● Luo Lianxun
The "Youxi County Chronicle" records 39 people, 268 villages (residences) in the county, one of which accounts for 3 people, and this village is Xixikou Village in Guanqian Town.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Youxi County published a new edition of "Youxi County Chronicle" in April 1989, and in 2009, it published a sequel, including a total of 39 people from the past, of which Chen Zhirong, Zhan Xuanyou, and Zhan Qiyuan were all from Xixikou.
Xixikou Village, located in the west of Guanqian Town, 8 kilometers away from the Guanqian Town Government and 47 kilometers away from the county seat, the terrain resembles maple leaves, and is composed of three natural villages: Zucuoyang, Xiayang and Duiyang. Because of the xixi flowing into Hongkeng village from west to east, the narrow exit of the creek is named, also known as Xikeng mouth.
One ancestor becomes a ocean
Xixikou Village, the current population of 1320 people, 90% of which are Zhan surnamed people, originated from Gaoshi Village, Xinyang Town, Youxi County. In addition to the Zhan surname, there are also surnames such as Yu, Xia, Chen, and Luo. Historically, there are also Xiao, Yang, Wei, Zhu, Chi, Liu, Xie, Ye, Huang, Wu and other surnames, where they came from, how they developed, where they went, most of them have nowhere to examine, leaving only some relics and oral legends.
Xixikou Village has a written history, which began with the ancestor of the Zhan surname, Xiao Sigong, that is, since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it has been more than 600 years since the Kaiji Xixikou.
According to the "Genealogy of the Zhan Clan of Hejian County", in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, Xiao Sigong and his wife Bao Changniang moved from Youxi Nineteen Capitals Gaoshi Shiguixialiao to Erdu Xikengyang (now Duck Tomb Village) iron furnace to avoid chaos. In the first year of Ming Hongwu (1368), Xiao Sigong herded cattle in the mian bamboo forest of Yidu Xixiyang (present-day Xixikou Zucuoyang). The bamboo forest, a small beach washed by the stream from north to south, is located on the west side of the stream, and the cattle love it here and refuse to go every time they stop.
As time went on, the little four bulls became stronger and stronger. One evening, a cow was about to be potted, and she couldn't go back, and she was anxious to break the little four gongs. So he consulted with the Xie family across the creek and pleaded for the bamboo forest to be used as a place for him to stay, so that the cows could give birth. As the surname of Xixi Yang, the Xie family simply could not look at the small beach on the other side, and without saying a word, they gave the small beach to Xiao Sigong.
That night, the rain was pouring down, and the Xie family thought that the Zhan family was unlucky, and it rained so much on the first day of settlement, and the huts and cows must have been washed away by the surging stream. Who knew that the next day, he found that the creek had changed to the east, and the small beach on the west side had become a large flat land.
After a night of panic and anxiety, Xiao Sigong was finally able to be safe and sound, so he and his son Xizhuang Gong agreed to build a house here, that is, Deyu Hall, which became the ancestral shrine of the Zhan clan's Kaiji Xixikou. Xiao Sigong became the ancestor of the Xixikou Zhan clan, and the Xizhuang Duke became the first generation to settle in Xixikou.
For more than 600 years, there have been more than 1,200 people in 24 generations since the breeding of Xizhuang Gong, and talents have emerged, and Xixiyang has also been renamed Zucuoyang because of the ancestral home of the Zhan family.
There are ruins in the ocean
Every time I walk with my friends to the village of Guanqian, I have to pass by Xixikou and go to the ocean. As soon as I arrived here, I felt suddenly enlightened.
Provincial Highway 308 crosses the border and is the place where Youxi passes through Shaxian, Sanming and Yong'an. Houses, grain depots, restaurants, and farmers' markets are developed along the road, more than 200 meters long, and crowded with people every day of the ruins, which is quite prosperous.
Everyone in the past said that it is not simple to go to the foreigners. Zhan Qiyuan is a foreigner, and his father Zhan Tinghuang is very good at business. In order to avoid banditry, he built an earthen fort on the edge of the ancestral house of Pomegranate, Pomegranate Fort, covering an area of 300 square meters, which can hide dozens of people. The most peculiar thing is that no matter how big the flood of Xixi Creek rises, the water level will not exceed the stone wall foundation, so the earthen castle has never been soaked by water.
Zhan Liansheng, secretary of the village party branch, said that before liberation, Xixikou was a major traffic route from south to north, and for a long time there were tourists from southern Fujian to sell rapeseed and Zhejiang to sell small commodities. There are also vendors in the village who go back and forth to the market to set up stalls, selling the soil paper produced by the Baziqiao bridge to Xinqiao, Chengguan and other places, and then selling daily necessities back. Now on the left side of the old village department into the bottom of the creek into the yang, the Thirteenth Year of the Qianlong Qing Dynasty (1748) built a single-hole stone arch bridge, next to the bridge used to be medicine shops, grocery stores and inns, etc., is the crowded distribution center, so it is called "arch bridgehead" and "guest shop boy".
Although it is a major traffic road and some traders stop, there was no market in Xixikou, and the villagers went to the Maping Market next door to buy daily necessities. After the opening of the provincial highway, the geographical advantages of transportation have become more prominent, and the number of passenger cars and people staying has surged, and in 1995, the shuttle bus passing through Xixikou reached more than 30 times a day.
In 1994, Xixikou Village invested 70,000 yuan to build the Xixikou Farmers' Market, with a construction area of more than 700 square meters, and since then opened the Xixikou Market, determining that the market will be opened on the third and eighth days of the solar calendar. There are merchants from Guanqian, Baziqiao, Xinyang and the surrounding Datian County, Sha County, and even Sanming county gathered here, and there is no interconnection.
Zhan Liansheng said that the trade volume of Xixikou Market Is second only to Guanqian Market, and at its peak, 29 pigs could be sold a day, and in the 1990s, more than 10,000 yuan of booth management fees could be collected every year, which became the main income of the village's wealth. The market not only makes the villagers' lives convenient, but also stimulates the villagers' awareness of doing business, they have started business, and their living standards have gradually improved.
Because of his business, the Capes in the ocean produced a Hercules. During the Republic of China period, Zhan Yishan and Zhan Zhuhui were good brothers, it is said that they can all be martial arts, and they go out to do business with each other all year round, and in an accident, Zhan Zhaohui helped Zhan Yishan, in order to thank Zhan Zhaohui, he passed on the third son Zhan Zhengtang to Zhan Zhuhui and changed his name to Zhan Jintang. Zhan Jintang got the true inheritance of the two families, and when he grew up, he was 1.8 meters tall, tall and burly, and became the first Hercules in the village.
His grandson Zhan Huahuan said that once the village beat white rice, his cousins asked him: "You have great strength, can you move the stone mortar (weighing 200 kilograms) of white rice alone?" As a result, he grabbed the sides of the stone mortar with both hands, lifted the stone mortar from the ground to the top of his head, and lifted it more than ten times in a row. The village needs a lot of work, and he should not let him rush to the front. His descendants were also more powerful than the average person, so that the cape became synonymous with Hercules.
Heap ocean impressions
Duiyang is located in the western part of Xixikou, surrounded by mountains on three sides, high in the west and low in the east. The entire ocean surface is flat, with narrow entrances to the east and open to the west. Villager Zhan Huayu said that in the past, the villagers lived in a concentrated area, the houses were connected, and from a distance it seemed to be piled together, so it was named Duiyang.
Our group first went to xiayang, then to Zucuoyang, and finally to Duiyang. The impression of the pile of oceans was that it was a huge green carpet.
In the height of summer, it is the time when everything is thriving. 150 acres of dark green rice paddies, connected into one piece, spread along the long strip of Heap Yang Gorge. The drop is 20 meters from west to east, about 1100 meters long, and 80 meters to 120 meters wide from north to south, like a huge carpet slowly spreading out and ironing flat.
This flattened field was a standardized field that was transferred by guanqian commune in 1973 to help level more than 50 migrant workers from the dongshang and village tail brigades. In the era when the man dug his shoulders and pushed the scooter, it could be described as a huge project.
Zhan Huayu said that before there was no leveling, the terraces were terraced, and the high fields were dug low when they were leveled, and the low fields were raised by filling pine wood. In order to level the standardized fields, it took a lot of effort to change the Duiyang Creek in the north to the foot of the mountain in the south.
There is such a huge "green carpet" in Duiyang, thanks to the "agricultural village". According to the "Xixikou Village Chronicle", Xixikou Village is cold, rotten and terraced, and since 1964, the "Agricultural Village" has been carried out, and from 1964 to 1976, the cold and rotten low-yield fields have been comprehensively treated with the center of soil reform and water control. In addition to the heap of the ocean, the whole village has expanded the area of more than 40 acres of land in Houyangtou, Xiatouping, Xidong and Haiqiu.
In this flat heap of oceans, most of the villagers built houses along the mountain from the north, pulling away from the west to the east, gathering more than 400 people. Ye Hong is a foreigner, and his family's house and pond have long become good fields.
Zhan Huayu took us to the side of the Duiyang Witch and pointed to a field below the road, saying that this was the site of Ye Hong's former residence, and it was said that there were 7 ponds in front of his house. According to legend, Ye Hongyin worked at Xiufeng (Xiufeng Pavilion in Liutang Village, Guanqian Town). He heard that Xiufeng's feng shui was very good, so he secretly twisted the ashes of his ancestors in white ash and smeared them on the top of the gourd in Xiufeng's Golden Ruan Hall. Soon after the completion of the Golden Ruan Hall, he was indeed developed, and purchased a large amount of field property in Duiyang, and all his field products were stoned at the bottom of the field and reed bamboo was planted on the field to make a mark. Therefore, in the area of Xiufeng in front of Guan, there is a minyan who "want to call Ye Hongfu, Xiufeng as the ancestral tomb; to call Ye Hongfu, Xiufeng to cover again".
How Ye Hong became rich and how he decayed is no longer available. Today, Xiufeng Pavilion has been renovated several times, the scale is constantly expanding, and the once developed Ye Hong has become a historical story.
Talented
"Tiancheng Scaled Armor Hidden Sand Pond, from Kunming Moss Orchid." Thunderstorms allow the crowd to change, and spit out qinglan towards the twilight. This is the Ming Dynasty Zhan Mo's description of the meeting of two stone carp in the village. Legend has it that xixikou village has two large stone carps, one tail in the shuiwei dragon village river, one tail in the Zucuo Yang Creek, they swim to the gate of the Zhan ancestral hall at noon every day to meet.
In traditional culture, carp has always had good wishes. The legend of the meeting of stone carp in Xixikou is based on the beautiful vision of the Xixikou people "carp leaping dragon gate".
In Xixikou Village, there are written records of the history of running the school, dating back to the fifteenth year of the Qianlong Dynasty, after the completion of the Zhan Ancestral Hall, a college was set up in the ancestral hall. The village has always attached great importance to education and talents, the most outstanding of which are Chen Zhirong, Zhan Xuanyou and Zhan Qiyuan recorded in the "Youxi County Chronicle".
Chen Zhirong, in the mid-1920s, cultivated a fine rice seed "Houxi Chi". Cultivated under the same conditions, the yield was 25%-30% higher than that of the fine seed "Qingshui Early" at that time. Not only did he not keep secrets, but he also vigorously promoted it, exchanging the same amount of grain for the peasant brothers who came to change the seeds. Later, it was also promoted to the present Guanqian Town and Baziqiao Township, where about 60% of the paddy fields were planted. Shaxian and Datian counties also have some rural promotion planting. In order to commemorate Chen Zhirong, the masses called this good seed "Houxi Chi" and "Ah Rong Seed."
Zhan Xuanyou, during the Republic of China period, served as the governor of Jian'ou County and the governor of Youxi County. In mid-May 1949, he joined the Lu Xingrong Uprising and participated in the peaceful liberation of Youxi. Zhan Xuanyou devoted his life to the cause of culture and education, in 1916 to prepare for the establishment of the Guanqian District Higher Primary School, from March 1934 to serve as the principal of Youxi County Junior High School for three years, in 1938 to help protect the Fuzhou Gushan Yongquan Temple Buddhist scripture inscriptions were transported to Youxi, so that it was protected from the Destruction of the Japanese invading army.
Zhan Qiyuan, 14 years younger than Zhan Xuanyou, but has a similar experience, has served as the principal of Youxi Junior High School, made positive contributions to the peaceful liberation of Youxi, and has devoted his life to cultural and educational undertakings. In September 1937, when he succeeded Zhan Xuanyou as the principal of Youxi Junior High School, he found that only boys had been recruited in the past, and no girls were accepted, and he felt that it was inappropriate, so he suggested to the relevant leaders that it be changed to both men and women, and the first batch of 6 girls were admitted. In 1951, during the suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement, he was wrongly arrested and wrongly sentenced, and was only rehabilitated and reinstated in March 1980, and was elected as a deputy to the Youxi County People's Congress in 1983.
The "Xixikou Village Chronicle" and the "Genealogy of the Zhan Clan of Hejian County" also record the biographies of Zhan Liangqi, Zhan Shi, Zhan Zhengxin, and other figures, and also record the list of people who served as county clerks, main books, experiences, and canonical histories, as well as dozens of people such as Taisheng, Gongsheng, and Xiucai. For more than 600 years, the number and proportion of talents coming out of Xixikou are really the leader in Guanqian Town.
Leaving Xixikou, Zhan Huahuan, who was in the same car, said that the village was building a road around the village. This really surprised me, after all, it was the first time I heard of the village-level "ring road". I think that Xixikou is really different, and this may become a new innovation.
Source: Sanming Daily