Walk into the Yuanhua Chen Clan Ancestral Hall Yuantongfei Water Breeding villages

The Chen Ancestral Hall is a brick and stone structure, elegant and generous.

Wind volcanic wall of the Chen Ancestral Hall.

Chen's Ancestral Hall is located in Maoming City, Maonan District, Yuanhua Town Dalu Village Coconut Natural Village, was founded in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty Tianshun (1460), belongs to the ancient court style architecture, brick and wood stone structure, elegant and generous, has a history of 562 years, still maintain the Ming Dynasty court architectural style. Its exquisite sculptural art, exquisite stone pillars and beams, amazing underground drainage, the only remaining stone stele to remember, the historical merits of the revolution, are all of great historical and cultural relics value.

1. Chen Clan Ancestral Hall in Ming Dynasty architectural style

In the coconut village of Yuanhua Road, there is a provincial cultural relics protection unit covering an area of 1200 square meters "Chen Clan Ancestral Hall", in front of the temple there is a small square, there is an open space on the right side, and the coconut primary school in front of the left is the coconut primary school, so that the envoy is in a central position in the village, and it has also become a good place for villagers to chat leisurely. Recently, a reporter from the Maoming Evening News walked into the temple to feel its profound historical heritage.

It is understood that the Chen Ancestral Hall was built in a small area, and when it was rebuilt, it was expanded on the original basis, and was rebuilt twice in the ninth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty and the year of Jiashen in the Republic of China (1944), with an existing area of 1200 square meters. Villagers said that the building was preserved because it was used as a school from the Republic of China until 1994, and after the school was moved out in 1994, it was managed by the clan, and in recent years, some walls in the temple have been painted and termite control has been carried out.

The ancestral hall sits from east to west, rectangular, a three-entry structure, and the upper, middle and lower halls are interspersed with wooden screens, and they are usually separate. During the festival, the screen door is wide open, and the upper, middle and lower halls are integrated, which can accommodate nearly a thousand people to worship.

Stepping into the temple, the hall that first comes into view hangs a plaque of "Fengtian Commandment", showing the status of his ancestors at that time. According to reports, the central hall is a plaque pavilion, and there were many plaques hanging, but unfortunately it was destroyed in the middle of the last century, and only one plaque of "Fengtian Commandment" remains. The temple is built with twenty-four stone pillars and wooden frames, which support the roof as a major feature, and the exquisite art of architectural design is amazing. The reporter interviewed a number of villagers on the same day, and they all said that they could not imagine how the craftsmen of that year erected the stone pillars, nor did they know where these stone pillars came from.

On both sides of the ancestral hall are boxes, a total of eight large and small rooms and two warehouses, which are used for reading and homestay for returnees. According to the reporter's observation, the platforms of the two rooms on the left and right sides of the ancestral hall gate are obviously about 30 centimeters higher than the platform inside the ancestral hall, and there is an overhead under the room, and these two rooms were originally used as granaries. There are eight large and small patios, and the ancestral hall is well ventilated and light-permeable.

Inside and outside the ancestral hall, carved beams and paintings, beautiful and generous, two stone general pillars outside the door, there are wood carved lions, beautiful shape, lifelike. The screen doors and windows in the temple are carved with flowers, plants, birds and fish, vivid and vivid, and vivid. There are murals on the four walls of the pink wall, and the painted murals are clearly visible on the walls of the porch, and there are double dragon play bead diagrams, three Gu Maolu diagrams, and Ziyi zhushou diagrams.

2. Legends about the ancestral hall architecture

Villagers told reporters several legends about the ancestral hall. The first is about construction, it is said that there were 100 people working at the time of construction, and only 99 people were able to eat, one of whom was either a god or a fairy.

The second is that the underground drainage of the ancestral hall is also a miracle. Villagers said that no matter how much rain falls, the rain stops the water in the courtyard is dry, but there is always no way to find the outlet, some people have tried to use the chaff many times, when it rains, put the chaff in the patio, the chaff flows with the water, but look at the surrounding rivers and lakes are not found. This mystery has not yet been solved, which can be described as strange. According to the reporter's observation, the location of the ancestral hall is higher, it is reddish-brown sandstone, which is tens of centimeters higher than the left road, and the location of the "Coconut Elementary School" in front of the left was originally a pond. According to a villager, there are as many as thirty drainage ditches in the temple, and in such an environment, hundreds of square meters of rain collection in the temple will soon be emptied.

The third is the four characters of the banner book "Chen Clan Ancestral Hall" at the main entrance of the ancestral hall, which is strong and powerful. It is said that in those years, the four township scholars were invited to offer words, and they were spread on the ground, and a monk passed by and deliberately trampled on it. Everyone was annoyed, and the monk apologized, and the monk did not hesitate, picked up the straw shoes, dipped the ink book, and wrote it in one go, which amazed everyone, and the anger was completely gone, and when he wanted to thank him, the monk was gone. Whether it is true or not is unknown, but these four words look powerful and powerful, and the skill is very thick.

3. The couplet in front of the door can be traced back to the ancestral source

On both sides of the gate there is a pair of yanglian: "Source through the water, Tang Ju De Xing". From Lianzhong, we can trace the origin of the Chen clan branch of the village and learn about its construction function. According to the "Coconut Chen Family Tree", the ancestor of the local Chen clan, Dao Chonggong, the character Dongzhai, the number of civilization, originally from Putian, Fujian, was born as a jinshi, first served as the ling of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, and then ascended to Hainan Tongzhi Tongzhi dai and was awarded the title of "Fengzheng Dazheng", and his life was an official, clean and honest, talented and virtuous, and deeply loved by the people. The plaque "Fengtian Commandment" hanging in the Chen Ancestral Hall was specially given by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall was originally built by the grandsons of Dao Chong, who lived in The Town of Yuanhua, the brothers Guorui and Guomei, and later through the efforts of fourteen grandfathers, they accumulated thousands of tons of rent and flourished. The "Coconut Chen's Tasting Monument" preserved in the ancestral hall is recorded in detail. This monument is of great historical value, and there is a room in the ancestral hall dedicated to storage and preservation.

4. It has been breeding for hundreds of years, and many villages are branches of the clan

At the edge of the coconut village, the original river channel connects the flower ferry boat to the village edge, which is the home of fish and rice. The coconut Chen clan has been breeding for hundreds of years, all over the world, to the two guangdong, the reporter inspected and looked at some of the monuments of the temple and remembered that the nearby Beidou Village, Lychee Che Village, Pozai Village, Wenyun Village and other villages are branches from coconut villages into villages.

There are many portraits hanging in the temple, showing the development branch of his ancestors and the talents of the clan. According to records, Chen Xian, a prominent figure in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Dinggui during the Daoguang period, and Chen Pei, a famous anti-Japanese general and a student of the Whampoa Military Academy, were all coconut Chen people.

According to reports, the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall was the headquarters of the Maonan underground party base area in the early days of the Liberation War. Chen Xinji, Chen Qingtian, Chen Fengzhou, and Chen Zuoping, veteran revolutionary party members, in accordance with the instructions of the party committee at a higher level, coordinated with the People's Liberation Army to liberate the Yuanhua area and made contributions to the revolutionary cause.

From the Republic of China to 1994, the Chen Ancestral Hall lasted for half a century, as a place where locals teach and educate people, leaving a deep memory for generations of local people. On the same day, Chen Sheng, who is more than 50 years old, told reporters that his primary school and junior high school were all held in the Chen Ancestral Hall, which was the last junior high school run by the school. When they were young, the ancestral hall was a happy place for them to play, and they often climbed up to the roof with their friends to play. At present, the children have a new campus, and the ancestral hall has become a leisure place for the elderly.