Brief introduction of scenic spots in Qingcheng town
Lotus pond is located in Jianting Village, Qingcheng Town, Yuzhong County, Lanzhou. The lotus pond in this area is a new industry developed in recent years. In midsummer, the lotus flowers on the water are swaying with the wind and bursting with fragrance. Breeding all kinds of fish in the lotus pond has become the main economic income of the local people. Every holiday, urban fishing enthusiasts will fish by the lotus pond in droves and enjoy the gift of nature. Gao's Ancestral Hall in Tiaocheng, Gansu Province is located beside the main street of Qingcheng Town, Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, and is listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Gansu Province.
Gao Ancestral Hall was built in the 44th year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1779). The ancestral temple faces the street and sits south to north. Completed in the fifty years of Qianlong (AD 1785). A textual research can be made on the inscription on Liang in the main hall: The book says: "The 50th anniversary of Qing Qianlong was founded in Huanlu auspicious day, with six grandchildren on board, with seven leading officials, Liang Hanzhong, his younger brother, Wu Hangong, the plumber Qi Chengyuan, the painter Tao, the stonemason Feng, the plasterer, Liang Zilin and so on." . According to genealogical records, during the fifty years of Qianlong, Gong invited Gao Bingxin, the ninth ancestor, his son, his senior official (the grandson and fourth ancestor of Gao Rui VI) and his grandchildren Gao Xihan, Gao, Gao Dihan and Gao Wuhan to build three ancestral temples, three east-west wings and three mountain gates. In the 18th year of Daoguang (AD 1838), the 11th ancestor Gao Dengtai, Gao and Gao were invited to rebuild the ancestral temple. Before the gate was moved, rain corridors, yamen and rows were built. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (AD 1856), Gong, Gao Pilin, Gao Jihe and Gao Chongxin were invited to pull out the temple. In the eighth year of Jiaqing (AD 1803), Wuju High School had a pair of high cast iron flagpoles, and Wu Lingshu made a pair of wooden flagpoles.
The ancestral hall consists of a mountain gate, a courtyard, a rain gallery and a main hall. The overall planning is square gossip, and the courtyard of the four courtyards is in the shape of four treasures gathering pearls, which is symmetrical from left to right, with wing rooms and wing rooms in the east and west. The mountain gate is a brick-wood structure hanging on the top of the mountain, with green tiles and bamboo doors and high ridges and eaves. There is a four-character plaque "Gao's Ancestral Hall" hanging in the middle. There are two stone lions in the town house and two flagpoles outside the gate, sitting south to north and standing in the center of the street. The first thing you see when you enter the mountain gate is a stone tablet more than two meters high (see the inscription below). After passing through the yard, I went straight to the court. Both the stadium and the rain gallery rest at the top of the mountain. On the balcony of the court, there are family instructions and filial piety pictures. In the middle of the beam of the rain gallery hangs a three-foot-square plaque with the word "Jinshi" written on it. The second volume is "Gao Hongru, the 163rd senior high school entrance examination in Xianfeng, the second senior high school entrance examination" and "Acting as the main hall of Lanzhou, Gansu, and the third-class King Lu Ji V". Through the rain gallery, straight into the main hall, three wide and two deep. It is a double eaves structure. The floor of the main hall is paved with 2 cm thick boards. In the center of the front wall, there is a portrait of the high ancestor. In the middle of the front altar, there is an exquisite memorial tablet of "Grandfather under the High Gate", surrounded by flowers, incense sticks and offerings. Praise words are posted on the east and west walls of the temple (attached, "Palace Body"). The whole building is exquisitely conceived, simple and elegant in shape, unique in layout, rigorous and dignified, yet spacious and generous, especially the brick murals, which can be described as ingenious in composition, peculiar and magnificent, and vivid in picture. Among them, there are two brick carvings and picture scrolls of twenty-four filial piety stories, "Yu Shun Moves the World" and "Yu Taste Dung and Pray for Blessing", which are very neat and exquisite. On the right side of the two courtyards, there is a one-foot-thick Cooper, whose roots are connected into one. Three feet tall, the branches must be close together and straight into the sky between the two eaves. For more than a hundred years, it doesn't need to be taken care of anymore. Its nature is vigorous, vigorous and upright, proudly independent, making people respect. What it shows in the dark often makes later people have infinite reverie. On the left side of the ancestral temple, there is a double-eaved, hilltop-style welcoming door, which goes straight into, turns into the ancestral grave behind the ancestral temple, or enters the cemetery from the small door next to the main hall of the ancestral temple. According to the genealogy, this is the tomb of Shi Zugong Houyuan, the first mother of the Kim family and two to eight ancestors below. There is a sixth-class epitaph (see the inscription below) in the tomb of Gao Gongzi, the governor of Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, which was sealed by Jiahe before Cheng Delang. According to Gao's memory, to the west of the ancestral temple and the film emperor is the majestic "Tang Fu". The entrance to the mountain gate is a spacious courtyard with thick mulberry trees planted alternately, with five wings in the east and five wings in the west, and three halls in the north and south. The hall is dedicated to the god of wealth Buddha. The double-eaved mountain gate is very magnificent. The front of the gate is hung with the words "High Hall of Blessing" and the back is hung with the words "Down Confucius Steps". Like the ancestral tablet, it was written by Gao Xianting, a juren in the first year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty. The whole hall was built in the fifth year of Guangxu (A.D. 1879). It was initiated by the twelfth ancestor Zhong Shunan, Keren and Dong Piying and integrated with the ancestral hall.
The successive completion of Gao's Ancestral Hall and Ancestral Hall has played a very important role in commemorating ancestors, enlightening later generations, showing late births, purifying national customs, punishing evil and promoting good, harmonious family society, inheriting filial piety culture, inheriting national traditional virtues and carrying forward national patriotism. According to the living old people's memories, because the ancestral hall was built in front of the grave of Gaozu, the ancestral hall and the Fu Hall are very lively inside and outside every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day and on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. Bright red flags are flying on the flagpole at the door, and every household is decorated with lanterns, drums and four trumpets, incense is burned around the hall, fruit wine is fragrant, and firecrackers are ringing outside the hall. On auspicious occasions, parents first pay homage to their ancestors under the auspices of their assistant Jishou. The venerable elders in each village entered the cemetery in turn, set up offerings such as pigs and sheep slaughtered in advance, burned incense and made paper, bowed down and prayed, recited eulogies, and wished to tell their ancestors to create a new generation. After the ceremony, we went to the hall to eat a meal in order of size and distance. Due to the large number of people, the scene is very spectacular. Although it is a bit crowded, the rules are strict and orderly. After dinner, for the regular meeting of parents, clan parents elected by the people and clan elders from all over the country gathered in the wing to discuss. In addition to announcing the income and expenditure of the ancestral temple, selecting parents and modifying clan rules, it is particularly important to evaluate the family style, pension, filial piety, charity and children's study in each village within one year, and select and discharge a few people who are filial to their parents, successful in their studies, respect the elderly and love the young, and diligent in keeping the family. Some people worthy of praise were given titles, while others were decorated with red flowers. When the call for punishment is accepted, the strong man of the deacon will tie it up and put it in court (also called logic court). A strong man will hold wicker prepared in advance. After the host details his bad behavior and announces the form of punishment, he will enforce the family rules in public and impose whipping until he reaches a certain level. When I beg for mercy and swear to be better, I will allow him to kneel down, ask the elders of the village to come forward as guarantors, and ask if everyone can allow it, and if the owner can stop here. After the annual ancestral temple sacrifice, people will either pack up and go home or go shopping. The jokes along the way are that someone wears red flowers and glory, and someone is beaten, punished and humiliated. Adults follow the trend, exhort earnestly, follow the rules, know what is at a critical juncture, and advise later than before; Children are unforgettable and daunting. So as to achieve the effect of ancestor worship and education. So whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day and the 15th of July are approaching, some evil descendants in every village are afraid. On the one hand, they should quickly correct their evil deeds, on the other hand, they should invite people to intercede at home to avoid losing face in public. The family rules of Tiaocheng Gaos thought have always been famous for their strictness. It was not until the Republic of China that the practice of punishment was slightly relaxed.
The chairman elected by Gezhuang is responsible for the management of Gao's ancestral temple, and usually entrusts some adults who are not dragging their feet and are good at worrying to live and guard. The sources of maintenance and management of ancestral temples and sacrificial expenses are: first, high voluntary funding for studying and becoming an official; Second, the support of the local rich; Third, the ancestral temple owes money or borrows money to eat interest, or collects land rent; Fourth, the distribution of villages according to the high number of people. All income and expenditure are recorded by a special person, and announced and agreed at the parent-teacher meeting.
1949 After the founding of New China, the Gao ancestral hall was still guarded and used by the Gao family, and was repaired and protected. After the people's commune was founded, Tang Fu was occupied by the tax bureau. During the "Cultural Revolution", Qingcheng People's Commune sold the ancestral temple to Qingcheng Supply and Marketing Co., Ltd. for 2,700 yuan as a warehouse, and the cemetery was razed and allocated to villagers as residential infrastructure. Later, the ancestral temple gate was demolished by the supply and marketing cooperative and replaced by two iron doors. All the buildings in Tang Fu were demolished by the tax office and built into a three-story office building, while the rest of the building facilities were damaged and lost.
After the "Cultural Revolution", the descendants of the Gaos successively invested 48,092 yuan to redeem the Gaos Ancestral Hall from Qingcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and arranged and repaired it. 1997 10, Gaojia ancestral hall was listed as a county-level cultural relics protection unit by Yuzhong county government. With the care and support of provincial, city, county and township leaders and cultural relics departments, on April 1 1 day, 2002, Gao Ren set up a preparatory committee for the maintenance and expansion of ancestral halls, with a voluntary donation of170,000 yuan and a loan of160,000 yuan, and the provincial cultural relics bureau allocated 60,000 yuan. The expansion and maintenance work began in 2002 and was completed one after another. On July 5, 2003, the provincial government clearly listed the ancient building "Gaojia Ancestral Temple" in Hecheng Village, Qingcheng Town, Yuzhong County as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit with document Gan (2003) No.63 "Notice of Gansu Provincial People's Government on Announcing the Sixth Batch of Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units". On September 17, 2005, the "Management Committee of Gao Ancestral Hall" was established. With the care and support of provincial, city, county and township leaders and cultural relics departments, we will gather the strength of the Gao clan, continuously strengthen the protection and improvement of the cultural relics of the Gao ancestral hall, and enrich the cultural connotation of the Gao ancestral hall. Some valuable cultural relics have been collected and excavated, such as the memorial tablet of the ancestor of Gao Ning Branch of the Sixth Ancestor and the plaque of "Mingmen Shoumu" donated by the 18th Sun Baiyin, Prince Gao Shenghe, and the plaque of "Fan Yi's famous generals Tianhe, Rong Sheng Wu Guichong Jiadi, Qin Yishoumu, Wu Suling Huiqingji, and Jin Duo Cong" on display; It contains six picture frames compiled by Gao Zhong, namely, Illustration of Hundred Cases of High History and Culture, Gaomen Reclaiming Bohai Sea and Planting Elegant Qingcheng on the Wall, Ode to Gaozu, Collection of Ancestor Rites of Gaogong Sacrifice in Gaocheng and First Draft of Tiaocheng High Culture. Outside the mountain gate, a stone tablet of "Gaojia Ancestral Hall-a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit" stands on the street. Hanging in the middle of the mountain gate is the inscribed "Gao's Ancestral Hall". Above the gate hangs a plaque inscribed by Gao Changli, "Gao Zushi"; In the court, the plaque of "Talent and Arts" restored by Gao Initiative and Qing Dynasty and the plaque of "Jinshi Ji" restored by Gao Jianyuan are hung. In front of the main hall, there are a pair of plaques inscribed by Gao Changli, such as "Declaring the Generation for the Martial Spirit and Celebrating the Lotus in Bohai Sea", "Carrying Forward the Past" and "Woody Water Source". In September, 2006, Lu Hao, Chen Baosheng and Li Fashen visited Lanzhou Qingcheng Ancient Town Culture and Art Festival and spoke highly of it. On April 5, 2007, the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Gao Zu's residence in Gansu was held in the ancestral hall, which attracted wide attention from all walks of life. Today, Gao's Ancestral Hall has become an important historical and cultural heritage in Gansu, a place for Gao's descendants to seek roots and worship their ancestors, a sacred place to pursue the future cautiously, and a bright pearl on the land of Longyuan.
Written by Gao with loyalty and respect.
Revised in Northwest Normal University on August 27th, 2007.
It was revised in Northwest Normal University on June 2, 2009.