Mengcheng County was a land of Huaiyi in ancient times. In summer, it is the activity area of Yu and Tu rocks in state-owned areas. Commerce is the domain of this country. Especially in the middle of Shang Dynasty, this altar town was once the burial place of the northern part of the temporary capital of Shang King Pan Geng. The Western Zhou Dynasty was Fang and Feng's territory. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the diplomatic countries in the northwest (now Bozhou City), the Tiger Country in the southwest (now Fuyang City) and the Guo Xuguo in the east (now Anhui Province and Northeast Jiangsu Province) were relatively powerful national activity centers. Later, Song, Wei, Chu and other countries fought for places (for this reason, it is hard to say which country Zhuangzi is in the history books, so we have to say Mongolia). Later, it belonged to Chu State, including Beizhong, Qiyuan and Xiancheng. During the Warring States period, it belonged to the State of Chu.
Ancient Mongolia, now Tancheng Town, Mengcheng County, borders Beishan Mountain in the north and Feihe River in the south. In the Western Zhou Dynasty and the early Spring and Autumn Period, it was Mongolia, and later it was the Mongolian city of Song State. During the Warring States Period, Tancheng belonged to Chu, and the State of Chu set up Meng County here. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Meng County was changed to Shansang County. In 742, due to his unstable name, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named Zhuangzi as the "South China True Man" and Zhuangzi as the "South China True Classic". Xia Ji's Book of the Old Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty: On September 24th, Bing Yin changed the name of the county in the world to 110, and Sui Shanshan, the hometown of Zhuang Zhou, was renamed Mengcheng. Ancient poetry can't be faked. Wang Anshi of Qingyantang in Mengcheng, Lu Nangong in the Northern Song Dynasty who passed through the ancestral temple in Zhuangzi, and Liu Jiao, the Ming magistrate who passed through the lacquer garden, all have the word Mengcheng.
There are many reliable circumstantial evidences.
1, Zhuzi Genre Volume 125 Lao Shi: Jinming Daogong is the place where I was born. Zhuangzi was born in Mongolia, between Huaixi and Huaixi.
2. When Su Shunqin was appointed as the magistrate of Mengcheng County, Qingyantang was built, and the site is still there. Wang Anshi left a poem named Mengcheng Yan Qing Tang for this purpose. There is a famous sentence in the poem, "Yan Qingxin's poems are self-collected. If you go to this class, the officials are not as angry as the family at that time, and the people have the style of Zhuang Zhou ..." (see "Wang Wenji"). Su Dongpo wrote Zhuangzi Ancestral Temple for Mengcheng. These four writers are all great masters, and Wang Anshi is known as a great historian and has made great achievements in the examination of history. The four of them unanimously called Mengcheng the hometown of Zhuang Zhou.
3. "Song Shi Luo Mi Dao" Volume 27 "Country Name Keith Shang" said: "Betan, Mengzier, that is, Jingbo, Tang Dou, Mengcheng in today's Bo, Sangshan in Han Dynasty, changed in the first year of Tianbao."
4. Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, volume 38, records 18: Sangxian County, Suishan, Mengcheng, belongs to Qiao Zhou. The state is abolished and transferred to the state. In the first year of Tianbao, it was changed to Mengcheng.
5. Ming Wanli's "Mengcheng County Records" records: "Mongolia is a country. For thousands of years, it has been old and has no ambition. See Shouyang Record. "
6. On the official language Chu: "Zheng Youjing, Quercus, Wei Youpu, Qi, Song Youxiao, Meng" and Meng Shizhen-Xiaoxian and Mengxian are together, not far apart, and both belong to the Song State.