The history and culture of Yunluo Town

The surnames in Yunluo Town include Huang, Zheng, Yang, Xie, Weng, Zhang, Chen, Gan, Zhu, etc. Among them:

The villages with the majority of villagers surnamed Huang include Sanzhai (Yunlou Village, Dachi Village, Zhongzhongzhai Village, Xinwei, Xiaxinwei), Xinxing Village (Xiaxinpu, Lingtou), Donghu and Nanhu. Most of them are descendants of Huangcheng Gong, the seventeenth son of Huangqiaoshan Gong. The distant ancestor of the surname Huang entered Fujian from Gushi, Guangzhou, Henan, and was passed down to Huangqiao Shanggong (872-953), who lived in Shaowu, Fujian. In the first year of Guangshun in the later Zhou Dynasty (951), Huang Qiaogong was already eight years old. He divided the accumulated wealth equally and sent his twenty-one sons to live in various places. The seventeenth son, Huang Chenggong (907-979), lived in Shitang, Xincheng, and Shicheng Castle, Ruijin County, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. He later moved to Pingxi, and then to Sanduwei, Lichuan. His descendants, the Wei family, gave birth to son Zhen, and their descendants lived in Heyuan, Guangdong, and Hezhou, Guangxi. . Descendants from Heyuan, Guangdong, came to Huang Yanggui, whose name was Yansi. Around the seventeenth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1481), they moved from Wubo Tangshou, Heyuan, Guangdong, to Xiaxinpu (i.e. Xinxing Village), Yunluo Town, Puning. It was passed down to his descendant Sun Sougong, who established the foundation from Xiaxinpu to Central Village in Yunluo Town in the 20th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1681). It was passed down to Sun Yungong, who moved from Zhongzhongzhai to Yunlou Village and Dachi Village in Yunluo Town in the third year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1725) to establish the foundation of the township. Their descendants successively moved to Shangba, Shenqiankeng, Shangdong and other villages.

The villages with the majority of villagers surnamed Zheng include Yunluo Village (Laowei, Banshangpu, Xialing, Shandujiu), Huzhai (Huzhai, Yuanshanzai, Longjingwei, Weibeitou) and other villages. The Zheng family originated from Ji You, Duke Huan of Zheng, the king of the State of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period. Zheng Guo is now located in Xinzheng, Xingyang, and Kaifeng, Henan. A descendant of the surname Zheng, Zheng Nian'er, was a Jinshi in Guihai Branch (1203) in the third year of Jiatai of Emperor Ningzong of the Song Dynasty, also known as Haoyuan, Biquan and Zhongding. He was sixteen years old at that time. At the age of 24, he became a bachelor of the Ming Palace and was appointed Prince's Assistant (first-grade official title). After being raped by powerful men, he was demoted to Yongding and Shanghang, Jiangxi. First generation ancestor. In the third year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1524), two Dukes, Dexing and Dexuan of the Zheng family, moved from Yongding, Jiangxi to Nigou, Puning City to avoid the war, and settled in Tanqian and Houling in the village. Later, some of the descendants of Dexing Gong moved to Kuikeng Village, Gaopu Town, this city to settle down, and their descendants moved from Kuikeng Village to Yunluo Village (Laowu, Banshangpu, Xialing, Shandu) and other villages.

Other surname origins need to be added. Most of the villagers in Yunluo Town believe in Buddha, the Three Mountain Kings, Guandi, Sanniang, Guanyin, etc., inherit the tradition, respect their ancestors, and pay attention to Feng Shui. Traditional festivals include worshiping ancestors and welcoming gods, singing and dancing, and other activities. Among them, on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, the ancestor worship and god worship activities in Sanzhai, Laowu and other villages are the most grand and lively, attracting thousands of people from surrounding villages to watch and participate, making it very joyful and lively.

There is a Sanshan King Temple in Sanzhai, Yunluo Town, which has a history of more than 100 years. This Sanshan King Temple is different from others in that it has a "child body" (similar to Tibetan Buddhism) living Buddha). Usually, he is an ordinary citizen. When villagers go to the temple to offer incense or during major festivals, he will be in a trance in the temple. Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to welcome the gods, an old man who is nearly a hundred years old will sit in a sword sedan chair (three knives on his feet, three knives on his butt, three knives on his back, and one knife in each hand on his left and right hands. The knives are all The villagers were very pious. For the child body (similar to the living Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism), a new child body will appear after the death of the old man, similar to the reincarnation of the living Buddha.