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The former site of the Guanghu Farmers' Association, one of the earliest farmers' associations in Fengshun County
Tangxi Guanghu Village "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall"
Fengshun County Tangxi Town Shuanghu Village Guanghu Village, Tangxi Traffic Rush, for the prosperous place of merchants, brilliant people, simple folk customs. Since the opening of the village in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, it has lasted for more than 300 years, and there are five villagers surnamed Feng, Lu, Zeng, Qiu and Chen who have lived here. For hundreds of years, we have lived in harmony. At the beginning of the construction of Guanghu Village, there was a "five-surname ancestral hall", the five surnames shared together, the same out and out of the same entrance to the same gate, where there are red and white good things in the village, the whole village villagers regardless of surname, all help each other. It is rare for such five surnames to share a "five-surname shrine" and coexist harmoniously for hundreds of years. The "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall" is also the former site of the Guanghu Zhai Farmers' Association, one of the 12 township peasant associations in the county in 1925, and is one of the sites of the earliest red revolution of the peasant association in Fengshun County. This year, it was rated as a patriotic education base in Fengshun County.
It is said that after the May Fourth Movement in 1919, in the same month, Feng Yuwen (1901-1976), a villager (returned overseas Chinese) in Guanghu Village, and Ding Yuan, and others established the County Federation of Students, and in the following years, together with Ding Yuan, Feng Lianshan, Li Fengxiang and a number of backbone cadres, became the early Propagators of Marxism in Fengshun County, laying a good ideological foundation and organizational foundation for the establishment of the Communist Party of China organization in Fengshun County. After the victory of the Second Crusade in 1925, Ding Was willing to work from Guangzhou to Shantou as a member of the Chaomei Special Committee of the Communist Party of China. Cai Ning, Ding Wenke, Feng Yuwen, Gao Tenghan, and other students who had participated in the May Fourth Movement met with Ding Yuan in Shantou, and Ding Wan briefed them on Peng Pan's peasant movement in Hailufeng, and inspired and guided everyone to return to their hometowns to organize peasant associations and carry out peasant movements. Later, Ding Yan also personally came to Fengshun with Yang Shiling and others to guide the townships to establish peasant associations. In the winter of 1925, Ding Wenke established a township-level peasant association in Shiyin Village, Gao Tenghan in Shiqiaotou, Cai Ning in Shanjiao and Powei Lou, and Huang Abao in Qingyang Lou. The above five township farmers' associations were officially approved and recognized by the Executive Committee of The Guangdong Farmers' Association on March 5 of the following year. Then, Qiu Yuechu set up 7 township-level peasant associations in Taipinglou, Feng Yuwen in Guanghu, Ma Chunrong in Shang'an, Liu Dabai in Pingcheng, Fu Chuanlin in Hexi, and Chen Xiaoming in Dongli. At this time, there were 480 agricultural members in the county.
Feng Yuwen statue
In the autumn of 1926, the county farmers' association was established in Pushantang, Liangxiang, Fengliang, with Cai Ning as the minister of the peasant association, Chen Siyong as the secretary, and the executive committee members included Li Fengxiang, Peng Zaixuan, Wang Shaohua, Yang Zhendong, Feng Lianshan, Wu Yufen, Zheng Yanyun, Zhang Qihua, and Gao Tenghan. The county farmers' association has jurisdiction over the first district peasant association, and the executive committees are Li Fengxiang, Peng Zaixuan, Zhang Qihua, Zhang Tingyuan, and Yang Lizhong; the executive committee of the three district peasant associations includes Gao Tenghan, Ding Wenke, Feng Yuwen, Ma Chunrong, Huang Abao, Qiu Yuechu, Liu Taibai, and so on; and the executive committee of the four district peasant associations includes Zhu Huanting, Zhu Guangjian, Liu Zhongtian, Li Jianzhen, Chen Shizhen, Chen Yingqiao, and Zheng Yanyun. In October and November, the Shantou Prefecture of the Communist Party of China appointed Yang Zhanmou (Yang Juezhong), a graduate of the Shantou Farmers' Training Institute, as the liaison officer for the Fengshun Agricultural Movement. Under the attention of leaders at all levels, the Fengshun peasant movement spread throughout the county, and peasant associations were set up in the four townships.
In June 1926, Feng Yuwen became the executive committee member of the newly established County Farmers' Association of the Three Districts, and served as the chairman of the Guanghu Township Farmers' Association. In 1928, he participated in the planning of revolutionary uprisings such as the establishment of township and county soviets, and was forced to flee to Thailand after the failure of the revolution in 1934. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was expelled by the Thai authorities as a suspect in the Communist Party, returned to his hometown alone, and was successively recommended as the head of the Overseas Chinese Federation, a member of the CppcC Committee of Fengshun County, and the vice principal of Fengshun Huaqiao Middle School. All of his salary income was donated to education.
The original appearance of the Guanghu Village Five-Surname Ancestral Hall, the former site of the Guanghu Farmers' Association
After the founding of New China, the "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall" served as the Tangxi Town Health Center and the Guanghu Primary School, cultivating generations of national pillars. In 1987, after the construction of the Guangqiao School donated by overseas Chinese in Thailand, the "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall" was "returned" to Guanghu Village for public welfare.
Since the beginning of reform and opening up, especially in recent years, the lives of the villagers and the appearance of the villages in GuanghuZhai have undergone earth-shaking changes, and its fine rural style has gone to a higher level, more simple folk customs, inclusive and open, harmonious coexistence, mutual help and mutual assistance, and good neighborliness, and has become a prosperous place for villagers in nearby townships to move. At present, there are more than 5,000 residents living in Guanghu Village, more than 1,500 people in Guanghu Village, and more than 3,500 foreign residents, who are united and harmonious and help each other. In July 2020, the newly built GuanghuZhai Cultural and Sports Square, where hundreds of people exercise every day, has become a beautiful landscape. "Meizhou Daily", "Nanfang Daily", "Guangzhou Daily", "Shenzhen Special Zone Daily", "Today's Headlines" and other media rushed to report the deeds of Guanghu Zhai's rural style and civilization, and Guanghu Zhai has also become a well-known civilized new village.
However, as the symbol of Guanghu Village, the "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall" has fallen into disrepair and is in urgent need of repair, in order to dress up the village, the villagers of the whole village decided to gather the strength of the villagers and work together to rebuild the "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall", after completion, it will be used as a cultural ancestral hall integrating villagers' reading, newspaper reading, cultural and sports entertainment, and new era civilization practice activities. After a meeting of the villagers' representatives on October 8, 2020, they unanimously agreed to establish the "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall Reconstruction Committee" and decided on the form of reconstruction and financing methods.
The reconstruction project of the "Five Surnames Ancestral Hall" began on November 20, 2020, and the main building has been completed and can be completed and opened at the end of this year.
Source: Meizhou Daily; Text/Photo: Lu Shengwen; Editor: Combustible Ice