Mazha Village is one of the four major cultural townships in Puning. It has always had a large number of literati. It had a complete primary school in the Qing Dynasty. This was one of the few villages in Puning during the same period. In addition, there are many treasures such as the decorative plaques and couplets on the walls of the buildings in the village! Judging from the satellite map, the old settlement area of ??Mazha Village is very large, and there are many large-scale buildings!
Enter Mulin Road from Huancheng South Road, and after a turn, you will reach the school and the "Sweeping Place" in the north of Mazha Village. There is a three-street, three-block building with left and right houses facing north and south. The village is surrounded by the village where Mazha Xinxiang is located, that is, the old village of Xinxiang.
Starting from the west of the village and going straight into the center, the first thing you encounter is "Anrenli", which runs south to north. There are two buildings in it, one is the Four Points Jincuo Confucian Academy, and the other is the There are three rooms and two entrances to Xiaoyou Hall, the Shaozu Temple of the Huang family. The six couplets on the wall of the Shaozu Temple are the works of Zhong Menghong, a Jinshi scholar from the Qing Dynasty who was born in Jiaoling, Meizhou today. Zhong Menghong is good at writing and writing, and he likes to write couplets. His calligraphy master is Li Beihai. His calligraphy is called Huitong Style. He has strong skills and profound attainments. There are iron paintings of birds with silver hooks. In Kyoto, there was once known as the "Beijing Three Pens", and Zhong Menghong was among them. 1. The imperial district is as famous as the great calligrapher He Shaoji Zizhen and has become a legend. This couplet can be seen in many other buildings in the village since then, but none is as complete as the Shao Zu Temple.
After leaving Anrenli, we started heading east and walked along the peripheral creek. On the way, we saw a very special stone tablet under the banyan tree on the roadside. It was engraved with Liangyi Bagua and "Wenquxing" was engraved on the bottom. There are four characters for "Jun", and there is an incense burner in front of the stone tablet. Is it possible that it is the same as Shi Gandang? Then we moved into the settlement and found the Luo Shi Wang Ancestral Temple with a one-fall structure. Not far from the northwest side of Wangzu Temple, I saw many ancestral halls along the way. Some of them had walls built outside, forming a village pattern, but the doors were closed, such as Qinrenli, so you couldn't enter. I don't know what's going on inside. . The buildings we encountered include the Huang Family Lotte Room, Cao Yun Huang Gong Temple, Huang Family Baozu Temple, Huang Family Renzu Temple and other buildings. These buildings are basically facing southwest and facing northeast, with three rooms and two entrances. The six wall couplets in Huang's Lotte Room are very interesting. In addition to cursive script, there are also official script and seal script. The same calligraphy is also used in other buildings in the village. Unfortunately, it is unknown who created it. The Cao Yun Huang Gong Temple, with the hall name Xuchang, is located in the same seat as the Huang family's Lotte Chamber. The walls of its three mountain gates are joint texts written by two rivals who studied the classics in Mianhu, Jieyang in the late Qing Dynasty. One of the "four modern Lingnan schools". The couplet on the wall of Huang's Baozu Temple is the work of Chen Tingjie. In front of the ancestral temple is a Yangcheng Square. On the west side of the square is the old supply and marketing cooperative, and on the east side is Huang's Renzu Temple. The Renzu Temple adopts the wall couplet of Zhong Menghong from the Shaozu Temple, but it is incomplete and only one section.
The old village of Mazha faces east from the west, with its back against a hill and a large pond in front of it. There are river ditch ponds and Xuetang ponds on the north and south sides. It is surrounded by five waters. It has three streets and seven seats and two left and right sides. From Houyicongzhaibao pattern, there are two gates in the north and south. Except for the Zhaibao and the first house in the village, which are in the style of the tiger opening the middle door, the rest are all in the style of the tiger walking down the mountain, including the Luo family's house, the Huang family's palace, the Luo family's ancestral hall Chongde hall, and the Huang family's ancestral hall Chongbao hall. , Huang's Ancestral Hall, Luo's Ancestral Hall Shaoyitang, Luo's Office, Dai's Ancestral Hall, Guandi Ancient Temple and other buildings.
Entering the village at the north gate, there are two stone tablets inside the north gate, probably from the Republic of China period. The content is about some prohibitive rules about public places in the old village, which involve the "five "surname" seems to refer to the five surnames living in Laozhai at that time. The buildings in the old village are very simple, and the most eye-catching ones should be the fire-style gables and the dragon-and-tiger gate style! The year of its construction is probably not far from the village history, right? Late Ming and early Qing? Or as late as the mid-Qing Dynasty? After walking around in groups of two on the streets in the village, we saw the Huang Clan Ancestral Hall. Except for the ancestral hall, offices and some residential buildings, most of the buildings in the old village are already quite grand and can still be noticed.
There is a study outside the north gate of Laozhai. It may be because of this study that the pond in front of the door is called Xuetang Pond.
There is a settlement with a relatively scattered architectural layout on the south side of Laozhai. There is an "Ancient Temple of King Dao" among them, but I don't know where the "Master Tao" enshrined in it is and what its origin is. After walking around in this settlement for a while, I looked at the map and saw that there was still a place in the northeastern corner of the village that I had not visited, so I was in a hurry and arrived directly after passing the stage square in front of Laozhai. It turns out that the northeast corner of the village is the market, and it is also the location of the "Dade Ancient Temple" I was looking for! In addition to the Dade Ancient Temple, there is also the "Xianxie Holy Temple" and a Huang Clan Rui Ancestral Temple. The person enshrined in Dade Ancient Temple is Mr. Ma Dade. The Xiansheng Temple is a three-bay, two-entry temple with a dragon-tiger well format. The temple is dedicated to "Sir".