Huai'an (now Huai'an District ) is located south of the ancient Huaihe . As early as 50,000 or 60,000 years, there were traces of the activities of the ancestors in its territory, and the "Qingliangang Culture" site was left in the north of Huai'an City.
Qingliangang Cultural Site
486 BC , Wu Wang Fuchai from Yangzhou to huai'an Hangou to communicate with Yangtze River and Huaihe River, becoming the earliest section of the Grand Canal in the history of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal . Huai'an is the northern end of Hangou, and its intersection with the Huaihe River is located at the Shikou in the north of the city. The ancient Shikou ruins still exist to this day.
Ancient and Soukou ruins
"Ancient and Soukou's reputation" has made a high but objective evaluation of the importance of Soukou to Huai'an:
Oh! The ancient mouth is actually the foundation of Huai'an City. If there is no last mouth, there will be no city in Huai'an. The last mouth is manifested in history, but in troubled times, it is caused by the drama of offensive and defensive, and in prosperous times, it is caused by the complexity of boats and cars.
As the inscription says, Huai'an, as the intersection of the Huai River and Hangou, does show its special and important position. Therefore, it was natural that residents lived in the early days of its neighborhood and built cities and established them as counties. Therefore, Huai'an Prefecture City has a history of 2,200 years of construction.
It is precisely because of such a special geographical location that from Eastern Jin to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huai'an, which was called Shanyang County, has always been the capital of counties, prefectures, roads and prefectures. Especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Huai'an was also the location of the central-level agency, the Governor's Office of the General Administration of the Canal. Together with Hangzhou, Suzhou and Yangzhou, it was known as the four major metropolises of the Canal. Its status reached the peak of its history and was the most brilliant and developed heyday in Huai'an's history.
, and the largest size in the country and has a history of more than 600 years, is a symbol of Huai'an's historical status.
Huai'an Prefecture Bureau gate
Since the Ming Dynasty, Huai'an has been renamed Huai'an Prefecture from Huai'an Road in the Yuan Dynasty. In the first year of the first year of Hongwu ( Ming Taizu year number), Huai'an prefect Fan Zhong first repaired the Huai'an Road General Administration Office (later the Governor's Office of the Grain Transportation Department) in the Yuan Dynasty to make the government office.
In the third year of Hongwu, Yao Bin, the new Huai'an prefect, chose another location in the city. As a result, he selected Shangban Street and a very historical old palace north of the original office. It was in the Southern Song Dynasty and was the Wutong Temple, and was the Wanhu Mansion of Yitan in the Yuan Dynasty. It was built and renovated as the new office of Huai'an Prefecture. Since then, it has been used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Huai'an Prefecture Administration, the Governor's Office of the General Administration of the Grain Transportation and the Zhenhuai Building are on the same central axis
Therefore, the official opening of the Huai'an Prefecture Administration has more than 650 years, but its architectural history can be traced back to the Southern Song Dynasty, which has been counted as nearly 900 years.
Huai'an Prefecture Office not only has a long history, but also has the largest scale in the country. It is a representative of the ancient government building complex in my country.
Huai'an Prefecture Office has more than 50 houses and more than 600 rooms, divided into three roads: East, Central and West.
Middle Road has lobby, second hall, department room, etc. Among them, the lobby is the core of the government office, and is the place for the prefect to work and handle cases. The building is twenty-six meters long from east to west, with an depth of eighteen meters, with a ridge of more than ten meters high, and an area of ββnearly 500 square meters. is tall and majestic and magnificent. It is the largest lobby in all ancient government offices in my country.
Huai'an Prefecture Bureau lobby
In the middle of the lobby, there is a "Sea Water to the Sun" on the screen against the prefect, which is intended to always remind him not to deceive the people and not to let the country down. There is a plaque with the word "Loyalty" hanging above the table in front of the screen, which was written by Zhu Xi, a Neo-Confucianist of the Southern Song Dynasty. There is a huge plaque "Zhenhuaitang" hanging on the second beam in the middle. It was originally written by Cao Dejue, the prefect of Huai'an in the tenth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1671). Later, this plaque was thrown into the Huai River, meaning to suppress the dangers of Huai River.
The screen in the lobby and the plaque with the word "Loyalty and Love"
On the corridor between the Yimen Gate of Huai'an Prefecture Bureau and the lobby, there is a archway "Pongshengming" originated from "Xunzi Bugou": "Pongshengming, but partially giving birth to darkness", which is used as the official rules.
archway in front of the lobby
on the east and west (left and right) sides of the middle road, there are also six departments corresponding to the six departments of the court. According to the rules of civil and military affairs, the left (east) side of the lobby are the three departments of official, household and ritual, and the right (west) side are the three departments of military, criminal and engineering.
The east and west sides of the middle road are distributed with six departments, households, rituals, military, criminals and engineering
Huai'an Prefecture Bureau Li Ke
In addition, East Road is the place where civil servants work, welcome guests and banquets , and the west Road is the place where military officers work, with military arrest halls, prison cells and other buildings . The second hall is located behind the lobby, and the plaque is "Choubian Hall", which is the place where the prefect handles daily affairs.
Huai'an Prefecture Office Neichou Biantang
After the Prefecture Office, there is Zhiqingtang and there is also a garden, originally named "Trumping Paradise". Later, a prefect felt that the word "Stealing" was indecent, so it was changed to "Yu Leyuan".
The "Yu Leyuan" behind the government office
Huai'an government office has been continuously expanded and repaired by successive prefects in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its functional structure is very complete, with a large scale, covering an area of ββmore than 20,000 square meters.
However, Huai'an Prefecture Department has such a large scale, which is very commensurate with its administrative status.
As the national canal transportation center of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the political, economic and cultural center of in northern Jiangsu, Huai'an Prefecture covered almost half of the northern Jiangsu region when its jurisdiction was the largest, including today's Huai'an and all of Yancheng , Lianyungang , Suqian , and a large part of Xuzhou . was the largest in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The jurisdiction of Huaian Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty
After more than 600 years of baptism, the Huaian Prefecture Administration is still at the center of Huaian Ancient City and was listed as National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in May 2006.
in the early years of the Republic of China after the Revolution of 1911, Huai'an Prefecture was abolished, and the former prefecture was renamed Huai'an County. The Huai'an Prefecture Office also served as the Huai'an County Government Office.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China was poor and deserted. In order to develop industry, most of the old deep-seated courtyards were used as factory buildings. The Huaian Prefecture Bureau Building Complex was no exception and was requisitioned as factory buildings of Huaian County Agricultural Machinery Factory.
Students of that era experienced the activities of studying work and farming, and were arranged to participate in labor in factories or production teams for a short period of time. Coincidentally, the two times I did when I was a student were in a factory renovated from old buildings, one was a weaving factory renovated from Dongyue Temple , and the other was the agricultural machinery factory where the Huai'an Prefecture Bureau was located. Now when I recall, I have no impression of other details. I still remember that the workshop I was in back then was vaguely the lobby of Huai'an Prefecture Bureau. I remember that the roof of the factory was very high, and the walls in front were demolished and all were open. This may be for lighting and easy handling.
These ancient buildings were borrowed as factories. Nowadays, it seems that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The disadvantages are inevitably damaged to a certain extent. However, the greater advantage lies in the fact that they objectively played a protective role and avoided the fate of being completely demolished in that special era. So much so that after the reform and opening up, after the protective repair and beautification of the surrounding environment, the Huai'an Prefecture Office was able to reproduce the style of the past, and it is still simple and elegant, with a magnificent momentum.
Governor's Grain Transport Department ruins
Town Huai Tower (also known as Drum Tower)
Huai'an Prefecture Office is connected with the Governor's Grain Transport Department ruins site and the well-preserved Town Huai Tower (also known as Drum Tower) in front of it, becoming the largest ancient official scenic spot in the country, living in the center of the ancient city of Huai'an.
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