The saying about "Tuocheng" should come from Pengzhou. Before Chaoshan, there was a saying that there were nine counties and ten cities in Chaoshan, but this statement was not correct. Raoping County alone has four cities and four cities (including Nan 'ao City, which was still under the jurisdiction of Raoping County in the late Qing Dynasty). Generally speaking, as long as the land is located in prosperous commercial ports and military strongholds, it is possible to build city walls for defense. Top three capitals are located at the junction of Haiyang (now Chaoan), Jieyang, Chenghai and Chaoyang counties. According to Han Rong, the two rivers are at the mouth of the sea, and merchant ships often disappear here. Thieves take advantage of it and plunder it wantonly. This is a disaster. In order to prevent pirates and pirates, in the second year of Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, in the second year of Ming Hongwu, Pengzhou thousand households were set up in Duxialing Village. Twenty-five years later, in the twenty-seventh year of Ming Hongwu, Qianhu Department moved from Duxialing Village in Pengzhou to Duxicheng City in Anjiang, Xi 'an, with city walls and moats. But it didn't change its name. There is no one named Tuojiang Garrison Thousand Houses, but it is still called Pengzhou Garrison Thousand Houses, and the built city is also called Pengzhou Garrison City. In the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Jieyang County set up the Top Inspection Department (deputy county-level government) as the management organization of public security, customs and coastal defense. In the forty-second year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, Chenghai County was established, and the Top Inspection Department was changed to Chenghai County. At that time, the top three capitals had become another prosperous sub-urban area of Chenghai County, with homespun, porcelain, tea, sugar and fruit gathered in the top commercial port. It is exported to foreign countries from here, and imported products such as spices, jewelry, medicinal materials, fragrant rice, sweet potatoes, soybeans and tin are imported from foreign countries. Today, there is still a warehouse in Zhangpu that has been converted into a residential building. Tang Zhen, who came to Chenghai to teach Oracle Bone Inscriptions the South China Sea Juren during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (1662 ~ 1722), wrote a poem "Ancient seas are connected".
At that time, Shantou was called Top Inspection Department (deputy county-level government), so Pengzhou was commonly known as Top. Because Top Pengzhou was founded in the 27th year of Ming Hongwu (1394), Chenghai County was established in the 42nd year of Ming Jiajing (1563). Therefore, Shantou Top has the saying that "Top comes first, then Chenghai". By 1948, in the third year of Wanli in Sanming, Chenghai County (A.D. 1575), the sand ridges at the mouth of the Hanjiang River in Guanghua Port accumulated into pieces, which was called "Shaxianping". In the fifty-sixth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (A.D. 17 17), a smoke pier and a battery were built here, which was called "Shaxian Head". From Yongzheng (AD 1730) to Qianlong, more and more people moved here to live. In addition to fishing and farming, they also use seawater to dry salt, and salt vendors from all over the world often come here to sell salt. The Qing government set up a station here to collect salt tax. Shantou for short. Shantou officially opened for trade in 186 1 year. 192 1 year, Chenghai county began to set up a waste capital, Shantou port began to prosper, management functional institutions and town trade were gradually replaced by Shantou, and the influence of Top Pengzhou gradually withdrew from history.
Let's go back to the three capitals under the jurisdiction of the Top Inspection Department. The three capitals include Tuojiang Capital, crocodile Pudu and Pengzhou Capital. Where do Sandu refer to today's downtown area? Qiaojiangdu: refers to Qiaodong Street, Li Antang Street, Wuqiao Street and Dongfang Street in jinping district today. Crocodile Pudu: refers to Yuepu Street and Qishan Street in jinping district today. Pengzhoudu refers to the whole jurisdiction of longhu district today, including Bart in Chenghai District, Jinsha Street, Guangsha Street, Dongdun Street, Qishan Street and Guanghua Street in jinping district. To put it simply, the top three cities in those days were not today's top towns, but today's jinping district and longhu district. Pengzhou in those days was not Pengzhou Village today, but longhu district today.
Wen Xiang can be seen in "Historical Demonstration of Shantou's predecessor"