The boat scenery made of old boat wood has become the scenery of the village.
15 kilometers north from the county seat of Ninghai, I saw that the scenery in the car window gradually changed from a tall building to a lush grass and tree, and the traffic disappeared behind me, leaving only a touch of blue in the Ning bay. The sea of Ninghai is always quiet and beautiful, and the small town by the sea maintains a time ravine with the hustle and bustle of the city, slow and leisurely.
Qiangjiao, located in the northeast of Ninghai County, is located at the end of Xiangshan Port, about 58 kilometers from Ningbo, and is famous for its "Blue Bay" in recent years. Xia Shan Village, where the town government is located, is deeply loved by tourists because of its unique geographical location and strong fisherman's style. Not far from Xia Shan Village, which also belongs to Qiangjiao Town, there is also a beautiful ancient fishing village that is less known, that is, Xue Ao.
Xue's Ancestral Hall.
Proud of his ancestor Xue Rengui
Xue Ao ( 薛岙 ) was called " Sand Bank " ( meaning of the meandering sand bank ) . According to the "Genealogy of the Xue Clan of Shaqi", "Xue Shiliu, the character Jingtao, strong and courageous, not afraid of strong insults, the family is extremely rich, with dozens of servants and brothers from Huangyan to live in Benyi City, often riding a white horse out of the city to inspect the residence, to the sand, see the victory of the mountains and rivers, the land is fertile, said Lin Clan said: 'Heaven uses this land to fund me.' 'Suibu House'. Generations of people came after that. The sixth great-grandson Qian'er, "Song Xianchun (1265-1274) Guanju, Teen Granted Rongzhou Literature", according to which Xue shi first lived in Shaqi, probably during the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing period (1131-1162). "Ten thousand acres of sand are like a flat" ("Xue Clan Ancestral Hall" place name poem), from which it is known that the name of "sand" is named after the topography and landform. The place names marked on the maps attached to the Southern Song Dynasty's "Jiading Chicheng Zhi" and the late Ming Dynasty's "Ninghai County Chronicle" are all "Sand Qiao "Sha Jiao", and later they were renamed Xue Ao (薛岙) in the southwest of Changshan Gang. It has been more than 800 years.
In Xue Ao, the old man's favorite story is Xue Rengui, according to the genealogical record: the Xue clan of Shaqi is a descendant of the famous Tang general Xue Rengui, who lived in Longmen, Dai prefecture (present-day Hejin, Shanxi), and his son Ne, Ne's son Zheng and Chang, the third general. The chancellor of the Wu clan, Ne Sui and his second son abandoned their posts and lived in seclusion in Huangyan, Taizhou, where fan was twenty-fourth. There were six people who moved from Huangyan to Benyi City, and their descendants moved to the Hu of Shaqi.
Xue Rengui (薛仁桂), courtesy name Rengui (名礼), courtesy name Rengui (Chinese: 薛安都), the sixth grandson of Xue Andu, king of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, was a famous general in the early years of the Tang Dynasty. In the last year of Zhenguan's reign, he joined the army, accompanied the expedition to Goryeo, and was promoted by Emperor Taizong of Tang. After decades of conquest, he defeated the nine surnames of Tiele, surrendered to Goryeo, defeated the Turks, and made outstanding achievements, leaving behind allusions such as "Good Strategy and Gange", "Three Arrows Fixing the Heavenly Mountain", "Divine Courage to Harvest Liaodong", "Benevolent Government goryeo Kingdom", "Loving the People Xiangzhou City", "Taking Off the Hat and Retreating from Ten Thousand Enemies", and by the time of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he was tired of serving as the governor of Guazhou Prefecture, the general of the Right Leading Guard, the governor of the inspection school, and the Duke of Pingyang County. "The villagers are proud of their ancestor Xue Rengui, so the villagers have always attached importance to faith and righteousness, and maintained the true color of hard work and good martial arts." Xue Jingya said.
Xue Jingya is a Chinese teacher and a native of Xue Ao. She grew up listening to the old man tell the story of the village, but with the change of time, there are fewer and fewer old people who can tell stories, and many nursery rhymes and stories that have not been recorded in time have disappeared into the long river of history with the old man's passing. Feeling very sad, she began to collect songs and stories from the village, combing through the "past and present lives" of the village.
She often used her rest time to return to the village, sit on the long stone steps at the village gate to chat with the old people, and then record the stories that the old people knew. So far, more than 100,000 words of rural historical and cultural materials have been sorted out.
The stage in the ancestral hall.
Once begged for life in the storm
"Listening to the old man, the village site of Xue Ao Village in the Ming Dynasty was in the mountain pass near the sea of Wuyan Mountain, when Changshan Gang was still an island, separated from the mainland by a river. There is a boat port between Changbaling and Lingyan Village, which is specially used to transport the "soul bottle" (the soul bottle is a burial vessel that originated in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Three Kingdoms, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and is a kind of funerary utensils popular in southern China), which are exported to Korea and Japan. At a certain time in the Ming Dynasty, when thieves swarmed, the village was looted, and countless deaths and injuries were inflicted, and the villagers fled to Changshan Gang for refuge in order to protect the ethnic group. Xue Jingya told reporters that according to genealogical records, the Xue clan was in the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to avoid chaos, the clan moved to the top of the Changshan Ganggang. However, the location of the top of the post is remote, the land is barren, and the sea breeze is heavy and tidal, which is not conducive to the reproduction of the clan. The fields are not inching, the mountains are not a single one, cramped in the corners of the mountains, xue clan can only beg for a living in the wind and waves, but perhaps because of the tenacious and unyielding warriors of the ancestor Xue Rengui in their bones, they rely on tenacious willpower and super survival ability, and over the centuries, they have developed into a large village with a population of more than 4,000.
Relying on the unique docks, coupled with the wisdom and diligence of the ancestors, after eight hundred years, the Xue family has changed and lived endlessly, and by the 1980s, there were thousands of households and more than 4,000 people. During the Republic of China period, the fertile land in the eyes of the ancestors was far from being able to meet the needs of survival, and maritime operations rose up, and fishermen gradually increased than the number of farmers. Before the Republic of China, the villagers of Xuexia'ao were mainly engaged in farming, and when farmers were idle, they went to the sea to catch small fish and shrimp, used ramie nets to catch shrimp and various types of small fish. There are sixteen fishing lines in the shrimp net, and I heard the eighty-year-old man say that at that time, the "sixteen terrier fishing line" had to raise a family. In addition to farming, the villagers of Xue Shang'ao went to the sea to fish for shells with ramie nets, and then burned them into oyster ash to sell. The place of work is limited to the sea area in front of Xue Ao Gate. By the time of the Republic of China, Xue Ao had developed from offshore fishing to distant-water operations, making wooden sailing boats, weaving ramie nets, and going as far as the East China Sea to catch striped fish and yellow fish.
Stand on the mountainside and see the sea.
Embark on the road of art revitalization of the countryside
Walking with Xue Jingya in the ancient village, today's old houses are rare, and occasionally there are remnants of car doors and carved finches and ox legs under the eaves, revealing the wealth of the fishermen of that year. Halfway up the hill, the most striking thing is the Xue Ancestral Hall, which is the only building that has been completely preserved, but it has also been renovated. Entering the ancestral hall, the ceiling and Liang Fang on the stage depict the ancestor Xue Rengui's "Three Arrows Fixing the Heavenly Mountain", "Reporting the Tang Emperor's Conquest of Liaodong" and many of the Xue family's popular stories, which have lasted for a long time. The large well in front of the ancestral hall has been remodeled, with carved white jade well railings, and the crystal clear water of the well is said to have nourished a villager. Standing on the platform in front of the ancestral hall, looking south, looking over the black tiles on the roof of the courtyard, you can see the blue Wushi Mountain and the turquoise water of Ning Bay, and there are a few small boats parked on the Xue Ao Pier, shining in the sunlight.
"Thirty or forty years ago, when I was in elementary school, Xue Ao was still quite prosperous, at that time the water traffic was developed, Xue Ao Wharf was the largest wharf in Ninghai County, in addition to this large wharf, there were many large and small wharves and road heads along the coast, and all kinds of facilities were readily available. The villagers wear clothing made of cloth bought from Shanghai, wear leather shoes bought from Shanghai, and chew bubble gum bought from Shanghai in their mouths, and look far less close to Ninghai City than they are with Shanghai. A fishing village is like a small city with a port. Xue Jingya recalled. The old man in the village said that in the 1960s and 1970s, Xue'ao Village was once prosperous, but with the development of land transportation, the port became increasingly depressed and gradually declined. Young people have fled, and the family's old house is slowly dilapidated and decayed.
In order to change the status quo of the village, Xue Ao villagers began the road of "art revitalization of the countryside". Under the leadership of the village-based rural construction artists, the village excavated the natural features, inherited the historical context, laid out the tourism industry, and transformed and upgraded the village landscape and public space on the spot. They use local materials to create attractions such as "fish full cabin" and "ancient boat in the square" with old boat wood, as well as a fisherman's culture exhibition hall that shows old objects... One scene per household, one household and one nostalgia, the artistic "golden key" has opened the door to the revitalization of beautiful fishing villages, and the old fishing villages have regained new vitality.
Ningbo Evening News reporter Zhang Haiyu Wen/Photo Correspondent Xu Mingyi Wu Ligao