"My hometown is located on the bank of the Yalu River, where the green mountains and green waters, the birds and the flowers are fragrant, and it is a fascinating border town......" This sentence was written by Chen Ziyang when he was a child, and once he didn't know which counseling essay he copied from the beginning, and since then, whenever he writes essays about describing his hometown, he starts with this sentence.

As this sentence writes, Chen Ziyang's hometown is a small border town by the Yalu River.

Dahetao Town, Linhai City, Jilin Province, located in the southeast of Changbai Mountain District, Jilin Province, is like a pearl on the border, inlaid on the bank of the Yalu River of the Sino-Korean boundary river, which is Chen Ziyang's hometown.

Looking at Jilin Province on the map of China, the southernmost provincial border of Jilin Province is a very fat "W" shape, shaped a bit like the old-fashioned big fat cotton pants worn by Northeast people a long time ago, and the middle inflection point of the "W" shape is the location of Linhai City.

Linhai City used to be called Maoershan, later changed to Linhai County, and in 1990 it was changed to a county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Heishui City.

When it comes to Linhai City, except for the locals and some people from Jilin Province, other people know very little. Linhai City is more famous because in the early days of the Liberation War, the People's Liberation Army fought the famous Sibao Linhai Campaign here, and the Sibao Linhai Campaign repelled the 100,000 Kuomintang troops four times, and held the northeast base at that time, which was the beginning of the major counteroffensive in the Northeast Battlefield. Until now, there is a memorial hall in Linhai City called the Sibao Linhai Battle Exhibition Hall.

But Chen Ziyang felt that the Battle of Sibao Linhai was not as famous as he thought. When he was in college, he met classmates from all over the country. When he introduced Linhai City to his classmates, almost no one knew about the Battle of Sibao Linhai every time, which made Chen Ziyang feel very depressed. But fortunately, a classmate from Tianjin knew very well, which made him find some relief.

The second famous place of Linhai is that in recent years, when smog and air quality problems have plagued major cities, Linhai City, far away, has been rated as one of the top 100 deep-breathing cities in China, and it is among the best, and its ranking has risen year by year, and has now risen to third place. The fresh air and pleasant scenery are the proudest aspects of Chen Ziyang's hometown.

In the southwest of Linhai City, about 12 kilometers downstream of the Yalu River, also by the Yalu River, there is a small town called Da Walnut Town, which is where Chen Ziyang was born and raised. However, what is more embarrassing is that Da Walnut Town has now been changed to Da Walnut Street in Linhai City...... The old town has become a street, doesn't it mean that the former mayor has now become the head of the neighborhood office? Sometimes Chen Ziyang thinks it's funny when he thinks of this.

The origin of the name of Big Walnut Town is interesting. Continue to walk downstream along the Yalu River in Dahetao Town, there is a tidal flat by the river, there are four stones on this tidal flat, two large and two small, the water level of the Yalu River is high in the rainy season, the four stones are soaked in the river water, and the water level drops in the dry season.

The most amazing thing is that between the two big stones and between the two small stones are basically the same size and shape, it seems that these four stones are standing there in pairs, and the four stones are shaped like walnuts, which is the kind of wild pecans in the Northeast that Northeast people usually eat. Therefore, the people here call the area where the two small stones face the small walnut area, and the area opposite the pair of big stones is called the big walnut area, which is the origin of the name of the big walnut town.

The local county chronicle also recorded: "There are strange stones on the riverside, standing on the bank into pairs, such as falling from the sky, the shape resembles a big walnut, and the place name is derived from the stone." ”

How big is the big walnut town, the locals have a joke to describe the size of the town, called "a handful of melon seeds swallowed twice." "What do you mean, that is, a person grabs a handful of melon seeds, and eats them as he walks, and when the melon seeds are finished, the person has already walked around the main area of the town twice.

This statement is actually inaccurate, Chen Ziyang once actually measured it, and he thinks the correct statement should be "two handfuls of melon seeds in a circle!" ”

It sounds ridiculous, but this is a small town, the population of the town is barely enough for 10,000 people, there are only 30 buildings in the whole town, and the highest is only six floors, and the rest are some bungalows around the town, and the area of the whole town is not as large as a larger community in a big city.

Chen Ziyang couldn't understand how such a big place as Big Walnut Town could become the land of dragonfall in the mouth of the old man. Dragonfall, Dragonfall, where did the dragons come from? Not to mention that this place is a dragonfall, even if it is a snake fall or a worm fall, it is a bit exaggerated.

This problem has plagued Chen Ziyang for a long time, and it was not until the construction of a tourist attraction called "Puyi Xuanzhao Abdication Site" in Dawalnut Town that it was solved. It turns out that this is the so-called Dragonfall Land!

Late at night on August 11, 1945, with the rout of Japan, the Xinjing (Changchun) rout of the puppet Manchukuo officials began.

At 12 noon on August 15, Pu Yi turned on the radio in his room in the "Imperial Palace". The radio was played a speech by the Emperor of Japan, announcing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation and its unconditional surrender: "...... The well-being of the subjects of the Empire, the joy of common prosperity with all nations, this is the legacy of the emperor's worship of the emperor, and the measure of my fist...... Pu Yi cried when he heard it, because he knew that even Japan surrendered, then his Manchukuo would be completely finished.

On the morning of August 17, 1945, under the arrangement of Zhang Jinghui, the puppet Prime Minister of Manchukuo, Pu Yi read out the "Edict of Abdication" that had been written long ago and announced his abdication. The short-lived puppet Manchukuo experienced a total of 13 years and 5 months before it collapsed in the remote ravine of Dahetao Town! Bo Yi, who has stepped down three times and became emperor three times, became a commoner for the last time in the here and now!

Pu Yi was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the puppet state of Manchukuo can also be seen as a continuation of the Qing Dynasty under the auspices of the Japanese. After Pu Yi's abdication, China no longer had a feudal regime and entered a period of socialism.

Therefore, Pu Yi's abdication in Dahetao Town is the end of more than 200 years of rule of the Qing Dynasty at best, and it represents the end of more than 3,000 years of feudal rule in China.

Chen Ziyang never imagined that his hometown would occupy such an important role on the stage of Chinese history. But why is Pu Yi's abdication here not as famous as some other historical events, this matter is not even known to Chen Ziyang, who is a resident of Dawalnut Town, and his influence is too small.

And what puzzled Chen Ziyang the most was why it was here, why such a remote big walnut town became the land of dragonfall?