At the head of Tangyue village, there are seven magnificent ancientarchways. These archways are arranged in the order of "loyalty, filial piety andrighteousness". It tells the rise and fall of this village for hundreds ofyears. These beautiful stone squares and the male and female ancestral halls inthe village have become an important tourist attraction in Huangshan City.
In the feudal society, in order to commend the officials who had madeoutstanding contributions to the prosperity of the imperial court, thegovernment often approved the construction of "Gongde memorial archway" at thehead of their hometown village, in order to call on people to take this as anexample to serve the imperial court. The Tangyue memorial archway group inShexian county has changed the previous characteristics of wood structure,almost all of them are made of stone, and the "Shexian green" stone with goodquality is the main one. This kind of blue stone archway is solid, tall,magnificent and dignified. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the art of archwayarchitecture was also improving.
Tangyue memorial archway group is the representative works of architecturalart in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are seven buildings in a row, and thearchitectural style is integrated. Although the time span is as long as severalhundred years, they are in the same shape. According to architectural experts,Tangyue memorial archway is of great value to the study of politics, economy,culture, architectural art, the formation and development of Huizhou merchants,and even the folk custom of dwellings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The first mahogany archway: it was built in the Jiaqing period of MingDynasty, more than 450 years ago. The four pillars of the archway fall down onthe pier, which is simple and magnificent. On the "dragon and Phoenix board"under the overhanging eaves, two "imperial edicts" are inlaid in it. There is apair of relief lions on both sides of the crossbeam, which is extremely heroic.According to reports, Bao can, who was praised by the emperor, had never been anofficial in his whole life. Because of his ability to educate his descendants,his grandchildren made many wonderful achievements in defending the MingDynasty. He was honored by the emperor for three generations and established asquare for his ancestors.
The second archway: the "cixiaoli" archway, which was built in the Yongleperiod of the Ming Dynasty, was approved by the Emperor himself. Its highpolitical treatment can be seen. The "Ci Xiao poem" engraved on the archwayrecords a touching story. When a son of the Bao family saw that his father wouldbe killed, he asked to die instead. The father for the Bao family continue toincense, asked to kill themselves, do not harm their children. Bao's father andson's kindness and filial piety moved the world and the robbers. When EmperorQianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, after hearing this story,he happily wrote down that "cixiaoli is unparalleled in the world and the mostbeautiful town in the south of the Yangtze River", and allocated money torenovate the memorial archway of "cixiaoli". And add its old system, engrave theimperial couplet on it. It is rare in Chinese history that a memorial archwaywas sealed by emperors in several dynasties.
The third, the fourth and the fifth archways: the "Li Jie Wan Gu" archway,"Le Shan Hao Shi" archway, "Jie Jin San Sheng" archway and so on. Each archwayhas many touching stories. It is worth mentioning that the "thrifty threewinters" square was built for a stepmother. It is said that after the death ofher husband, the stepmother went through all kinds of women's ways and put theson of her ex-wife before her own. When she was old, she poured out her familyproperty to repair the ancestral grave for her dead husband. This move moved thelocal officials, breaking the convention that the stepwife of "Confucius andMencius" was not allowed to set up a memorial archway, and making an exceptionto build a memorial archway of the same scale for her. In spite of this love, itleft a foreshadowing on the festival of "thrifty and thrifty" on the archforehead. The grass head of the festival and the "zhe" below are wrongly carvedon it to show that the stepmother and the original mate can never be equal instatus.
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