Historical allusions to the ancient village of Fengyuan, Conghua (II)

This article is the Feng Yuan Ancient Village's Lane and Ancestral Hall:

The Feng Yuan Ancient Village in Conghua has a rigorous planning, and there are more than ten north-south longitudinal lanes, each of which is self-contained, and there is no east-west transverse alleyway communication between them. From west to east, more than ten alleys were named and wind, Ningle Li, Pine Lane, Yuanlong Lane, Siyuan Lane, Fushou Lane, Taihe Lane, the old house of the first, on the horse stone, the center of the lane, and Ming Lane and Anfu Lane.

Among them, Heping Lane and Ningle Lane are located west of the gatehouse of Fengyuan Ancient Village, belonging to the ancient lane established at the beginning of the village in the end of the Song Dynasty (Ningle Lane was known as Ningle Township in the ancient times, and it was the name of a place in Conghua that existed in the Song Dynasty). Feng Yuan ancient village gatehouse east of the ten lanes, most of the village lanes built in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Historical records and villagers' oral narratives show that there were seven ancestral halls in Fengyuan Village, from the west to the east: Tianshi Gong Ancestral Hall, Yunlin Gong Ancestral Hall, Qiuyin Gong Ancestral Hall (which has disappeared now), Jing'en Gong Ancestral Hall (Kengyin Gong Ancestral Hall), Yunlu Gong Ancestral Hall, Yuezhu Gong Ancestral Hall, and Bohai Grand Ancestral Hall, making this the earliest and the most numerous ancestral halls among all the villages in Conghua.

Most of the ancestral halls in Fengyuan Village are of the official style, which were built for the Ouyang clan members who were successful in the imperial examinations and returned to their hometowns as officials. In the village, there is a scholar's tablet (located in Yuezhu Gong Ancestral Hall) and a pair of flagpole clamps (located in front of Yunlin Gong Ancestral Hall). According to villagers' memories, before and after the liberation, there were nearly ten pairs of flagpole clamps of various types of merit, which later disappeared one after another.

These shrines are three into the layout, the entrance for the granite steps, the eaves on the eaves of the shrine are wood carvings, wood pieces of wide, wood carvings fine and varied, especially the shrine building in the sealing of the eave on the carving of the characters of the story, such as the ancient theater scene is the most chic and the number of very much, a variety of Lingnan style painting carving in one fell swoop! Doorway engraved with the name of each ancestral hall, left and right for the ancestral hall itself a couplet. The first into the two sides of the compartments, over the patio, there are places for activities. The second into the center hall, is the year the clan held ceremonies and celebrations or deliberations gathering place. Hall temple, spacious courtyard, beams and carvings fine, a variety of wood carvings in the hall stone carvings lifelike, exquisite, for the wood carving boutique. Behind the three halls, it is the ancestral tablets enshrined by the relatives, which is the main place for all kinds of key ritual activities. The ceramic tile ridge on the roof of the various halls, both sides of the ao fish gray molding, both architectural symbols, but also the role of lightning.

Below we come to know more about the clan temples in the ancient village.

First, Bohai Grand Ancestral Hall: located in the Feng Yuan ancient village gatehouse east, near the location of the head of the banyan tree, is located between the and Ming Li (Lane) and Anfu Li (Lane), for the three into the official-like hysterical roof style ancestral hall, built in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Hongwu, more than six hundred years ago. This ancestral hall has always been the ancestral hall dedicated to the first to seventh ancestors of the village, and it is also the place where the Ouyang clan of Fengyuan Village held winter festivals in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the early years of the Republic of China. In the early 1970s, the ancestral hall was demolished in the first and second, and now only part of the third.

(a) Grand Ancestral Shrine Winter Festival: Every year at the winter solstice, in accordance with the rural custom of ancestral worship ceremony, all the old people who have reached the age of one, the Imperial Examination in the Chinese style of the merit of the nouveau riche, out of government officials to return to their hometowns of the township sages, Republic of China graduated from high school students and the township bail A long, are gathered in the Bohai Grand Ancestral Shrine. The winter festival is also one of the scenic occasions for the people to return to their hometowns. Lining up in order of generation and seniority, the newly graduated students or graduates officiate the ceremony and read out the rituals. Performing the great ritual of kneeling, **** raise a cup, all drink victory, a meal of food, more sumptuous than the New Year

? (B) Bohai Grand Ancestral Shrine Festival winter couplet:

Law should be yellow bells rhyme leaf phengge frequently play frame

Plum is white jade incense floats altar beans Dajiu xin

order Zhaomu in a hall Jizi staggered *** celebration of the Pearl Union

Sacrificed to the ancestors in the sub-years of the year Yong Yong Yong Su Su salty thought of the wood wood source of water

Second, the month of bamboo Gong Ancestral Shrine: is located in Bohai Grand Ancestral Shrine west, located in the center of the Lane and the Shangmashi (Li Lane) between three jinzhong and the stone ( Lane), for the three into the official sample hermitage-style ancestral hall, built in the Ming Dynasty (said to be built in 1396, the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu years, but then Yuezhu Gong was only 24 years old. The exact year of the construction of the shrine has yet to be verified). The shrine is dedicated to the eighth ancestor of the village, Mr. Yuezhu.

Ouyang Yukuang (欧阳瑀光), known as Zhonghui (仲辉), known as Yuezhu (月竹), and later known as Yuezhu Gong (月竹公), is said to have inscribed a horizontal plaque at the shrine to Yuezhu Gong (therefore, the actual construction of the shrine to Yuezhu Gong (月竹公), or certainly before the year of 1581, the year in which Li Minwang died). The Duke of Wolchuk (1372-1427) was fifty-six years old and had eight sons and three daughters. The eight sons were: Zu Canh (Shitian), Zu Kuang (I wonder if the traditional Chinese character for Day Juguang is "Kuang", Yuexi), Zu Chang (Songxuan), Zu Kui (Guyin), Zu Ming (Yi'an), Shanping (Songxi), Zu Xiu (Dongxi), and Shanchang (Bangu). The eldest daughter married Li Liang of Ma Village and the second daughter married Deng Yu of Deng Village.

Yuezhu Gong's grandson, Shitian Gong's grandson - Ouyang Jin, Ming Wanli bingxu year (1586), the first bachelor's degree, the first Fujian Putian County magistrate, the official to the Da Lisi assessor, once served as Minister of Qin accompanied the Empress to the South China Sea Temple to pay homage to the gods. Yuezhugong Ancestral Hall still has a Ouyang Jinzhi scholar's tablet.

Ouyang Xun, Ouyang Jin's brother, also for the moon bamboo Gong's grandson, Shi Tian Gong's grandson. Ming Longqing ji Si years, complementary Eup Zhusheng, selected into the Imperial College, 1569 Gongjiu, gloss bookkeeper, Nanchang House experience (in charge of the paperwork).

Third, Yunlu Ancestral Hall: located in the west of Yuezhu Ancestral Hall, located in the upper horse stone (Lane) and the old house between the first (Lane), for the three into the official-like hermitage style Ancestral Hall, built in the Ming Dynasty, the Ancestral Hall is mainly dedicated to the village of the eighth ancestor of the Yunlu Gong, is now the main place for the Feng Yuan Village, Chinese wedding banquets, feasts, such as the honoring of the elderly. The square in front of the ancestral hall is also the place where the folk activities of throwing colorful doors in the Spring Festival of Fengyuan Village are held.

Ouyang Won Kwong, No. Yunlu, the word Rihui, later known as Yunlu Gong. This Gong (1362-1428), aged 67 years old, had seven sons: Zu Hao, Zu Heng, Zu Zhi, Zu Chang, Zu Qian, Zu Xin, Zu and. Ouyang Zuo, the grandson of Yunlu Gong and the third son of Zuxin, was graduated in 1465, and served as the same governor of Binzhou (the fifth grade), and was later transferred to the experience of Guangxi's Chinese army and the experience of the capital division (the experience of being in charge of the paperwork). Therefore, the real construction time of Yunlu Ancestral Hall may be around 1465. Republic of China celebrity, Ouyang Lei (1892-1967), who was the governor of Conghua County, is also a direct descendant of Yunlu Gong.

In front of Yunlu Gong Ancestral Hall, several pairs of flagpole clips representing high school merit were built. At present, the ancestral hall is also inlaid with a monument of the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi seven years (1868) to rebuild the ancestral hall.

Fourth, Jing En Gong Ancestral Hall (Keng Yin Gong Ancestral Hall): located in the west of Yunlu Gong Ancestral Hall, located in the old house between the first (Lane) and Taihe Lane (Lane), for the three official sample hysterical roof type ancestral hall, built in the Ming Dynasty (the year of the construction of the ancestral hall is yet to be proved). This ancestral hall is mainly dedicated to the ninth ancestor of the village, Mr. Keng Yin, and was originally the Keng Yin Ancestral Hall, which was renamed as the Jing En Ancestral Hall in later times. The shrine is in a state of disrepair, badly damaged, with stone pillars and walls tilted.

Ouyang Zuxin, No. Keng Yin, the son of Yunlu Gong, also for the Ming Chenghua Youyi year lifts Ouyang Zuo's father. Therefore, the real construction time of the Jing'en Gong Ancestral Hall or in about 1465.

Fifth, Yunlin Ancestral Hall: located in the west of Jingen Ancestral Hall, between Pine Lane (Lane) and Yuanlong Lane (Lane), closest to the Feng Yuan ancient village gatehouse. For three into the official-like hermitage-style ancestral hall, built in the Ming Dynasty (the year of building ancestral hall is yet to be proved), the door still remains a pair of flagpole clip. The ancestral hall is mainly dedicated to the village's eighth ancestor Yunlin Gong. Yunlin Ancestral Hall is about 80 meters long and 30 meters wide, with a total area of about 2,268 square meters, which is a rare large ancestral hall in Guangzhou, and also the largest ancestral hall in Conghua. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even before and after the liberation, the ancestral hall was mostly used as a village private school as well as a school.

Ouyang Ruiguang, known as Yunlin, was later called Yunlin Gong. Yunlin Gong (1366-1440), aged seventy-five years old, gave birth to seven sons, survived five sons: Zu Shun, Zu Shen, Zu Hou, Zu Ju, Zu Hua (Zuji, Zugao, the two sons died prematurely). Another daughter, married Mazhantian Li Hong.

Ouyang Duo, Ouyang Hui father and son. Ouyang Hui is the son of Ouyang décor, Ming Wanli gengzi Jingkui, that is, in 1600 lifts, Linhe County, Mew Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Affairs, Xianghe County, South genealogy records, Ouyang Jing Jinyiwei governor (Linhe County, renamed Hexian, ruled in the town of Hejie in today's Hezhou City, Guangxi). He was awarded the title of Dasikou, and was sentenced to the Shrine of Loyalty and Righteousness. Ouyang Ducheng was the fifth son of Yunlin Gong, after the ninth ancestor Ouyang Zuhua (No. Dongxuan). Ming Longqing gengwu Dengxianshu visit (Township Recommendation, visit the election), said he had been a 1570 graduate, return to the county oracle, Nanking County, to the son (Ouyang Hui) meritorious, enjoined to advance to the rank of Chengde Lang (positive seven treatment).

In summary, Yunlin Gong Ancestral Hall construction date is likely to be around 1570 or 1600.

Sixth, Shi Tian Gong Ancestral Hall: located in the Yunlin Gong Ancestral Hall and Feng Yuan ancient village gatehouse west, and between the wind Li (Lane) and Ning Le Li (Lane). For the two ancestral halls, built in the Ming Dynasty (the year of building ancestral halls is still to be proved). The shrine is mainly dedicated to the ninth ancestor, Mr. Shitian.

Ouyang Zu Canh (Shitian) was the eldest son of the eighth ancestor, Yuezhu Gong Ouyang Yuguang, and his dates of birth and death are not known, between about 1390 and 1460. Ouyang Jin (1586), a scholar of the Ming dynasty, and Ouyang Xun (1569), an honorary scholar of the Ming dynasty, were both grandsons of Mr. Shitian.

Over the long years, the ancient village of Fengyuan, relying on gate buildings, alley buildings and ancestral hall buildings, gradually formed the richest village couplet culture in Conghua. We will tell you about it one after another.