The Guo family in Shangji Village, Yao City, Shangzhou District is descended from the Tang Dynasty general Guo Ziyi. The village now has a well-preserved Guo family ancestral hall and "Guo family tree".
The "Guo Family Tree" preserved by Guo Jianjun's family was compiled during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty (1851--1861). It records that the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty general Guo Ziyi was Guangyi, originally from Quyang County, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi Province, and granted honor by the Han Dynasty. Luqing, passed down to Guo Ziyi as the seventh generation, was born in Xima Village, Lianhuasi Town, Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province. The 18th Guo Xiu was appointed to the Southern Expedition during the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty (1368). His strategy led to victory and he was promoted to the governor's office. His family moved from Xidong Village, Luxiang County, Henan Province to settle in Yao City, Shangzhou, and built an ancestral hall. , to worship ancestors. After Guo Xiu died, he was buried in Zhongxiangchuan, Shangzhou, which is Guocun, Zhongxiang, Yaoshi Town.
The Guo Family Ancestral Hall is located in Shangji Village, Yaoshi City, covering an area of ??more than 1,600 square meters and a construction area of ??nearly 600 square meters. It has been repaired and rebuilt over the years, and the existing buildings are in the style of the Qing Dynasty. Among them, there are three halls, three front halls, and main halls, four wing rooms, three theater rooms, and a total of 16 rooms. Between the theater building and the main building is a courtyard of more than 1,000 square meters in the north and south. A large number of murals, paintings, calligraphy, and inscriptions have been preserved on the walls, beams, eaves, and eaves of the entire building. Among them, a mural painted on the west gable of the front hall is 2.5 meters high and 6 meters wide, which is still recognizable today. The content is the story of Guo Ziyi's achievements in the Anshi Rebellion and the recovery of He and Tufan. There are nearly 300 paintings and more than 30 calligraphy and inscriptions. The painting forms include gold painting, ink painting, pile color, etc. The paintings include maids of the Eight Immortals, farming and animal husbandry, wood cutting and firewood collection, calligraphy and painting, fishing and hunting, life and banquets, lions, animals, flowers, etc. It is the most complete, abundant and extremely valuable ancient architectural painting art among the various ancient buildings discovered in Shangluo. The Guo family ancestral hall originally preserved a large number of plaques and couplets of imperial officials, literati, and later generations of the Guo family. However, they were destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution" and a small amount remains. The contents are included in the "Guo Family Genealogy". There are also tablets in the ancestral hall. The "Guo Family Tree" contains more than 10 inscriptions, covering the migration of the Guo family, the compilation of the family tree, the creation, reconstruction, maintenance, and land purchase of the ancestral hall. The earliest date is the 14th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1809), and the later date is the 7th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1868). In the second part of the "Guo Family Tree", it is recorded in detail the migration and inheritance of the Guo family for more than 2,000 years from the founder Guangyi (Guang Luqing of the Han Dynasty) to the present, for 40 generations, especially with its seventh generation grandson Guo Ziyi. It represents the life achievements of many descendants of the Guo family who served as imperial officials in successive generations. In addition, the Guo family cemetery in Guo Village, Zhongxiang Village, about 5 kilometers away from Shangji Village, is also recorded.
Today, in accordance with the provisions of the Cultural Relics Protection Law and under the guidance of the district cultural relics management department, Yaoshi Shangji Village has improved the safety protection system for ancestral cultural relics and contacted the Shaanxi Guo Ziyi Research Branch. The portrait of Guo Ziyi was brought back from the Thai Guo Ziyi Research Association, which added a lot of color to the ancestral hall. In accordance with the requirements of the provincial and municipal cultural relics departments, the Shangzhou District Cultural Relics Management Department carefully investigated and compiled detailed text, pictures and other information, and prepared to recommend the Guo Family Ancestral Hall to the national cultural relics department for the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. .
It is understood that ancestral hall-like buildings are the physical carrier of clan relationships in my country’s feudal society and are public venues for feudal families to worship ancestors and discuss affairs. More than 20 ancestral hall-like buildings have been found in Shangzhou, but none of them can compare with the Guo family ancestral hall in terms of its founding age, building scale, well-preserved degree, or the cultural connotation of the ancestral hall itself. Quancun (Qing Dynasty) Wang Shixu
It suddenly became clear that it was Quancun, where the customs of Ziyu, Huangchuan and Sichuan were integrated.
The fence is hidden in the shade of locust trees and willows, and chickens and dolphins can be seen in the shadow of mulberry trees.
The meaning of the whole poem is that although it is surrounded by mountains, the Quan Village in Beixiang is suddenly open and the fields are flat. Like the neighboring Ziyu and Huangchuan, it has honest and honest customs. The fenced houses in the village are hidden among the green shades of locust and willow trees. In the fields planted with mulberry and hemp, you can often see the shadows of chickens and pigs raised by the villagers running towards each other.
This poem is written innocently and naturally without any embellishment. The language is also simple and clear, not much different from our daily spoken language.
It is indeed like the old sweet spring in Quan Village. If you touch it with your eyes, you will feel refreshed; if you taste it with your mouth, it will refresh your heart and spleen. There is no other reason for this. The main reason is that the author's emotions are clear, there is no concealment or pretense, and there is no artificial elevation. He just writes truthfully according to the original appearance of Quan Village (a good place, a good environment, and good people). At first taste, it seems tasteless. After chewing, the sweet taste will linger in your mouth.
"Customs are both simple and honest", and the customs are all equally simple and honest. "Tun" (tun): originally refers to a piglet, but this generally refers to a pig.