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The historical and cultural relics of the Jiaxing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
Jiaxing Yue King Ancestral Hall
People are brilliant, because of the Grand Canal.
In November 1983, Mr. Wang Zhaoming of Jiaxing Museum discovered in the old Yuetou Natural Village of changchun village brigade of Jianshe Commune (now part of Wangdian Town, Xiuzhou District) that Yue Jiaxian's family had Daoguang Twenty-seven Years (1847) publication "Yue Clan Genealogy" and "Records of Jintuo Ancestral Hall".
During the Ming Dynasty, Yue Yuansheng, Yue Junsheng, Yue Hesheng, a descendant of the Yue clan, built Yue Fei's "Jingzhong Ancestral Hall", also known as the Jiaxing Yue Wang Ancestral Hall, in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Jiaxing Santatang.
The relics of Yue Yue's grandson Yue Ke in Jiaxing, in the old days, included the bronze lord of the King of Qiyue, the washed crane stone pond and the duck foot tree planted by Yue Ke himself.
Later, the Bronze Lord was lost and regained several times. During this period, this bronze lord engraved with Yue Ke's personal letters "Jing Zhong Repays the Country" and "Yue Ke Built" has since disappeared from the Yue Wang Ancestral Hall and is nowhere to be found. The Daoguang room of the "Wash crane stone pond" is classified into the Jiaxing Temple, and is now placed on the west side of the Baomei Pavilion of the Yanyu Building. The hand-planted duck-foot tree was originally in the former residence of yue in Jintuofang, south of the city. In the Qing Dynasty, Yue's former residence belonged to Cao Rong's "Tired Garden" and Zhou Xian's "Fanhu Caotang". During the Jiaqing period, the 25th Sun Yueting passed on the song yizhi, which had been 700 years old at that time. Unknown.
The story of the Bronze Lord of the King of Qiyue
Yue Wang Ancestral Hall Bronze Lord, the mouth engraved "Jing Zhong Bao Guo" character, next to the engraving "Yue Ke construction", Gai Song Fu Ling to give Yue Zhongwu Mausoleum made of the shrine also. The bronze lord is about eight inches high, and the eight characters of Yue Ke's book "Jing Zhong bao guo" and "Yue Ke jian" are engraved on it. Speaking of this bronze lord, there is also a rather moving story circulating in the folk.
According to legend, during the Jiajing year of the Ming Dynasty, Yue Wei, a descendant of Yue Ke, studied poetry and books here while guarding the family ancestral hall. Late one night, Yue Wei was awakened by a burst of human voices in his sleep, and when he got up to look, he saw a distant fire soaring into the sky, and a group of pirates was looting along the road from outside Jiaxing City. Seeing this scene, he jumped up and ran to the family temple, bent on keeping the heirloom bronze lord. However, when he arrived at the ancestral hall, the Bronze Lord was already missing, and at this time a monk returned to him, and the Bronze Lord was taken away by a woman dressed in martial arts.
After several twists and turns, Yue Wei finally found her. It turned out that this woman's name was Li Bujiao, who had practiced a good martial art since childhood, was a famous general of the imperial court, and was also a distant relative of the Yue family. On that day, Li Bujiao led her troops to the Jiaxing area to suppress the pirates, passed by the west three pagodas of Jiaxing City, and specially dismounted to the Yue Family Ancestral Hall to worship. Not wanting the ancestral hall to be empty, the monk was frightened by the pirates to hide because of his timidity, and the bronze lord was abandoned. In order to prevent the Bronze Lord from falling into the hands of pirates, Li Bujiao took it to Hangzhou to be enshrined in the Yue Temple.
Later, through the coordination of the King of Taiwang of Hangzhou Province, the bronze lord returned to the Jiaxing Yue King Ancestral Hall. As the saying goes, good things in the world came into pairs, and soon under the medium of Yue Wei's uncle Yue Jiude, Li Bujiao married to Jiaxing and Married Yue Wei. This story and marriage of Yue Ke's descendants to protect the Bronze Lord has become a good story.
According to the "Genealogy of the Yue Clan", when Yue Ke was the prefect of Jiaxing, one day he noticed that the tower was even more drumming and did not hear it, so he inquired about it with the si geng. The report said that five people drank and had fun here every night, claiming to be the in-laws of Yue Laoye, so they did not dare to fight more. Yue Ke ordered that he come back this evening and report immediately.
That night, Yue Ke sat in the Qingxiang Building and ordered the two officers to carry the seal of the palace, and 2,000 soldiers were on standby with weapons. When the five people did come, Yue Ke immediately sent the officers and soldiers to summon them and let the five people come to see them. The five people hurriedly dropped the utensils and fled, and from then on they did not dare to act arbitrarily, and when the people learned of this, they clapped their hands and said that they were happy.
Yue Ke was the ancestor of the Xiushui Yue clan, and most of his descendants lived in jiaxing old Yuetou Village and Puyuan Town (now part of Tongxiang City, Zhejiang). In November 1983, Mr. Wang Zhaoming of Jiaxing Museum discovered in the old Yuetou Natural Village of changchun village brigade of Jianshe Commune (now part of Wangdian Town, Xiuzhou District) that Yue Jiaxian's family had Daoguang Twenty-seven Years (1847) publication "Yue Clan Genealogy" and "Records of Jintuo Ancestral Hall". After consultation with the owner, Yue Jiaxian agreed to donate to the Jiaxing Museum.
In May 2000, when the "Tianya Gong this time" column of CCTV Channel 4 broadcast the feature film "Jiaxing Puyuan Yue's Origin", it also made a detailed report on the discovery and collection of "Yue Clan Genealogy" and "Records of Jintuo Ancestral Hall" in Jiaxing Museum.
Attached is the catalogue of "Talking about the Grand Canal of Jiaxing":
Jiaxing Grand Canal scenery (old photo)
Application for Heritage (Photo)
Caoyun (Pictured)
1 Jiaxing Steep Gate Bridge
2 Su Dongpo three over the hall
Tomb of the 3 Yuan
4 Jiaxing Yue Wang Ancestral Hall
5 Jiaxing three towers
6 Jiaxing three towers guard tower fiber stone
7 Jiaxing Blood Seal Temple
8 Jiaxing Tea Zen Temple
9 Sujia Highway Bridge No. 1
10 Jiaxing Yanjia Lane
11 Jiaxing Yanzhu Tomb
12 Jiaxing Yuehe
13 Jiaxing Tanglan Former Residence
14 Jiaxing Shuangkui Lane
15 Jiaxing Beiliqiao
16 Jiaxing watershed pier
17 Jiaxing Bank of China Stack
18 Jiaxing Duanping Bridge
19 Jiaxing Shanqing Gate, Falling Sail Pavilion
20 Jiaxing Wensheng Monastery
21 Jiaxing Shanqing Gate Site
22 Jiaxing Changhong Bridge
23 Jiaxing Yisu Nunnery
24 Jiaxing Canal scenery
25 Jiaxing Canal Temple
26 Jiaxing Grand Canal Water City
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