There are Chikan in many places,
There is a Chikan Village in Dooshan Town, Taishan City; There is a Chikan District in Zhanjiang City, and there is also Chikan in Taiwan.
"Red" should be the "Red" in Chibi. Mandarin Chinese is pronounced: chì. It's a knowing word. Oracle bone inscriptions come from big (people) and from fire. People are roasted red on the fire. One says "fire" is red.
The original meaning of red is the color of fire, that is, red. " Jiyun " "Yunhui" "Zhengyun" Changshiqie, Yinchi. (It is exactly the pronunciation of the word "Chi" in Chikan pronounced by Kaiping and Zhanjiang people).
Chikan in Kaiping was called Chikan in ancient times.
Chikan Town, today's southwest of Kaiping City, Guangdong.. Volume 18 of "Guangdong General Chronicles" written by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty: There is Chikan Ruins in Kaiping County.
Chikan Ancient Town has a history of more than 350 years. Chikan was originally called "Chikan" because of the red soil in the area.
"Kaiping County Chronicles" and "Map Chronicles" in the twelfth year of Kangxi's reign recorded: "On the third or eighth day of the Chikan Ruins, it can be seen that Chikan was originally called "Chikan" because of the red soil in the area.
How about Chikan Will it become Chikan? Is Kan the simplified Chinese character for 墈? Kan and 墈 are not the same characters. 刈 is a variant of 勈, so Chikan was later used instead of 凯刢. The uneven place, " Shuowen ": "Kump, sinking. "
kan in Zhuang language is the market, that is, the place where people live (the more people live, the more natural it will be market ). The Zhuang language market in Tianlin County, Guangxi is her4, and the Cantonese dialect of Hekan The pronunciation of ham1 or hem3 is close to each other. According to the development rules of language, what is pronounced as h today was pronounced as g or k in ancient times. This situation still exists in dialects today (such as the word "school" for school and the word "monkey" for monkey, It is pronounced hao in Cantonese and gao in Hakka; the word "Hong Kong" in Hong Kong is pronounced like gong and is commonly written as kong).
"Chikan" can be understood as a market where boats can be parked or a residential area by the water. Looking at the history of Chikan Town in Kaiping City and the geographical situation of Chikan Ancient Town today, it is actually in line with the explanation of "a residential area by the water"
"According to the "Tuojiuguan Clan Genealogy", the Guan people are originally from Jian, Fujian. Ning County, the ancestor who entered Guangdong was Guan Jingqi. During the Kaibao period of the Northern Song Dynasty, he was demoted to Gangzhou , which is Xinhui. After serving for five years, he resigned and returned to his hometown, and settled in Xinhui County which is now Siqian Town. In the middle and late period of the Northern Song Dynasty, his sixth grandson Guan Xingyi moved from Xinhui to Dawu Village in Tuolugang, Chikan. During the 4th year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, the Guan family became a prosperous family in the local area. "Kaiping County Chronicles " of the Republic of China says: "There is a township called Tuogang, next to the temple water, the Guan family in Longxi is a large and prominent family." '"
When the ancestors of the Guan family and the Situ family first came to Chikan, it was still a barren land covered with reeds. They lived on the north and south sides of the same island. The Situ family opened a market on the bank of Tanjiang River in the east end during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Go to the market on the 3rd and 8th day of the lunar calendar.
In the 12th year of Kangxi, the Guan family also set up a trading place in Tuoshu Hengtou Ridge. Soon after the fair was opened on the 27th day of the lunar calendar
, a posthouse and a Situ family market were set up in Chikan. It became more and more prosperous, so the Guan family moved the market to the east and west of Tanjiang River. The two ethnic markets were only 500 meters apart.
The name of Chikan Town originated from "Red Earth Highlands". The ancient town is surrounded by rivers and has the charm of a water town (Text/Li Luopeng and Nie Juping)
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