Taxia Village in Fengshun, Guangdong: "Three generals and two prime ministers" came out of this village
Taxia Village, Fengshun County, Guangdong Province: "Three Generals and Two Prime Ministers" came from this village
Taxia Village, Puzhai Town, Fengshun County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, is the home of former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and The ancestral home of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. At the same time, he is also the commander-in-chief of Thailand’s former naval, land and air forces Chaiyasit Shinawatra, Air Force General and Thai Airways Vice President Prawit Shinawatra, and Thai Army General Uthai Shinawatra. ancestral place. As a result, Taxia Village has the reputation of "three generals and two generals come out of this village", and the small village with a history of more than 600 years has attracted much attention.
Taxia Village is 10 kilometers away from Fengshun County. The village is surrounded by mountains and rivers and is home to more than 3,000 people. It is only separated from Tangnan Town in the southernmost part of Fengshun County by a water. Walking into the village, new buildings are rising from the ground, and laughter and laughter can be heard from time to time. A picture of modern new rural life where people live and work in peace and contentment unfolds before their eyes.
Taxia Village has the terrain of a "pass" where the Ma and Tiger Mountains confront each other. The village is surrounded by mountains in the east, south and north, forming a small basin with a natural barrier. Qiu Mingqing, Party Secretary of Taxia Village, told reporters: "The hills to the south of Taxia Village have been developed into hundreds of acres of contiguous sugarcane production base, and the hills to the west connected to Maoyuan Jianqiao Village have been built into a wooden processing factory that accommodates nearly a thousand workers. The scattered hills at the foot of Tianyang and Buddha Kasaya Mountains in the east are planned as tourist resorts."
"Behind the 'screen' of overlapping peaks in Taxia Village, there is also a mountain range stretching for tens of miles. From the dragon's tail in Jiedong County and the dragon's body in Puzhai, it extends north to the famous mountain Buddha's cassock in the east of Taxia Village, like a dragon entrenched in the fields, such as Laoye Mountain, Beauty Flowers, Shishan, Niuling, etc. Small hills such as Snake Mountain, as well as strange mountains and rocks such as Lao Xian Ge, Bai Mu Stone, Magic Stone, and Immortal Footprint Stone are all natural works that condense spiritual energy, and many magical legends have been left by the predecessors. "The 70-year-old tower. Qiu Daduan, a villager in Xiacun, said, "There is a saying that has been circulating here. In ancient times, officers and soldiers who came from afar saw the terrain here that looked like a 'hidden dragon and crouching tiger', so they carefully got off their saddles, got off their sedan chairs, and walked down to the village."
There is also a Taxia River flowing behind Taxia Village. It flows westward. It was the starting point for the people of Taxia Village to sail to the South China Sea in red-headed boats during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They passed through the Longche River in Tangnan Town, Fengshun and flowed into the Beihe River, heading straight for Jieyang Rongjiang and Shantou enter the sea. "The overseas Chinese in Taxia Village all set out from Taxia Creek behind the village to enter a foreign land and start a new life in a foreign country. At that time, Yingluck's great-great-grandfather Qiu Chunsheng boarded a boat from Taxia Creek to make a living in Thailand," Qiu Daduan said.
“Maybe it’s the good Feng Shui of Taxia Village’s ‘Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger’, or maybe the people of Taxia Village have inherited the Hakka tradition of advocating culture, education, and enduring hardships. Many overseas Chinese who came out of this Hakka mountain village in Taxia Village include There are outstanding people in Singapore and Thailand, among whom the most influential are Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra,” said Qiu Mingqing, Party Secretary of Taxia Village. Commander-in-Chief of Army, Air Force and Air Force Chaiyasit Shinawatra, Thai Air Force General Prawit Shinawatra and Thai Army General Uthai Shinawatra also occupy the positions of generals respectively. "