Even the locals are mostly stupid and unclear about Yangqu Town and Yangqu County.
Yangqu County is now the county seat of Yangqu, and although Yangqu Town is now a village in the north of Taiyuan City, it is the real county seat of Yangqu in history.
Yangqu "Three Moves".
The meaning of the name of Yangqu, according to the Eastern Han Dynasty: "The river is a song for thousands of miles, so it is called Yangqu."
There were several names of Yangqu in history, Qin and Han dynasties to the Northern Wei Dynasty were called Wolf Meng, Sui Kaihuang six years (586 years), the name of the county was more Yangzhi, the great cause was more Fenyang, and the early Tang Dynasty was renamed Yangqu again.
Not only the name, but also the land of Yangqu has been moved many times.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, Yangqu County was in the area of Dingxiang County in the present-day Xinzhou region.
In the twentieth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (215), Cao Cao moved Yangqu County to the territory of present-day Yangqu.
During the Tang Dynasty, Yangqu County was governed in today's Yangqu Town, so the "Yuanhe County Chronicles" said: "The old city of Wolf Meng is thirty-six miles northeast of the county. This is said to be today's Taiyuan Yangqu Town.
Location map of Yangqu County and Yangqu TownDuring the Song Dynasty, Taiyuan City was newly built in Tangming Town, and Yangqu County was moved to the ancient city village in the northwest of Taiyuan City.
During the Jintianhui period, Yangqu County moved into the city, stationed in the county front street, since the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it was "the capital of the three Jin Dynasty".
After the liberation of Taiyuan, Yangqu County moved to Huangzhai Town.
The ancient city of Langmeng
Record my city Yangqu was known as Wolf Mengyi and Wolf Mengcheng in ancient times, and is located on the mountain pass more than 100 meters outside the east gate of Huangzhai Town, Yangqu County. According to Qing Daoguang's "Yangqu County Chronicles", Yangqu was originally Zhao's Yi. In the second year of King Xiang of Qinzhuang (248 BC), the Qin army attacked Zhao Yuci, Xincheng, Wolf Meng, and took 37 cities.
In the fifteenth year of Qin Shi Huang (332 BC), the Qin army conquered the city of Wolf Meng again, destroying the city site.
Hanzhi Wolf Meng County is under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan. Wang Mang changed his name to Qituo, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was renamed Wolf Meng.
In the fifth year of Taiyan in the Northern Wei Dynasty (439 years), Meng County was abolished, called "loess plug", and the land belonged to Yangqu.
The ancient wolf Meng north, south and west face the ditch, the east is the moat, the history contains: "the left and right gorges are deep and deep, the south is a big gully, commonly known as the wolf and horse stream." The existing ruins are the ancient city sites from the Warring States Period to the Western Jin Dynasty, with a width of 180 meters from east to west, a length of 364 meters from north to south, and an area of 650,000 square meters. There are 600 meters of residual short broken wall around, the bottom width is 3-4 meters, and the top width is 05-1 m, height 05-5 meters. The thickness of the plate building and rammed earth is 15-20 cm, and the surface is scattered with residual bricks, tiles, pottery shards, etc.
Ancient construction in the Qing Dynasty
Wolf Meng has already become a touch of afterglow, a piece of earthwork, and what is left today is the ancient buildings of Huangzhai Town.
The ancient city covers an area of 160,000 square meters, with a construction area of 750,000 square meters. Among them, the former site of Yangqu County covers an area of 2,000 square meters and a construction area of 1,000 square meters.
Around 1948, he served as the secretary of the Yangqu County Party Committee and worked here, and now preserves the original appearance of the building.
There is the residence of the Liu family in it, its site selection is decent, the construction is elegant, the house is suited, the atmosphere is magnificent, the preservation is basically intact, it is the representative of Shanxi folk houses in the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, there are the ancient houses where the Empress Dowager Cixi once lived, the former residence of Ma Wenwei, a famous person in the financial circle, and the circle of horses and ditches of Li Zicheng, a peasant leader in the late Ming Dynasty, etc., which are worth seeing.
In recent years, Yangqu County has given full play to the advantages of being located in the north of Taiyuan, with the wind and water, and no pollution, vigorously developing the cultural tourism industry, and successively building the Qinglong Ancient Town, Taiyuan Fangte Oriental Mythology and the planned development of Shanxi Datang Sleepless City, which reflects the glory of the ancient city of Yangqu, and a new Yangqu is rising with the coexistence of new and old, tradition and modernity, culture and technology