Li Huaxi's legendary story
Li Huaxi was originally a scholar in the seventh year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, and was the governor of Sichuan. After surrendering to the Qing dynasty, the official went to the ministers of punishments; Qing Shunzhi resigned and returned to his hometown in the eleventh year. In order to develop the economy of my hometown, I paid all the city taxes, and also set up a "no tax today" monument in the north of the street, making Zhoucun a "bonded zone" in the history of China.
Li Huaxi (1593- 1669), Wuxian, was named Changbai Xiaoqiao. My ancestral home is Yuxian, Shanxi, and my great-grandfather was a 24-year-old tribute student with no official career. During the eastward movement of the Ming population, he settled in the southern suburbs of Zhoucun with his family, who made a living by farming.
Li Huaxi's grandfather Li Kaichun is a farmer. Besides farming, he also keeps a flock of sheep. Once, he was herding sheep at the foot of Fengshan in the south of Zhoucun, and he happened to see a Taoist priest doing it in a field. Out of curiosity, he secretly hid behind the bushes to watch. I saw a man banging a wooden stake into the ground, and then walked a hundred paces away, mumbling, and the wooden stake jumped out of the soil with a whoosh. Li Kaichun felt very strange. The Taoist priest pressed the wooden nail back while he was not paying attention. The Taoist priest read the spell again, and then secretly ran over and pressed it. Several times in a row, the Taoist priest couldn't jump out at the sight of Mu Cha, sighed and left.
After Li Kaichun drove the sheep home, he told the villagers that everyone thought it was very interesting. After a geomantic gentleman knew it, he quietly told Li Kaichun that this is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, where Jiuxi on Fengshan gathers, named Jiulongkou. That piece is right in front of Jiulongkou. The land is not too big. It is slightly narrower from north to south and looks like a treasure. Taoist priests are devoted to destroying Feng Shui everywhere. I didn't expect him to ban me this time. It seems that this land is destined to belong to him. So Mr. Feng Shui advised him to spend some money to buy it and move the ancestral grave in. Later, he gave birth to a son and named him Feng Meng. More than ten years later, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Kaixun's grandson Li Huaxi went to Beijing to take the exam. Sure enough, he was a scholar in high school and became an official in the court. Later generations continued to be officials, which changed the family style of the Li family. Li Huaxi successively served as Hezhou Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Tianjin Bingbei Road Officer and Sichuan Governor. During his time as an official, he dared to do a big case for democracy and feared powerful people, which was highly valued by the court.
Li Huaxi also personally used his position to force local governments to rectify market order and crack down on bullies and corrupt officials. Businessmen from all over the country came to do business after hearing about it. There are thousands of firms in Zhoucun market, and the main streets such as Silk Market Street, Silk Market Street, Yudian Street, Youdian Street, Silver Market and Cotton Market are very prosperous.
Zhoucun businessmen are very grateful for his contribution to Zhoucun's commercial development. After his death, they raised funds to build a grand ancestral temple for him in the western market, and determined that every year on the ninth day of September, merchants in the city would sacrifice to Li Sikou. At that time, singing a three-day play and hanging a portrait of Li Huaxi will become a grand festival in Zhoucun. Li Huaxi's Shangshufu is located in Fujiazhuang, Zhoucun, with dozens of tall buildings.
Guannan Street is called Lijia Building Complex. Therefore, the street in front of his house is called Fu Qian Street, the ancestral temple behind it is called Fuhou Street, and it is suppressed to the west in Yong 'an, and the north and south also run through two streets, so the street to the west of the ancestral temple is called Ancestral Temple Street.