Zhang family temple

Zhang family temple

Ancestral hall is a place where Chinese people sacrifice their ancestors or sages. Chinese ancestral temples have many uses. In addition to the function of "worshiping ancestors and worshiping ancestors", these broad ancestral halls can be used for activities when sun's houses usually handle affairs such as marriage, funeral, birthday and happiness. In addition, in order to discuss the important affairs within the clan, the clan members also used the ancestral hall as a meeting place.

brief introduction

Pinghe Matang Zhang's family temple is located in Shuangma village, anhou Town, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou city. The Zhang family temple in Matang,

It was first built in the 29th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1601), and was completed five or six years later. The temple covers an area of land

Covering an area of 960 square meters, it is composed of the family temple and the left and right wing rooms. The family temple is composed of the foyer, the front hall and the left and right wing rooms

Veranda, the main hall. The wing room is five rooms wide. At the foot of the temple wall, the stone is chiseled and the wall is made of blue bricks

Masonry, suspended mountain, swallow tail ridge. In the main hall, there are "huikui Zhang Yidong" and four Jinshi cards

The vertical plaque is "Zhang zuozhou of Hanlin", and the horizontal plaque is "Cihui Yanqing". Zhang Wentong, the founder of Matang, originally lived in Shibi village, Ninghua County, Tingzhou Prefecture. In 1394, he moved to tieliaoke in Matang mountain. Over the past 600 years, it has been handed down to 26 generations. It has produced nearly 40000 people in 18 villages including Shuangma, Longpi, dingxinlou, Shanmei, jiangjunjing, xiaxinlou and zhancuoling. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some descendants of the surname Matang Zhang moved to Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang and Taiwan. Among them, qishimao moved to Taipei. The eighth yingbiao settled in Taiwan's dungji lake, the ninth Shifa's three brothers settled in Taiwan's Jilong mountain, and Tingxian moved to Nantou's kengziwei. Shiyin moved to Dashe Township, Kaohsiung. The 11th County moved to Nantou. Chao and Chen moved to Nantou first and then to Keelung City. Yuzong moved to Nantou. Hongzhang moved to Nantou first and then to Taichung. Shiji and Shixuan moved to Lazhu city in Keelung City. The twelfth fire moved into xiaqizhangli. In the 13th Dynasty, he moved to Yunlin and enjoyed Taichung Daya. 14. Yizhi and Lichuan moved to Nantou first, Lichuan moved to Taichung and Daya later, and then to qizhangli to reclaim wasteland, Sijing and Teng moved to Nantou, and Songzi moved to Taibei county. In the 15th Dynasty, Dalian first entered Danshui County, then separated into Ilan and Taoyuan, lived in Daya, Taichung County, and its ancestors went to Pingtung County. Under the Lichuan sect of the Zhang family, who settled in Taiwan, Yu Kun Tang was founded in Daya, Taichung. There are "Qianliang ancestral temple" in Nantou County, and "Jungong ancestral temple" in Zhangnan Road, pingshanli, Nantou County. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Kehui, former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, was born in Changhua in 1928, and his ancestral home is Pinghe Matang. In recent years, many of Taiwan's Zhangs, whose ancestral home is Ma Tang, have returned to their hometown to find their roots and worship their ancestors, participate in the maintenance of ancestral temples and support public welfare undertakings.

A brief introduction to the flagpole of Zhang's family temple

The deyuantang ancestral hall of Zhang family in tahia village, Nanjing County, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province is a rare ancestral hall building with beautiful environment and unique characteristics.

The beautiful natural environment of Zhang's ancestral hall is closely combined with tahia village, which has become an important part of the village. Tahia village is an ancient village surrounded by mountains. There are many buildings with unique shape and strong local flavor in the village. They are built along the banks of a one kilometer long Qingxi river. They are undulating and well arranged. A broad village road is laid along the stream. On both sides of the village road, there are high and low stone steps leading to each household. Along the stone steps, you can go down to the stream to wash clothes, get water, boil and drink. On the stream, every 100 meters or so, a stone hole bridge will be built to connect the villages on both sides of the river. The water under the bridge is murmuring and the fish are swimming. It's a real picture of a family with beautiful scenery, small bridges and flowing water.

The ancestral hall is located on the foothill terrace behind Taxia village, with a semicircular pool in front, forming a Fengshui pattern with mountain back and water surface. In order to meet the source of Qingxi River, the gate is opened to the side facing the village head, while the whole orientation of the ancestral hall is still south. The entrance gate is a three room and two column archway gate, and the top of the gate is a high and low roof. In the middle of the room, there is a high protuberance, with dragon fish, exotic animals and other decorations on the ridge, which is very gorgeous. In the middle of the gate tower, there is a huge plaque of "Zhang's ancestral hall". After entering the gate, there is a broad courtyard surrounded by high walls. The ancestral hall faces the courtyard, and the plane is a quadrangle layout surrounded by front and back halls and left and right chambers. After passing the front gate hall, there is a small patio, which is the main sacrificial hall "Deyuan hall". The gold plaque of Deyuan hall is hung in the Ming room of the hall, and the dragon and Phoenix are carved in the hall, with gorgeous and elegant decoration. In the middle of the large shrine, worshipped since kaijizu ancestors of the gods. There are four chambers on both sides, which are used for sacrifice.

In Deyuan hall, there is also a 500 page genealogy of Zhang family, which records the process of Zhang's founding in tahia village and his migration. According to the genealogy, the first ancestor of the Zhang family in deyuantang was Zhang xiaoyilang, the 122nd grandson of the Zhang family and the 9th grandson of Zhang Huasheng, a Jinshi in the Song Dynasty. In the first year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1426), xiaoyilang moved to Xiaoxi in Pinghe county with his wife Huashi and Zi Guangzhao, and then to matoubei in Nanjing County. On July 14 of the same year, xiaoyilang moved from matoubei to tahia village. It has been more than 500 years and has been bred to 23 generations.

An important feature of the ancestral hall of Zhang family in Deyuan hall is that there are exquisite and tall stone flagpoles beside the Dayue pool in front of the ancestral hall, which is rare at home and abroad. These flagpoles also reflect the spirit of Zhang's descendants to strive for strength, and also reflect the spirit of Fujian mountain people to open up at home and abroad. Each stone flag pole records their achievements abroad and in other places. There is such a story at the beginning.

Among the ancestors of Taiwan's development, a man named Zhang Shigan came from tahia village. According to the genealogy, although Zhang Shigan's family was poor, he was smart and hardworking. In the early years of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, there were many famine in tahia village. Many people left their hometown and fled. One year, new year's Eve was coming. Zhang Shigan was penniless and poor. Seeing the end of the new year, he asked a rich butcher in his village for three jin of pork on credit. On New Year's Eve, the butcher came to ask for the bill. Zhang Shigan has no money to repay his debt. Please give him some time. The butcher not only refused, but also took away the cooked pork from the pot. Before leaving, he grabbed a handful of plant ash and threw it into the pot, so that they could not drink the broth. At the same time, Zhang Shigan, a young and strong man, was extremely indignant at the humiliation. He was determined to work hard and go to other places to start a business. On the first day of the lunar new year, he took his wife to Deyuan hall. After sacrificing to the ancestors, he left his hometown for a journey. After several twists and turns, he came to Xiamen. He happened to meet a ship sailing for Taiwan. After asking the owner's permission, he boarded the ship and went with him. After many hardships along the way, he finally settled in Tainan. After years of hard work, he finally made a fortune and developed Tainan. Zhang Shigan's descendants have repeatedly returned home to worship their ancestors. In order not to forget the kindness of our ancestors, we set up a stone flag pole in front of the Deyuan hall ancestral hall as a memorial.

Address: South Slope of tahia Village

Longitude: 117.452728

Latitude: 23.718627

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