广州市以东30公里,有个被誊为“礼义之乡”的小镇——广东省增城县新塘镇。它交通方便,南临东江,北绕广深铁路,广深公路又从腹部而过。几百年来,小镇经济繁荣,文化发达。时至今日,新塘更是珠江三角洲一个有名的城镇。这样一个繁荣的小镇,它的镇区明代以前还只是东江一个河湾。后来,江水逐渐把它冲积成一个自然大水塘。明代嘉靖年间,著名哲学家,官至南 30 km east of Guangzhou City, there is a 誊 as “Righteousness Township,” the town - Zengcheng County, Guangdong Province, Xintang. It is easily accessible, south of the East River, north Guangshen Railway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Highway from the abdomen again. For hundreds of years, the town has a prosperous economy and a developed culture. Today, Xintang is a famous town in the Pearl River Delta. Such a prosperous town, its town before the Ming Dynasty was only a river bay of the East River. Later, the river gradually alluvial it into a natural reservoir. Jiajing Ming Dynasty, the famous philosopher, officer to the south