When introducing our Hakka culture and history, Xiaobian issued many special editions on peace, how can we not introduce the most historic building in Heping County, Hudong Xiaozhu, the hometown of Xu Bolin
Located in Shihan Village, Xiaxia Town, Heyuan City, Heyuan City, It is the former residence of xu Fulin, a modern celebrity, and the inscription "Hudong Xiaozhu" and couplets on the front of the door are sometimes the chief of agriculture and forestry Changgu Zhongxiu.
To introduce Hudong Xiaozhu, we must first introduce its founder and first owner Xu Fulin:
Xu Fulin
Xu Fulin, the character Mengyan, yiren honored as "Menggong", a native of Shihan Village, Xiaxia Town, Heping County, Guangdong Province, born in 1878, former Qing Xiucai, graduated from the Beijing Normal School of Political Science and Law, and studied at Kyoto University of Political Science and Law in Japan. In his early years, he joined the League, participated in the Xinhai Revolution, and served as a member of the Provisional Congress and a member of the House of Representatives.
In 1915, he became the editor of Zhengyi Magazine and New China Magazine in Shanghai. Participated in the initiation of the organization of the Republican Maintenance Association and opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to the throne. He founded China New Daily and served as the chief writer. After 1916, he served as a member of the National Assembly and president of the Dali Yuan. After the 1931 "918" incident, he opposed Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship and non-resistance doctrine and advocated anti-Japanese resistance. In 1932, he participated in the organization of the National Socialist Party of China and was elected as a member of the Third Central Committee Standing Committee. In 1938, he became a suffragan member of the National Council of Political Participation. In the winter of 1946, he succeeded Zhang Junjie as the leader of the Democratic Socialist Party (the Chinese Democratic Socialist Party was formed by the merger of the "National Socialist Party" and the overseas "Democratic Constitutional Party", and was founded in Shanghai on August 15, 1946. The founder, Zhang Junjie, is not the chairman, represented by Xu Fulin), and has served as a senator, a member of the National Government, a representative of the National Congress, and an advisor to the Presidential Office. After 1946, he became minister of finance and president of the central bank of the Kuomintang government. He ran for president in Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek in 1954 and died in Taipei in 1958. On April 19, 1948, at the 13th Congress of the National Government, Chiang Kai-shek was elected as the first president of the Republic of China after the enactment of the Constitution. There are 6 candidates for vice presidential: on the KMT side, there are 4 people from Li Zongren, Sun Ke, Cheng Qian, and Yu Youren, there are 4 people in the Kuomintang, there is Mo Dehui, and the Kuomintang party is Xu Fulin. Lee Jong-in was elected as the first vice president. In the spring of 1954, the second session of Taiwan's first "National Convention" held a constitutional election. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of the KMT in the political monologue of self-singing and to decorate the façade of democratic politics, the KMT instructed the Kuomintang to put forward its acting chairman Xu Fulin as a "presidential" candidate and Shi Zhiquan as a "vice presidential" candidate, seeking "heaven and man unity" for the KMT's accompanying election (see Deng Zehong's "A Brief Analysis of Taiwan's Political-Administrative Structure and Economic Promotion Effect in the Fifty Years After the War").
In 2005, Heping County increased its protection and development efforts to build a tourist attraction and declared itself a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.
Hudong Xiaozhu seems to be small, but there is a lot of qiankun inside, you can look at it for several hours, now let's first talk about the bad environment outside it, Hudong Xiaozhu sits east to west, by the mountains and water, the width of the three doors and five rooms is 42 meters, there are patios for rice picking between each entry and exit, and there are patios for picking between each entry and exit, and we can see the spirit of the unity of heaven and man that Xu Fulin pursues.
Standing under the high and wide eaves of the small building in The east of the city, you can see the green mountains not far away, and the clouds are fluttering. The patio was covered with thick moss. The small courtyard inside the wall is planted with moonflower and rouge flowers, and a few bushes of sparse bamboo are hidden in the corner of the wall. If you put a table of eight immortals in the hall, chat with three or five good friends, or paint books and paintings on the green mountains, and the breeze is gentle, the fragrance of flowers is light, it is really a pleasure in life. Predecessors always sought a sense of "the unity of heaven and man", and Xu Fulin must have had this concern when he built this house.
This is the backyard of Hudong Xiaozhu, which is beautiful and once again feels the life that Xu Fulin pursues.
We began to walk into the Hudong Xiaozhu, which was very clean! There are ming tiles, and the light of the day falls. According to the descendants of the Xu family, there are three or four families living here, although the Xiaozhu in Hudong has suffered a certain degree of dilapidation, but the doors, windows, beams, plaques, etc. inside still show the exquisite skills of the craftsmen in that year.
Regardless of the destruction of the years, the beams are still strong and magnificent, and I can't help but marvel at the exquisite skills and craftsmanship of the craftsmen of that year.
Looking at this exquisitely carved door and window, even if the years have still left traces, But The Hudong Xiaozhu still retains its own original appearance.
During the land reform movement in the last century, The Small Houses in Hudong were divided among 30 households. There are now more than 100 Xu clan people, distributed in Taiwan, Jiangxi, the United States, other cities in Guangdong and Heping locality.
According to the recollection of the Xu family's adopted daughter-in-law:
The 80-year-old Zhu Qiandi can still trace the "uncle" Xu Fulin with a trace of memory. "He lived in a large room directly opposite the gate, where there was a clump of green bamboo." Zhu Qiandi pointed out. "There used to be jade tables, iron beds, iron tables. Later, when the Xu clan came back in the 90s, it was just that the house was still there, many other things were gone, and the door and leaf pages were torn down and moved away. Zhu Qiandi's wrinkled face is full of memories: when she was 11 years old, she came to the Xu family as a child bridesmaid and maid, and called Xu Fulin "uncle" with her young husband. At that time, there was a small building in Hudong, and there was a large stone goldfish tank (it is still there, and a flower pot was made). The yard is full of beautiful ornaments and many flowers. There is no firewood in the house (now there is no place to put it, it is piled up behind the gate, in the corner), and there are stone couplets on both sides of the door, and there is no need to write couplets every year (it has long been shoveled off and painted with a stucco). "Uncle" Xu Fulin often stayed in the big room, drank tea, and stayed in the small room. Decades have passed, and all that has changed, even rural houses have been westernized. The elderly Zhu Qiandi sat on the bench in front of the gate with one leg crooked, and her cloudy eyes looked at the main building of The Hudong Xiaozhu through the rain curtain. In the yard, a bunch of ducklings are foraging on a grassy cobblestone ground. For an old man, she still rejoices that during the New Year's Festival, her juniors— the descendants of xu Fulin's brothers in China — would meet here, and there were dozens of people, lively and lively.
The long history has created a splendid culture, and the ancient building is one of the dazzling pearls, an ancient building, how many historical changes are hidden in its bricks and tiles, and it has witnessed the dreams of many generations. And let us understand the changes in history, I hope that these historic buildings can be passed on forever, so that future generations can remember that period of history.