Tangxi Village

Overview

Tangxi Village belongs to Honglan Subdistrict and is a villagers' committee. The district government's administrative divisions page gives Honglan Subdistrict four villagers' committees — Tangxi, Qingfeng, Chenbian and Jiangjia — with Tangxi listed first.

The size of Tangxi Village can be recorded from a further academic source: a 2024 field-study paper in Advances in Social Sciences by Yin Haocheng gives a village area of 12.4 square kilometres for Tangxi after the merger of administrative villages, with 12 natural streets, 30 villagers' groups, 1,636 households and 4,312 people. These figures come from academic fieldwork; this library holds no government or water-affairs statistical series to corroborate them, so they are recorded as the paper's own figures and not mixed with the administrative-divisions count.

An interview record in the same paper states that "after Cangkou Village was rebuilt it was renamed Tangxi Village — it is in fact Cangkou, called Meiliangdu in the Ming dynasty". This is a villager's oral account of the administrative adjustment, and it differs from the administrative divisions page, which lists Tangxi, Qingfeng, Chenbian and Jiangjia as four parallel villagers' committees: were Tangxi simply the renamed Cangkou, the survival of the other three and the timing of the change would need separate evidence, which this library does not hold. The account is recorded as a lead only and no existing division is rewritten on it.

Traditional villages within it

The list of the first batch of traditional villages of Jiangsu, carried on the provincial housing department's website on 8 April 2020, records Cangkou as "Cangkou, Tangxi Village, Honglan Subdistrict" — a three-level form of subdistrict, administrative village and settlement. Cangkou entered the list in April 2020 and retains three ancestral halls, of the Rui, Fan and Qiu families.

Points of doubt

• The boundaries of Tangxi Village and the origin of its name are not recorded in the sources used here; the 12.4 square kilometres and the other figures quoted above are the paper's figures and have not been verified by a government statistical department.
• "Cangkou renamed Tangxi" is an interview account that cannot be corroborated against the existing four parallel villagers' committees; the adjusting document and its date are not held here.
• Cangkou and Tangxi Village have separate entries: Cangkou as a settlement, this one as the administrative village.