The tower collection of the authenticity of place names is that Ayao, the ancestor of the Chinese nation in the three years of Jin Dynasty, has information about him covering the whole country. Chakao Yao's birthplace must be weighed in the whole country, and you must never sit on a well and watch the sky. Look at a word and sum it up. The Historical Records of the Five Emperors states that "when Huangfu Mi Yunyao was born, his mother was sent to an Yimu home south of San 'a, so she took her mother's residence as her surname" (see page 7 of Historical Records of the Twenty-Five Emperors published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House and Shanghai Bookstore 65438+ 1986). Thus, "Yao's mother was born in the south of San 'a" came from Huangfu Mi. It is necessary to know something about Huangfu Mi before studying "Three Ah". According to Ci Hai, "Huangfu Mi (2 15-282), a doctor in Wei and Jin Dynasties, was born in the northwest of Pingliang, Gansu Province ... and he wrote The Classic of A and B, The Century of the Emperor, The Biography of Gao Shi, The Biography of the Brave, The Spring and Autumn Period of Xuanyan, etc." . In the 25th year of the Republic of China, the Summary of Four Important Bibliography published by Zhonghua Book Company in Shanghai commented on the author Huangfu Mi, saying: "When I was in my twenties, I began to learn to live a poor life, bow to my knees and bring classics, but when I was a farmer, I learned to be rich in classics. The words of a hundred schools of thought are quiet and lacking in desire, and my writing is noble. After Mr. Xuan Yan, I am still suffering from rheumatism. When I was tired of collecting books, I borrowed books and gave them a car. " From this point of view, Huangfu Mi was not only a rare scholar at that time, but also a capable historian admired by later generations. Throughout the ages, how many people can interpret and interpret Historical Records? Don't believe it. Who is it?
Since Huangfu Mi's "Yao's mother was born in the south of San 'a" is true, why should the land of San 'a become the key to the problem? Look up the Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Place Names of China published by Hong Kong Branch of the Commercial Press 193 1. There is an entry of "three A" on page 32 of the dictionary, which explains that "three A" is in the northwest of gaoyou county, Jiangsu Province. "Ji Sheng in the Ground" said:' Gaoyou has the town of Bei 'a, which is 90 miles away from the city, that is, the three towns of Jin'. "Gaoyou Zhouzhi" said: "Overseas Chinese in the Eastern Jin Dynasty settled in Youzhou, Taiyuan for four years, which is difficult to judge. Peng made a history of Youzhou in San 'a and went to Guangling for a hundred miles, which is it." This dictionary not only gives the conclusion that "San 'a is in the northwest of Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province", but also supplements San 'a by quoting Ji Sheng's words in the Records of Gaoyou Prefecture, pointing out the position and distance of San 'a in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and relative to Gaoyou City, which laid the foundation for us to determine the specific position of San 'a, and also points out some important events that happened in San 'a, indicating that San 'a is a place with considerable influence. After investigation, there is only one "three ah" in the dictionary, which has no other use. It should be noted that China Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Place Names is an authoritative reference book for consulting ancient place names. The three A's listed in Canon and their explanations can be copied and applied without scruple. In other words, "San 'a is in the northwest of Gaoyou, 90 miles away from the city". With such orientation and distance, Sana 'a should be located in the arc zone of Jiagou, Taji and Biantang in Jinhu County today. In order to confirm this conclusion and exclude other possibilities, we must trace back, clarify and explain two issues. First, some people say that "A" is not a county name, and it is even rarer to use "A" as a place name. "A" should be the place name of other places outside the county; Second, since Sam is in Jinhu County today, where should she be today?
Zhe, big hill or bend. There are many lakes in our county, and the tributaries of rivers are covered with mesh cloth. To the south of Sanjiang, to the west of Minqiao and Taji lines, there are gentle hills, which have many representative features, such as contiguous hills and valleys, winding lakes and streams, piers and ponds, hillsides and hilltops. It is natural to name Arabic place names according to China's ancient and modern naming habits and rules. "Jiajing Yangzhou Prefecture Records" explains what "Three Ah" means: "Three Ah, there is Ping A Lake in the south of the town and Xia A in the south." Gu Zuyu's geographical masterpiece "Reading History and Geography Summary" compiled in Qing Dynasty 1692 notes: "San 'a people have Ping 'a Lake in the south and Xia 'a in the south. It's the same cloud. There is peace village by Ping 'an Lake and Ping 'an County in the village ... So are these three. "In many versions of local chronicles, such as Gaoyou Prefecture Records, Yangzhou Prefecture Records, Yangzhou Camp Records and Tianchang County Records, place names named A are mostly found in Minqiao, Taji and Biantang. It can be seen that San 'a is not a foreign name, but a native place name, which should be an indisputable fact. Here, the author copied a topographic map around Taji from the General Map of Gaoyou Prefecture Records. Although the orientation and scale of this map are not very accurate, the names of Tarchi, Minjiaqiao, Biantang, Ping 'azhong Village, Ping 'axi Village, Pinghu and Canal are prominently listed on it, which shows that these names do exist. Among them, the name Ping 'a was used until 1930s, and it was called Ping 'a Township. In the Republic of China 17 (1928), when the Kuomintang gaoyou county government adjusted its administrative divisions, it merged Ping 'an Township and Guangpei Township into the No.1 12 District (hereinafter referred to as Mingta District) and abandoned the name Ping 'an (see "Administrative Divisions of gaoyou county", 1990 edition). The map also provides us with another information, that is, the island land divided by water, which is the original form without large-scale artificial carving since ancient times, which is refreshing. This kind of landform can be found on the Huaihe River without large-scale artificial transformation, but it can't be found in Minqiao Town and Taji Town after large-scale artificial strip arrangement, residential terraces and river network improvement in the 1960s and 1970s. Can't you prove the ancient landform of Taji and the famous place names of Israel?
If we want to say where Sana 'a is today, it is the ancient town of Taji. The authoritative geographical annals of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ji Sheng in the Ground, said: "Gaoyou has Beijia Town ... which is the three A's of the Jin Dynasty." China Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Place Names says: "Beia Town is located in gaoyou county, Jiangsu Province. That is, Jin Sanshi, Aye. " Moreover, Canon has only one North Town. "Gaoyou Fuzhi" says: "North A Town is 80 miles northwest of the government. On the third day, there is Pingga Lake in the south and Xiaaxi in the south." Wait, many ancient books are talking about the same voice: North Afghanistan III. Ji Sheng is a geographical chronicle of the Southern Song Dynasty, compiled by Wang Xiangzhi and written in 1227. It is the earliest recorded book, called North Afghanistan is Three Afghans.
In order to find out the relationship between Taji and North Afghanistan,1May, 982, the author and the staff of the same institute invited Weng Zheng, Chen, Wu Chengzhi, and Du Ping, the old residents of Taji Town, to have a discussion, and asked them to introduce and trace the origin and evolution of Taji's name. Old comrades are interested in each other and are scrambling to speak. They talked about Pagoda, Wu Dazhuang, tagir, Taaji and Bei Azhen. It is said that when they were young, when the twelfth lunar month sent the kitchen god, the address on the kitchen symbol was also called "Wudazhuang, A town in the northwest of Gaoyou"; The present Taji was built after the relocation of Bei 'a Town. This place was originally called Wudazhuang, which is located more than one mile northeast of North A Town. Because the terrain is lower than Wudazhuang, it often moves here. The original name of Xinji Town is Ta 'aji, because there is an ancient pagoda in Bei 'a Town (the ancient pagoda is more than one mile southwest of this town, which was demolished during the Cultural Revolution1August, 966), and it consists of the ancient pagoda and Bei 'an Inner. Because "a" and "Er" are similar in pronunciation in dialects, they are often called "Ta 'gill". Later, due to paging and written records, the word "two" gradually faded and became the "tower set" of the word. As everyone said, the origin and evolution of the name Taji is clearly explained and understood, and it is interlocking and impeccable. In order to confirm these oral materials, I also consulted the Records of Gaoyou Prefecture, which was rebuilt in the light years of the Qing Dynasty. The General Map of the Prefecture attached to the records was marked with the map of the tower and the place name "Tower' Jill". According to "Research on the Battle Sites of the Three Kingdoms in Pre-Qin and Eastern Jin Dynasties" published by Mr. Jiang Yan/KLOC-0 in Huaiyin in in 1988, "/KLOC-0 in 1986, the Amin Dynasty family was discovered in the north of Taji Town, Jinhu, and inscribed as soon as possible" Changping Town, Zhili House, Yangzhou House and Wei Daming State ".From these words, it can be seen that Beia Town is the Ming Dynasty. This proves the existence and general geographical location of Bei 'a Town with unearthed objects. On May 6th, 1996, Teacher Dai Zhiyao published the article "North Aguta" in Huaihai Evening News. In the article, Mr. Dai bluntly said: "Beiyi Town is the ancient name of Taji". The inscription on the land as soon as possible, the formulation in Mr. Dai Zhiyao's article and the oral content of a group of old people such as Weng Zheng in Taji Town can be described as the same goal. They verified the same conclusion from different aspects, that is, Taji is Gubei Town, which is not an accidental coincidence, but a historical truth. No one has ever linked Jiagou, Minqiao and Biantang, which are adjacent to Taji, and no one has ever mentioned the name "San 'a" when studying the place names of Jiagou, Minqiao and Biantang.
In order to verify the accuracy of the above conclusion, I consulted some other historical materials to further prove it from different directions and angles. Among them, 1975 The Atlas of Chinese History published by the Cartographic Society of China not only increased the types of evidence, but also improved the authority of the conclusion. Because the relevant maps in it clearly indicate what we need. One is to mark Youzhou, Yanzhou and 3A on the map of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the fourth volume at the same point in the northwest of Gaoyou City (now Jinhu County), where 3A is the name of settlement, Youzhou and Yanzhou are the names of administrative districts, and overseas Chinese in the second state are placed in 3A. The other is to mark Beia Town on the map of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty in the seventh volume, which shows that this place in Jinhu today has been called Sana and Beia respectively in history. Looking through the complete set of atlas, I didn't find the second "Three A" or the second "North A", which shows that there are only three Arab countries and North Arab countries in China, or only one is qualified to be on the atlas. This is completely consistent with the information provided by the Dictionary of Geographical Names. In other words, there may be another "San Ah" in the field, but since it is not mentioned in the atlas and dictionary, could it be the "San Ah" mentioned by Huangfu Mi?
Here, there are two other situations to be explained. First, there is a slight deviation between the location marked on the map of San 'a or North Afghanistan and the location of Taji; Second, the name North Afghanistan existed in the Southern Song Dynasty, but North Afghanistan was not marked on the map of the Southern Song Dynasty. In this regard, we believe that this does not affect the conclusion that three Arab countries and northern Arab countries are Taji. First, as explained in detail earlier, there is no other place in the northwest of Gaoyou except San 'a or North Afei Taji. Secondly, because the atlas is national, the layout and scale are very small. The two maps are1:8.4 million and1:2.8 million respectively. Small place names like San 'a are not selected on the map because of their importance. It is difficult to mark such small place names in an accurate position on such a scale map. As for the map of Southern Song Dynasty, Bei 'a was not marked, because the map of Southern Song Dynasty in the atlas was drawn in the administrative area of Southern Song Dynasty of 1208, and the book "The Sound of Geography and Geography" which first appeared in Northern Song Dynasty was written by Wang Xiangzhi of 1227, with a difference of 19, so "Bei 'a" can only be seen on the map of Southern Song Dynasty.
To sum up, whether it is the introduction of local chronicles, the oral inheritance of local people, the mention of literati's works, or the engraving of unearthed cultural relics, the records of national classics are similar. Together, they have proved a fact and inferred a conclusion, that is, Taji is North Afghanistan, North Afghanistan is Three Afghanistan, and Taji is Three Afghanistan. So Huangfu Mi said that "Yao's mother was born in the south of San 'a", and now it should be said that "Yao's mother was born in the south of Taji". Because the "south" is the "south" of the main tower, it can be ignored that it is not far from the south of the tower. Taji belonged to Gaoyou Prefecture in history, and was assigned to Baoying County in 1958. After Jinhu was separated from Baoying County in 1960, Taji was transferred to Jinhu County. County is proud of its town: Jinhu is a Yao township!
At the end of the article, some people may say that we don't deny the authenticity of the information you quoted, nor does it mean that your evidence is insufficient. It's just that it's hard for us to accept that Yao was born in Jinhu, not to mention that he has never heard of it. Who knows how young Jinhu is? Most areas are low-lying and have accumulated water all the year round. How can such an ancient man survive here? In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is not an exaggeration, and it is also common sense for people to know things. When you don't know something, of course you can't describe it, let alone elaborate on it. It seems necessary to trace back and present the evolution of the history and landforms in Jinhu area.
Things have changed, and now it is not the bustling place of ancient Jinhu.
Yao was born in the south of Taji, which conforms to the historical and cultural background and geographical living environment. On a large scale, Qingliangang culture distributed in Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang was discovered in Qingliangang, Chuzhou (formerly Huai 'an) in 195 1 year, and Jinhu County belongs to it. The site was about 5400 BC to 4400 BC, belonging to the matriarchal clan commune period (see Liaoning Education Press 1990) 1989. The survey of Jiangsu Province said: "Six or seven thousand years ago, there were many primitive clans and tribes in the vast area from Xu Hai in the north to Taihu Lake in the south. Carbonized millet found in Qingliangang cultural site in Huai 'an ... The culture created by ancient humans in Jiangsu was at the forefront of other regions at that time. "Yigou Township, east of Gaoyou Canal, Longqiuzhuang Site and Zhouqiudun Site in Long Ben Township are two Neolithic cultural sites from 6000 to 4500 years ago, and many articles for production and daily use of Neolithic ancestors have been unearthed (see Gaoyou County Records Cultural Relics and Monuments 1990). These sites are all in the east of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the east of Jinhu County. Geographically speaking, Jinhu is in the west of Chuzhou (formerly Huai 'an), Baoying and Gaoyou, which means that Chuzhou, Baoying and Gaoyou are relatively close to the sea, while Jinhu is far from the sea. According to the present land-forming theory, Jinhu should be land-forming in the east of the canal. In fact, no matter Jinhu, Baoying, Gaoyou, Chuzhou, or even Jianhu, Xinghua and Yancheng, the connected land has existed for tens of thousands of years. The coastline remained basically unchanged for tens of thousands of years before the Song Dynasty, and it has been in Lianyungang to Yancheng to Rugao. Until the Yellow River captured the Huaihe River in the period of rejuvenating Song Taiping, the surging Yellow River carried a lot of sediment into the sea. Coupled with the sediment carried by the Yangtze River into the sea, under the action of cement sand (see the map of various administrative regions in the Atlas of Chinese History), it is gradually bred on the land from Lianyungang to Yancheng to Rugao to the east of our county. History and culture are also promoted from west to east. Since there were humans in the area east of Jinhu 6000 years ago, there should be humans in Jinhu area. From the small scale of Jinhu County, the following facts are enough to prove that at least in the Neolithic Age, ancestors had been active in Jinhu area. 1974, in Jiagoudang, gaoyou lake, near 10 km east of Taji, Neolithic stone axes, stones and stones were unearthed. Now these cultural relics are well preserved in Huai 'an Museum. 1985, a Neolithic stone hairpin was unearthed in Tifandun, Jin Nanzhen, one kilometer southwest of Taji 10 (see Jinhu County Records). Shidun Site, Tifandun Site and Badger Dun Site in Dailou Town of Taji Western Jin Dynasty are all Neolithic sites (see Jinhu County Records Cultural Relics and Monuments 1994 Edition). 1957, during the Warring States Period, the gold coin "Ying Ai" of Chu State was unearthed in Zhangjiwei, the original town of Lvliang, north of Taji, and now it is collected in Nanjing Museum (see "Land List of Jinhu County"). 1984, the bronze sword of the Warring States period was unearthed in Yuchijian, Chenqiao Town, northwest of Taji (see Jinhu County Records). If there are no ancestors here, where did these sites and cultural relics come from? ! The Neolithic Age began 7000-8000 years ago, when our ancestors had settled down and lived, and grinded stone tools were widely used (see Ci Hai). Yao is a legendary prehistoric figure. He lived about 4000 years ago (see Chronology of Chinese Historical Events). It is completely in line with the historical and cultural background to say that he was born here.
In terms of living environment, Jinhu area lies between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, facing the sea. There have never been so many lakes and such a wide surface before. Most rivers and lakes were gradually formed after the construction of the canal levee and the fall of the Huaihe River by the Yellow River. Mountains crisscross, streams crisscross, fertile land, lush vegetation, rich edible wild animals and plants, suitable climate, easy to survive, is an ideal place for our ancestors to recuperate. It is one of the earlier developed and richer areas. The following historical facts can illustrate this point: Yu zoned Kyushu and moved to Yangzhou. Qin belongs to Dongyang County. Since the Han Dynasty, a county has been set up in the county, which is called Ping 'an County, and its county is governed by Hudang in the east of the county (see the map of Xuzhou secretariat in the Eastern Han Dynasty on pages 64-65 of Volume II of Atlas of Chinese History);
During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei general Deng Ai built Baitang (a fish pond stream leading from Baitang to Chenqiao Town) in this county and Hongze county, irrigated12,000 hectares of farmland under the pond, and built Shigui City (the city is north of Licheng), taking this place as the frontier position to compete with Dongwu. When Cao Cao forced the people to move northward, the people were terrified and crossed the river to the south. In the second year of Jian Yuan in the Southern Qi Dynasty (AD 480), Yangping County was established in the north of the city, and Shibei County was established in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. "Tongdian" says: "Yang Shan is guarding the danger, Pingyang Shigui field is rich in rice and fertile land." During the Jin Dynasty, San 'a was an important town, and overseas Chinese settled in seclusion, occupying two states, and wars were frequent. It's hard to say that Peng Chao besieged Youzhou, and Luo Tian's secretariat was in San 'a; In the year of Tang Zhongzong's thinking of Sheng Yuan, Xu Jingye rose up against the marquis of Wu in Yangzhou, and the marquis of Wu sent general Li Xiaoyi to attack Yangzhou, while Xu Jingye stationed troops in Axi, and stationed troops to resist Xixi. Wendi changed Ping 'an County to Anyi County, and the stone turtle entered Anyi; Han Jing and Han tombs are all over the county, and Han cultural relics such as pottery pots, bronze mirrors and chicken coops can be seen everywhere in the county. As can be seen from the above, this place was relatively developed in the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, there would be no county here, let alone a county seat here. "Yao Temple has nine ears, and Han and Mai have two branches", a land temple couplet (provided by Taji Wu Chengzhi) used by local generations, fully shows the admiration and praise for Yao Emperor and Han Dynasty. This is the result of continuous development and cultivation thousands of years before the Han Dynasty, otherwise there would not be such a prosperous scene in the Han Dynasty.
However, things have changed. Since Emperor Yang Di dug the Grand Canal and built its eastern embankment, water from the west has been blocked from flowing eastward. In addition, after eight years of rejuvenating the country in Song Taiping (AD 983), the Yellow River and Huaihe River moved south, and the two rivers were full of water, so there was no low-lying land. It was not until 1970 that the Huaihe River entered the river that this place became the reservoir of two rivers. Note that rivers have become rivers, lakes have become lakes, flooded farmland and villages, and turned this place into water towns and villages. A large amount of sediment carried by rivers has been deposited and buried. Ancestors fled their homes to escape the flood; At the end of Sui Dynasty, Anyi City was burned by Du; In the early Tang Dynasty, the county moved to Baitian (now Baoying County) east of the Canal. Under the double destruction of natural and man-made disasters, Jinhu area was devastated and turned from prosperity to decline. From this time until Jinhu County was established in 1960, 1300 years ago, there was no county in the local area, but it was assigned to other counties (Taji, Jiagou, Minqiao and Yinji towns south of Jingou Line belonged to Gaoyou, and the rest belonged to Baoying). For a time, it became a barren wilderness. It was not until the early Ming Dynasty (Hongwu period) that the rulers moved some people from Suzhou and other places out of the need of rule. Most people in this county are descendants of these people. There are also two words circulating in the local area: one is "Wu Hong drives away" and the other is "planting grass as the standard". "Hong Wu drove away" means that Zhu Hongwu forced people in some places to move and evacuate. Most of the people evacuated to the local area are Suzhou changmen. "Planting grass as the standard" means that this place is a wilderness and the fields are ownerless. People who come here just need to mark it with straw and delimit the scope of your field. This point is mentioned in the genealogy of county people. "Li Family Tree" says: "My ancestral home is Longxi Hall, and I was also a surname in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home was in the area east of the upper reaches of the Yellow River to the west of Liupanshan Mountain (Longshan Mountain) in Gansu Province, and later he was naturalized in Suzhou, and settled outside Nagato. When Hongwu was scattered in the Ming Dynasty, my ancestor Xing Shigong was ordered to lead a group of four sons to evacuate to Shi 'an (village name) in the west of Baoying County ... "Wu Jiacheng" said: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a disciple of Wu County moved from Suzhou Post (Gaoyou) to West Lake East Village and was named Wujiazhuang ..." Yang's Genealogy says: "I think people are self-reliant, and I can't forget their roots. My Yang comes from Kansai. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, my ancestors moved to the west bank of Zhuhu (gaoyou lake) ... "... because most people moved from other places in the early Ming Dynasty, they were not descendants of the local area since ancient times, and the Yellow River and Huaihe River flooded many times, which destroyed and buried historical civilization, so that there was a fault in both the oral inheritance culture and the historical culture with carriers. This is an irreparable cultural fault, which makes it difficult to understand, inherit and carry forward the ancient culture in Jinhu area. Therefore, it is inevitable that some people who don't know this situation misinterpret or deny the splendid ancient culture in Jinhu area.
postscript
Yao was born in Taji, and Jinhu is Yao Township. From 1993, Mr. Tan Jiade of Siyang mentioned in "Anecdotes of Ci San He" that my quiz article "Yao and Taji" was published in 1994 Jiangsu place name. In the same year, it was reported in People's Daily Overseas Edition 1 15. But what remains Yao has in Jinhu, and how Jinhu people should grasp and publicize this rich cultural heritage, we should study and work hard.
Yao is a great historical figure. Sima Qian divided his birthplace when he wrote Historical Records. Therefore, Tai Shigong (Sima Qian) said: "Yu Zeng went west to the empty place, crossed Zhuolu in the north, and gradually drifted to Jianghuai, Hainan. The elders often called it the land of the Yellow Emperor Yao and Shun." When it was extended to the Western Jin Dynasty, Huangfugong traveled around, looked up the scriptures, and removed the false and preserved the true, which was interpreted as "Yao's mother was born in the south of San 'a". As promised, Yao was born in Sanya.
What we are doing now is just to dust off history and return it to its original appearance. "Three Ah" is the place where "Three Ah" is located. Now it is understood that she is Taji in Jinhu County. That's all. Ask for comments.
Editor: zacky By Li Yihai