Tongxiang cultural relics and monuments 丨 Hengjie Historical Tales of Wu Zhizhen Shou Yu Hall

　　Quaint historical buildings on Chongfu Heng Street

　　There is a historical district in Chongfu Town, Tongxiang City, Hengjie, which is not large in size and exquisite in size, but it brings together more than 20 humanistic residences such as Xu Zihua's Former Residence, Cai's Waiting Snow Building, Dai Linjing's Former Residence, Wu Tao's Former Residence, Shen Boyun's Former Residence, And Cheng Qingguo's Former Residence, and its cultural content is enough to make people look up to it. Historical stories are gathered here, and cultural ruts are left here. Walking into Hengjie, you can listen to the echoes of history.

　　In 1959, the walls of Chongde were demolished. In 1971, the Chongfu City River widened, "three bends straight", and the prefectural and Miyae rivers were filled in as flat. After the 1980s, large-scale development and construction of the original ring city periphery, but the pattern of streets and alleys in the central urban area has remained basically unchanged, especially in the horizontal street area, and the fishbone-like connection pattern has been well preserved. The traditional commercial market style of the front shop and the back house in the eastern section of Hengjie Street and county street is very complete, and the traditional building is simple and simple, fresh and elegant. Most of the frontage streets are two-storey brick and wood structure buildings, row of door shops, symmetry in the staggered, neat and changeable. The floor railings and balustrades of traditional shops such as the Silver Building and the Yizhuang are more exquisitely carved, and there are signs such as "Classic Silk" and "Yiheshun". In the middle and west sections of Hengjie Street, most of the well-preserved mansions are brick carved gate towers, pink wall dewa, flying cornices, and towering early Qing Dynasty minchu buildings with horse heads, and narrow alleys, boundary monuments, stone slab roads, street towers and beam carvings all show the characteristics of Jiangnan region.

　　A few years ago, the National Historical and Cultural City Research Center, chaired by Professor Ruan Yisan of Tongji University, said when conducting a survey of historical districts: "Chongfu Ancient Town, which preserves the most complete historical style along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal - Hengjie, has many historical buildings, rich historical and cultural connotations, and the pattern of the ancient city still exists, so it is appropriate to protect it as a whole." ”

　　No. 128 Hengjie is the former site of Shouyu Hall, and in the Ming Dynasty it was the old residence of Chongde Luoshi. In the tenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1654), Zhouquan Wuzhizhen took the Xiucai examination. Wu Zhizhen character Mengju, a word orange Zhai, only a few sisters, no brothers, the family is rich, the original wife is the daughter of Chongde Lao Xie Yin. Wu Zhizhen purchased Shouyu Hall from the foreign family Oflord, and did not change the name of the hall, that is, moved from Zhouquan to Chongfu. Later, by the Zhen Sun Lan into a heavy inscription plaque, the words are big and more fighting, and the vigor is radiant.

　　In the second year of qing guangxu (1876), Wu Xuejun wrote the "Genealogy of the Wu Clan in Zhouquan" volume IV: "Shouyu Hall, Orange Zhai Mansion, inside the West Gate of Shimen, Xiheng Street, the fifth entrance, the river is a bridge, the back door is through the street, directly opposite Wuguifang Lane, there is Lanqing Hall, left yulun hall, right side orange zhai library, Xunchang Building, adjacent to the Ancient Hall, there are also five entrances." Nowadays, only the Yu Hall, Lan Qing Hall, Yulun Hall, gate tower and illumination hall exist. This is a portrayal of the Shouyu Hall in the early years of Qing Guangxu. It can be seen that No. 128 Hengjie is only the middle section of Shouyu Hall, and there are still two adjacent houses in the east and west.

　　The western section of Shouyu Hall is the former site of Shouyu Hall's Xunchang Building and Jingu Hall, which is now within No. 134 Heng Street. In the early 1930s, Wu Zengyi opened a law firm here. Wu Zengxuan, formerly known as Naizhang, also spelled Xi yuan, studied in Zhejiang University, studied in Japan, majored in law, and served as a procurator of the Jiangxi Higher Department, secretary of the Haizhou Commercial Supervision Office, and directly subordinate to the Diplomatic Office of The Diplomatic Service and concurrently handling Huayang litigation. His brother Wu Naichen (吴乃琛), also known as Lu Lu (green domain) and Zi Chen ( 賮忱 ), was the first publicly-funded student in Chongde County , who received a doctorate in economics from Harvard University and was the director of the Numismatic Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Beiyang Government. The third brother, Wu Naiying, also known as Hong Domain, married Shimen Zheng Hengji and died in the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1923). On the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Naichen, his second brother Wu Zengyun, and his third sister-in-law Zheng Hengji funded the reconstruction of the Xunchang Building of ShouyuTang, and built the third floor and three bottoms, two boxes, four bungalows, and two shawls. There are gardens and rockeries in front of the building, which became the most fashionable mansion in Chongfu Town at that time. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Zengyi served as the maintenance president of Chongde County for several months.

　　In the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1675), Wu Zhizhen built the Huangye Village outside the Chongde West Gate, and the old mansion in Zhouquan still had an industry. Wu Zhizhen had one wife and six concubines, six sons, seven daughters, eleven grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren. From the analysis of the situation of the residents of the former residence of Shouyutang during the Republic of China, Shouyutang has always been inhabited by the descendants of Wu Zhizhen's long-term grandson Wu Dacheng. The sixth ancestor of Wu Xiyuan and Wu Hongji was Wu Dacheng, who was the son of Wu Baolin, the eldest son of Wu Zhizhen.

　　After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shouyu Hall was converted into a workers' club and other purposes, and the gate tower, car hall and hundred table hall (shouyu hall on the central axis of the hall, commonly known as the hundred table hall, it is said that it can set up a banquet and a hundred tables) have been demolished and converted into housing, and the back dailou hall and the east side of the Yulun Hall still exist. In 1955, the Xunchang Building in the western section of Shouyutang was transformed into a Chongde County Specialty Buying Company, and Wu Xiyuan's family was mobilized to move out. Subsequently, it was rented by Chongfu Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the box building and bungalow have been demolished by the supply and marketing cooperative and converted into shopping malls. In 1985, a descendant of the Wu clan returned from Taiwan to settle down, so they returned some of their property rights and exchanged them with houses elsewhere.

Source: Tongxiang News Network

Disclaimer: The copyright belongs to the original author, if there is any infringement, please contact to delete