Xuzhai Village is 20 kilometers away from Dongyang, located in the southwest of Dongyang, and is now part of Huashui Town. Xuzhai administrative village is composed of five natural villages of Xinting, Jiudian, Shangzhai, Tangli and Wangjinshan, and the entire administrative village is named after the surname (Xuzhai and Xindian villages marked by the Duxiang Map of Dongyang County in the 30th year of the Republic of China), the Xu surname accounts for 72% of the entire population, and the other 20 surnames such as Li, Wang, Guo, Hu and Jin have always lived in harmony. As of 2013, the village has 1609 households and more than 4050 people; among the five villages, the new hall is the largest, with 556 households and 1502 people, accounting for 60.8% of the total population of the administrative village.
During the Song Xiangfu period (1008-1016), Xu Wu, a descendant of the Xu ethnic group, moved to Zhaorenli (Meidan Changdian Mountain) in Huaide Township, and multiplied the Fa clan, divided into eleven villages of Upper House and Lower House, with a radius of about four square kilometers, and the population of Xu surnamed Xu accounted for one-third of the western part of The Painting Water Town.
Xu Zhai ancient residence
Shōjin Hsu Ancestral Hall
Zhaoren Xu Clan Ancestral Hall is located in Xuzhaitangli Natural Village, sitting north and facing south, the terrain is low in front of and high in front. The whole building is divided into five entrances, the gatehouse, the front hall, the middle hall, the back hall, the side hall and multiple patios, covering an area of ten acres. In the fourth year of Song Xuanhe (1122), the local government was built to commemorate the death of Xu Qiong, the fifth ancestor of the Xu clan, in 1121. The descendants of the Xu clan honored him as the "Ancestral Hall Taigong". In 1340, it was expanded into the "Xu Family Temple". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, led by The Bingbu Shangshu Xu Honggang, his brother Xu Hongji, and the Eight Min General Xian Xu Dadao, it was expanded into a larger "Zhaoren Xu Clan Ancestral Hall". The temple has been used for more than 890 years.
The architectural structure of the Akihito Hsu Ancestral Hall is a palace-style layout, the structure is very compact and reasonable, the box room is equipped with complete coordination, and the overall image is magnificent and magnificent. The figure-of-eight façade has a pair of stone drums. On both sides of the ancestral hall are six flagpoles about 2.4 meters high, and at the upper end are banners marked "Xufu Junci". The front hall, middle hall and rear hall of the ancestral hall are all three-bay rooms, seven front and rear porches, Mingjian Tailiang type, secondary piercing bucket type, column head roll strip, milled ballast, flat beam back hanging column. The three halls are made of stone columns with a diameter of 30-40 cm, and the side columns are built of fired brick imitation wood. In front of the ancestral hall, there are two large locust trees with a diameter of about one meter, with lush branches. In front of the locust tree, there are three ponds in the shape of a pin, and the road from Huangtianfa to Yiwu Buddhist Hall runs in a zigzag shape, forming a pattern of "DangChao Yipin".
Shide Hall
The old hall Shide Hall was built in the middle and early Ming Dynasty, more than 600 years ago. The entire building is divided into three halls: the lower hall, the middle hall and the rear hall. Two patios in the middle and a gated hall in front. In front of the gate hall, there is a pond with an area of nearly 3 acres. The structure of the hall is a brick and wood structure, and the overall image is magnificent and generous. Above the nave hangs a large plaque of "Shide Streamer".
Xu's descendants have carried out repairs several times, so that the lower and middle halls still maintain their original appearance. In April 2004, it was listed as a dongyang municipal cultural relics protection site.
HikariDo
The new hall Guangyu Hall was built during the Ming Dynasty orthodoxy to Jingtai period. According to legend, in the case of the old hall Shide Hall, Mrs. Painted Mountain cleverly tried to use her father's business office to cash in two and then build a new hall, Guangyu Hall. Therefore, there are old halls and new halls. The meaning of the "Shide Streamer" plaque of Shide Hall is "Shide Hall" flowing down "Guangyu Hall".
Guangyu Hall sits in the north and south five bays, front and back for the gatehouse, gate hall, hall, through the hall, east and west with box rooms, the structure is brick and wood structure. Although Guangyutang does not have carved beams and paintings, and does not have exquisitely carved ox legs, it is also simple and generous, without losing its grandeur. The box house is built with a horse's head wall to show the rank and status of the owner of the house. The gate hall is square, with an area of about 400 square meters, all paved with cobblestones, and there is a bagua diagram with a diameter of nearly five meters in the middle, which holds people's good wishes to drive away evil and avoid evil, although it has gone through all the vicissitudes, its pattern is still clearly and completely preserved.
Hoji Temple (Gionji Temple)
Faji Temple, fifteen miles southwest of the county, commonly known as "Gion Temple", was built in three years by Liang Kaiping. Apocalypse ugly reconstruction. Xu Honggang recorded that "there are monks and sea associations, old Nayun Mountain Force as patronage, but donated a number of money, still set up a book to recruit people" Yun. According to the investigation, the original site of Gion Temple is in the White Elephant Pagoda. In the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty (1625), it was raised by Theobu Shoshu Xu Honggang to relocate to the foot of the mountain for reconstruction. In the southwest corner of the temple, there is a "dragon maple" with a height of 30 meters and a chest diameter of 160 centimeters, which is regarded as a god. There is a clear spring next to the tree, which flows endlessly all year round. There is a pavilion on the west side of the temple, and inside is a stone stele with the inscription "Gion Shengjing" by Yan Keats, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Octagonal well
The octagonal well is located in the northwest corner of the lower lake of the storage pond in the east of the new hall "Guangyu Hall" of Xu Zhai, and is also said to have been built by the wife of the painting mountain. In addition to mobilizing her clan to excavate the Gate Pond, the Storage Pond, the Lake, and the River for the Tribesmen to wash and irrigate, she also dug a lower-bottom square and upper octagonal drinking water well in the northwest corner of the lower lake of the Storage Pond on the east side of "Guangyutang", taking the meaning of "eight parties come to the wealth, inexhaustible". The well water is crystal clear, sweet and fragrant, and is the source of water for the whole people. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, Xu Huxi, a clan member, paid for the expansion of the octagonal well to the west, and made two steps in the north and south of the well, making it more convenient for the clan to get water.
Ancient camphor
One of the characteristics of Xuzhai Xinting Natural Village is that there are many ponds and camphor trees. There are six ancient camphor trees that are more than 500 years old in the village, which are named "ancient trees and famous trees" by the municipal forestry department.