and Activists.
In 1980, he was admitted as a member of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Research Association.