A garlic ridge poem, a thousand-year-old post road
Walk to the Garlic Ridge Ancient Post Road
It is as if the door has been opened through the past and the present
Coming out of the long river of time
The deep bluestone pavement, the vicissitudes of the ancient wall
Secluded campus, Nanyang-style red brick buildings
......
Together, they travel through time
The ancient charm that stands in Garlic Ridge Village
With Lang Lang in the fresh air
It tells the sorrow of the homesickness of the people of Garlic Ridge
"More than 100 years of overseas Chinese history, generation after generation of overseas Chinese sages"
Located at the foot of Yuping Mountain at an altitude of 191.6 meters, Garlic Village, Xincuo Town, Fuqing City, is located at the junction of Fuqing and Putian cities, and is a famous overseas Chinese village in Fuqing City. According to the statistics of the previous year, the permanent population of Garlic Ridge Village is about 1,700 people, and about 16,000 people have gone overseas. In the development process of Garlic Village, the overseas Chinese community has become a force to be reckoned with.
Turning over the history of overseas Chinese in Garlic Ridge, it is a picture of history. According to the history that can be examined, the people of Garlic Ridge have lived overseas for more than 100 years. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of villagers in Garlic Village have gone abroad to make a living, which was also called "goban" at that time, and most of them went to Southeast Asia and other places to make a living.
Nowadays, the footprints of the people of Garlic Ridge have long been all over the world, and they inherit the blood genes of their ancestors who dare to dare to fight, and they go to distant places to develop and innovate without hesitation. Among them, there are many legendary and outstanding figures, such as Chen Jinhuang, a bridge builder at home and abroad, Chen Defa, a great philanthropist, Chen Zixing, a business wizard, and overseas Chinese sages such as Chen Desen, Chen Zihuang, and Chen Mingguang, who have used their diligence and wisdom to break out of the world in a foreign country and become well-known overseas Chinese entrepreneurs.
He has generously contributed to the development of his hometown and led his children and grandchildren back to his hometown many times...... Although they are far away from their homeland, they are difficult to give up their hometown, and the overseas Chinese in Garlic Ridge have practiced their attachment to their hometown and their enthusiasm for public welfare with practical actions, and have passed on the spirit of feeding their hometown from generation to generation, and have achieved a good story.
The school and office building donated by Garlic Ridge Qiaoxian
Standing bravely at the head of the tide relies on enthusiasm; The competition for romance comes more from the feelings of family and country flowing in the depths of the blood. While going abroad, many overseas Chinese sages in Garlic Ridge have always been concerned about their hometown, with a patriotic heart and a heart of love for their families, and contribute to the development of the motherland and their hometown.
"I want to change the appearance of mulberry and cultivate peach and plum flowers"
Aerial photography of Garlic Ridge Kindergarten and Lighting Stadium
"The influence of overseas Chinese capital on hometown is like air, it can be said to be everywhere." This is the voice of most people in Garlic Ridge. For as long as the villagers living here can remember, many fragments of memories about "overseas Chinese" have been deeply imprinted in their minds and lingered.
Schools, village committee buildings, village roads, stadiums, theaters, ...... To this day, we can still see the traces of overseas Chinese villagers helping to build their hometown in Garlic Ling Village.
Garlic Ridge Kindergarten (top left), Garlic Ridge Kiu Hing Secondary School (top right)
and Garlic Ridge Primary School (B)
Built in the 80s of the last century, Garlicling Qiaoxing Middle School, Garlic Ridge Primary School and Garlic Ridge Kindergarten were all built by the donation of overseas Chinese in Garlic Village. In the era of poor education, they took on the important task of infiltrating peach and plum, and gave birth to generations of garlic people.
On the left side of Garlic Ridge Kindergarten, a building with a sense of age is the Overseas Chinese Theater built in 1983. With an area of 1,180 square meters and 1,357 seats, it opened a cultural window for the people of Garlic Ridge at that time. The cultural center building and lighting stadium next to the cinema are also gifts from the overseas Chinese sages in Garlic Ridge to the people of their hometown. There are more than 1,000 seats in the lighting stadium, the top of the rostrum is warped and the eaves are heavy, and the poem engraved on the monument of the cultural center "I want to change the appearance of Sangzi, cultivate peach and plum flowers, and revitalize my China together" fully expresses the heart of overseas Chinese who love Sangzi.
Overseas Chinese Cinema Theatre (top) and Stadium of Light (bottom)
Nowadays, in combination with the construction of beautiful villages, the old primary school in the village has also been transformed into an overseas Chinese memory museum, which records the history of blood and tears, struggle and charity of overseas Chinese in Garlicling, and precipitates the historical memory of overseas travelers in a foreign country in the past hundred years.
"The ancient post road retains a different kind of nostalgia"
How far away home is, how strong the nostalgia is
In the long passage of time
Although the village of Garlic Ridge has undergone earth-shaking changes
But no matter how it changes
It still smells of nostalgia everywhere
The Garlic Ridge Ancient Post Road is the earliest witness of the village's connection to the outside world. This is an important part of the Fupuling Ancient Post Road, which is the passage from Putian to Fuzhou, the provincial capital, to Quanzhou and Xiamen. The important geographical location has gradually developed into an official road and a postal road for students to enter Beijing to take the exam.
For thousands of years, the ancient post road of Garlic Village has recorded the trajectory of people's lives, the wanderer leaves home from here, and also returns home from here, every stone here hides a story, engraved with the wanderer's endless hometown feelings, and brings prosperity and development in the ushering of the year after year.
In recent years, in order to better retain nostalgia, Garlic Village has built characteristic ancient streets and ancient post roads, so that this ancient post road that has been sleeping for thousands of years "shines again", and it is also a microcosm of Garlic Village in building a new countryside.
Wandering around this ancient street, what emerges in front of you are all old objects excavated and cleaned up: post road tethered horse stone, stone dangdang, yuan gem, dyeing cloth mill pressed cloth stone, Chen's family temple remnant monument...... Seeing these old objects, one can't help but feel that the years have passed.
The Wudang Courtyard, located at the north end of the ancient post road, also left the deeds of the overseas Chinese in Garlic Ridge who were enthusiastic about public welfare. Since 1980, overseas Chinese and Hong Kong compatriots in Indonesia have donated funds to renovate and renovate the house.
The ancient post road and Wudang Courtyard of Garlicling, which have gone through thousands of years of wind and frost, are not only cold ancient buildings, but also have greater significance in that they are the historical carrier of the story of the overseas Chinese village, which retains a different nostalgia for the overseas Chinese village, reflects the pulse of the social and cultural changes of the garlic village, and also connects the foreign feelings of the people of Garlicling at home and abroad.
Ancient streets and antiquities connect the past and the present
Make the nostalgia of the garlic wanderer send
The years are like silk, and the nostalgia is still the same
Traces of nostalgia planted over the years
will be transformed into eternal memories
Encourage the people of Garlic Ridge to continue to move forward
via Fuqing Overseas Chinese Federation