The mountain in Songjiang is near Sijing, called Sheshan, which is about 15 km from Songjiang Prefecture to Sijing.
Sijing ancient town is formed by the confluence of four water systems: Tongbojing, Waibojing, Dongjing and Zhangjing in Sijingtang. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Tongbaitang formed a "Huibo Village". In the mid-Yuan Dynasty, with the development of economy, it was expanded into a market town, named "Sijingli", and the water market pattern of Sijing Town was basically formed during this period.
In the Ming Dynasty, Sijing, as a grain distribution center and aquatic products trading center, became an important market town in Songjiang Prefecture. In other words, the materials moved from Songjiang Prefecture to Sijing Ancient Town.
At that time, there were many shops and houses in the ancient town of Sijing, and Buddhist temples were scattered all over the place. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Sijing ancient town further developed and became a well-known material distribution center.
Interestingly, the Catholic church was built in Sheshan because there are many Buddhist temples in Sijing Taoist Temple, or because they think that the mountain is not high and the immortals are spiritual.
Sijing is a gathering place of ancient Songjiang humanities. He was a historian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and has been living in seclusion since the death of Yuan Dynasty. Of course, the most famous are modern patriots and the founder of Shenbao, as well as the famous scholar Ma, who founded Aurora University and Fudan University.
The materials transferred to Sijing still have to go to sea.
Now, if you take a walk in Songjiang, you will find out why Songjiang Prefecture, which was the first in China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, was replaced by Shanghai County in modern times. This is because in the Ming Dynasty, the success of the confluence project of Wusong River and Huangpu River completely linked inland river transportation with maritime traffic, and Shanghai County at the mouth of Huangpu River replaced Songjiang Prefecture as the economic center.
Jiangpu meets and can go to sea from Wusongkou. In the twenty-third year of Kangxi (1684), the Qing government opened the maritime ban, and Shanghai's shipping industry, mainly cotton trade, developed unprecedentedly. During the Daoguang period, Shanghai has become one of the most important ports along the southeast coast of China.
From Songjiang to Sijing, from Sijing to Shanghai, the decline of Songjiang Prefecture and the rise of Shanghai City are the road extensions from inland to coastal areas.