Yang’s Ancestral Hall in Jiufeng Town, Pinghe County

The Yang Clan Ancestral Hall in Jiufeng Town, a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, is located in Yangcuoping, Jiufeng Town, Pinghe County. It worships Nian Sangong, the ancestor of the Yang family in Yangcuoping, and his third generation. The temple was first built in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and expanded in the Yongzheng and Wushen years of the Qing Dynasty (1728). Historically, it was expanded in the Wushen year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1728), and repaired five times in the Renshu year of Qianlong (1742), Guangxu period (about 1880), 1985 and 2000. The existing architectural style maintains the Qing Dynasty style.

The ancestral hall faces northeast to southwest. It covers an area of ​​approximately 1876 square meters. The building area is 458 square meters. In front of it is a semicircular pool and a wide courtyard paved with cobblestones. The gable is built of bricks, the dado is made of Ansu noodle stone, and the silica footstone with curly grass pattern is placed underneath. The open room has a double-panel door, with green brick walls on both sides in a grid pattern, and openwork stone window grilles and stone fence windows. In front of the door, there are a pair of drum-holding stones with reliefs of figures, animals, flowers and plants. "Yang's Ancestral Hall" is written above the lintel, and a Jingdezhen colored porcelain painting of "Dragon and Phoenix Presenting Auspiciousness" during the Qianlong period is inlaid on each side. Interior walls plastered. The main building is three rooms wide. The main door looks like a six-column three-story archway. The secondary rooms and later rooms are made of blue bricks with geometric continuous patterns, bluestone tiger windows, and bluestone high-relief spiral door drums. On the inside is a three-bay foyer. , one room deep; six-square stone corridor columns, four purlins, rolled shed roof, and granite slabs on the patio. The front hall is two rooms deep; the main hall is three rooms deep. The front hall has nine purlins and three beams, the main hall has fifteen purlins, and the second room has three beams; the water corridor has five purlins; between the beams are carved or carved flower and grass patterns and vanilla and dragon pattern panels. The colorful paintings on the beams are preserved, with bright colors and complicated decorations. The golden pillars in the main hall are all made of granite stone pillars connected to wooden pillars, with stone pillar foundations placed below. The pillar foundations are exquisitely carved, with carved flower and bird pattern waisted square pillar bases, relief miscellaneous treasure and animal patterns waisted octagonal pillar bases and plain melon-shaped pillars. Belted cylindrical foundation and other shapes. The beam frame is a mixed type of passing through buckets and lifting beams, the beam is a moon beam, the arch is a fat beam arch, the sitting bucket has a flower basket bucket, the melon bucket is a square carved bucket with lotus, etc. The square bucket has a begonia line, which is a plum blossom bucket; the front is a plum blossom bucket; The interior and exterior eaves of the hall and main hall are decorated with brackets between loops. The roof of the ancestral hall is covered with tiles, the eaves are high and the overhangs are deep, with soft bending curves; the main ridge is a swallow-tail ridge, and the main ridge is blocked with flowers and grass ridges cut inside, and the craftsmanship is also relatively delicate. The patios are paved with granite strips, and the interiors are paved with octagonal rhombus-shaped red bricks and square red bricks. The two sides of the main hall patio are connected by water corridors. The front hall of the ancestral hall is paved with square red bricks, and the main hall is paved with square red bricks. The temple also preserves inscriptions on the monuments that were rebuilt during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

Nian Sangong, the ancestor of the Yang family, came here from Shibi Village, Ninghua County, Fujian Province during the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty (about 1390). Thinking it was a blessed land, he built a house. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, it was rebuilt into the "Fushan Temple". In the Wushen year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1728), the temple was expanded and named "Zhuilaitang". In the Renshu year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1742), the gate tower was raised and formed into three falling dragons and two dragons grabbing pearls. It was composed of two falling gate towers, two patios, two protected houses, a large front courtyard, a semicircular pool, a rear flower terrace, and a semicircular enclosure. House. There are two small square chengs on the left and right sides of the guard house. During the late Taiping period, the front hall and main hall were destroyed by fire, but only the gate tower survived. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (about 1880), the ancestors of the Yang family rebuilt the front hall and main hall according to their original appearance.

Zui Laitang was founded since the ancestor of the Yang family, Nian Sangong, is located in Jiufeng Town, Changle Township, Qiling Township, Xiahe Township, Yunxiao County, Chaoyang County, Raoping County, Guangdong Province, and Taipei, Taiwan. There are only a large number of ancestral halls for descendants of the Yang family in Kaohsiung, Taichung, Pingtung, Yunlin, Tainan and other places, which have deep roots in Fujian and Taiwan.

“Zhuiyuan Hall is one of the ancestral halls of the Yang family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and it is also an important witness to the blood connection between the two sides.” Yang Zheng said that tens of thousands of descendants of the Yang family in Zhui Lai Hall have been sent to Taiwan. Since the establishment of the Three Links between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, relatives of the Yang family in Taiwan have returned to their hometown to pay homage to their ancestors. Therefore, the cultural relics department will protect and repair the Zhui Lai Hall to attract more Taiwan compatriots to return to their hometown to find their roots.

According to historical records, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shixi, the founder of Yangcuoping, moved to Pinghe from Ninghua County, Fujian and settled in Yangcuoping, Jiufeng Town. His house was called "Fushanju". During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the Yang family in Yangcuoping built the Yang ancestral hall on the site of their ancestral home, which was originally named "Fushan Temple". In the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Tianruo, his descendant, presided over the expansion of the ancestral hall to the current building size and named it "Zhuilaitang". In the seventh year of Qianlong's reign, the gate tower of the ancestral hall was increased and rebuilt into its current condition.