The Zhu Chong Zhu Ancestral Hall in Dayang Village, Fanyang Town, Fanchang County, Anhui Province, was named "Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit", and on the day of the Qingming Festival in 2018, the Zhu Clan people gathered at the Ancestral Hall to inaugurate the "Municipal Protection Unit".
Zhu Chong Zhu Ancestral Hall was built in 1813, after the war, erosion of the years, several renovations and reconstructions. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, especially after the Anhui Incident, it served as a temporary garrison for the Fanchang County CPC Committee and the Anhui Southern Special Committee, and made tremendous contributions to the development and growth of the New Fourth Army and the guerrillas. After liberation, it was used as a peasant literacy school and a production team house.
In recent years, the County Cultural Relics Bureau, Fanyang Town and the descendants of the Zhu clan have raised funds from various sources to restore and maintain the ancestral hall many times, in view of the historical value of the building and the cultural relics value of the ancient houses. In 2011, it was awarded the county-level cultural relics protection unit. In November 2017, it was awarded the municipal cultural relics protection unit.
First, the Ziyang Hall with a long history
Located at the foot of Honghua Mountain, Zhu Chong, Dayang Village, Fanyang Town, has a Zhu ancestral hall with more than 100 years old. Green mountains and bamboo, beautiful trees, on the winding cement path, looking up to see the majestic Red Flower Mountain, most of the houses on the roadside have been demolished. According to locals, the geological disasters here are more serious, some have moved to the town, and some have moved to the county.
Ancestral hall, as the name suggests, is the place where the clans worship their ancestors together - the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall has gone through the vicissitudes of wind and rain, and the baptism of time has become a historical and cultural relic. Ancestral halls are an important carrier of China's folk culture, and for modern people, they still have a sense of mystery: for relevant scholars, they are full of various precious folk culture research elements.
Zhu's Ziyang Hall traces its roots back to the first ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Zhen, inheriting the southern Song Dynasty Zhu Xi's lineage. This branch of the Zhu clan belonged to the original Huizhou Wuyuan origin, later moved to Jing County, in 1565 came to Fanchang, so they were in the multi-mao forest to repair bamboo, they relied on the "rice paper" technology to survive. When I asked about the previous paper tools are still there? Zhu's descendants said: "Unfortunately, I don't know what reason the papermaking technology was not preserved, perhaps the raw materials for papermaking were not enough, so the "transformation and development" was made, and the tools for papermaking were naturally gone. At that time, Hu Gong established a family here alone, for hundreds of years, the branches flourished, the number of people flourished, and increased year by year, and later it was branched out by the Zhu family of Huangdun in Huizhou, and the Zhu family built the "Ziyang Hall" here, so it was called the Zhu Chong Zhu Clan Ancestral Hall of the Red Flower Mountain. In 1522, the 17th Sun Weicheng Duke of the Xin'an Clan moved to Jingyi, in 1565 the 19th Grandson of the Duke of The Ancient Staff moved to Fanyang, in 1813 AD, in the midwinter of the Qing Jia Qing Nongshen Year, the ancestors first advocated the revision of the genealogy, with the 19th Ancestor of the Xin'an Clan as the first ancestor of the Fanyang Clan Of The Red Flower Mountain, and the ziyang prototype of the ancestral shrine was founded. The original site is in Maba Township ( former administrative division ) , Fanchang County , the Dianmen village group of Dayang Village. Until more than 1914, the ancestral hall has been repaired many times, has long been damaged, the ancestors discussed rebuilding, but when the repair, early up to find a large white tiger lying on the ancestral beam, when the clan regarded it as an ominous omen, so they moved the ancestral hall to the current site zhu chong. In 1915, the construction and repair of the fourth quarter of the Republic of China was completed, and the inscription on the ancestral beam was proved. Nowadays, the beams and pillars of the ancestral hall are written with several large characters of "the Republic of China built the ancestral hall in three years", which has shown that the "Ziyang Hall" has been built more than 100 years ago, which belongs to the "ancient architectural cultural heritage", and has now been listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Fanchang County and the municipal level. For the protection of cultural relics, the descendants of the Zhu clan frankly said that the responsibility is heavy, and after the "Ziyang Hall" is repaired and improved in the future, the Zhu Ancestral Hall will be an important tourist attraction in Honghua Mountain, which greatly enriches the connotation of the tourist attractions of Honghua Mountain. I hope that all tourists will come to visit and learn, understand ancient buildings, protect ancient buildings, and better inherit the red culture, at present, the Chu Ancestral Hall is undergoing renovation work, and it is expected to be completed before the Qingming Dynasty.
When I went that day, it was already evening, the sunset was shining, and the ancestral hall under the afterglow seemed to be an old general who had experienced a hundred years of wind and rain but still stood proudly, I touched a brick and a tile, a wood and a stone, and felt the essence of our Chinese national culture. The ancestral hall is the light that unites the soul of the family, and it is also the spiritual light that inspires the children and grandchildren to be indomitable, tenacious and hardworking, innovative and dedicated. To protect ancient buildings is to protect our own culture, to continue the tradition and to continue the past, and to show the glory of the ancestral wisdom crystallization and heritage culture for future generations.
Second, the genealogy of the family in the same vein
Family tree, also known as family tree, family tree, family tree, etc., it is a special book genre that records the reproduction of a family lineage and the deeds of important people with the theme of blood relations in the form of table genealogy, and is also the main material for recording and carrying the history of clan development. At the same time, genealogy is a unique cultural heritage of China, which has a long history in the Han nationality, and later gradually began to appear among various ethnic groups in the process of ethnic integration. Genealogy is one of the three major documents of the Chinese nation, national history, geographical history, and genealogy, which belongs to precious humanistic materials and has irreplaceable documentary value for the study of history, folklore, demography, sociology and economics. In the wave of China's Four Olds movement in the 1960s, the family tree was cleaned up and damaged as the Four Olds, "thousands" of family trees were destroyed, and many Chinese had to self-destruct the family trees that had been treasured for generations, which caused irreparable damage to the study of the humanistic history of Chinese. However, regarding the origin of the family tree, although there are currently different opinions in the academic community, there is still no conclusive conclusion.
When talking about family trees, Zhu's descendants showed me some of his handwritten family trees, and he calculated: "From the first generation of the Tang Dynasty Xin'an dynasty to me, I have been thirty-three generations."
The content of the family tree mainly includes three parts: the first part is the genealogy chart, that is, the record of a person's lineage, which belongs to the He Dynasty, and whose father is who: The second part is the body of the family tree, which is compiled according to the order of each person listed in the lineage chart, and introduces the personal font size, father' name, line order, era, official, knighthood, age, death date, nickname, marriage match, etc. These introductory texts, the elder is more than 50 words, the short one is only two or three words, in fact, it is a biography of the character: the third part is an appendix, some family trees, in the genealogy, the family lineage name is determined the generation sequence, and the font size is calibrated in advance, the generation is clear, and the name between them is called "row generation", which is actually the meaning of the seniority theory. Due to the patriarchal mentality formed in history, when a man gives a "big name", he must use a predetermined word as part of the name. This word should be placed in the middle or at the end of the three words of the full name, and the number of generations is completely different. But there are conventions. All in all, clan culture is an important part of Chinese culture. A clan is a kinship group or social group organization based on blood relations and composed of family factions.
3. The revolutionary base area of red culture
The elderly man said, "This is not only the ancestral hall, but also the revolutionary base area of Honghua Mountain." The old man lit a cigarette and continued, "When there was a war in the past, they held a meeting here, after the meeting, they continued to prepare ammunition for the battle in the mountains, at that time, the ground that had just rained stepped on a footprint, but they were afraid of being discovered by others in this base area, there was no way, they had to turn the straw shoes upside down and wear them up the mountain, others saw the footprints and thought it was going down the mountain, hahaha!" The old man was smiling and proud of the wit of the anti-war soldiers.
It is understood that from December 1938 to April 1939, Tan Zhenlin, deputy commander of the three detachments of the New Fourth Army, led his troops to Fanchang and other places to resist Japan, and the headquarters was stationed in the Chisha County CPC Committee, which was under the leadership of the three detachments.
In September 1944, the CPC Nanfanwu County Committee was established. The organs of the county party committee have successively been located in Zhuchong (ancestral halls and residences) in the Honghua Mountainous Area, Luojiachong, Xiejia Village, and other places in the Red Sand Beach, which are under the leadership of the CPC's southern Anhui region, and the county party secretaries have successively included Chen Yunfei and Jin Wenping. There are departments of organization, propaganda, military, women, etc. The main activities of the county party committee are to establish anti-Japanese base areas and lead the masses in the anti-Japanese struggle.
postscript:
The ancestral hall is not only a hard symbol of the family system, but also the spiritual core of a clan and the spiritual home of the clan. The main function of the ancestral hall is to worship the ancestors or remember the ancestors, and the worship of the ancestors or the remembrance of the ancestors is actually to strengthen people do not forget the fundamentals, return the fundamentals of a means of education, which makes people "filial piety" the current generation "feed back" the generation. As a symbol of a holy place of the clan, although there have also been certain feudal clan rights ideas and feudal superstitious ideas, which cannot keep pace with the times, it affects the hearts of every wanderer. When Akako, who had lived overseas, returned to her hometown, her first thing was to go to the ancestral hall to inform the clan that she had returned safely. In this sense, the ancestral hall has an irreplaceable bridge role in maintaining blood and kinship at home and abroad and strengthening the ties between overseas villagers and the motherland, so it can also be said that the ancestral hall is also a link of the "root" of the Chinese nation.
In a nutshell, the ancestral hall is the center of a clan, symbolizing the ancestors and symbolizing the unity of the clan. Inheriting the history of ancestral civilization, blood relations extend from generation to generation. The remembrance and mourning of ancestors is necessary, of course, it is also extremely important, and the construction of a harmonious society is inseparable from the revival of ancestral hall culture, which should be vigorously promoted.
The ancestral hall is a magnificent building in the village, a display of money and wealth, a symbol of authority and status, a spiritual sustenance of the clan, the return of the soul and humanity, the inheritance, revitalization and promotion of the ancestral hall culture, which is of great significance to the memory of ancestors and is the unshirkable responsibility of everyone!
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Photo: According to Fanchang TV Station, Fanchang Forum, clan information collation
Editor: Zhu Liangquan