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In history, the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain have undergone many restorations, but they are not complete. It was not until after the liberation that the restoration of the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain really began!
In February 1951 and February 1951, Wu Xingwu, the person in charge of cultural relics restoration, was transferred from Langhe Village to the work of culture and education of the Junxian People's Government. During his time in the Department of Culture and Education, he received a series of documents from the Central and Southern Bureau and the Hubei Provincial People's Government requesting the Junxian People's Government to strengthen the protection of cultural relics and ancient buildings in Wudang Mountain. There are 3 people in the Liberal Arts and Education Department. They also often studied documents in this regard, and in the name of the county government, they went down to the people's governments of the then 10 districts (Tuqiao), 4 districts (Caodian) and relevant villages. The document points out that the cultural relics and monuments of Wudang Mountain are the crystallization of the blood, sweat and wisdom of the working people of the Ming Dynasty, the precious cultural heritage of the motherland, and the wealth of the Chinese nation. It is required that the management from the district to the village must be strictly managed. Wu Xingwu inspected the ancient cultural relics of various palaces in Wudang Mountain several times, and together with the relevant local district and village cadres, cleaned up and compiled the records on the spot, and assigned special personnel to divide the work and manage them.
At the beginning of 1952, the county government drew deputy district governors Zhang Yucheng and Wu Xingwu from the fourth district to work together on the cultural relics and ancient architecture of Wudang Mountain. Zhang Yucheng often lived in the Zixiao Palace and Jinding in Wudang Mountain, and Wu Xingwu took a certain amount of time every month to inspect the situation in various districts and villages, and reported to the county magistrate Liang Shengfeng or the county party secretary Chen Yuwen every month. In two years, Wu Xingwu recovered hundreds of valuable cultural relics from various palaces and temples. Such as square seals with high gold content, jade seals, ancient paintings, ancient books and bronze castings, exquisite jade carvings, wood carvings and various gold and silver small offerings related to Wudang Mountain. The Department of Culture and Education once set up a bungalow for safekeeping, and when there was a change in personnel, the above cultural relics were handed over. These cultural relics are now stored in the Danjiangkou City Museum. In 1952, the national economic construction recovered rapidly, and there were certain conditions for repairing the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain. When Wu Xingwu and Gao Liangming, head of the Cultural and Educational Section, held a meeting in the province, they orally reported to their superiors the current situation and the idea of repairing the Zixiao Grand Hall and the Golden Dome Signing Room and printing room on Wudang Mountain. After returning to the county after the meeting, Chen Yuwen, secretary of the county party committee, and Liang Shengfeng, county magistrate, listened to the report of Wu Xingwu and immediately agreed to submit the draft text to the Hubei Provincial People's Government and the Central and Southern Bureau. Soon, the provincial government sent Wang Fuguo and Chen Mingren, business cadres of the Museum of Culture and History, to Junxian County, together with Zhang Yucheng and two carpenters and masons, led by Wu Xingwu to the scene to investigate. Wudang Mountain, this magnificent architectural complex, has been in ruins after suffering from wind, frost, snow and rain, bandits and fires, and has fallen into disrepair. In particular, the area of broken glazed tiles in the Zixiao Hall has reached 50%. The temple was damp, and the signed and printing rooms were all wooden structures, decaying and collapsing to more than 60%. （
After the budget was prepared, the provincial government allocated 150 million yuan (equivalent to 15,000 yuan today). The repair cost was in place at the end of that year, and the Wudang Mountain had been closed by heavy snow and could not be constructed.
In the late spring of 1953, the ice and snow thawed, and the Wudang Mountains came to life. The county leaders drew 8 staff members from the cultural and educational front to be responsible for logistics and supply; Wu Xingwu selected 200 carpenters and 150 ordinary migrant workers from Chengguan, Caodian, Guanshan and Yanchihe districts, and Led by Zhang Yucheng into the Zixiao construction site. I remember that at that time, the daily wages of skilled workers were 80,000 yuan, 10,000 yuan and 12,000 yuan (0.8 yuan, 1 yuan and 1.2 yuan of the current renminbi respectively), and the daily wages of ordinary migrant workers were 60,000 yuan and 8,000 yuan (that is, the current 0.6 yuan and 0.8 yuan).
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At the same time as the deployment of manpower, the preparation of materials is also carried out intensively. According to the budget, six tasks will be completed from April to October of this year. First, 2,000 pieces of logging should be cut down, or 300 cubic meters. Wu Xingwu selected a large number of iron cedar trees in the Wulong Palace in advance, and due to transportation difficulties, they decided to process them into semi-finished products on the spot. Among them, the Zixiao Hall needs 15.5 feet long, 0.4 feet wide and 0.3 feet thick, a total of 500 sticks, each weighing about 250 pounds; The bucket arch flying head is 9 feet long, 0.7 feet thick and 0.5 feet wide, with a total of 885 sticks, each weighing about 160 pounds; There are also 30 large logs, each 30 feet long and 2.5 feet in diameter, each weighing 8,000 pounds. The wood was pulled by 50 migrant workers from 20 miles away, and the most difficult to transport were the large logs. At the "Zhuge Liang" meeting, everyone decided to put the carpentry crane on the top of the mountain, and the large rope was led out of the pattern plate of the crane, tied to the big log, and the crane was twisted, and the people below the mountain were like ants gnawing on the bones, lifting and prying, so it was difficult to transport 30 pieces of large logs to the Zixiao construction site. The second is to complete the transportation task of 50,000 kilograms of white ash. At that time, there was very little white ash production in Junxian County, and Wu Xingwu ran to Bird Pond Township in Yunxian County to order goods, transported them along the Han River to Junxian County in small wooden boats, and then manually transported 150 miles to the Zixiao construction site. The third is to complete the transportation task of 150,000 kilograms of river sand. Wu Xingwu and Zhang Yucheng walked about 15 miles along the Jian River to find sand. The Wudang Mountains have little sand and poor quality. Wu Xingwu selected sieving at the stone beach and grass shop 70 miles away, and transported them to the Wudang Mountain at a freight rate of 20,000 yuan per 100 catties (that is, now 2 yuan). The fourth is to solve more than 5,000 glazed tiles. The palaces are not in stock. Later, Wu Xingwu learned that there was a folk cylinder tile kiln in Bojiawan Village, Langhe District, and specially invited a master from other places to burn it in imitation, and then picked it up and transported it to the mountain. Fifth, there are more than 20,000 special large nails needed to install glazed tiles. The sizes are 1.5 feet, 1.2 feet, 0.8 feet and 0.5 feet, respectively. At that time, there was no goods in various places, so Wu Xingwu had to invite 6 blacksmith furnaces from various districts to process and supply them at the Wudang Mountain construction site. Sixth, we must look for skilled craftsmen. At that time, there were very few high-level construction craftsmen, which brought new difficulties to the construction of Wu Xingwu. Wu Xingwu and Zhang Yucheng traveled east to west, investigated everywhere, and finally found the seventy-year-old mason masters Cai Chengchun (known as Cai Siye) and Cai Youchun (known as Cai Wuye) in Chengguan and Caodian, as well as the woodworking master Zhang Hongzhao and the middle-aged carpenter Wang Tingfu, who led more than 20 apprentices to Wudang Mountain to make imitation paintings, which better maintained the original style of ancient architecture.
April to autumn 1954 was the time for major construction. This year is a year of manpower and material surprises, and a year of making all preparations for the next year's large-scale construction. At the beginning of the project, Wu Xingwu proposed to work hard to ensure that the tasks of the Purple Heaven Hall, the Golden Dome Sign, and the Printing House were completed before the snow closed the mountain, and the victory of the mountain was evaluated.
In terms of construction time, Wu Xingwu and Zhang Yucheng made demands to Wang Tingfu, the head of carpentry and masonry, emphasizing that it was a sunny day and a cloudy day; In terms of construction technology, it is controlled by Wang Fuguo of the Provincial Museum of Culture and History; On-site construction management is responsible for Zhang Yucheng; Personnel transfers and division of labor, financial expenditures, and material supplies are under the control of Wu Xingwu. During the tense construction period, in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the secretary of the county party committee and the county magistrate, Wu Xingwu went to the five districts and towns of Caodian, Langhe, Guanshan, Yanchi, and Chengguan to mobilize Wei Shenglin, mayor of Zixiao Township, Zhang Chengji, chairman of the Peasants' Association, Liang Shuyun, female township chief of Tofugou Township, Qi Baoshan, secretary of Yuanheguan Township, Wu Fuxian, village chief, and Wu Wentian, secretary of Jianheqiao Township, and more than 40 township and village cadres, led by them, to pick sand day and night, transport ash and move bricks, and materials needed for canteens, accumulating more than 30,000 people. In the most tense stage of sand use, Wu Xingwu went to Caodian Primary School to mobilize more than 400 teachers and students, who went up the mountain with the scorching sun on their heads and the sand on their backs, alleviating the tension of sand use at the construction site. Because of the attention and call of the county party committee, the staff and workers and masses along the road from Chengguan to the Golden Dome of Wudang Mountain have aroused great enthusiasm for the rush to repair the ancient construction project of Wudang Mountain. Due to the high mountain and the difficulty of transportation, the Wudang Mountain emergency repair project exceeded the cost of 30 million yuan (equivalent to 3,000 yuan now), and the provincial government immediately solved it.
In October 1954, the repair work was completed. The Purple Xiao Palace has a new look, and the golden top sign and the printing room shake the majestic wind. The fly in the ointment was that at that time, the simple pursuit of sturdiness and resistance to the storm, the ancient wooden plank structure was converted into a brick and wood structure. Despite this, pilgrims from Chaoshan still said with emotion that "the three cultivations of martial arts are never rotten", from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China for hundreds of years, it was not realized, and the Communist Party was realized as soon as it took control of the world. The old Daoist wang jiaohua and Mao Fashun said: "Wu Xingwu has been a monk for ten years, only to see officials from Xiangyang, Yunyang, and Junxian go up the mountain, either in a sedan or on horseback, and the Daoists still have to kneel to greet them, set up banquets, and send some silver dollars and precious things when they go down the mountain, otherwise they will scold them if they don't fight, and they will completely ignore the lives and deaths of the monks, and the Communist Party will come, and give Wu Xingwu rooms and land to build palaces, and the Communist Party is good!"
At the beginning of October 1954, the relevant departments at the higher level carried out the acceptance of the entire emergency repair project, and all the projects were qualified. He praised all the cadres and masses involved in the construction, and at the same time conveyed the relevant spirit of the central, provincial, and local governments to strictly protect the cultural relics and monuments of Wudang Mountain, and Wu Xingwu drafted (54) Wen jiao zi No. 6 "Notice of the People's Government of Junxian County", issued it to the people's governments of various districts, towns, townships, and villages, and made 10 wooden plaques to hang in the key palaces and temples of Wudang Mountain.
At this point, the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain have been restored and the tasks that could not be completed in the old era have been completed!
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