Culture of Huiyang District

Huiyang’s popular music is mainly played by percussion instruments such as drums, cymbals, and wooden fish, and orchestral instruments such as piccolo, erxian, sanxian, and huqin. The most representative one is the "Gong and Drum Cabinet". The "Gongs and Drums Cabinet" is mainly composed of flutes, divided into "Zihou" and "Pinghou", each singing and harmonizing; the wooden fish is used as the conductor. 8 people form a band. The repertoire is mostly "Guangdong music" and Cantonese opera singing. The masses like this kind of performance in all big events such as weddings, funerals, and games to welcome gods.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were musicians Li Danlin (whose name was Fuqinke) and Qiu Jishang (whose name was Hefeng Xiaoke) who returned to Shanxi. During the Republic of China, Huiyang had musician Xue Xiuting (self-named Xihu Qinke), music master Liao Shangguo, and music professor Liao Fushu.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the most famous musicians in Huiyang were the famous soprano Ye Peiying, a professor of the Vocal Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, and the famous soprano Huang Hongying, deputy director of the Huizhou Song and Dance Ensemble. The ruins of Zhan Huaide's Tomb

are located on Eling Mountain to the west of Lilin Village, Lilin Town. During the "Cultural Revolution", villagers destroyed tombs to obtain bricks for water conservancy construction, and only the ruins remain today. The tomb is 6 meters long, 4 meters wide, and the monument is 2.8 meters high. Zhan Huaide was the ancestor of Zhan Ruoshui, a Jinshi scholar in the 18th year of Hongzhi's reign in the Ming Dynasty (1505). There is no examination of his life story.

Ye Menglong’s Tomb Site

It is located on a mountainside to the north of Niucaohu Village, Pauge Township, Liangjing Town. The tomb is divided into two chambers, left and right, each 4 meters long, 2 meters wide and 1.2 meters high. There is a stone turtle 100 meters in front of the tomb, 1.2 meters long. It is said that thousands of years ago, there were two rows of stone men and horses facing each other from the stone turtle to the tomb chamber. In the 34th year of the Republic of China (1946), villagers robbed this tomb. Only ruins remain today.

Xiayong Pagoda Ruins

It is located on an island 1,000 meters southwest of Xiayong. The bottom plane has a diameter of 5.5 meters, a height of 40 meters, and is divided into 5 floors. According to legend, the tower can "suppress evil spirits". The tower was built in the early Ming Dynasty and destroyed in 1958. Today only ruins remain.

Tongwen Pagoda Ruins

It is located on Pagoda Mountain in the center of Tonghu Town. Built in the early Qing Dynasty, it was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution". Only ruins remain today. The diameter of the tower base is 5 meters, and the original tower height is 18 meters. It is said that there are many minefields near the tower, and people and animals are often struck by lightning. After the tower is built, lightning damage is reduced because the tower can protect against lightning. Today, Junken Farm has built a pavilion on the base of the tower, with lightning rods erected on the pavilion, so there is little damage from lightning.

Yongping Village Kiln Site

It is located on the roadside of the stone field about 2 kilometers east of Yongping Village, Tonghu Town, and about 80 meters away from the Dongjiang River. Due to the excavation and construction of roadbed, five round-arched steamed bun kilns were exposed. Each kiln is 1 to 2 meters apart, and the kiln chamber is 1.3 to 1.5 meters high and 1.1 to 1.2 meters wide. The kiln wall is made of yellow coarse sand clay and is 5 cm thick. There are many fragments of pottery pots left on the ground and in the kilns. The only artifact collected is a four-eared jar. The body is dark gray, the pottery is hard, the lips are rolled, the neck is short, the shoulders are flat, and the belly is bulging. The overall shape appears to be fat and short, with four ears attached to the upper abdomen, and the body of the vessel has obvious wheels. Make convex ribs and string patterns and apply light brown glaze. Judging from the shape and production methods of the utensils, the kiln belongs to the Tang Dynasty site.

Clam quarrel site

It is located on an alluvial platform in front of Tonghu Health Center in Guanghe Ruins, Tonghu Town. The site is about 3 meters above the water surface of the Dongjiang River, covering an area of ​​about 3,000 square meters, 80 to 100 meters long from east to west, and about 40 meters wide from north to south. It is a shell mound site type with a thickness of about 0.4 meters. The artifacts collected include hammered stone axes, stone adzes, ground stone axes, sand-filled cord-patterned pottery pieces and sand-filled pottery stands. The polished stone tools are mainly polished on the edge, and some are polished on the whole body, leaving obvious polishing marks on the body. The characteristics of the artifacts are similar to those of the mid-Neolithic age sites found in the Pearl River Delta, so the site is about 4,000 to 6,000 years old. The discovery of this site provides important physical data for studying the distribution of Neolithic sites and the development of prehistoric culture in Huiyang County.

Fenchuangjiao and Murderous Cliff

In October of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Japanese invaders occupied Sanmen Island, intercepted the ships passing Sanmen Island, and towed them to Mawan The west side was burned; the people on the boat were driven to a cliff in Mawan and killed. The place where the boats were burned is now called "Burning Boats Corner". The place where the murder occurred is now called "Murder Cliff". ⒈Beacon Tower

It is located on Yandun Ridge, 1.5 kilometers southeast of Xiayong Town, facing Daya Bay. It is said that it was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. The platform is made of granite and is in the shape of a truncated cone, 2 meters high, 4 meters in diameter at the bottom, 3 meters in diameter at the top, and 1 meter in diameter at the smoke outlet.

⒉Qingquan Temple

It is located in a ravine in the north of Xiayong Town. The current appearance is made of brick and wood, with a plane width of 10.8 meters and a depth of 18 meters. Legend has it that a clear spring flowed around the temple all year round, hence its name.

According to legend, the temple was built in the late Ming Dynasty. There were nuns in the original temple, but they returned to secular life after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The temple was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution". In the 1980s, several religious men and women in Xiayong raised funds to rebuild the temple.

⒊Shangpai Castle

It is located 1 mile west of Pai Village in Yonghu Town. The plane is rectangular, 61 meters long, 41 meters wide, 4.8 meters high, and the wall thickness is 1.3 meters. There are rectangular turrets built at the four corners, all of which are built with weathered stone barriers. There is a hole on the top and bottom of the city wall 3.6 meters apart. The upper hole is square inside and rectangular outside, and the lower hole is round, which can be used for surveillance and archery. There is a vaulted city gate on the east and south sides, built with bluestone strips, 3.8 meters high and 2 meters wide, with railings on both sides. There is a moat 30 meters away from the city in the west, south and north outside the city. The river is 20 meters wide and 10 meters deep. There is a suspension bridge in the south of the city, which has been lost. According to the legend of the Huang clan who were the first to settle in the area, the fort already existed when their ancestors came here to establish the foundation during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.

⒋Wenbi Pagoda

In Zhanbu Village, Aipei Town. Built in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that after Kangxi, the Canebu people were successful in the exam one after another, and the literary fortune was booming. The villagers built pagodas to commemorate their achievements, hence the name. The tower has a hexagonal plane, a three-story pavilion-style blue brick structure, and is 14 meters high. It is divided into 3 floors, each floor is 4.13 meters high. The side length of the tower base is 2.3 meters, and the wall thickness is 1 meter. There is a door on the north side, 1.9 meters high and 1 meter wide. The doorposts are made of granite strips. The tower body is made of bricks stacked with eaves, and the corners of the eaves are upturned. There is a small window on the upper part of each surface on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The top of the tower is a hexagonal spire, with bowls and glazed orbs placed on it to form a pagoda temple. The original structure of the tower cavity has been destroyed.

⒌Chonglin Shiju

It is located in Dashanxia Village, Zhenlong Town. It was built in the 13th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1808). It is a Hakka fort-style building with a rectangular plan, a width of 155 meters and a depth of 134 meters. There are three gates on the front. The middle gate is made of stone, 3 meters high and 2 meters wide, with a stone plaque "Chonglin Shiju" on it. The left and right gates are each 47 meters away from the middle gate. There is a pond in front of the door. There are turrets built at the four corners of the wall. The floor plan is square, with a side length of 10 meters and a height of 13 meters. There is an archway behind the middle gate, on which are engraved four words: "Doing good is the most joyful thing." The main temple in the fort has a three-entry courtyard layout, and the building is a hard top. There are two stone tablets embedded in the walls on both sides of the middle gate. They are the same size, 0.78 meters high and 0.5 meters wide. One is the Huizhou prefect's declaration on mediating water disputes; the other is the township rules made by the Ye clan in Dashanxia Village.

⒍Wenchang Temple

It is located on Zhuhang Street, Tamsui Town. It was built in the 16th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1836). The plan is a quadrangle-style layout with two courtyards. The building has a hard top, a mixed beam frame structure of lifting beams and piers, and glazed tiles with trimmed edges. The front hall is 15 meters wide and 6 meters deep. There is a patio in the middle, 6 meters wide and 5 meters deep. The apse is 9 meters high, 3 rooms 12 meters wide, and 3 rooms 12 meters deep. Still in good condition.

⒎Kixing Pavilion

It is located in Yuechang Market, Xinwei Town. The plane is rectangular, 10 meters wide, 13 meters long, 11 meters high, and has 3 floors. There is a three-sided stone tablet embedded in the east wall of the middle floor. The inscription explains the reason, time, process and amount of fundraising for the construction of the pavilion. Construction started in the 18th year of Jiaqing (1813) in the Qing Dynasty and was completed in the 15th year of Guangxu (1889).

⒏Pangu Palace

It was built in the 14th year of Guangxu (1888) in the Qing Dynasty on Baiyunzhang (1060 meters above sea level, the highest peak in Huiyang) adjacent to Dongguan in Xinxu Town. The plane is rectangular, 22 meters wide, 13 meters deep and 11 meters high. It is divided into two entrances, with a patio in between. The first entrance is a rectangular hall; the second entrance is a horizontal hall with three halls, each with a divine seat. The divine seats in the right hall are Pangu King, Jade Emperor, and Medicine King; the left hall is Pangu Aunt, Feng Lianzu, and Zhang Xinjie; and the middle hall is Pangu Po. The palace was destroyed and repaired many times, and its original appearance has been lost. It was rebuilt in the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928). It was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution". From 1980 to 1981, some good men and women raised funds for reconstruction.

⒐Zumiao

It is located on Zumiao Street, Tamsui Town. The year of its founding is unknown, but it was rebuilt in the early Qing Dynasty. The two-entry courtyard has a quadrangle-style layout. It is 13 meters wide and 15 meters deep. The main building is a hard-topped building with a mixed beam frame structure of lifting beams and buckets. The roof ridge of the main hall is decorated with pottery sculptures of two dragons playing with beads. According to legend, the ancestral temple is the cemetery of three families named Zhan, Li and Dai. Later, this temple was built to avoid disputes. It is known as "the most important ancestral temple in the family".

⒑Biling Building

In Laowei Village, Zhoutian, Qiuchang Town, the three-entry, three-door and four-corner building is constructed symmetrically along the center line. The width of the entrance is 135 meters, the depth of the entrance is 120 meters, and the distance between each entrance is 15 meters. It was built in the 19th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1893). The plaque was inscribed by Jinshi Jiang Fengchen. According to the Ye Delai tribe, the building was built with money donated by Ye Delai.

11. Liu Clan Ancestral Hall

According to the Liu family genealogy, it can be known that ancestors of the Liu family in Huangshadong Village came from the Central Plains to cultivate this land since the early Ming Dynasty. Therefore, this Liu family ancestral hall The ancestral hall has certain architectural historical value and cultural value.

The "Ma'anshan Liu Clan Ancestral Hall" in Huangsha Cave was built in the heyday of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. It was a Feng Shui master named Li from Jiangxi Province who performed acupoints. The elders of the clan of the same clan majored in it. Later, in the second year of the Republic of China (1913) ) has been renovated again. The ancestral hall has experienced about 200 years of wind and rain, thanks to the full maintenance of its descendants. Tai Rong Resort is located in Xinlou Village, Ma'an Town, at the intersection of Xizhijiang River and Tamsui River. It is 18 kilometers away from Huizhou city and 25 kilometers away from Danshui Town. From Huizhou, follow the Guangshan Highway in the direction of Ma'an, and it takes more than ten minutes to drive there; from Tamsui, follow Huinan Avenue into Yonghuwei and take County Road 205 Yongma Highway to get there.

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