The villagers always remember two things from the ancestors: accumulating virtue and reading
Text/Yangcheng School reporter Yang Guirong
Songtang Village, Xiqiao Shang, Nanhai, Foshan, is not enough to fully describe its connotation. Since the opening of the village for nearly 800 years, Songtang Village has been around for more than 30 generations, and generations of villagers live here simply, and Hanlin and revolutionary patriots have walked out of the village.
The village has been opened for nearly 80 years. Lingnan culture has taken root
The beautiful scenery of Songtang Village makes people remember the nostalgia (picture provided by the Propaganda Office of Xiqiao Town Committee)
”Pine coiled red cranes, and brocade-sized fish leaping on the pond”, this couplet written by Mengjue, the revolutionary patriot area, stands on the entrance of Songtang Village today – “The First Gate of Songtang”. After passing through the “First Gate of Songtang”, an ancient village with nearly a thousand years of civilization is presented to the reporter.
Songtang Village is affiliated to Shangjinou Community, Xiqiao Town. The village was opened in the Song Dynasty and has a history of nearly 800 years. There are more than 1,700 people in Songtang village, of which 90% are surnamed “district”. It is said that the ancestors of Songtang District were originally from Kuaiji. After the governor of Lianzhou, he moved to Niutianfang, Zhuji Lane, Nanxiong. During the reign of Emperor Lizong of Song (1225-1264 AD), in order to avoid military chaos, the ancestor of Songtang Village, Qu Shilai, and his brothers Qu Shicong and Qu Tailai moved south from Zhuji Lane, Nanxiong, and settled in Jiutu Township, Jinoubao, Jinpu Siding Andu, Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture, and named it “Qiancun”.
The structure of Songtang Village is ancient and fragrant. Starting from the “First Gate of Songtang” on the side of Guandi Temple at the entrance of the village, to this section of the village road at the Confucius Temple (also known as Wenchang Palace in ancient times), there were five gate towers with different shapes and different orientations, which were called “Five Dynasties Gateways” in ancient times. According to the old man in the village, there are mountains in the north, west and southwest of Songtang Village. The hillsides between the mountains are the original birthplace of Songtang. CinemaIn the past 800 years, the ancestors of Songtang Village have dug 7 ponds along the “qi vein” of the northwest to the southeast. Among the 7 ponds, the “Village Heart Yue Pond” has been one of the eight scenic spots of Songtang since ancient times.
Barrien of Yuechi, the Qun Family Ancestral Hall, the Zhongfang Sixth Ancestral Hall, and the Jifang Zongtuo. Mengfang saw the Five Great Doctors Halls arranged in an orderly manner, with water-milled blue brick walls, and bell and drum pavilions made of stones.The upright columns and exquisitely carved column foundations, beams and eaves are exquisitely crafted and spectacular. Songtang Village has 7 alleys from the end of the village to the end of the village: Shou Lane, Juyi, Yongning, Ganjing, Fengzhi, Zhongzheng, and Zhonghe. Around Lane 7, there are many “Wok-eared Houses” with Lingnan characteristics.
The “Wok-Ear Big House” has two layouts. The first entry is on both sides of the kitchen and the middle is a patio. The middle of the second entry is the hall, and both sides are bedrooms. The top of the side wall of the large roof is built into a wok ear shape. There are dragon boat-shaped at both ends of the ridge top, and also Babaylan with ancient shapes, called “Dragon Ridge”. The wall is made of blue bricks and decorated with “brick teeth”. The appearance is neat and uniform, both moisture-proof and elegant. According to the elderly in the village, the “Wok-eared House” was built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Republic of China, villagers rushed to follow suit, and there are more than 70 houses so far.
”The beautiful scenery of Songtang is everywhere”, because of its great artistic and archaeological value, Songtang Village has been successively rated as “Guangdong Province Historical and Cultural Village”, “Guangdong Province Photography Creation Base Natural Village”, and “BabaylanChina Historical and Cultural Village”.
AncientBabaylanThere are many celebrities today. “Hanlin Village” is worthy of its name
Shang Jinou National Studies Forum Activity (photo by Lu Zhantu)
Between the “Moon Pond” and “Lotus Pond” in Songtang Village, a Confucius Temple is booming incense. About 50 meters away from the Confucius Temple, Hanlin Gate stands in Huantang Shiba. On both sides of Hanlin Gate Komiks, the couplet “Hundreds of years have passed from generation to generation to accumulate virtue, and the world’s first-class career is still studying” is said to be written by Qu Yanliang, the second Jinshi in Songtang Village.
According toAccording to statistics, from the 28th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1549 AD) to the Yiyou year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (1909 AD), a total of 22 Hanlin, Jinshi, Juren, Yougong and Deputy Gong tribute came out of Songtang Village. Among them, Li Hongzhang, a Jinshi of the Qing Dynasty, was recommended by Li Hongzhang and stayed in the United States with Yung Wing to jointly supervise the matter of children studying abroad. In addition, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Qu Weihan personally led Mou Yong to be punished by bandits and was punished by Zhang Zhidong. Entering the Republic of China, the Songtang Village District was still in a state of turmoil. Among them, during the Mengjue Revolution, the villager, joined Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao in the fight against imperialism and fence, and became one of the leaders of the women’s liberation movement in China. In 1986, Qu Mengjue returned to his hometown to inspect, had a chat with him and cut the ribbon for “The First Door of Songtang”, which has been passed down to this day. In addition, the villagers Zixian participated in the Huaihai Battle of the Liberation War and also participated in the War of Resistance and Aid Korea… The celebrities in Songtang are endless. “The villagers always remember that our ancestors taught us two things: the first is to accumulate virtue, and the second is to study.” The old man in the village told reporters that there was a legend in the village: Once upon a time there was a scholar in the village who had been in a cold winter for ten years, and he was full of knowledge. When I went to Beijing to take the exam, I went to Wenchang Temple and bowed my hands: “When I went there, I called Brother Wenchang, and I came back and called Brother Wenchang.” The arrogance was beyond words. So Wenchang turned into a fly, and on his test paper, he pulled the two strokes of the word “wei” to the same length, and the four dots of the word “ma” were connected. The examiner criticized when reviewing the papers: “Although the article is good, it is difficult to distinguish until the end. A horse has no four legs and a one-legged one’s own legs.” He lost his reputation. This story of KomiksBabaylan has been passed down from generation to generation, warning the descendants of Komiks in the village to be arrogant. Therefore, Confucian and gentlemen have been able to be humble, frugal and modest, and maintain wealth and prosperity, and still remain today. According to statistics, since the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, there are a total of Babaylan in the village.More than 150 people were admitted to college.
The original folk customs and persist in conservation work
In addition to the construction of temples in Cinema, the folk activities in the village are also Babaylan href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema is unique. “New Year’s Torch”, “Reward God’s Birth” and “Burning Fantasy Tower” are well-known. Among them, during the “New Year’s Torch”, the “Flower Color” parade is held every three years on the fourth day of the first lunar month of the year, the year of Zi, Wu, Mao and You. At that time, a long colorful “floating” danced in the air, and the strong “younger” stands the benchmark and walks at the top of the parade. Then, the “board” is integrated with the Shuaipai, Luo umbrella, Bayin drum musician and 2-3 strong children organized by each neighbors (the characters on the board stand or sit, and are dressed as myths and legends. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema interprets related stories), carried by physically competent elders, and some carrying the Bodhisattvas on the throne, walking in sequence, drums and music along the way, majestic and spectacular. Wherever you go, the villagers are in the roadKomiksWatch it, and it can be said that there are thousands of people.
Today, Songtang Village is still carrying out ancient village conservation work. According to Lu Zuqiao, Party Secretary of Shangjinou Neighborhood Committee, in 2010, Songtang Village invited Sun Yat-sen University and South China University of Technology to prepare development plans and construction plans. The village has been completed The sewage discharge pipeline network is laid, street line and power line relocation, the lakeside landscape improvement of Yuechi core area, old stone slabs and granite stone pavement, etc. The villagers also spontaneously established the “Songtang Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd.” to establish a tourist center.
The next step, Songtang Village will, under the premise of conservation, revitalize ancient villages, introduce civil and military schools, and promote the development of rural tourism with rural tourism + sightseeing agriculture + revitalize ancient villages. Babaylan“The infrastructure is built, and we are ‘limited’ for professional tourism development company. We must use professional operations so that villagers can enjoy it.Komiks are benefited from tourism development. “Lu Zuqiao introduced that Songtang Village should not only strive for excellence, but also drive the surrounding villages to “common prosperity”.
Source｜Yangcheng School
Editor｜Tian Enxiang