At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court regarded Northeast China as a "land of prosperity" and implemented a policy of banning it. In the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), the imperial edict said: "Shengjing and Jilin are the places where this dynasty prospered. If you listen to the refugees, it is closely related to Manchu customs." Therefore, it is forbidden for refugees to enter the country forever. (1) in order to implement this policy, even set up a wicker fence in the northeast. However, due to the war and famine in the Shanhaiguan Pass, life was difficult. Farmers in Shandong and Zhili were forced to break through the ban of the Qing Dynasty and entered the northeast from Gubeikou and xifengkou, and there were also "people from Tianjin and Dengzhou". The wicker side wall set up in the northeast can't stop the flood of refugees. Due to the reality, the Qing regime also constantly adjusted this ban policy. In the ninth year of Qianlong (1744) and the first year of Jiaqing (1796), the court allowed the hungry and unemployed poor in the customs to go out for food. ②
Now, three ancestors of the Wang family in Yongtai Tun (Wang Lin, the ancestor of the Wang family in Yongtai Tun) set out from Dawangzhuang, Deping County, Jinan, Shandong Province, where they lived in Qianlong period, dragged their families, shouldered their burdens, camped out all the way, waded out of Shanhaiguan and embarked on the road of "crossing the East". There was a poem written by the Wangs to describe their ancestors' going through the customs: "Lunan Saibei is not idle, and it is difficult to go back to the well." Xiongguan blocked Wangxiang Road, and it was difficult to know when it would be returned. " It tells the feelings of Wang's ancestors' reluctance to live in their hometown when they moved to the north.
After Wang's ancestors went through the customs, they first came to Chaoyang County, Chengde Prefecture (now Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province) to make a living. After living here for several years, the three brothers decided to break up, and once again provoked the "eight-strand rope" to go their separate ways and make their own living. The so-called "eight-strand rope" means that the ancestors carried a large pole about eight feet long on their shoulders, and a wicker-woven flower basket was tied under each of the four strands of rope, which was convenient and labor-saving. The basket is filled with simple luggage and daily necessities, and sometimes children can sit in it when they are tired from walking. It was under such material conditions that our ancestors bravely roamed the land of Kanto, which was still a vast wilderness at that time, with the desire to seek a happy life.
When the Wang brothers broke up, they agreed that the names of future generations should be based on the generations of the Wang family tree, as evidence of contact. The middle word of each generation's name is "Wen Ying Da Shang"? Kehao's family broke into the Sect? Shou Zhiyan forever? Learning morality is pure and thriving. "It also stipulates that the" characters "of these twenty generations should be recycled, leaving a basis for seeking roots and asking ancestors. Now, the ancestor of the Wang family in Yongtai Tun has overcome all kinds of difficulties, and after many ups and downs, he settled in Zitoudaogou area in Kuancheng in 1799, the fourth year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty. Later, through the contact of intermediaries, I bought wasteland from Mongols in the north of Tianji Street, about 8 miles northeast of Changchun, and settled down and took root, naming this place "Laichungou".
When ancestors of the Wang family moved to Kanto, they had to measure the soil and select the barren land, that is, they used scales to measure the weight of the soil to determine whether the soil was fertile or barren. The ancestors finally decided to stand in Laichungou, which is the fertile black land. They built shacks here, wore hazel spines, cultivated fields, worked hard and thrifty, and spent the most difficult years. Thanks to the continuous efforts of our ancestors, production has developed and income has gradually increased. So they bought more wasteland and built houses.
At that time, the predecessor of National Highway 12 was a dirt road called "Old Tatar Road". About this name, some old people now say that it came from Mongols, and some old people say that this dirt road was temporarily opened by Russians to repair railways, so it is called "Old Tatar Road". At that time, this dirt road was the main road connecting north and south traffic. Laichungou is close to this "Old Tartars Road", so the Wang people with great economic vision opened a cart shop. At that time, the transportation of goods depended entirely on horse-drawn big iron carts. Winter was the peak season for transportation. One day, I got up early and left, and the longest trip was 18 miles. Before it got dark, I had to find a shop to stay.
The Wangs are very good at business. The coach shop houses are warm and the food is good-white flour cakes, pork stewed vermicelli and enough white wine. For gamblers, the shop lights up for them all night. At that time, there was a saying: cars and tigers entered the store and beat the magistrate. The food and play in the hotel are quite enjoyable, and there are many repeat customers. The coach shop run by the Wangs in Laichungou has become a "famous shop" on the north-south traffic artery, and it is well known that there is a "Tianji King" in Nanhuang.
Thanks to hard work and flexible mind, the business of the Wang family is getting bigger and bigger, not only in Chungou, but also in Kuanchengzi and other places, and the scale is very large. At that time, the big business was all about "font size", which was roughly equivalent to today's trademarks, taking some names that implied good luck and prosperous business. The business of the Wang family took the name "Yongtai", so people gradually called Laichungou "Yongtai", but its original name was forgotten.
At that time, I also heard the news of another group of people who were separated. Some said that they lived in Xiakan in the northern wilderness, while others said that they lived in the jade area of three sheng in the north of Nong 'an. Unfortunately, the detailed address was not made clear at that time, so people never contacted each other again.
The Wangs in Laichungou have gradually grown up and their population has also increased. In addition, the exorbitant taxes of the imperial court increased, and the local government was in turmoil. In the eighth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1869), the four brothers of the Wang family, Wang Keming, Wang Kejing, Wang Kecheng and Wang Kejian, separated again. YongtaiNo. lives in two shares, Yongtai Store and Yongtai City each live in one share. Four people across the river, each camp ZhuangTian.
When they separated, the four brothers set up a monument to their ancestors in ancestral land, and described the story of their ancestor Wang Lin (whose name was Cheng, but the reason why he didn't use the word "Cheng" was unknown). The monument body and pedestal are both white marble, and the monument is 1.5 meters high, .52 meters wide and .22 meters thick. On the front of the monument, it is inscribed in regular script: in the eighth year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, the moon rose and the moon rose. In the middle of the upper part of the back, there are four big characters divided into two columns: today is fierce, and here is the inscription, with 236 words, of which 221 words can be identified. The inscription describes the process of the Wang family leaving Shandong and moving to Kanto under the leadership of the "first great father" (grandfather) Wang Lin, and clearly records that the Wang family "went to Changchun Hall for four years to cure the famine". In fact, the Changchun Hall was established with the approval of the emperor in the fifth year of Jiaqing (in 18). ③ The inscription contained the customary view of the administrative ownership of this area when the monument was erected (in 1869, the eighth year of Tongzhi).
At the beginning of this monument, the pedestal was also white marble, and later it was replaced by bluestone. The pedestal of the bluestone tablet was .79 meters long, .5 meters wide and .52 meters high. There is a white marble table in front of the monument, which is .52 meters long and .46 meters wide.
This monument was destroyed during the period of asking Brother Wen, and was knocked down by middle school students from Misha. In the autumn of 21, the Wang family of Yongtai set up this monument again after public discussion.
A descendant of Wang recalled this family history and wrote a poem: "Clear sky and foggy sea come to Chungou, and wind and frost cool the day to cultivate farmland. The spirit of self-improvement is endless, and the leaves are written before the monument. " ("Clear sky" in the poem refers to the Qing Dynasty, and "foggy sea" refers to the dry foggy Haihe River.) Although the poem is not top grade, it is a sincere memory of the ancestors.
The ancestral tablet of the Wang family records not only the history of the Wang family, but in fact, it is a rare material evidence of the tragic epic "Crossing the Kanto", which is one of the three major migration tides in the modern history of the whole Chinese nation. I hope that the important historical significance of Wang's ancestral tablet can attract the attention of relevant departments and make it better protected.
Note:
① Qing "Continued Records of Donghua", Volume 28, Page 24.
② Modern Northeast History, edited by Wang Kuixi, Heilongjiang People's Publishing House, July 1984, first edition, 18 pages.
③ The Story of Changchun Yesterday: Sparks in the Long Night, edited by Wang Gui Sun Shufan, Changchun Press, October 23, first edition, page 13.
④ In the modern history of China, there were three waves of immigrants, namely "going to the east", "going to the west" and "going to South Asia".