The head of the village
Wu Daoke Yang Yuan
Located in the country's second largest Miao Zhai yi yi zhai head thousands of households behind the miao zhai mountain halfway up the mountain is a well-known Miao township, full of cultural connotations of the ancient temple, from the residents of the place of oral transmission and social scholars research data learned that the temple was built in the thirteenth year of the Ming Orthodoxy, that is, 1448, is the Zhaitou ancestors fled to settle in the Zhaitou relocation, the local population said, the Zhaitou ancestors originally lived in a place called Wushan in the old forest more than ten miles away from this, when people sunrise and sunset, living a leisurely pastoral life, but after the feudal establishment, Qiongshui Fifteen Villages and Nine Shares of Miao Barbarian Governor Hengzheng violently disrupted the tranquility of this place, a total of twelve rooms also Wushan Miao compatriots under the unified order of the village elders repeatedly rebelled against the exploitation of the official government, the Ming army in the commander's division repeatedly attacked but could not attack for a long time, successively in the orthodox and Jingtai years of investigation, and then through the treachery to know the Lusheng summoning code, one day, the details of the blowing of the discussion of the Lusheng number, the people of the various houses gathered to Lushengping, the people arrived almost, the officers and soldiers around the ambush rushed to the battlefield, a burst of knives and axes, the Miao blood stained the White Water River, Only a small number of them rushed out of the siege, they fled to Zhaitou and other places with the statue of Xuanyou to hide, the war calmed down the Ming army and withdrew, the remnants of the Twelve Fangs were reunited in Zhaitou after thousands of hardships, and the new Twelve Fangtou people saw that the terrain of Zhaitou was dangerous, easy to defend, difficult to attack, suitable for production and life, so they settled here.
Just came from the war, people's main energy for livelihood to survive, many spiritual religious activities are too late to cook, at this time the first to arrive at the zhaitou is also Yang surnamed a room head yang Baoye and other Miao compatriots ploughing and farming, he to the village for many years, with his wife kind and loving, unfortunately the husband and wife for many years have not given birth to a man and a half-woman, daytime labor is not tight, every night and leisure season to think of the successor is sullen and worried, day and night there are dreams, one night Yang Baoye made a dream, the dream came to a fairy, The immortal stared at Yang Baoye: "Bitter child, you have been married for many years, you go to the back of the mountain halfway up the mountain to build a temple, bring the statue of the clams brought from the Foggy Mountain, remember to pay homage to him every New Year's Festival, you do it quickly, in less than a year your family will be happy." Paula told this dream to his wife, the wife did not say anything and went to the wizard to see the incense, the witch pondered for a moment: "You want to have children and have children, only Xuanyu can bless you, the temple offering will definitely eliminate disasters and reduce disasters and seek children", so coincidentally the husband and wife immediately took action, the second year after the construction of the temple, Paula and his wife got a son, the whole family was safe and sound, and then added four men and two women a total of seven children Ding gradually prospered, the altar mouth could not seal the population, good things were passed on to the temple of Xuan you, and everyone rushed to go to the temple to sacrifice. The population of Zhaitou gradually eased up from the Ming army's slaughter, and the temple became a custom that continues to this day.
According to Kao, the temple was initially only the size of square meters, the facilities are also very simple, to the early 1990s, the local Miao people spontaneously donated money and materials to expand, in 2014 the county Civil Sect Bureau invested 400,000 yuan to repair the two-meter-wide, one-hundred-and-fifty-meter-long Xuanyou Trail, in 2015 the county invested 590,000 yuan in the construction of the temple to expand the temple, now the temple covers an area of nearly 40 square meters, the temple has a place of worship, there are worship platforms, there are statues, a large wooden drum, a large bronze bell, a pair of buffalo horns, and a priceless treasure scripture. And thus become a county-level cultural relics protection unit. Temple master Xuan You, is a legendary figure in history, according to legend, in the era of the tribal alliance, he was the leader of the cattle totem and bird totem clans, ben belonged to the same tribe as the Yan Emperor, because of the internal disputes within the tribe, he left the Yan Emperor to develop on his own, one day Xuan You dreamed that the heavens wanted him to fight against the Yan Emperor, so he led the people to fight with the Yan Emperor, the Yan Emperor did not unite with the Yellow Emperor to form the Yan Huang Alliance, the people were many powerful, and the deer were defeated in the first battle, and they had to take the Jiuli ethnic group to move east and west to disperse all over the land of China, and some of them also traveled a long way in the long river of later history.
Although Xuan you was defeated, he led the Jiuli nation to expand the homeland of the Chinese nation's survival, and he himself became one of the three ancestors of China, not only that, the temple dedicated to him in the Miao residential area of the country has become a unique cultural feature, and the Xuan you temple in Zhaitou, in addition to the ancestor worship that is, the sacrifice of Xuan You, is also stained with a strong reproductive worship color because of the function of "sending children and guanyin" that has both children and children!
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