千秋福地，地久天長。
Tianchang in China is a land on the bank of a big lake and near the Yangtze River, a prosperous place in the Tang Dynasty and the hometown of the composer of the famous song “Jasmine Flower”.
Tianchang is a blessed land with a history of over one thousand years.
“天長才能地久”
“Tianchang means everlasting”
世界名曲、中國民歌《茉莉花》的故鄉。
好一朵茉莉花，好一朵茉莉花，滿園花草香也香不過它……從 1997 年開始，帶著鄉土氣息的茉莉花“飄香”世界。香港回歸、澳門回歸、北京奧運會頒獎背景音樂……人們一遍遍重溫這首由天長人何仿根據家鄉民間小調《鮮花調》創作的歌曲―― 《茉莉花》。
天長“虹橋”/ “Rainbow Bridge”of Tianchang
早在春秋戰國時期，此地就有建制，大漢封疆，天長隸屬廣陵郡。
公元 742 年，唐玄宗李隆基采納大臣們的建議，將自己的生日這一天定為“千秋節”，并從天下最富庶的江都、六合、高郵各劃一塊地，設立千秋縣，寄予一代帝王千秋萬代之夢想。6 年后，又有大臣提議，千秋萬代難比日月同輝，建議把“千秋節”改為“天長節”，唐玄宗采納了這個建議，隨即將千秋縣為天長縣，這個名字一直延續到今天。
1993 年，天長撤縣建市；2017 年，天長創成全國文明城市。
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period,Tianchang was already an administration unit, which successively belonged to the Wu, the Yue, and the Chu states. Tianchang was officially made a county in 742. The story goes like this: to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty, the fifth day of lunar August was officially designated as Qianqiu Festival in 729. In the first year of Tianbao (742), a county was established after the name of the festival with the land allocated from Jiangdu, Liuhe, and Gaoyou. Seven years later, the name of the festival was changed into Tianchang. Subsequently, the name of the county was also changed into Tianchang.
Folklore offers another store: to make Emperor Li Longji happy at the festival, ministers tried to find a good place and named it Qianqiu as a birthday gift to the emperor. Tianchang was the place they finally found.
As for why Qianqiu was changed into Tianchang? The folklore explains:one year when celebrating the birthday of the emperor on the festival,some ministers put forward that “Qianqiu (one thousand years) is limited and only Tianchang (everlasting) can be eternal”. According to their proposal, the name of the county was changed in Tianchang, which has been used up to now。
古鎮的紅色記憶
Tianchang has red memories
大唐盛世的歷史記憶流傳至今，天長的紅色故事更值得流傳，它們散落在古鎮龍崗鎮。
小鎮保留著淳樸的民風，古老的街道，沒有半點兒現代商業氣息的浸透。中國人民抗日軍政大學第八分校舊址，就在龍崗鎮的古民居群中。
當年，抗大的下設機構及黨、政、軍領導都散住在老街民居中。中國人民抗日軍政大學第八分校舊址規模較大，有教室、校務部、政治部等共 17 處，房屋 100 余間，現存建筑均為清至民國時期的古建筑。老一輩無產階級革命家劉少奇、陳毅、粟裕、鄭位三、羅炳輝等曾在這里生活戰斗過。
The stories about the prosperous Tang Dynasty have passed down, and the red memories should be also kept long. The pieces of revolutionary stories are scattered in the ancient Longgang Town.
Longgang Town retains a simple folk way of life and the ancient streets have nothing to do without the modern commercial atmosphere. The site of the eighth branch school of the Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese Military and Political College is among the ancient dwellings of Longgang Town.
In the old days, the units of the school, leaders of the Party, government,and army lived in the houses of the old street. The former site of the school was fairly large with more than 100 rooms in 17 units including a school affairs department, a political department, and classrooms. The preserved existing buildings are all ancient ones from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Su Yu, Zheng Weisan, Luo Binghui and some other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation once lived and fought here.
安徽東向發展戰略的橋頭堡
Tianchang is the bridgehead for Anhui's Eastward Development Strategy
天長厚植江南文化基因，兼備區位優勢。打開地圖，天長像一顆珍珠鑲嵌在江蘇腹地，有三面被江蘇環繞。
沃野千里美如畫 / Picturesque fertile land
高郵湖捕魚 / Catching fish in Gaoyou Lake
天長地處華東腹地，南臨長江，北枕淮河，東臨高郵湖，西傍京滬鐵路，是長三角經濟圈成員城市，也是安徽東向發展的戰略要地和橋頭堡。
天長是一塊跳板，連接著東部沿海與內陸中部；長深高速公路、宿揚高速公路、寧連一級公路貫穿境內，距南京祿口國際機場 140 公里，距南京六合馬鞍機場 57.5 公里；水路經高郵湖直達沿江、沿海各大港口，距南京主要港口新生圩港109公里，距龍潭港 100 公里。寧天城際，以及即將開工建設的滁天高速、寧淮高鐵進一步拉近了天長與長三角地區的距離。
這樣的區位優勢，加上天長人的創新、勤勞的稟賦，讓這里必然成為一塊福地。
By virtue of its superior geographic advantages, Tianchang has become a leader of the county economy in Anhui. With an open map, you can see that the county protrudes itself into Jiangsu and is surrounded by the land of the province on three sides.
Located in the hinterland of East China, overlooking the Yangtze River in the south,neighboring the Huaihe River in the north, bordering Gaoyou Lake in the east and near Beijing-Shanghai Railway in the west, Tianchang is a member city of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle, an important satellite city of Nanjing Metropolitan Area, a bridgehead for Anhui's Eastward Development Strategy and an important processing and production base in the Yangtze River Delta Economic Region.
Tianchang serves as a gangplank connecting the eastern coastal regions and the central inland area: Changchun-Shenzhen Expressway, Suzhou-Yangzhou Expressway, and Nanjing-Lianyungang highway (Grade 1) run through the county-level city; Nanjing Lukou International Airport is 140 kilometers away and the Luhe-based Nanjing Ma'an International Airport is 57.5 kilometers away; the waterway leads through Gaoyou Lake to major ports along the Yangtze River and along the seacoast; it is 109 kilometers away from Nanjing Xinshengwei Port and 100 kilometers away from Longtan Port. Nanjing-Tianchang intercity rail, as well as Xuzhou-Tianchang Expressway and Nanjing-Huaian high-speed rail link now under construction will further shorten the distance from Tianchang to the Yangtze River Delta.
With such geographical advantages, plus gifted innovation ability and diligence of the local people, Tianchang will surely remain a blessed and prosperous land。
天長制造
Tianchang is pride of its products
天長是安徽民營經濟首發之地，儀表電纜、電子元器件、長毛絨玩具三大當家產品開創了天長制造的基礎。
秦軒汽車科技（天長）有限公司技術人員正在檢修自動化機械臂
Technicians maintaining an automatic mechanical arm, Qin Xuan Automotive Technology (Tianchang) Co., Ltd.
改革開放，大潮迭起，身為“安徽東大門”的天長，乘風破浪，勇立潮頭，對內培育，對外招引，民營經濟紅紅火火，被譽為“安徽的溫州模式”。儀表電纜產品行銷全國各省區市，遙控器產品銷售份額占全球 30%，電動車充電器銷售份額占全國二級市場 90%，毛絨玩具出口全球 100 多個國家和地區……
銅城鎮徽寧電纜廠/ Huining Cable Factory in Tongcheng Town
天長已形成儀表電纜、裝備制造、家電及元器件、玩具服裝、健康食品、新型生物醫藥、新能源等七個工業板塊，擁有 10個產業集群鎮。全市規模企業突破 500 家，戰略性新興企業達95 家，制造業綜合實力位列安徽縣級第二，連續多年被評為全國科學發展百強縣。
Tianchang is the cradle of the private economy of Anhui and its manufacturing is developed on the foundation laid by its instrument cable, electronic components, and plush toy industries.
While the tides of reform and opening up keep surging, Tianchang, the east gate of Anhui, rides the wind and breaks the waves. Thanks to the measures taken to foster local industries and improve business promotion to the rest of the country, its private economy has boomed rapidly and is dubbed as “Anhui’s Wenzhou model”. The instrument cable products are sold to all provinces, regions, and cities in China, the sales share of remote control products accounts for 30 percent of the global market, the sales share of electric vehicle chargers accounts for 90 percent of the national secondary market,and the plush toys are exported to more than 100 countries and regions in the world.
Tianchang has now seven industrial sectors, including instrument cable, equipment manufacturing, home appliances and components,toys and clothing, health food, new biomedicine,and new energy. It has 10 towns featuring industrial clustering, more than 500 above-scale enterprises,
and 95 strategic emerging enterprises. It ranks second among the counties in Anhui in terms of the comprehensive strength of its manufacturing industry and has been rated as one of the top 100 counties for scientific development for many years.
孝子之鄉
Tianchang is known for the filial son
天長被譽為“中國孝子之鄉”，“二十四孝”中的朱壽昌尋母事件，就是發生在天長。
朱壽昌，字康叔，宋天長秦欄里( 今秦欄鎮 ) 人，父親朱巽是宋仁宗年間工部侍郎，母劉氏是朱巽之妾。朱壽昌幼時，劉氏被朱巽遺棄，母子從此分離 50 年。
天長紅草湖公園南園中的“孝園”
Xiaoyuan Garden in the southern section of Tianchang Hongcaohu Park
朱壽昌長大后，出而為官，仕途順利，然而對母親的思念之心縈縈于懷，“飲食罕御酒肉，言輒流涕”，四方打聽均無音訊。傳說他母親流落陜西一帶，嫁為民妻，他刺血書寫《金剛經》，辭去官職，千里迢迢，往陜甘一帶尋母，并與家人說：“不見母，吾不返矣。”精誠所至，朱壽昌終于在同州找到了母親。此時老母已70 有余，朱壽昌也年過半百了。劉氏離開朱家以后，改嫁黨氏，又有子女數人，壽昌視他們如親弟妹，全部接回家中供養。有人將朱壽昌棄官尋母之事上奏宋神宗趙頊，朱得以恢復官職。蘇軾、王安石曾有詩文贊美朱壽昌事件，“辭官尋母”名傳天下。
朱壽昌與蘇軾更為相熟，蘇軾因“烏臺詩案”被貶至黃州，艱難窮困。當時朱壽昌為鄂州太守，與黃州隔江相望，時常送去酒食；蘇軾也常為朱壽昌寫詩填詞。在《蘇東坡全集》中，可查到的蘇軾致朱壽昌的信有二十一封、詩八首、詞二首，有關朱壽昌的文二篇。其中《滿江紅·寄鄂州朱使君壽昌》一首，最為傳誦。
《滿江紅·寄鄂州朱使君壽昌》
江漢西來，高樓下、蒲萄深碧。猶自帶，岷峨雪浪，錦江春色。
君是南山遺愛守，我為劍外思歸客。對此間、風物豈無情，殷勤說。
《江表傳》，君休讀；狂處士，真堪惜�？罩迣W鵡，葦花蕭瑟。
不獨笑書生爭底事，曹公黃祖俱飄忽。愿使君、還賦謫仙詩，追黃鶴。
除了孝文化，天長還以地方傳統工藝美術品天官畫為一絕，古話說：皖北有三絕―― 鳳陽鳳畫、天長天官、靈璧靈判。“天官畫”是指以皇帝、傳說中的神仙、歷史名人等為主題的畫作，起源于17 世紀 60 年代，距今已有 340 多年歷史。
目前，“天官畫”已成功入選省、市、縣三級非遺名錄，對于中國傳統民間繪畫藝術研究具有重要的參考價值。
這些流傳至今的故事和民俗，這些千年之前曾生活在這片土地上的人和事，跟這個小城息息相關，與小城的命運緊緊相連，將延續至永久。
The story of Zhu Shouchang looking for his mother in the “twenty-four stories of filial sons” happened exactly in Tianchang.
Zhu Shouchang was born in Tianchang in the Song Dynasty. His father Zhu Xun, an assistant minister at that time “discarded” his mother Liu when he was young. Ever since then the mother and the son had never seen each other for 50 years.
When grew up, Zhu Shouchang stepped into officialdom successfully,yet his yearning for his mother lingered in his mind. When he heard his mother was living in Shaanxi and married a civilian, he used his own blood to copy the Vajra Sutra and resigned to look for his mother. He bid farewell to his family members and started a thousand-mile journey for his mother, saying he would never return without his mother. Luckily, Zhu finally found his mother in Tongzhou. At this time, his mother was over 70 and Zhu was over 50. Zhu regarded the children of his mother after remarriage as his own brothers and sisters and took all of them home to support.
Someone reported the story to Emperor Zhao Xu, who restored Zhu’s official position. Both Su Shi and Wang Anshi wrote poems to praise him.
Zhu Shouchang knew Su Shi quite well. When Su was poor after he was demoted, Zhu often sent food and drinks to him when he was the prefecture chief of Ezhou at that time. Su Shi also wrote poems and lyrics for Zhu to express his gratitude. In the complete works of Su Dongpo, you can find 21 letters, 8 poems, 2 poems and 2 essays about Zhu Shouchang.
That is a story happened nearly one thousand years ago and is still on the lips of the local people.
本欄目部分圖片由張秋生、陳家斌、趙永昌、楊天輝、范柏文、黃洋洋拍攝
本欄目支持單位：天長市委宣傳部、天長市融媒體中心
