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– Tianjin TV, “This is Tianjin Wei” series talk show script
Tan Ruwei
The History of Hangu
Hangu District, Tianjin City East 60 kilometers, the agency formerly under the jurisdiction of Tangshan in Hebei Province City, 1962 set on withdrawal from the market district, in the final in Tianjin. “Hangu” since ancient times as the salt-producing land, formerly Salt River Jiyun a small village in the east coast, hence the name Little Salt Creek Village. Eastern Han Dynasty officials digging up the river to transport salt water as the local saying sell, because dynasty (Chinese) and River (sell) its name.
Hangu District, Tianjin Binhai New Area in the oldest, has been developed during the Han Dynasty salt. Five formally set up lutai field, continues today. Since then the rise of modern chemical industry, starting as early as the region, the most advantage of the industrial projects. 1926 chemical plant, built in the Bohai Sea, the formation of the Hangu District, played a significant boost. 1948 years 12 Hangu on the liberation, but also largely completed the process of urbanization. Initial planning Ninghe, incorporated in Tianjin area. 1949 years 10 months later now, Hangu is the frequent changes in the administrative system: the first is a special district Hangu, Hangu town after the set, and then to Hangu city, later renamed Tianjin City, Hangu District, Tianjin Binhai New Area last fall.
Hangu has a natural advantage pillow river or sea, is winding miles into the Bohai Bay, the sea, coastline 32 km, beach area 77 square kilometers, with the construction of artificial Hong Kong good conditions. Tianjin Binhai New Area, the revitalization of economic and technological development zone, development for the Hangu district has laid a good foundation. Hangu in recent years, the rapid rise of the modern chemical industry base. Binhai New Area under the overall planning, Hangu would “rely on a Hong Kong district, with emphasis on marine-based chemical, petrochemical, fine chemical combination, the development of other industries competing products, technologies and chemical industrial base.” The cause of the current rapid progress in the region, Chemical Base booming tourism industry, agriculture and characteristic features take shape. Hangu the wings off, and we eagerly look forward to!
“Hangu” Origin of name
Tianjin, known as 72 put. Names of villages along the canal downstream, and more to “sell” call it. Long history of these settlements. “Sell” the name comes from the word sell water, so-called “Put the water,” small is to say, means the Haihe River, in Tianjin Shi Jing has “put water Xia”; a great extent, generally referred to the Haihe River, including connecting the North Haihe Canal water and Jiyun River. The so-called “sell,” a small speaking, means the river bend, Folk Proverbs said: “Every song a sell.” Means that every river to a bend to form a “sell”; great extent, the “sell” is Tianjin another name.
According to historical data set, the early years of the Qing dynasty, there are 21 Ninghe put under the jurisdiction boundaries, including the use of Hangu district still names: F hook sell, ladle sell, Ningchegu, Hangu, sell and so the first razor clam. These to “sell” as generic term for each old village has its own historical story.
According to old people say, Tianjin Hangu is returned to the sea. The Ming Dynasty, home lutai old surnamed Cui, a boat along the south Jiyun, this settled. Subsequently, his family opened in the northern residence connected with a stream Jiyun, named small river. Irrigated fields are all the people drinking the river can not be separated. Description of water for local songs goes: “Yeah flutter flutter, to the riverside, water flows continuously century … …” This village is named after the River – little river. Some as the “Little Salt River”, is a homophonic escape.
Ming revelation years, Liu and other people have moved here, and gradually form a large area, named the ancient Chinese village. At that time, there are four landmark niangniangmiao hospital, a group of three by the north. First, the two inscriptions are carved monument of the “ancient Chinese village,” the three words. According to “Yongji Bridge” inscription reads: “the number of Chinese ancient village in the Northeast do not have the bridge Yan. Archives of wood, whom … … public buildings – ancient age plays Hsinhai Gui-Yuan Gu Dan. “This shows that the” ancient Chinese village, “the names until the year 1851 years 8 month (lunar calendar) is still in use. So far completed the identification, “Yongji Bridge Monument”, which is then niangniangmiao three yards north of that monument, is now stored in archives in Hangu.
Six years of the Qing dynasty ( 1880 ), the Chinese ancient village, country village, before and after the lump Chuang three villages merged into one village. According to Mr. Cui Shaojing research (see Tianjin Daily, December 6, 2007) first, the villagers rely water neighbors, and the magistrate that the small operator 9 in the Chinese ancient “ancient “drops of character with the left, thus renamed Hangu village. Goddess Temple courtyard south of the original really tall monument, although inscribed “Hangu village” in the name, unfortunately Cibei Offenders. “Jin Tang Bridge Stele” of “Hangu Iron Bridge” It is a renamed Hangu earliest historical testimony.
Now, after the village into a village Hangu, the township into a particular area, by the special district into the town, the town became county-level city, the county-level city of Tianjin City to become. Finally, as an important part of Binhai New Area , fully incorporated into national development strategies of new brand new layout history.
