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Jiading's historical record of tigers
"A long time ago, there were tigers in Jiading! Historical Evidence"
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The name of Fuhu Village in Xuhang Town is also related to tigers
So, is fuhu village named after it?
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There is a Fuhu Village in Xuhang Town, there is a temple in the village, the temple is the Fuhu Temple, and the Fuhu Village got its name. The Republic of China's "Jiading Yan Dongzhi" records: "NanfuHu Temple, Xuxing Township Service Thirty-seven Maps, base two acres and two minutes and three centimeters, fifteen houses, all surnames donated to build." The word "Fuhu" inevitably makes people think of being related to tigers, and there are indeed relevant legends in folklore.
The "Xu xingxiangzhi" contains a story of Di Renjie Fuhu. Legend has it that when Di Renjie was a magistrate, he once went up the mountain on a tour, and encountered a tiger rolling on the ground in the dense forest, and the tiger's claws grabbed the pick in his mouth and stretched out his neck to vomit. When the tiger saw Di Renjie, he opened his mouth wide and stopped rolling, tears in his eyes as if he were asking for help. Di Renjie leaned down to observe, found a large bone in the throat of the tiger, and said to the tiger, "Sin deserves it." Saying that he turned around and wanted to leave, the tiger rolled up again, and its condition was very miserable. Di Renjie saw that it was pitiful, so he said to the tiger, "You didn't know how many people and animals you had hurt in the past, and you shouldn't have saved you, but if you saw that you were pitiful, you would save your life, but in the future you will eat vegetarian food, abandon evil and follow good, can you do it?" The tiger nodded. Di Renjie put his hand into the tiger's mouth, pulled out the big bone, threw it aside, and turned around and left. Who knew that the tiger did not want to leave after him, and followed him directly to his residence, shaking his head and tail in front of him, and being very affectionate. In this way, whenever Di Renjie went out, the tiger opened the way for him to guard. Because Di Renjie was able to ambush the tiger, later people built a temple to worship Di Gong, and the temple built was not called Di Gong Temple but Fu Hu Temple.
Fuhu Village History Museum records the origin of the village name
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, temples were dotted among the villages in the Jiangnan region, and the worshippers were generally folk gods, which was also a manifestation of folk rice culture, such as Liu Mengwei as the god of locust repellent, Shi Xianggong as the god of snakes, Jin Guan as the god of Caoyun, and Zhou Xiaozi as the god of medicine. The Fuhu Temple, on the other hand, enshrines Di Renjie, a famous Tang Dynasty minister. The folk worship Di Renjie as the god of the Fuhu Temple, and the tradition of worshipping loyal subjects in the township will be Jiading, while Di Gong is not afraid of power, is upright, is honest and honest, and is known for his good story of honest government and impartial judgment, and is regarded by the people as the god of the demon Voldemort.
According to the "Guangxu Jiading County Chronicle", the earliest Fuhu Temple in Jiading was built by Gao Yansun, the first Zhixian of Jiading, in the eleventh year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1218), and was successively added and rebuilt during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Historical records about the Fuhu Temple
The origin of the name of the Fuhu Temple, there is no way to examine, guess that there is really a tiger plague in Jiading, so the temple is built to the town. In Mr. Wang Chunyu's "Traces of Tigers in the Southern Part of the Ming and Qing Dynasties" and Mr. Liu Zhenggang's "Examination of Tiger Diseases in the Southern Coastal Areas of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", the situation of tiger plagues in the Jiangnan area in the classics was carefully searched and corroborated from the side. For example, the Ming Dynasty's "Tiger Garden" records that in the thirty-second year of Jiajing, a tiger crossed the Taihu Lake and entered the Huashan Bamboo Dock in Wu County, Suzhou Province, "cannibalizing people and not going." Songjiang Province is also a place where tigers are frequent, according to the "Chaolin Pen Talk" volume 4 "Yushan Has a Tiger": Ming Hongzhi in the twelfth year of "Yao Mou crossed the Wusong River and encountered a tiger, and the tiger's foot was trapped and survived". Jiajing seventeen years "tiger summer solstice, footprints all over three or four miles. That is, Wu Song is in one place, and Tiger Fan is three times." According to Zhengde's "Songjiang Fu Zhi" volume 32 "Xiangyi", the "tiger cannibalism" tragedy has occurred in Songjiang in the fourth year of Zhengde.
According to the "Chronicle of Jiading County", in the second year of Hongwu (1369), Jiading County belonged to Suzhou Prefecture, and Suzhou Prefecture was adjacent to Songjiang Prefecture, which showed that Jiading had a tiger plague at that time. From the local elderly population of Fuhu Village, it is known that the Fuhu Temple in Fuhu Village is the South Fuhu Temple, which has a history of more than 500 years, and the time is pushed back 500 years is the Ming Zhengde period. In addition, there is a North Fuhu Temple, the original FuhuSi Ancestral Hall, which is also the predecessor of Huazang Zen Temple, which is now located in Taqiao Village, Huating Town.
Huazang Zen Temple
Due to the changes of the times, the Nanfu Tiger Temple has not been preserved, and only the legends and stories have been passed on by word of mouth by the people. Although the story of Di Renjie Fuhu is a folk fantasy and miscellaneous talk, it can no longer be verified, but the kindness and justice it celebrates conveys the voices and aspirations of ordinary people in successive dynasties and expresses the yearning for a better life.
Source: Shanghai Jiading