On Niejia Building

Xiazhou Village in Shouyang County has been a well-known cultural village since ancient times. Before the Northern Wei Dynasty, the village had become a large-scale village. The ancestors named Nie lived in this fertile land facing the sun, worked hard, multiplied, built houses, built temples and established village rules. So Yan and Hao moved in one after another and lived in the north, front and back of the village. So Nie is the most populous in the village. Of the nine stocks in the village, Nie accounted for the first seven stocks, eight stocks, and nine stocks were Yan and Hao. Most of the big families in the village are Nie Heyan. They all get rich by doing business, and most of them supplement agriculture by business, not by land. This is the biggest feature of wealthy families in our village. Hiring long-term workers mainly manages land, horses and chariots and all kinds of labor. And feed on land and grain.

? Nie Peizhi, the richest man in the village in Qing Dynasty, lived in the courtyard on the second floor of Xitou. The quadrangle here was built by his father Nie Pinzheng (a captain of Wuyi) and his grandfather Nie Kaiqi during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Nie Peizhi has five children. Due to the inconvenience of life, he and his eldest son Nie Zigong and his second son Nie became monks halfway during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty and bought land to build Nafulin Courtyard. After nearly 15 years of construction, they are in the village. (After the death of Zihui, during the Guangxu period, due to the boring downfall of his son and Yuan, the houses were sold to Nie and Nie Shoucheng respectively, and the house sales contracts between the two parties are still preserved, so I won't repeat them here).

Nie Peizhi, Zi Gong, Amethyst and their descendants moved into the second floor of Nafulin Courtyard. Both houses entered the courtyard of the building, with a hall in the middle, and the two houses, the academy and the Changgongyuan all had corner doors to communicate with each other.

Time flies, Pei Zhi is old, and Zi Gong died young. Nie is in charge of the portal of the compound alone, enjoying a good life with Qi Wenduan. His eldest son Nie, his second son Nie died young after marriage, and his third son Nie Yuanjin, the chief secretary, asked questions. He has presided over village affairs for many years, being charitable, building temples and bridges, planting trees to open springs, and digging canals to divert water. In Xiang Song Gong, Nie Yuxiang, the eldest grandson, is a juren and runs an academy with students all over Yushou and other places. After several changes of the times, the descendants of the compound have been recuperating here to this day.

The exquisite architecture of the deep house compound, despite more than 200 years of vicissitudes, is still difficult to hide its bright light. Although some buildings in this compound have been demolished or stolen by cultural relics dealers, some of them are still well preserved.

The first thing you see is the brick-carved "Nafulin" gatehouse on the top of the mountain, with nine ridges and ten beasts resting. Hanging from the eaves, cornices and arches, hanging from the animals, beautifully carved bricks. On both sides of the gate, the word "longevity" is carved on the screen wall, and auspicious patterns such as plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, "grape" and "gourd" are carved. On both sides of the gate, there is a picture of a monkey riding an elephant, which means "seal the Hou to respect each other" and "seal the Hou with your back". The inscription "Nafulin" in the middle above the lintel, "Baide" at the gate, "Big Guest" at the gate of the East Building, and "Virtual White Room" above the gate of Baoxia in the Academy were all inscribed by Qi Junzao, Minister of Military Aircraft of the Qing Dynasty. In the second memorial archway of the Academy, the word "Qiu Chunhua Division" is engraved with bricks in the south, and the word "Qiu Chunhua Division" is engraved in the north.

According to Shouyang County Records, Nie Peizhi and his second son Nie Zijing were one of the top ten richest people in Shouyang at that time. Nie Peizhi was a rural drinker and was awarded the title of a captain in Wuyi. His son Nie is a classic bookkeeper and rural drinker in imperial academy. Some people praised him for "accumulating virtue and doing good, having a good book, and I still smell the sound of reading."

After Fu Yinze's death, Nie Lei made some repairs in 2005 to fulfill his grandfather's will and protect the house as much as possible. 20 10 On May 2nd, more than 40 sons and grandchildren of Nie family returned from Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Taiyuan, Yuci and other places, and held ancestor worship activities for their father Nie (son of Nie Yuanjin) and mother Lan in the old house compound. All the same family members also took part in the activity and paid tribute to their son Sun Jin.

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? Old houses and title deeds occasionally appear.

In 2005, during the renovation of old houses, some deeds of old houses were found by accident, totaling more than 20 copies, including 16 from the 57th year of Qianlong to the 13th year of Guangxu. It was three years after the death of my grandfather Nie Zijing, when my three sons separated. My grandfather Nie Yuanjin got a copy ("Nie Jia Gu Zhai Qi"), which has now been printed into a book. It shows that during Daoguang and Xianfeng years, the family business was still booming and a large number of properties were purchased.

According to my father, some ancestors bought land and real estate to do good and help the poor. After the two parties sign the contract, the house land is still for the seller to live and farm, and the land harvest is still for the seller's own use, which can be redeemed if his family improves in the future.

Times have changed, and the rise and fall of families are partly man-made and partly worldly. When the years are good, people can't be diligent, and people can't be diligent. Happiness and misfortune are hard to explain. This is history.

Excerpt from; Preface to Nie Ruishu's "Nie Jia Gu Zhai Qi".

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? Qi Wenduan wrote an inscription for Nie Jia.

Nie He paid New Year's greetings and wrote inscriptions and banners for Nie's family. In Xianfeng 1 1 year of Qing Dynasty, Amethyst accompanied Qigong to raise a boil in Orient Mountain, Shouyang, and wrote a banner for it, inscribed a plaque for the entrance of the East Courtyard where Amethyst lived, and inscribed a plaque for the virtual white room of the West Courtyard. After the completion of Nie Jia Garden, Qigong was asked to name the garden and write a plaque for the square garden. Qi Gong wrote in his notes: "The Nie Garden in Shouyang has become a success, please name it, and the rest are called Moment Gardens. I live in seclusion, serve my relatives, and tourists are there. My heart has passed, it is for Nie's moment garden, not for self-entertainment. "

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? Fuxing Temple in Xiazhou Village, Shouyang County

25 miles north of Xiazhou Village in Shouyang County, there is a large-scale temple-Qianxing Temple. Founded in the second year of Zheng Guang, Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 52 1), it covers an area of about 60 mu. There are bell and drum towers on both sides of Nanshan Gate facing north, and an ancient theater building is built just south of the gate. The arches and columns of the stage are all carved with stone, and the shapes are very beautiful. There are tall clay sculptures of the four heavenly kings standing around the mountain gate. The hall is divided into front yard, backyard and east yard. It consists of Manjusri Bodhisattva Temple, Huang San Dijun Temple, Notre Dame de Wulong, Yu Di Temple, Guandi Temple, Chunyang Lvzu Temple and Rebecca Temple. In the 14th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, Bodhisattva came to take medicine to save the people. One inscription written by villager Nie Shiyong is in Shi Cun, the eastern border of the county, and the other is missing. According to the legend, Yang Mo Temple is the Shuangshang Temple, Fengshan Temple is the Lower Temple and Fuxing Temple is the Middle Temple.

Fuxing Temple and Yang Mo Temple, like Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang and Hanging Monastery in Hengshan Mountain, were all created between the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Zheng Guangnian in the Northern Wei Dynasty, with a history of nearly 1500 years. Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty advocated Buddhism and Taoism, so Fuxing Temple is a temple with both Buddhism and Taoism.

In the 29th year of the Republic of China (A.D. 1940), statues and paintings in Fuxing Temple and temples in the whole village were restored for two years. After the restoration, a grand opening ceremony was held and three days of singing in Fuxing Temple. People of all ethnic groups in the village and nearby villagers have taken the initiative to donate money and materials to the temple to do good deeds. Unfortunately, it was demolished and razed to the ground after 12 and 1953.

2. Yang Mo Temple (above)

Shuangfeng Mountain is located in the north of Li San Xu Ling Songyan West, which was built in the Jin Dynasty. There are Buddha statues and celebrity handwriting in the cave. In the ninth year of Emperor Xiaowu of Jin Dynasty in Taiyuan, the Lingsong Temple was given the name by Jia in the late Qin Dynasty (AD 384), and was added in the third year of Wuding in the Eastern Wei Dynasty (AD 456). There are stone chambers, clear pools, fairy caves and Dragon Palace in the temple, also known as the Golden Buddha Hall. Tang Baoying was born in Yuan Zai, and stayed in Beijing. In Yuxian County, King Kong, a monk in the life temple, built a hall of merit. There are inscriptions and anonymous names, and calligraphy is like the preface of Chu Sheng Jiao. It was rebuilt in the second year of Chongdali in the Tang Dynasty (AD 767), and there are stone carvings engraved with merits. Changshan magistrate obeys, named Wool Temple. Today's temples and buildings are deserted, but the Tang pen in the cave is still there. The temples in 1879 (the fifth year of Guangxu) were all abandoned.

3. Notre Dame de Wulong (Lower Temple)

There is a Notre Dame de Wulong in Shuangfeng Mountain. According to legend, the daughter of the Chang family in West Zhang Cun swallowed the five-color stone and got pregnant, and gave birth to five dragons in a cave at the foot of Shuangfeng Mountain. When the thunderstorm raged, all five dragons flew, and the local people begged to build a temple for them. The date of construction of this temple has not been verified. According to the inscription, it was built between the Yuan Dynasty and the first year (AD 1336), and Jiaqing and Daoguang were rebuilt.

Main reference

A.D. 1879 (Guangxu five years) Shouyang county annals and other materials.

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