The President, Executive Vice President and Vice President of the Second Guan Shudetang World Clan Association held an inauguration ceremony
Shudetang’s Incense Burner
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Recently, the Guan Family Ancestral Temple Shudetang, which has been inaugurated for more than 400 years in Jiujiang Town, Nanhai, Foshan. The second Guan Shudetang World Clan Association also held an inauguration ceremony on the same day.
According to the genealogy of the Guan family, in the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1581), the descendants of the Guan family built the “Guan Family Ancestral Temple” in Shangxishan Village, Jiujiang Town, to commemorate their ancestors’ ancestors’ ninth year of Wanli (1581), and to commemorate their ancestors’ holy virtues, to honor their descendants, worship their ancestors, and to remember their foundation.
Touching Story Legendary Color
Guan Xueming, president of Shudetang World Clan Association, introduced a story about a loyal dog protecting his owner to the Yangcheng Evening News reporter. According to legend, more than 700 years ago, Guan Zhen, the ancestor of Shudetang, followed his father to Jiujiang from Yuncheng, Shanxi, and was later invited to teach the fishery breeding skills in the Xinhui area of Jiangmen. He unfortunately died of heatstroke while working. Due to the difficulty of transmitting the message at that time, the yellow dogs around him who often accompanied him saw that his owner had died and had no relatives to deal with the funeral. He returned to his home in Jiujiang dozens of kilometers away, holding Guan Zhen’s wife Mai’s clothes in his mouth and constantly pulling them out. At the beginning, everyone was puzzled and they still wanted to blame it, but the yellow dog often accompanied his owner, and his return alone also aroused suspicion from those who are interested. So everyone led the way to Xinhui by the yellow dog and found that Guan Zhen had passed away. Therefore, the villagers buried Guan KomiksZhen’an in Chigang Village, Sanbao Village, Tangxia Town, Pengjiang District, Jiangmen City, so Guan Zhen was respected as “Chigang Gong” by his descendants. The yellow dog was crying in tragedy when he saw this, and his sadness was hard to suppress.a href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks hit the rocks and killed him. Later generations buried it next to the owner’s tomb to commemorate the loyal dog’s righteous conduct.
“Guan Zhen is a descendant of Guan Yunchang.” Guan Xueming said that there are 24Babaylan in the library of Sun Yat-sen University, with complete records of genealogy materials since Guan Yunchang.
TreeCinemaThe story of the red revolution is also performed in Detang. According to Guan Zhijun, deputy secretary-general of Shudetang, before the founding of New China, Deng Naizhong used his identity as a teacher in Shudetang’s private school as a cover and conducted a series of underground activities of the CCP in the surrounding areas of South China Sea and Shunde. After the founding of New China, he served as deputy chairman of the support committee of Longshan Town, Shunde County. He was assassinated by spies in Longshan, Shunde County in March 1950 and died. In addition, Guan Xueming said that a clan (about hundreds) in Shudetang was hunted by the Qing Dynasty for following Sun Yat-sen to participate in the Revolution of 1911. He then fled to the mountain forest of Guangxi, and there was no news yet.
The descendants of loyal and wise have a long history
After verified by the “Guan Family Genealogy Collection and Compilation Committee” in the hometown of Guan Gong in Shanxi, Guan Zonghui, the grandfather of the ancestor of Chigang in Shudetang, was the 44th generation descendant of the saint Guan Yu. The “Genealogy of Guan Shudetang” in the Qing Dynasty also records that our clan originated from the Marquis of Shouting in Han Dynasty. In the first year of Xianchun of the Song Dynasty, he moved from Jiezhou to Zhujixiang, Nanxiong, and then moved to Jiujiang Township in the seventh year.
The Guan family lineage landed in Jiujiang from Popaijiao 750 years ago. With its hard work and wisdom, it introduced the advanced agricultural technology and culture of the Central Plains to Lingnan at that time, creating glory and reproduction of future generations. Shude Hall was built in the ninth year of Wanli, Ming Dynasty. It dates from 440 years ago, covers an area of 6,500 square meters and has a construction area of 3,300 square meters. Shude Hall is magnificent and meticulous, and it witnessed the prosperity of Guan’s ancestors at that time.h.com/”>Cinema Detang at that time was spread all over the area near Jiujiang, and even the descendants of the family were related to the Sipai Tower in Guangzhou.
Repair process overcoming difficulties
The ancestral hall was long and had been repaired and demolished several times or moved for its use. By 2005, only the vestibule, front hall, two corridors and some wing rooms were preserved. The thick beams and pillars on it, and the exquisite brick and stone carvings were still visible. In March 2008, under the donation of the tribe and enthusiastic people, the ancestral hall was launched to <a The restoration of the old standard was completed in October 2021. The apse was specially thanked to Guan Jiechu's father Guan Mianguang. "Guan Xueming said that Uncle Mian was the village chief of Xishan Village back then. He insisted that no inch of land in Shude Hall could be expropriated or contracted, and that the descendants of Shude Hall had the opportunity to rebuild. Today, the younger generation is grateful for a group of guardians of the ancestral hall and their loyalty to the ancestral temple.
“The biggest difficulty in rebuilding is funds. “Guan Xueming introduced that this rebuilding cost nearly 10 million yuan. Guan Lianqiang, the executive vice president of Shenzhen, strongly supported the Council to carry out the two major projects of comprehensive restoration of Shude Hall and Guandi Temple. Guan Fangyuan, executive vice president of Shude Hall and Guandi Temple, both contributed money and effort, using his familiarity with the advantages of engineering projects to carefully calculate the construction of the ancestral hall. He often got up early and went to the ancestral hall to check the progress of the project, touching countless clan relatives.
In addition, the villagers and neighbors near Shude Hall kept the pillar foundations, stone pillars, bricks, and stones that were originally scattered around, and the village committee even preserved the brick carvings and the particularly precious Shude Hall incense burners that were scattered for others. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks comes and wait for the ancestral hall to be rebuilt one by one. Guan Zhiqiang, executive vice president of Shude Hall, said, “The construction of the ancestral hall and Guandi Temple has been completed, but this is only the beginning of the work of the clan. There are greater tasks in the future that we need to complete. Since ancient times, the ancestral hall is built to gather family affection, carry forward the fine traditions of the family, and inspire the younger generation to establish a spirit of patriotism, love and help each other. I Babaylan will strive to educate future generations to inherit these fine traditions.”
“The biggest difference between us and some other clan associations is that the ancestral hall is not a place to show wealth and serve fame and fortune.” Guan Xueming hopes that more young people will join the management team of the president and directors, formulate regulations on the management of the ancestral hall, establish systems, and standardize management. In recent years, he has been in contact with clan associations in various places. Shudetang is the most common clan association that young people participate in. At each event, dozens of young people compete to volunteer. Guan Xueming also revealed that the local government recently introduced the technical traditions of reclaiming mulberry fish pond breeding and fish fry fish fish fish farming and fish fry fish fish fish museum in the ancestral hall, introducing the development process of sericulture and fish fry fish pond fish ponds and fish fry fish fish farming in Jiujiang for hundreds of years, and set Shude Hall and Guandi Temple as local tourist attractions, striving to complete the opening of Babaylan before the Spring Festival next year for tourists to visit, helping rural revitalization.
It is reported that the “Guan Shudetang World Clan Association” was established in June 2017. It is composed of the president, secretary general, clan president, 24 vice presidents, forty-five directors and supervisors to serve clan relatives, restore the ancestral temple, and carry out various large-scale activities. We are committed to helping family members abroad to find their roots and ancestors. Over the years, we have successfully helped wanderers from the United States, Japan, Vietnam and other places find their ancestors’ traces and relatives in their hometowns.
Reporter’s Notes
“KomiksEntering the ancestral hall is a brother.” Guan Xueming, president of Shude Hall, said in an interview that establishing virtue is also the motto given to us by our ancestors. Regardless of the position, the amount of money and the amount of money, everyone has only one purpose to do practical things for the ancestral hall, and to contribute money and strength. “This is my biggest feeling as the president.”
Reconstruction work was proposed by Guan Luosheng’s brothers in 2005, and Guan Fangyuan and others invested more than 30,000 yuan to customize the golden lacquer plaques and couplets of the Guan Family Ancestral Hall, which began to condense the power of Shude Hall and entered the beginning of the reconstruction of the ancestral hall. From 2007 to 2008, the Council rebuilt the back seat of the ancestral hall with limited funds raised, took the first big step to restoring the ancestral hall. From 2014 to mid-2016, the Shude Cultural Council was established by President Guan Jianwen, and Babaylan carried out activities to protect Taigong Mountain. During this period, the construction of the front hall, roads and rear walls was launched to lay the foundation for the development of the ancestral hall, and the slogan “Gather the strength of our tribe and restore the glory of Shude Hall” was launched, and the work of repairing the ancestral hall was started.
The first Guan Shudetang World Clan Association was established in October 2017. Under the leadership of the president, the restoration work was carried out in full swing. Finally, it took more than two years to restore Shude Hall and build the Guandi Temple, which is two-in-one, with the magnificent Shude Hall and the solemn and magnificent Guandi Temple standing in front of the world.