The History and Culture of Yunluo Town

The surnames of Yunluo Town are Huang, Zheng, Yang, Xie, Weng, Zhang, Chen, Gan and Zhu. These include:

Most of the villagers surnamed Huang are Sanzhai (Yunlou Village, Dachi Village, Zhongxin Village, Xinwei Village and Xinxiwei Village), Xinxing Village (Xiaxinpulingtou), Donghu Village and Nanhu Village. Most of them are descendants of Huang Chenggong, the seventeen sons of Huang. Huang's distant ancestor entered Fujian from Gwangju, Henan, and spread to the Duke of Huangqiaoshan (872-953) who lived in Shaowu, Fujian. In the first year of the Hou Zhou Dynasty (95 1), Huang Gao was eight products, and his family property was divided equally, and 21 sons were sent abroad. Seventeen sons Huang Chenggong (907-979) lived in Shitang, Shibao New Town, Ruijin County, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, and then moved to Pingxi, and then moved to Sanduwei, Lichuan. After the birth of the Wei family, his descendants lived in Heyuan, Guangdong and Hezhou, Guangxi. Descendants from Heyuan, Guangdong Province, came to Huang 'ayan Temple in the 17th year of Chenghua (148 1) and moved to Xiaxinpu, Yunluo Town, Puning (namely Xinxing Village). It was passed on to his descendant Sun Zuogong, who was in the 20th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (168 1), and set out from Xiaxinpu to the central village of Yunluo Town. Descendant Sun Yungong, in the third year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1725), moved from Zhongxin Village to Yunlou Village and Dachi Village in Yunluo Town and began to return home. His descendants moved to Shangba, Shenqiankeng and Shangdong Village successively.

Most of the villagers surnamed Zheng are Yunluo Village (the capital of Lingshan Mountain in old Weiban) and Huzhai Village (Houshan Huzhai Village in Weiwei Village of Longjing). Zheng ancestral home, Zheng Huangong, was the monarch of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period. Zheng is in Xinzheng, Xingyang and Kaifeng, Henan. Zheng Nianer, a descendant of the Zheng family, is a scholar of Jiatai Guihai Branch (1203), whose names are Haoyuan and Biquan, and he is sixteen years old. Twenty-four-year-old officials were exiled to Yongding and Shanghang, Jiangxi Province, because they were raped by power after they took the post of Ming Dynasty University and assistant to the Prince. Since then, Zheng Nianer was the ancestor in Yongding, Jiangxi. In the third year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1524), Zheng Dexing and Dexuan moved from Yongding, Jiangxi Province to Nigou, Puning City, and settled in Tanqian and Hou Ling in the village. Later, some descendants of Dexing Gong moved to Kuikeng Village, Gaopu Town, and their descendants moved from Kuikeng Village to Yunluo Village (Sakamoto, the capital of Xia Ling) and other villages.

The origin of other surnames needs to be supplemented. Many villagers in Yunluo Town believe in Buddhism, Sanshanwang, Guandi, Sanniang and Guanyin. They inherit the tradition, worship their ancestors and pay attention to geomantic omen. Traditional festivals include ancestor worship, singing and dancing. Among them, during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of each year, the activities of worshipping ancestors and welcoming gods in Sanzhai and Lao Xu villages are the most solemn and lively, attracting thousands of people from surrounding villages to watch and participate.

There is a Sanshanwang Temple in Sanzhai, Yunluo Town, which has a history of 100 years. This Sanshanwang Temple is different from others, but it has a "child body" (similar to the living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism). Usually, he is an ordinary person. Villagers will get lost in the temple when they go to burn incense or major festivals. On the fifteenth day of the first month of every year, an old man who is nearly a hundred years old will go out in a knife chair (three knives on his foot, three knives on his ass, three knives on his back and one knife in his hand, all sharp). The villagers are very religious. For the offspring (similar to the living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism), a new offspring will appear after the death of the old man, similar to the living Buddha turning around.