Shuinan Village

Shuinan Village

Shuinan village belongs to Fuxi street, Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, which is 2 kilometers away from Tiantai county. It is only 1.5 km away from the birthplace of "living Buddha Jigong". Shuinan village is the third nature village in China and the second nature village in Zhejiang Province. There are 2667 households and 8987 people in total.

brief introduction

Shuinan village is 2 kilometers away from Tiantai county and only 1.5 kilometers away from the birthplace of living Buddha Jigong. Shuinan village is the third nature village in China and the second nature village in Zhejiang Province. It is also the largest village in Taizhou. It is divided into six administrative villages: Xinlian, Sanlian, Xingguang, Jianming, Guangming and democratic. Shuinan village is not only large, but also a maze of villages, with households connected and roads crisscrossed. It has a long history of building a village, where the villagers live together, and the people are strong and hardworking. In history, there are many talented people. Many of them have devoted themselves to revolution and made great achievements in learning, but they were also famous for fighting among clans. It is the most populous settlement of the Xu family in the south. There are ancient dwellings in the song and Yuan Dynasties, liujiaojing in the Ming Dynasty, Xu's ancestral hall in the Qing Dynasty (5) and more than 10 temples and Taoist temples, among which 5 Xu's ancestral halls have been established as key cultural relics protection units in Zhejiang Province. In 1932, Xu Yefu's father died. Wu Tiecheng, mayor of Shanghai, Du Yusheng and Zhang Xiaolin attended the funeral in Shuinan village. Zhang Baochen, head of Tiantai County, decorated his father's Wooden master with red lacquer. Today, Xu Yijiang, an old peasant writer, is studying and writing on his own without asking for anything in return. After more than ten years of painstaking efforts, he has completed two masterpieces, including Shuinan village annals and Shuinan Xu family, leaving precious spiritual wealth for the Xu family. It is known as the first person in China to compile and publish village records by villagers themselves. Shuinan village has been a blessed place for longevity since ancient times. There were many centenarians in history, including a 113 year old Xu Lianfang in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. The court also invested in the construction of centenarian square (destroyed in 1966). Jiannan Gongfa Shifang, the ancestor of the Xu family in Shuinan, has lived for more than 600 years. After more than 20 generations, there are more than 23800 descendants of the Xu family and nearly 9000 descendants of the Xu family living in Shuinan village. It is true that the three mountains in Shuinan are the folklore of "three turtles in the distance, three flags in the near, and 20000 people under it". Welcome to waishuinan. The descendants of the Xu family often come here to find their roots, ask their ancestors, and invest in this mysterious ancient village. Develop and protect the precious ancient buildings left by our ancestors, and build a harmonious and beautiful home.

physical geography

Shuinan village is 2km away from Tiantai county.

Celebrities in Shuinan

Xu Youfa (1918-1983) was born on August 19, 1917 in a poor peasant family in houtangan, Shuinan village, Xinmin Township, Tiantai county. Shuinan is a big village with thousands of smoke stoves, all of which depend on the dike of beishifengxi to protect the fields and crops. In 1949, three harbors and two windmills burst, destroying more than 200 mu of land and submerging more than 1000 mu of land. After two years of intermittent construction, the dam is still thin and fragile. After the founding of new China, Xu Youfa, who immediately devoted himself to water conservancy work, was very anxious about this. He invited several farmers to carry out on-site investigation, planned to build a large-scale flood control dam, and drew a blueprint. He went to the township, district and county governments to ask for support for the implementation, but he was repeatedly blocked by some leaders. As the person in charge of the construction site, Xu Youfa had to report the situation to Zhejiang daily three times. Zhejiang Daily disclosed its letter on February 12, 1952. On February 24, the Tiantai county Party committee dealt with the relevant personnel and called on the people of the whole county to learn from Xu Youfa. With the support of the investigation and research of the construction department, the construction of the levee resumed smoothly and was initially completed in 1955. Since then, the Three Prevention Committee has led the villagers to repair. So far, Shuinan village has never been damaged by floods.

In the winter of 1957, Xu Youfa, director of Xinmin Township Water Conservancy Association, led the masses in Shuinan to build two reservoirs, daaoli and Tangshang, benefiting thousands of mu of farmland. At the beginning of 1958, he visited Zhuji, an advanced water conservancy County, with the county delegation. When he came back, he began to survey and plan to build a happy reservoir that could completely change the water conservancy conditions of the whole township. On January 27, the construction of the reservoir started, and Xu Youfa acted as the person in charge of the construction site. He worked hard with the migrant workers. One day in February, the snow was frozen, the wall of the cut-off tank of the sandwich wall of the dam being excavated collapsed, and the water level at the bottom of the tank rose sharply. The situation was very critical. Seeing this, Xu Youfa immediately jumped into the biting ice water to eliminate the accumulation of soil. All of a sudden, the leather pipe rack collapsed and put him in the mud. He endured the pain and cold, after half an hour of fighting, and finally ruled out the fault, recovered pumping. In order to build a reservoir, he forgot to eat and sleep. Once, he didn't go to the canteen for lunch until 4 pm. The logistics management mistakenly thought that he had dinner in advance and accused him of taking the lead in violating the system. He went back to work without a word. When one of his comrades came to apologize after understanding the truth, he laughed and praised the other party for its strict implementation of the system. Everyone was deeply moved by his selfless dedication and broad mind. He also worked hard and skillfully, and came up with a way to increase the work efficiency by three times and six times, respectively, by using a steel drill to drill soil and a sliding wheel to lift soil in mountainous areas. There are four such construction tools. This year, he was rated as a county level labor model.

On September 4, 1959, there was a torrential rain throughout the county, and the dam of Xingfu reservoir under construction was broken by flood. The villagers who didn't know the truth were angry with Xu Youfa and scolded him all the time. Even his own daughter ignored him. At this critical moment, the party and the government supported him and arranged for him to support the construction of Wanglang reservoir. A few months later, he returned to Shuinan and continued to work hard to build the reservoir until it was completed in May 1960. In February of the same year, he attended the provincial conference of representatives of advanced units in agricultural socialist construction.

At that time, it was a year of disaster when there was a lack of food, and the hearts of the headquarters at the construction site were floating. In order to build a large reservoir, he took out all his savings to set up a water mill. During the day, I worked on the construction site, and at night I went to the streets of the county to solicit the wheat flour processing business from the catering stores. Over a period of time, he saved a warehouse and a half of wheat and distributed it all to the managers for rations.

Then, Xu Youfa and these comrades dug cultivated soil from the tail Bank of the reservoir and transported it to the downstream of the dam to make 2 mu of land and 4 mu of land from sandy beach. Since the beginning of 1961, he has invested in channel construction with migrant workers. In the past three years, 11 kilometers of East and west main canals and 13 branch canals, a total of 17 kilometers, have been completed, forming a three-story rural irrigation network. More than 10000 mu of farmland has benefited, and large areas of dry land have turned into paddy fields. The famous water shortage village has finally changed its appearance.

In October 1967, Xu Youfa was transferred to Tongbai Hydropower Station to be responsible for the construction of baizhangkeng West diversion canal. Together with the survey team, he surveyed more than 20 mountain tops, climbed the Wuyan mountain 600 meters high for five times, and surveyed the tunnel from bachukeng to baizhangkeng. He often tied ropes around his waist and stood on tiptoe to guide the construction. More than 3000 meters of Tongbai West Water Diversion Canal was opened in two years. The project was completed two years ahead of schedule and was completed on November 20, 1969, saving 300000 yuan for the country. On January 18, 1970, Zhejiang Daily reported on his achievements in canal construction under the title of new Yugong on Tongbai mountain. In May 1972, Xu Youfa became a full-time employee of the state. After that, he took part in the construction of the East Water Diversion Project and completed the huangtankeng dam and tianfengkeng tunnel, the longest tunnel in the province.

Cultural relics

Shifang Temple

Among the numerous ancestral halls of Xu family, the ten room ancestral hall is the most important, because it is the general ancestral hall and the most magnificent building. Shifang ancestral hall is located in the north of the village and faces south. It was first built in the 48th year of Qianlong reign of Qing Dynasty. The existing main hall, two chambers, gate and other buildings are in the form of quadrangle. The main hall is five rooms wide, with five columns and nine purlins. It has a hard roof on the top of the mountain. There is a light wall in front of the gate. There were five pairs of flagpoles in front of the gate. They were set up by Xu chaotai, Xu TingYang, Xu Guifang and other scholars in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. One of them was set up by Xu Mingqiu, the "editor of the Imperial Academy" of Enke Jinshi in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. From these flagpoles, we can feel the fine tradition of the Xu family's farming and studying. The ancestral hall purchased the school field and the righteousness field, and used the annual income as the subsidy for the poor children of the family to study. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, there were many private schools in the village, such as Qifeng academy and Huanxi Academy. On the wall, Wang Yangming, a scholar in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, inscribed the four characters "Chengnan aristocratic family", which was transferred from the original Jiannan temple.

The main hall of Shifang ancestral hall is "Shengwu hall". The main hall is very tall, especially the 16 wooden columns. The plaques that once hung in the main hall seem to record the history of the Xu family. On the top of the plaques are three straight plaques. The middle one is inscribed with "imperial edict to Hanlin Academy for revision". The left one is the emperor Tongzhi's edict "Shengchao Renrui", and the right one is inscribed with "Minguo Renrui". Through these three plaques, we can read two vivid stories. Xu Mingqiu was awarded by the Hanlin Academy. He was the only Jinshi of the Xu family in Shuinan. The details of his hard study at that time did not seem much different from the traditional stories, but his enterprising spirit moved the descendants of the village. He won the Jinshi in the year of the first five years of Guangxu, when he was 67 years old. Xu Mingqiu's former residence is on the Northeast Bank of Qiantang, commonly known as zhamentou. In those days, the building was also very particular. The front gate was spacious. There was a wall in front of the gate. Behind the gate was a quadrangle house. The carving of doors and windows was also exquisite. But now it has fallen down a lot. The gate has been rebuilt and the quadrangle has almost collapsed.

From the two plaques of "Shengchao Renrui" and "Minguo Renrui", people

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