Liu Zeda

Liu Zeda

Liu Zeda (1570-1643), a member of gangxiaren (now Liu's house in Baiwei village, Weidong village committee, Shilipu Town, Yingde City), was named Xuanjin. In the 25th year of Wanli, in July of dingyouke, engeng graduated from the local examination in August. He once served as the prefect of Guilin Prefecture in Guangxi, a member of the Qing dynasty Department of the Ministry of household in Nanjing, a doctor, and the prefect of Xuzhou Prefecture in Sichuan (now Yibin City). Because of his prestige, he was promoted by Pinglin to be a military officer of Xuma Lu (now Luzhou City in Yibin City), and Sichuan was promoted to be a deputy envoy of chasi (the fourth rank).

Biography of characters

Liu Zeda was elected as the county magistrate of Guilin, Guangxi, and then went to Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Finally, he was appointed by the emperor as the prefect of Xuzhou in Sichuan, the military officer of xulu, and the inspector of punishment. Local villagers call it "Liu Zeda's first official in charge of three provinces", which means that Liu Daoye once worked as an official in Guangxi, Jiangsu and Sichuan. after Liu Zeda returned to his hometown, he lived in seclusion in Liantang village. Up to now, there is a Moyan stone carving in Liantang cave, which is said to be written by Liu Zeda.

Liu's house in Baiwei Village

Liu Daoye's ancestral home is Liu's enclosed house in Baiwei village, Gangxia. The enclosed house covers a total area of 2438 square meters, with a watchtower at each end. It is said that the outer walls of the walls and watchtowers are painted white, so they are called Liu's house in Baiwei village. Liu's round house in Baiwei village is located from west to East, which has the characteristics of Hakka Round House, but it is different. Liu's house in Baiwei village, where Liu Daoye lived, is very well located. It has Fengshui to avoid wind and gather Qi, and pays attention to "avoiding evil". On the north side, there are green hills with Double Dragons. On the back of the mountain, there is a tall and handsome tangxiashan mountain with dense Fengshui forest. Surrounded by green shade, it is evergreen all the year round, and the air is fresh. On the front, there is an open gangxiadong, in which the financial resources of the three rivers gather, Make full use of the natural space in the building location, reasonably arrange the layout of the house, and integrate the enclosed house with the nature. The main wall materials of the wall and watchtower are raw soil, stone, sand, lime, etc. when ramming the wall, a certain proportion of sand and lime are mixed into the soil to make the wall more solid and waterproof. Based on the comprehensive analysis of the stone carvings of the ancestral temple of Liu's enclosed house and their clear and exquisite patterns, as well as the numerous stone gate sill, stone roller, stone pestle, stone pier, scholar mast, green stone slab with various carvings and the scale structure of the enclosed house, it can be seen that Liu Daoye and other Liu's ancestors attached great importance to the construction of the enclosed house, He is willing to spend a lot of money on Fengshui. In addition, the plaques of "Bingtai waixian" and "Sichuan Provincial envoys" hung in the main hall of Liu's ancestral hall and the second hall were more prominent. At that time, the Liu family in the walled house of Baiwei village was famous for a time, and became famous in the jurisdiction of the inspection department of taikou.

Liantangyan fangmoyan stone carving

Liantangzhai is a north-south village, located in the eastern edge of the Jue basin, limestone peak, 357 meters above sea level, surrounded by cliffs. To the north, you can see the majestic Yaoshan mountain, the first peak of Yingde, the top of the bottom of the boat, the stone gate terrace, and the lush mountains; to the south, you can see the writing tower of Qilong mountain. Within a radius of 1km around Liantang village, there are five unique limestone peaks, such as Qishan, jinjizhai, Maanshan and luzishan, which constitute a beautiful, lush, green, beautiful landscape and picturesque geomantic treasure land. Liantangyan is located at the foot of the northeast mountain of liantangzhai, belonging to limestone cave. The mouth of Liantang rock is shaped like a trumpet, and the rock above it protrudes, It's the natural "tile face" of Liantang rock. Inside the cave, there is a 53 cm × 68 cm square Moyan stone inscription: Yuyang Zi Ti, the master of the mountain, Yousi Jing, the peak of the forest wall, yingri flower dock, lotus pond with clouds, cicadas singing, cranes singing, water singing, apes singing, stone room rock, niche brushing, towel banquet, sitting tree chiseling pillow, door picking words for turtles, outside the object, looking for strange life, qinkai, everything just for the day to reduce, this heart is directly related to Yousi In February of the fifth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty (1626 A.D.), the inscriptions on this cliff were created in the fifth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty (1626 A.D.). The inscriptions are in regular script, vigorous and powerful. Although they have experienced nearly 400 years of ups and downs, they are still clearly recognizable today. According to research, the stone carver is Liu Zeda. In his later years, Liu Zeda lived in seclusion in Liantang village. With broad mind, keen insight and rich knowledge, he described the gorgeous landscape of Liantang rock, Liantang village and its surrounding areas. as time goes by, the stone carvings of Liantang village and Liantang rock, Liantang rock and Moyan have sparked countless legends about Liu Daoye.

Regard Tieshu as "divine tree"

In the Liu's enclosure in Baiwei village, the villagers worshipped the iron trees as "sacred trees" and cared for them like precious flowers and trees. Why? It turned out that when Liu Daoye returned home, he brought back two iron trees (also known as Fengwei grass) from Sichuan and planted them on the north and south sides of Liu's enclosure village. Villagers also set up altars under the tree crown to worship them, which were stolen in the mid-1990s. For more than 400 years since Mr. Liu Daoye planted the iron trees, the villagers in Baiwei have always maintained the special habit of planting the iron trees. Almost every family has planted the iron trees in front of and behind their houses. The men, women and children in the village have watered them frequently. Some villagers have cultivated the iron trees by using abandoned stone pestles and stone mills, and some iron trees have even blossomed. The village gradually formed a strong atmosphere of men, women, old and young planting and caring for iron trees.

Hongwu Yamen

After Liu Daoye returned home, he chose liangpitou red house (800 meters behind today's Weidong primary school) as the geomantic treasure land to build a 960 square meter "temporary yamen" with extraordinary momentum and red external walls, just like the meeting place for yamen motions. Because the decoration color of the external wall of the temporary yamen is red, the local people call it "red house yamen". In the late Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty, on the first day of each month, Yingde county magistrate led officials to "Hongwu Yamu" to "report their work", such as Dianshi, Jiaoyu, xunjiao, Zhubo, Qingxi inspection department, Jikou inspection department, Xianggang inspection department and so on. There was a bustling scene, and even Shaozhou government station visited "Hongwu Yamu". In a word, when passing by the gate of "Hongwu yamen" in liangpitou, civil servants get off the sedan chair and military officers get off the horse. however, the glory of that year can no longer be seen today, so how can the "red house yamen" and Liu Daoye go to the dilapidated situation? In this regard, there is a folk legend about the rise of the "red house yamen" gate and the crow son on the nine mounds. It is said that on the first day of a certain month of one year, county officials and inspection officials "reported their work" to Hongwu Yamen and waited to pay homage to Mr. Liu at the bridgehead of Hongwu Liangpi. However, Mr. Liu was still asleep because of the hot weather. His wife called for "master to get up" three times in a hurry, but she still couldn't wake up. When she was in a hurry, she cried out in a loud voice: "if you are an official, you should call me three times and four times." This infuriated Mr. Liu, who ordered his servants to take the "official shoes" given by Emperor Wanli to the county officials and inspection officers waiting at the end of Liangpi bridge. When they saw the "official shoes", they immediately knelt down. At noon, the sun was scorching, the officials were sweating, even their clothes were soaked, and their knees were red, swollen and painful. However, no one from the "red house government" came to take the "official shoes". Until the sun slanted to the west, Liu Daoye's bodyguard came to Liangpi bridgehead to take away the "official shoes" and informed him to enter the "red house yamen" to accept Liu Daoye's interview. Since then, a county official said to himself, "it's really hard to be a sesame official." he couldn't stand the hardship of Mr. Liu Daoye, so he resigned and went back to his hometown to farm. Later, when the county magistrate thought of the "red house yamen" meeting, Liu Daoye put on a "big official frame" to neglect the officials, so he was indignant and revenged. The county magistrate forgot to eat and sleep. He studied geomantic omen assiduously. He took two geomantic omen masters from southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong as his masters. During his three years with the geomantic omen masters, he traveled all over the beautiful mountains and rivers, developed good eyesight and learned geomantic omen skills. One year, the magistrate pretended to be Mr. Feng Shui and went to the "red house yamen" in gangxiadong for a long time. He said: "good feng shui, good feng shui!" Mr. Liu was very happy after hearing this, and bowed himself to invite this Mr. Feng Shui to the house to have a talk. As a result, this Feng Shui man described to Liu Daoye eloquently that "Hongwu Ya Fu" is the only good geomancy in the whole Lingnan area, which can be compared with that of the imperial mausoleum. Liu Daoye was overjoyed at the news, but he was very happy. Just at this time, Mr. Feng Shui said, "but there are two deficiencies in the United States and China." "How to say this?" Liu Daoye asked anxiously. Mr. Feng Shui made a false analysis and said: "if you raise the threshold of the" red house yamen mansion "by another 2 feet, the emperor will come to your mansion in person, and can accept more wealth and blessings from the vast Yao mountain, and you will live longer. The nine earth mounds behind "Hongwu yamen" have the dragon vein of barrier Hengdong - Daan Cave - Nangang mountain. If these nine earth mounds are leveled, they will show the real dragon. " Liu Daoye didn't know he was cheating, so he was intrigued. He ordered his servants to organize carpenters and stonemasons to raise the threshold of "Hongwu yamen" by 2 feet, and asked the villagers to level the nine mounds behind "Hongwu yamen". It is said that there is a young crow hidden in each of the nine mounds. Eight of them have not opened their eyes, and they were frozen to death or starved to death after moving out of the mound. Another crow with opened eyes flies to the distance immediately. The following year, the scenes of county officials, inspection department and other officials paying homage to "Hongwu yamen" were gone, and Liu Daoye's health went from bad to worse. Since then, the "red house yamen" has plummeted, and the front door is desolate. In the past, Liu Daoye, who used to be well paid, well-dressed, charismatic and well-off, became a hard-working man. He relied on his relatives and friends to help him, and even lived in seclusion in liantangyan of liantangzhai in his later years. The fate of "Hongwu yamen" and Mr. Liu Daoye was so miserable in his later years. According to folklore, all these changes were made by this geomantic omen man. As a matter of fact, the fate of "Hongwu yamen" and Liu Daoye in his later years was different from that of Wan in the late Ming Dynasty

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