Wabu Town, Shou county, Huainan City, Anhui Province

Wabu town

Wabu town of Shouxian county is set up according to the lake. The four ancient streets are paved with bluestones. On the stones in the middle of the street, the ruts about inch deep can be clearly identified. The residential buildings on both sides of the street are in the architectural pattern of front shop and back shop, with green bricks and small tiles, windows and pavilions. Some courtyards are as deep as three, four or even five entrances. The architectural pattern of each courtyard is also different.

General situation of the town

Wabu town is known as "Junzi town" for its simple folk customs. Wabu town is one of the first batch of key market towns approved and announced by the State Council in the late 1950s. Now it has jurisdiction over 13 administrative villages with nearly 10000 urban residents, covering a total area of 66.97 square kilometers. The traffic is very convenient, only 20 kilometers away from national highway 206. The highway is less than 80 km away from Hefei, the provincial capital. There are 18 passenger buses with 36 trips between Hefei and Wabu every day, less than 70 km away from Huainan, the coal city, and less than 80 km away from Shouxian, the county seat. There are 7 buses with 14 trips between Huainan Shouxian and Wabu every day. The waterway is closer to Shouxian and Huainan, only 30 km away. You can directly enter Huaihe River along Wabu Lake. The communication industry is very developed. There are base stations of China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, covering the whole town. There are cable TV stations in the town, transmitting satellite signals 24 hours a day, and broadcasting 22 sets of TV programs every day.

physical geography

Wabu town is named after Wabu Lake. Wabu Lake is the largest detention lake between Yangtze River and Huaihe River. It is one of the five freshwater lakes in Anhui Province, with a water surface of more than 240000 mu. The surface runoff covers some towns of Feixi and Changfeng counties in Hefei City, Jin'an and Yu'an in Lu'an City, Shou county and Xiejiaji in Huainan City, etc. the water system flows through dongfeizha in Shou county to Huaihe River. According to the county annals, Feishui flows from jiangjunling in the northwest of Hefei, westward into Shoujing, northward to dongjindu, which is the ancient NAGase bridge, also known as Feiqiao, and then northwestward to Huaihe River at the southern foot of Bagong mountain, which is the ancient Feikou. The annual average temperature of Wabu Lake Basin is 14.8 ℃ - 14.9 ℃, the average temperature in January is 0.7 ℃, and the average temperature in July is 27.8 ℃. It belongs to subtropical semi humid climate, with annual precipitation of 906.7mm and frost free period of 213 days.

Historical evolution

Wabu Town, with written records, has a history of more than 2600 years. According to the records of Shouxian County, "the west of the town is the old road of Dongfei River, and later it was built up as Wabu Lake (also known as Wangchun Lake)", "Wabu was once administered by Chengde County in the Han Dynasty, abandoned in the Jin Dynasty, called Wabu station in the Yuan Dynasty, and called Wabu station in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the end of the spring and Autumn period, Confucius disciple mizijian was sent to Wu by Lu. He died of illness and died here. The tomb still exists. Later generations built miziji temple and called Wabu Street "Junzi town.". According to the county annals, Mizi was born in the state of Lu at the end of the spring and Autumn period. He was a student of Confucius and was once a single father. He died in Chu, and his tomb was at tiefogang, Southeast of Wabu town. According to the records of Shouzhou written by Guangxu, "the tomb is at tiefogang, 60 Li south of the state." In the south of the tomb, there was a stele named "Xianxian Shan Fu Hou Mi Zi Jian" erected by Shu Chen, a Fengzhi official who knew Shouzhou in the 28th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1600). In the northeast of the tomb, there was a stele named "Xianxian Shan Fu Hou Mi Zi Jian" erected by Peng Ruxian, a Fengzhi official who knew Shouzhou in the 37th year of Wanli (AD 1609). Today, the monument does not exist, but the tomb is still there. The tomb is 140 meters around, and the earth is sealed 3 meters high. Wang Zhaokui, a man of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote when he visited mizijian's tomb: "the servant looks for the way ahead and dismounts to the ancient city. Far water Wai pingye, the setting sun thin broken Cen. The birds are astonishing, the words are scattered, and the grass is deep in the door of the tomb. I'll pay homage to the sages again and sing the zither with a good sound. "

cultural relics and historic sites

It is said that during the Song Dynasty, Zhao Defang, the king of eight sages, took two of his entourage to the south for a private visit. After passing through Shouzhou to Wabu, he found that the street was popular and the people wanted to be good. When he was leaving, he wrote three characters "Junzi Li" in the inn. Later generations engraved them on the lintel of the South Street. Although the lintel stones were broken, the handwriting was clear.

historical event

Wabu ancient town not only has a long history, but also is the birthplace of the revolutionary struggle in Northwest Anhui. In the summer of 1922, a special branch of Xiaodian was set up here to carry out revolutionary activities. In September 1928, the second Shouxian county Party Congress was held in Wabu primary school, and the second Shouxian county Party committee was elected. In early 1929, a party meeting was still held in Wabu primary school, and Zhou Fanwen, inspector of provincial temporary Committee, attended the meeting, and the third Shouxian county Party committee was elected. At the end of June, a party meeting was held again in Shangdian Primary School of Wabu town to rectify the organization and discipline, and the fourth Shouxian county Party committee was elected In March 1931, Fang Yunchi, the inspector of the CPC Central Committee, and the inspector of the CPC Special Committee for Northern Anhui came to Shouxian to hold a joint meeting of Shouxian, Fengtai and Fuyang counties at Shangdian temple in Wabu Town, and established the Central County Committee of Northern Anhui. On March 31, the "Wabu uprising" which shocked Jianghuai broke out. In August, according to the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, the central county committees of Western Anhui and Northern Anhui were merged to form the Central County Committee of Northern Anhui under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. "Wabu uprising" is an armed struggle of peasants against feudalism and oppression under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, which shocked Jianghuai. At the end of March 1931, more than 1000 poor peasants in Wabu area of Shouxian County, under the leadership of the Central County Committee of the Communist Party of China in Northern Anhui, formed a Red Army guerrilla group in Northern Anhui to hold the Wabu uprising. On the 29th night, the uprising team gathered at Mount Tai Temple in Xuzhi, Southeast of Wabu street. The next morning, the brigade rushed to Wabu street. In front of wangchunyuan tavern, they set up red flags with sickles and hammers and arrested more than ten landlords and gentry. On the 31st, the landlords and gentry handed in more than 100 guns, and more than 3400 poor peasants opened the landlords' granaries in Fang's small building and took more than 200 grain stones. On April 1, more than 1500 people from the "United Village Association" (the landlord armed forces organized by the Kuomintang) in the area of yangjiamiao and dushinianggang came to attack the riot troops. The Kuomintang County self defense brigade also arrived at Wabu to encircle the Red Army guerrillas, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides. During the breakout, the members of the second Red Army guerrilla Squadron, armed with knives, rushed to the enemy's front. Qi Lianyu, the squadron leader, and 17 soldiers were killed. The rest of the squadrons are still surrounded by the enemy and are in critical condition. The Wabu District Committee of the Communist Party of China immediately tried to borrow more than 20 rifles and 1000 bullets from the enlightened gentry. Under the banner of "Lianzhuang Association" of xiaodianji, it rushed into the encirclement and covered the guerrillas to break through the encirclement at night. After breaking through the encirclement, he broke the whole into parts and hid for the time being. The Wabu uprising wrote a glorious page for the people's revolutionary history of Shouxian county.

Historical celebrities

Fang Zhenwu

Wabu is also a place where many outstanding people come out. The famous Anti Japanese patriotic general Fang Zhenwu was born in 1885 in a poor peasant family in the South Street of Wabu town. When he was young, he applied to Anqing military training school and joined the army after graduation. In 1908, he took part in the Anqing Ma Pao camp uprising led by Xiong Chengji. In 1911, the Xinhai artillery was fired. He made contributions in the battle of the revolutionary party's recovery of Nanjing. In 1913, he fought with Huang Xing for yuan, fought with several times more northern warlords for seven days and nights, and was hit by several bullets. In 1911, he crossed to Japan, joined Shangwu Army school, paid homage to Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and joined the Chinese revolutionary party the next year. In 1917, he returned to Guangzhou from Japan and served as the commander of the Marine Corps of the government of the Republic of China. In the autumn of 1921, Sun Yat Sen led the northern expedition. He served as the leader of the northern expedition. Because of Chen Jiming's rebellion, the Northern Expedition failed. After 1924, he once served in Zhang Zongchang's department. The next year, he revolted in Feicheng and took part in the northern Shanxi campaign. Feng Yuxiang returned from the Soviet Union in 1926. He joined the National Army led by Feng and served as the commander of the Fifth Army. On May 17, Wuyuan vowed to go out of Tongguan to fight against the Northern Warlords. In May of the next year, he served as the commander-in-chief of the National Alliance's aid to Shaanxi and the first way commander-in-chief. He led his troops from Wuyuan to Xianyang day and night and defeated Wu Peifu's troops in houerzhai, which made Yang Hucheng and Xi'an people trapped for eight months To get out. Before long, Fangbu was reorganized into the ninth front army. In 1928, Fangbu was reorganized into the fourth regiment of the first group army. He served as the commander of the regiment headquarters. After taking part in the second Northern Expedition and conquering Jinan, he served as the garrison commander. In May 1929, he served as chairman of Anhui Province of the Kuomintang. Because of his contact with anti Chiang forces, he was imprisoned by Chiang Kai Shek in September of the same year on the ground of holding a meeting. It was not until after the September 18th Incident that Chiang Kai Shek was forced to step down that he was free. In 1932, Japan stepped into Rehe with iron hooves. He changed his property and raised 100000 yuan as anti Japanese funds. He went to Shanxi to recruit old troops, held the famous "Mianshan oath" and set up the Anti Japanese National Salvation Army as the commander-in-chief. On May 26, 1933, he, Feng Yuxiang, Ji Hongchang and others formed the former enemy headquarters of the chasui people's Anti Japanese Alliance Army in Zhangjiakou. When he rushed to the front line, he sent a telegram to "repair our swords and annihilate their ferocity. The winner was one of the Shaokang brigades, and the loser was Tian Hengzhi 500." Under extremely difficult conditions, they fought hard to recover the lost lands of Baochang, Qingyuan, Duolun, Shangdu, Zhangbei and so on. They arrived in Huairou on September 20. In October, under the attack of Japan, puppet and Chiang Kai Shek, they finally failed due to exhaustion of ammunition and were forced to leave overseas. After the July 7th Lugouqiao Incident, general Fang returned to the mainland and set up a ranch in Guilin to raise money to buy guns and reorganize the Anti Japanese armed forces. Unexpectedly, he was monitored and disturbed by secret agents. As a last resort, he left Hong Kong. On December 28, 1941, the Japanese invaders occupied Hong Kong. He returned to the mainland and decided to go to the front line of Anti Japanese War to kill the enemy and defend the country. When he first entered Zhongshan County, Guangzhou, he was killed by Kuomintang agents. He was 56 years old.

Zhang Shuhou

Ming Zhiping (1886-1935) was born in Wabu, Shouxian county. He was from a poor family and was forced to open a library for business. When he was young, he studied with his father and brother. Soon after his father died, he was brought up by his mother and brother. Guangxu 16 years (1890) in the scholar. Witnessing the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, they had revolutionary aspirations. In 1898, sun Yuyun and others conspired with the revolution and founded the "strong academic society" to spread revolutionary ideas. Thirty years (1)