On September 28, 1987, the Ancestral Unification Association was held at the Yuanping City Guest House, during which Xu Shihu went to Nanhuaihua Village, Zhao's hometown of Zhao' hometown in the south twenty miles of Yuanping City, according to Zhao Zhengkai's instructions. The village was the most fierce battlefield in the Battle of Xinkou during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and after 50 years, many traces of destruction in the village can still be seen. Zhao Zhengkai's fourth brother, Zhao Zhengyao, was a high-caliber student at Tsinghua University who led the 129 Movement. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he went to Yan'an to participate in revolutionary work, and later unfortunately died on the battlefield. Leaving a widow and a daughter, he lived in two broken caves in the west of the village and lived an extremely hard life. Xu Shihu left her 100 yuan and took a picture with her outside the hole, rinsed it and sent it to Zhao Zhengkai. Within a few days, Zhao Zhengkai immediately remitted $2,000 for the purpose of repairing the gatehouse and other purposes. Xu Shihu handed $1,000 to Hao Yi, the united front work minister of the Xinzhou Prefectural Committee, and asked him to send someone to build a new house, and another $500 to Zhang Wenyu, vice president of Taiyuan Zhongshan College, to repair the grave of his father, Zhang Hanjie, the town keeper of Jinbei Town, who had been destroyed by the rebels, and the remaining 500 yuan to repair the destroyed tomb of Xu Jihu.
Zhao Zhengkai (赵正楷), also spelled Fazhen, a native of Nanhuaihua Village, Chengxian County, Shanxi (now Yuanping City) (from the public account "Hometown Shanxi")
On October 2, Xu Shihu left Yuanping and lived in Xinxian County for a day, visiting the tomb and memorial hall of the Yuan Relic Mountain Garden, and on the 3rd, Zhao Peicheng, vice chairman of the Wutai County CPPCC Committee, drove to Xinxian County to pick up Xu Shihu and his wife to visit the Riverside Folk Customs Hall transformed into Yan Xishan's former residence, returned to Dajian'an Village in the afternoon to visit the Xu Ancestral Hall, and left 500 yuan for Xu Xianchang as repair and memorial equipment, as well as the opening of libraries and recreation rooms, and instructed him to put the books he donated indoors for people's reference.
After passing by and visiting the Village Guandi Temple, looking at the current situation of being destroyed, and then recalling the scene of that year, Xu Shihu sighed endlessly!
Wutai Xu Clan Three Shares Twenty-first Xu Peng tu jian'an Laoye Temple
According to the "Impression of LaoWei Tomb" written by Mr. Xu Pengzhen, the twenty-first xu of the three shares, the ancestors of the Xu clan were called LaoWei Tomb because they were built on the lower slope of Laowei Mountain in the south of Dajian'an Village. The tomb is about 46 meters long from east to west, about 135 meters from north to south, and has an area of 6210 square meters, totaling 9.5 acres. It is surrounded by earthen walls, with the gate facing north, brick door sills, and standing stones on both sides of the doorway. From south to north, there are 36 tombs of eight generations of ancestors, and stone tables are placed in front of the tombs. A pair of stone lions guarded the gate of the tomb, and it was a solemn and solemn momentum. Every year during the Qingming Festival, the "correction" of Xu's family temple organizes and holds grand commemorative activities. Where my descendants of the Xu clan come to worship their ancestors (only worship outside the Lao Wai Tomb, not allowed to step into the tomb), one ton of fried cakes is eaten free of charge (the family temple has several acres of self-reserved land, and every year it is specially planted with red millet). After the festival was suspended during the Japanese invasion of China, some people began to beat the idea of pine and cypress trees and cut down the trees. Later, some people wanted to spread the grave and cultivate the land, but they could not achieve it.
This Guandi Temple is also known as the Wu Temple, and the people in the village are called laoye temple. The date of construction is unknown, but it was rebuilt in April of the fifth year of Gengshenrun by Emperor Renzong of the Qing Dynasty. In 1929 (the eighteenth year of the Republic of China), Xu Yiqing's third son, Xu Shijue, funded it, and was supplemented and repaired by Fan Sanhuai and Xu Qiuyang. On the left are Related to Ping and Wang Fu, and on the right are Zhou Cang and Zhao Lei. Guan Ping hugged the seal, Zhou Cang took the knife, the god was mighty, and the wind was mighty. There are 168 painted paintings on the east and west walls of the hall, from the Taoyuan Sanjieyi to the divine curse Pan Zhang, summarizing Guan Yu's lifelong war, the picture is vivid, and the skills are exquisite. The most memorable thing is that there is a strange place in the statue of Zhou Cang, when people caress Zhou Cang's chest with their hands for a moment, his two large black eyes grunt and turn, frightening the timid people to run away immediately.
Guandi Temple, Dajian'an Village (Photographed by Xu Yali, 21st Sangu)
In the autumn of 1940, the Japanese army occupied the Dongye area, one day in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, a group of Japanese troops went to Dajian'an Village to sweep up, forced the villagers to meet at the gate of the Laoye Temple, set up machine guns around, the guerrilla bo Fulin suddenly jumped up, ran 200 meters east, jumped the wall and fled, the Japanese soldiers standing guard near the wall fired a bullet at hand, followed by the Japanese soldiers also fired several shots, fortunately did not hit, he fled to the south of the Rong Wenxiu family meat cellar to avoid this difficulty. The soldiers standing guard shouted to the pursuing Japanese troops: "Dead dead", and the Japanese returned to the Laoye Temple. At the same time that Bo Fulin escaped, Xu Fuzheng and Bai Jiqing also ran west, but unfortunately they were not so lucky, and they were captured and killed on the spot. Before leaving, he set fire to the east and west rooms of the old temple, and the main hall was not there.
The departing Japanese troops went west to the Xu Ancestral Hall, the leading officer carried a command knife, ordered Xu Hong, who was guarding the temple at the time, to open the gate and command the Japanese army to hold firewood and prepare to set fire to the temple, when he entered the main hall and saw the statue of Xu Jihu hanging on the main wall, he immediately came to a standing posture, and said a few words of Japanese in his mouth, and the Japanese army holding the firewood also threw away the firewood, followed by a standing upright, and bowed three times respectfully to Xu Jihu, and then turned around and left. The Xu Ancestral Hall was preserved.
The picture of the gate of xu's ancestral hall comes from the public account "Those things about the Xu family"
In the summer of 1970, Wutai Dongye Commune set off a vigorous upsurge of water conservancy in Pingtian. The brigades quickly formed a professional water conservancy construction team, moving stones to repair water canals, Yong'an Village is Xu Shuai's hometown, far from the mountain to take stones is not very convenient, the water conservancy professional team came up with the method of digging ancient tombs, taking stone strips, and using underground treasure houses. At that time, there were many ancient tombs underground in Yong'an Village, and the ancient tombs were composed of high-grade stone, which was both flat and neat, and this behavior at that time also belonged to the list of the four olds. And digging ancient tombs can also make a fortune, often people dig out gold rings, gold earrings, jade bracelets, silver dollars and other things in the ancient tombs, so at that time it was a very popular livelihood, one pass ten, ten pass hundred, the surrounding villages are imitated. At that time, Xu Jihu's tomb was in the northernmost part of Yong'an Village, which was originally a humble tomb, and people did not think much of it at first, but digging and digging, they found that it was a magnificent underground palace. When the soil in front of the tomb door is excavated, the stone carved tomb door is presented in front of the people, there are birds and animals, cat heads and dripping water, calligraphy on the doorpost, couplets, two rows of mushroom nails carved on the stone door, embedded with brass ring handles, a good temple of art. However, at that time, in the hearts of the gravediggers, what cultural relics were of historical value. They just care, is there a copper incense burner, a copper candlestick or anything like that? At that time, the supply and marketing cooperatives specially had people to buy these things, and after people dug up, they changed hands and exchanged them for money, and after the night, they got together to fight the gang.
After these people disassembled the brass ring on the stone door, they picked up a large hammer and smashed the stone door. Although the stone door was very thick and there were mechanisms inside to block it, how could it withstand people's repeated hammers, and only three or two times the stone door was destroyed. People used crowbars to remove the stone door and swarmed in, scrambling to smash the lid of the coffin with a shovel, groping for valuable things in the coffin.
One of them found two epitaphs about 1.8 meters long and 0.5 meters wide on the east wall of the burial chamber. The first piece is written in seal script with the official title and name of the tomb owner, and the inscription is written in small letters. From the words, they found that this was the tomb of the famous Inspector of Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Xu Jiji, the old man of Wutai Dongye East Street. After the treasures inside were scattered, the coffins were split into a dozen wooden planks that were taken home to make a toilet, and even the silk corpse clothes inside were torn open and taken back. Some old people, in order to live a long life, tied around their waists on the spot, saying that this way can live a long life, and most of the stones were pulled to build a water canal. Fortunately, the people who dug the grave promptly notified Xu Jihu's descendants to arrive, and buried the bones of the ancestors and couples with the remaining corpse clothes back to the original pit, and also reacted to this matter like the county, but unfortunately the law did not blame the public, and gave a few pounds of food stamps to send the matter. (The above things, I often listened to the old people when I was a child, and in addition, they were recorded in detail in the "Xinzhou Daily" and "Jian'an Village Chronicle" on September 17, 1995)
Text/Xu Xiaolong, Zi Xinwei, Wutai Xu Clan Three Shares Twenty-one