The Culture of Shangtian Village

Shangtian Village has a long history. The oldest existing residential houses are marked by the ancient houses of Mao Shi Ri, Yue and Xing in the early Qing Dynasty with the triangle altar as the center, as well as buildings of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China distributed at the head of the village, at the foot of the village, across the door, in Shangtian, at the altar, all downstairs, under the road, at Canglong, at the top of the mountain, at the pine pit and at the source of the pond, with hundreds of columns falling to the ground. Mao Shi Ancestral Hall in Shangtian, Wenchang Pavilion, Yu Palace, Wugu Temple, Lantian Bridge, Zhenjie Stone Arch, stone railings at the foot of the village, the ancient Nine Bridges, the Thirteen Stages, the Upper Dam, the Lower Dam and the Two Pedals, as well as various and colorful folk customs, are valuable historical and cultural heritages left by our ancestors.

The ancient traffic in Shangtian Village extended in all directions, and there were 41 lanes in the village. When going out to the east, you passed Mengkeng, Wudai and Huang Zhuang Bridge to reach Longyuan. Passing through Xixia, Beichuan, Longhu 'ao, Gaoting and Yuyan leads to Songyang County; Go north over Aotian, Xiabaibuling via Dongshu, Xu Cun and Qikou to Suichang Chengguan; Climb Xiaoyuling to the west, climb over Shantou's depression, pass through Shangyu 'ao, and all the way down Shuangxi and the river to Longquan: once you pass through Henglan, Jinpu and Guantang, you can take a boat to Zhangshutan in Quzhou at Wangcunkou, and go down Wuxi River and Fuchun River to Hangzhou directly. In addition, the areas around Bilong, Zhuxi and Baoxi, which are connected by Wangcunkou, are the revolutionary base areas in southwestern Zhejiang under the leadership of our Party, and the "Shangtian Battle" troops of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants commanded by Su Yu and Liu Ying took this route. Ueda Mao Shi has been traced back to Mao Huanggong (the history of the Ministry of Rites and the history of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Song Dynasty) for five generations since the ancestor of Guantang, and it has been 34 generations since the ancestor of Ueda, Yuan Kanggong, with a long history and talented people. Mao Shi Ueda's ancestors had a tradition of respecting teachers and attaching importance to education. In ancient times, there were many private schools in the village, and the first Ueda Huayu School was established in 1891 at the end of Qing Dynasty. In 1938, Mr. Mao Yinting (who was the director of Nancheng Branch of Hangzhou Public Security Bureau before the Anti-Japanese War, and later left to return to his hometown as the township head) raised funds, built a three-story building in front of the ancestral temple in Mao Shi, founded Shangtian Primary School, and later changed to Shangdong Central Primary School, where he became the principal and hired a famous teacher to teach. Besides his own village and hometown, there were students in Suichang and Songyang, which were thirty or forty miles away, and Daotai and Songyang in this county. Shangtian Primary School has a history of more than 7 years and has trained thousands of primary school graduates.

Only in Shangtian Village, in the Qing Dynasty, Mao Yigan gave Toshiro an example, Mao Shaochun gave a special gift to a supervisor, Mao Wenqi and Mao Wenjiao gave a tribute, Mao Wenqin gave a political envoy a reasonable question, and Mao Xianqi, Mao Yuling and Mao Yujun gave nine awards, including tribute, birth, proliferation, supervisor and embarrassment. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are more than 13 college graduates, more than 1 graduate students and 1 postdoctoral fellow in the village. There are 4-5 people above the political level, with intermediate titles in literature and industry, including nearly 2 leading cadres above the deputy director level, university professors, associate professors, directors and deputy chief physicians, contemporary poets, calligraphers and senior engineers and technicians. More than 6% of the people in the village are engaged in politics, medicine, teaching, literature, work and business, which is really 36 lines, and there are many people in the line.

More than p>26 years ago, ancestors built the Mao Shi Ancestral Hall in memory of their ancestral relatives. In front of the Ancestral Hall, there were three pairs of masts, which were erected to pay tribute to the ancestors. Every year, during the Spring Festival, a banquet was held for five days to worship the ancestors. On the second day of the first month, the descendants of Mao Shi in the village, including the descendants of Mao Shi from Dongshu, came to worship the squire. Drums and firecrackers rang through the sky. After the death of Mao Shi, an old man who lived in Longquan and Suichang, he filled the tablets in the powder tablets on the cabinet of the Taigong according to their numbers. When villagers sent the tablets to the ancestral hall for foreigners, they also played musical instruments to meet them at the entrance of the village. The solemn atmosphere was really spectacular. Every year, people from other places in Tomb-Sweeping Day also come to visit graves to worship their ancestors. In the past, anyone who had children gave old wine and tofu to the ancestral temple for a banquet, hence the name "eating tofu wine". In 1935, the revolutionary fire became more and more fierce, and the Kuomintang reactionaries were terrified of the mass movement and armed struggle in the southwestern mountainous area of Zhejiang Province, and dispatched the troops of seven divisions of the 18th Army, including Luo Zhuoying, to encircle the southwestern mountainous area of Zhejiang Province on a large scale. Su Yu and Liu Ying led the Red Army to attack Ueda Village at night on July 29th, 1935, and fought fiercely with the independent battalion of the Kuomintang army stationed in Ueda Village, and the Red Army won a great victory. Under the leadership of our Party, from the revolutionary civil war to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the labouring people in Ueda Village actively participated in the democratic revolution and the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. Underground party leaders Zhang Qilin and Cao Jingheng often went in and out of Ueda Village. In 1933, Ueda Village established its first party branch, with more than 1 underground party member and 28 Red Army guerrillas.

under the leadership of the Soviet government in Suxi, Ueda set up a land distribution committee, wrote slogans of the Red Army, publicized our party's ideas, widely mobilized the masses and launched revolutionary struggles. Ueda is an old revolutionary base area with a glorious revolutionary history. In order to commemorate this glorious achievement with historical significance, a "Ueda Battle Memorial Hall" was established in front of the village, which displayed trophies, comic books, calligraphy and poems of Ueda Battle, and was named as a national defense education base by the province.