Huatan Village

Huatan Village

Huatan village is located in Yongjia County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It belongs to the national 4A scenic area Nanxijiang scenic area basin and is a famous historical and cultural village in Wenzhou City. It was originally the seat of Huatan township government, but now it belongs to Shatou Town

brief introduction

Huatan village is close to Zhongshan and Zhenxi in front. Historically, there was a 10 meter wide avenue in front of the village, which was used to the East and west sides of the village. The outside of the avenue was covered with flowers and famous grasses. The ancient villagers called the avenue Daotan, so they called the village Huatan for a long time.

According to records, Huatan village was built in the period of the Tang Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty. Two years later, Zhu Xing, the ancestor of Zhu's family, was the county magistrate of Yongjia County. After several choices, he settled in Huatan, where "the mountains are bright and the waters are beautiful, the birds are singing harmoniously, the forest is deep and the valley is deep, and the scenery is quiet and clear". After that, Ding riwang, a member of the Zhu family. At present, there are more than 1500 Zhu families and more than 5000 people in the village.

According to the research of Zhu's genealogy, Zhu's family moved from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Later, his children moved to all parts of the country for official study, such as Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province. Zhu Xi, a famous Neo Confucianism master, was his descendant of nine generations. At present, the Zhu family members of Shatou, Qiaotou, Oubei and Doumen in Yongjia County all originate from Huatan. During the 700 years from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Republic of China, Zongzhi moved to Jinhua, Pan'an, Sanmen, Yueqing, Ouhai, Rui'an, Huangyan, Xianju, Ningbo and other villages in jingnei, Zhejiang Province.

Huatan is the birthplace of Yongjia wheat cake, which has a history of more than 1000 years. It is a local characteristic cultural and historical product popular with Wenzhou people.

For more than a thousand years, Huatan village has a prosperous literary style and a large number of talents. Huatan village planning is rigorous, scientific and reasonable. Backed by Qingshan, the mountain range gradually rises in altitude from west to East. The highest point is nijianfeng, the sixth peak of Yongjia County, with an altitude of 681 meters. The middle and lower part of the mountain is gentle, suitable for planting crops. The upper part has cliffs, steep slopes, dense forests and rich water conservation. In front of the Zhenxi River, the river is 150 meters wide. The beach is paved with white pebbles. The flow of the river is smooth and clear. You can see the bottom of the river with fish and gravel. In front of the village, there are walls built from east to west, all of which are made of original stones. The base of the enclosure is about 1.5 meters, the height is about 2.8 meters, and the total length is about 1500 meters. There are four gateways built at the East and West ends and in the middle. The local people call it Shimen cave. The stone gate is about 4 meters high and 3.8 meters wide, with a three-dimensional square structure and an elliptical gate in the middle. There was a wooden door in the cave, which was closed in the war or at dusk. There is a 10 meter Avenue and a 2-meter Lane in the East and west of the village; there are 4 3-meter lanes and 3 2-meter lanes in the South and north of the village. The major and minor roads intersect vertically and horizontally and spread in a dendritic shape along the 10 meter Avenue. In ancient times, all the dwellings were arranged along the inner side of the avenue, along the street and along the road. Along the avenue, there are the most important ancestral hall, memorial archway, mansion and other buildings in the village.

Since ancient times, Huatan has had a prosperous literary style and many scholars. Although the clan was mainly engaged in farming, the habit of learning became a habit of villagers. From the Song Ci to the Qing Dynasty, more than 10 people successively obtained official titles, the highest official to the censor. There is Zhu Mo Qu, the most popular "king of cloth clothing literature" in Wenzhou. He is the teacher of Wang Shipeng, the Prime Minister of Song Dynasty. After liberation and before the expansion of university enrollment in the 1990s, many people were admitted to universities, engaged in a variety of jobs, and went out to serve the country.

During the revolutionary war, the southern Zhejiang guerrilla detachment led by Zhou Pizhen, the former deputy commander of Zhejiang military region, took Huatan as one of the main battle positions and fought many times in Huatan, cutting off the contact line from Yueqing through Huatan to Yongjia. The vast number of Huatan people supported the revolutionary war, grain and silver coins, and promoted the liberation of southern Zhejiang.

During the Anti Japanese War, a small group of Japanese stationed in the present Fenglin town. The Huatan people launched the attack secretly and organized more than 200 people. On August 1944, they attacked Wu Huaiyu's troops with gunpowder, knives and spears. After a fierce battle overnight, they killed 8 Japanese soldiers and 15 rural puppets and seized some guns and ammunition, which greatly encouraged the confidence of attacking the Japanese.

Since 2000, the majority of Huatan people have opened life supermarket nationwide, which is a famous supermarket village in Wenzhou. According to incomplete statistics, Huatan village has more than 3000 supermarkets all over the country, with annual sales of nearly 20 billion yuan.

Huatan is now divided into three administrative villages: Huayi, Huaer and Huasan.

In 1989, the people's Government of Yongjia County listed Huatan ancient village as a protective ancient village, and gradually invested funds to protect and develop the ancient village.

Relic sites

Memorial Gateway

There are 12 memorial archways in Huatan village, including "Wufu", "Huangmen", "Yishi Zanying", "Xiangxian", "Xiantai", "Zhongxiu", "gongzhichunliang", "Xihe", "Xishan first", "weigongxuanli", "yuanfeiyuyue", "songbaihanzhen". In addition to the "pine and cypress cold Zhen", are built for the recognition of scholars. Now there are only three "Xishan No.1", "Wufu" and "Xiantai", and the rest have been destroyed one after another.

Xiantai archway is a four column three story wooden structure. In 1505, Wenzhou magistrate Li Duan built it in memory of Zhu Liang, who served as the governor of Sichuan Province.

The plaque of "Xishan No.1" was given to Zhu Daokui (Mo Zhen) by Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty. The descendant Zhu Zhuo built a archway with six columns and one bay, which hung on the forehead of the climbing room.

ancestral hall

Dunmu Temple (Wu Fu) in front of the door for the Five Dynasties, five bay, courtyard style. Ming Zhengtong years (1436-1449) for Shandong Road censor Zhu Liangxi built. Zhu Jingran's family, a descendant of Zhu Liangxian, still has one imperial edict given to Zhu Liangxian's parents by Zhu Qi town of Ming Yingzong on the fourth day of the first month of the orthodox tenth year (1445).

academy

Cultural relics include Xiyuan academy, Baiyan academy and Wenchang Pavilion.

There are three old houses at the north end of an alley in Mawan, Huatan village. One is in the west side, strip-shaped, single-layer, seven Bay. The other two are on the east side, one is a five bay strip house, and the other is a quadrangle, with a total of 24 rooms. There is a well in the backyard with the inscription "bingxu (1226) in the second year of Baoqing of the great Song Dynasty" on the well circle. The handwriting is still indistinct. The villagers call these houses "Song houses".

Address: Huatan village, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City

Longitude: 121.08093261719

Latitude: 28.411853790283

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