Today's Mangka Manchu Township is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, fertile soil and rich rice production. It is a famous land of fish and rice. The economy is developing rapidly, people's lives are relatively prosperous, and they are making great strides towards a new modern countryside. I believe that the prospects of Mangka Manchu Township will be even better! Mangka Manchu Township is named after Mangka Tun. Mangka means sand dune in Manchu.
Because Mangkatun is located by the Songjiang River, the sand is rich and the soil is fine. Every spring, strong winds blow up, and the sky is full of yellow sand, which falls around the village, forming a long sand hill, like a giant python lying down. At the edge of the village, the road was blocked, making it inconvenient for people to enter and exit the village, so the people named the village Mangka (Sand Dune) Village. Mangka Manchu Township is also named for this reason.
Mangka Manchu Township has a long history. According to the "Jiutai County Cultural Relics Chronicle", as early as the Bronze Age, people were living in Sheling Village, Mangka Township, and a "Beishan Site" can prove it. During the Liao and Jin Dynasties, there were still rich tomb sites and Songjiang Mountain City in Songjiang Village, Mangka Township, which were ancient cities in the Liao Dynasty, and Xiaojinzhoutun, Songjiang Village, Mangka Township. There are 22 ancient city sites from the Liao and Jin Dynasties discovered so far in Jiutai City, and Mangka accounts for 7 of them, namely: Dongyoutun Ancient City, Chengzishan Ancient City, Jiangxi Ancient City, Qiujiagou Ancient City, Nanchengzi Ancient City, Houweizigou Ancient City and Fujiafeng Ancient City. At the same time, there is also an ancient kiln collection site, namely Xietun Kiln Collection, located in the fifth community of Xietun Village. There is an ancient tomb in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, namely the Borhatong Ancient Tomb, located in Borhatong Tun, Xietun Village. Because Mangka has a long history, there are a lot of unearthed cultural relics. Among the 63 key cultural relics from various periods currently preserved in the Jiutai City Cultural Relics Management Office, 12 were unearthed in Mangka Township, including scrapers, stone cores, and beaten stone axes from the Bronze Age, as well as copper from the Jin Dynasty. Galaha, iron sickles and iron knives, as well as white glazed blue and white porcelain bowls, pea green porcelain bottles, bronze daggers, long wooden handle silver spoons, copper medallions with entangled peony patterns, bronze medallions with triangular scale patterns, and copper bells from the Ming and Qing Dynasties , bronze handles, phoenix head and dragon tail copper ornaments, etc.