Chongshi Village, named after the mountain stone, is famous for the Pu Clan Ancestral Hall
Jiumu Sanhui Town Heavy Stone Village, want to see the real face. Chen Ke, president of the Quxian Folk Culture Association, learned of this and sincerely invited him, when the author and Li Yong drove there, Chen Ke disregarded his advanced age and came from Qucheng with his wife to meet in Chongshi Village.
Chongshi Village is 32 kilometers away from Quxian County, 4 kilometers away from Sanhui Town, covers an area of 4.8 square kilometers, 2970 people, because of the mountain stone heavy stone village name, because of the Pu ancestral hall and famous in the world. Heavy stones, Pu Clan Ancestral Hall and stone masts form a heavy stone village with strong ancient charm. In 2014, Chongshi Village was listed as the second batch of traditional villages in Sichuan Province.
Chongshi Village is located in the hometown of traditional Chinese culture and art
Chongshi Village is located in Sanhui Town, the hometown of traditional Chinese culture and art, where there is a strong regional culture and traditional culture, and it is influenced and infected by these cultures, and the culture of Chongshi Village has been achieved.
Sanhui Town was built in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, known as Little Chongqing, because the Ba River and the Zhou River converge and flow into the Qu River. The special geographical location has produced a unique local culture: Sanhui Caiting, Sanhui Dry Boat, Sanhui Sichuan Opera, Lifting The Master, Qujiang Trumpet, as well as food culture, Sanhui Special Vinegar, Sanhui Water Eight Blocks, etc., lion dances, storytelling, stilts and other cultural performances compete here.
Sanhui Caiting is the most famous. Every year from march 16th to 18th of the lunar calendar, Sanhui people hold a grand color pavilion in accordance with local traditional customs, on a platform of about 4 square meters, erect an iron pole, the pole support stretches horizontally and obliquely, and the characters and plots extracted from drama or life are layered on 3 to 5 floors, 8 to 10 meters high, several children perform at the top of it, and 8 porters carry the pavilion along the street. Sanhui Caiting originated from the acrobatic of searching for high poles in the Qin and Han hundred plays, and went through the development and evolution of the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and the Qing Dynasty entered its heyday. Sanhui Caiting integrates ironwork, carpentry, embroidery and sewing in one, brings together culture, painting, carving, mechanics in one furnace, comprehensive use of folk literature, drama, acrobatics, dance, art, sculpture, architecture and other arts, has a deep cultural heritage, rich folk connotation and a broad mass base, is the treasure of folk art in eastern Sichuan, and became a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
At that time, Sanhui was a lively water pier, and on the eve of the ship's voyage, the crew had to pray to the Sea God King for the safe return of their families. The crew members in accordance with the process of making the boat, to create an authentic wooden boat, the boat hanging flags, often used Lin Zexu, Zheng Chenggong and other heroes to do artistic modeling, with fiber rope to tie the boat, many people on the street to pull the boat, the captain imitated different beach areas, different waterways, shouting a variety of qujiang trumpets. The pomp and circumstance of the performance of the dry boat is very powerful, as many as a hundred people, majestic, huge scale, the performance is very exciting, can attract tens of thousands of people to come to watch. As a result, a unique folk culture and art has been produced - the Sanhui Dry Boat.
Sanhui special vinegar is one of the top ten famous vinegars in the country, starting from the end of the Ming Dynasty, with exquisite materials and unique craftsmanship, it has won the title of high-quality products of the Ministry of Commerce and Sichuan Province for three consecutive years, and has won the title of Sichuan famous brand for five consecutive years, and Sanhui brand fruit vinegar has also won the national major science and technology award, which is exported to home and abroad.
Built during the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Wenfeng Pagoda is a pagoda located on the west bank of the Qujiang River, 1.5 kilometers south of Sanhui Town. The original intention of building the tower is to show education, so the name of Wenfeng Pagoda, the tower height of 53 meters, 13 floors, hexahedral, the base of the tower and the bottom floor with stone building, each side of the length of 4.4 meters, thickness of 0.9 meters, face the canal river and build a round arch, height of 2.9 meters, arch height of 1 meter, tower eaves stone chisel, hexagonal angle, 2 to 13 floors built of brick, each side has rectangular lookout hole finished products, the top of the tower hanging copper bell four. The top eaves of the tower flying angle, the brass bell hanging high, the wind ringing, crisp and melodious. The inner floor of the tower has a circumference of 19.8 meters, 6 stone tablets on the ground floor, carved pagoda sequences and the names of the devotees, and four pottery and wood carved Buddha statues on the upper floors, and each floor has a viewing window. Wenfeng Pagoda is painted milky white, also known as the White Pagoda, and is a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Pu's Ancestral Hall, Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit
The Pu Ancestral Hall of the second group of Chongshi Village is a closed wooden structure built by the descendants of the Pu clan to commemorate the ancestors of the Pu clan, The teacher of Emperor Shun, Pu Yizhi, and the ancestor of the Pu clan of the Jinqu Pu clan, Pu Xuan (Ze).
According to the inscription in the Pu Ancestral Hall, after the two sons of the ancestor Pu Xuanzhi, Pu Tao and Pu Qian, settled in PutaoBa, due to the low-lying terrain, the descendants moved to Pujiagou (now the upstream village of Tuxi Town) behind the dam, and built the Pu Clan Ancestral Hall in the sixteenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1751), which was later destroyed by fire. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, the Pu clan raised funds to decide to rebuild the ancestral hall, when choosing the site, pay attention to the terrain, pay attention to the layout, behind is the heavy stone mountain, there is a small river in front of the ancestral hall, called the Pedal River, the river is like a jade belt, there is a square pond in the middle of the river, full of water all year round, just like a printing box. The jade belt and the seal box are the symbols of the hundred officials of the wen and martial arts. The left head is the green dragon's mouth, the right head is the lion's head, the green dragon and the lion look up at the temple, there is a paddy field on the right side of the main hall of the temple, called Caizitian, when the lotus blossoms on auspicious days, it is said to be the treasure land of the dragon. Directly in front of the Qu River, on the other side of the Canal River is Pu Xuanzhi's Ceremonial Mountain (Sanjiao Temple) against the Mongol army, which is connected to the ruins of Chengba, the capital of the ancient State of Lai.
Pu Guangxi, executive president of the Pushi Cultural Research Association of Quxian County, introduced that the Pushi Ancestral Hall is in the courtyard of the three-into-four courtyard, southeast-facing, consisting of four halls and four dams (four halls from the outside to the inside, which are the first-floor hall (theater building), the two-story hall (Dishi hall), the three-story hall (Wenchang hall) and the four halls (the main hall), the four dams are the outer dam, the Dishitang dam, the Wenchangdian dam and the main hall dam), the stone mast, the stone lion and the left and right wing rooms, covering an area of 2200 square meters, piercing structure, hanging mountain top, small green tile roof. Above the main hall hangs portraits of Emperor Shun and Pu Xuanzhi, and below the portraits are enshrined tablets of the ancestors of the Pu clan. Above the Emperor's Hall hangs a 4-meter-long and 2-meter-wide plaque, in which three large characters of the Emperor's Hall are written in gold powder, and the wooden pillars on both sides are inscribed with the Yin Lian: "As the emperor's master, my ancestor Yu Ting is a model; for Wang Zhizuo, my family Song Dynasty is a Qixun." There is a stage above the first floor of the hall for the descendants of the Pu clan and the locals to watch the play. The two sides of the box room are for the foreigners surnamed Pu who come to worship their ancestors every year on the Qingming Festival. There are stone tablets in the ancestral hall that record the ancestral deeds, branches, migration routes, ancestral precepts, and genealogies of the Pu clan to show future generations. The ancestral hall has high teeth and magnificent momentum; the corridor of the hall is waist back, the pavilions are connected, the stone monuments are lined up, and the top of the hall is decorated with dragons and phoenix cranes, golden toads and moons, two dragon play jewels, double phoenix dynasty sun, cranes with auspicious clouds, carp leaping dragon gate and other patterns, vivid.
The mast of the Pu Ancestral Hall was first erected during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (1821-1850). When the Pu Ancestral Hall was rebuilt, the original wooden mast had been decayed by nature after a hundred years. In 1926, advocated by the clanspu Mengshi and Pu Lanzhou, pu Guoyun and Wu Hongshun, the palm ink masters Pu Guoyun and Wu Hongshun each erected a root in the outer dam, granite stone, 20 meters high, the shaft body is round, the end of the pole is gradually closed, the diameter is 1 meter, the upper and lower thickness, three sections and two buckets, and the sections are embedded. The four corners of the stone bucket, the Yang carved bat obliquely supports, like a bat spreading its wings and flying, implying Hong Fu to. There is a stone pier seat underneath, with a diameter of 2 meters, the base is square, there are eight squares, and the upper part is a circular flat drum with carved patterns. Compared with other places, the mast is higher in both height, number of buckets, and pedestal specifications, all because of the large number of officials who have produced more than four pins in the past, the ancestors of the Pu clan, Pu Yizhi, Pu Xuanzhi, and the past generations.
Pu's Ancestral Hall was identified as a municipal cultural relics protection unit by the Dazhou Municipal People's Government in 2010, and was identified as the ninth batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government in 2019.
Shigeshi Village, leaving behind a wonderful legend story
Chongshi Village is located in the hilly area, the average altitude of 402 meters, of which the highest mountain Chongshi Mountain altitude of 500 meters, the author trotted all the way, climbed on it, the peer of the Sanhui Town Cultural Tourism Service Center Deputy Director Zhang Ning introduced, Chongshi Village is named after this mountain. Looking around, the bamboo trees of Chongshi Village are green, the fields are full of water, and the farmhouses are hidden in it. Walking through the village, Qing Dynasty ancient tombs, mottled ancient trees, crescent moon stone canals, a hong old well, together with the Pu Ancestral Hall, tell the history of Chongshi Village, the legends and stories are wonderful.
The legend of the Wangfu Stone. The stone at the top of the heavy stone mountain looks like a woman with a child on her back and is looking into the distance. The uppermost stone resembles a woman's head, with a forehead, nose bridge, and mouth, and the outstretched yellow kudzu tree resembles a bun of hair high on a woman's head; a small stone in the back resembles a child lying on a mother's back. Therefore, the locals also call heavy stones Wangfu stone.
Wangfu Stone, there is a beautiful and poignant legend. Pu Xuanzhi, the ancestor of the Pu clan, was originally a native of Sanjiao Village, Longpan Town, Jialing District, Nanchong City, and later moved to Dunzi Bay, Qu County. Pu Xuanzhi immersed himself in studying from an early age, and after passing the examination, he was appointed by the Southern Song Dynasty court as the envoy of Sichuan and the prefect of Chongqing to resist the Mongolian army when the Mongol army invaded Sichuan. After accepting the mission, Pu Xuanzhi bid farewell to his wife and children and rushed to the front line of Liyi Mountain, where he threw himself into a tense and fierce battle, and had no time to go back and forth to his home. Wife Li Shi is at home, although there are parents to take care of her, the days are still acceptable, but the thought of her husband makes her suffer, take her son to the highest place to look at Liyi Mountain, silently pray for her husband, hoping to see her husband. Because the mother and son forgot to eat and forgot to return home, after a long time, they sat down and became a stone mountain.
The legend of Emperor Shun's Master. According to legend, the ancestor of the Pu clan, Pu Yizhi, was intelligent and erudite, and became Shun's teacher at the age of 18, wearing clothes woven from pu clothes all day long, known as Pu Yizi, and later Emperor Shun wanted to give up the world to him, he did not accept it, so he left Emperor Shun and lived in seclusion in the mountains and old forests. Emperor Shun, in order to commemorate the teacher, gave the "Emperor Master Hall" plaque in the Pu Clan Wenchang Hall.
The legend of the stone lion at the Pu Ancestral Hall. The lion is the king of the hundred beasts, originating in Africa, India, South America and other places, when the Eastern Han Dynasty entered China, walked into folk life, received heavy responsibilities, the Chinese people regard it as a thing to ward off evil Najib, predict disasters, show the magnates, and art decoration. In ancient times, palaces, palaces, offices, and residences were mostly guarded by stone lions to show the power and honor of the master.
The stone lion in front of the gate of the Pu Ancestral Hall has a legend about its origin. According to legend, in order to make stone lions, the Pu clan members discussed that the stone should be hard and delicate, and it should withstand the attack of thousands of years of sun and night dew and lightning. According to the requirements of material selection, Pu Zehong led the stonemasons to climb over the mountains and mountains and select stones everywhere, and a month passed, but there was no harvest, and he was very anxious. One night, he had a dream in which his ancestor said to him, "There is Dragonstone Mountain nearby, so why look for it from afar?" At noon, the three pillars of incense, the mountain opens to show the gods. When he woke up, Mao Sai suddenly opened up, suddenly cheerful, and immediately returned to his hometown with the craftsmen. At noon on an auspicious day of the zodiac, the clansmen and masons came to the heavy stone mountain skewer land 500 meters behind the ancestral hall, burned incense and burned paper, and after three prayers and nine knocks, a pair of two lions, who were about 3 meters tall and 2 meters tall and 2 meters in circumference, stood on both sides of the gate of the Pu Ancestral Hall, guarding the temple, and promoting good and eliminating evil. (Author: Zheng Jingrui)
In this article, in addition to the people mentioned in the article, liu pan also got the help of reference to the traditional village declaration materials, and thank you together!