Historical evolution of qingtang

According to the elders, Qingtang was not called Qingtang before Yongxing Gong, the ancestor of Huang, came here to lay the foundation stone, but was a scattered settlement composed of more than 20 small villages of different sizes, such as Zhong, Chen, Xie, Ye, Mai, Zeng and Lu (the farthest distance between villages was several hundred meters, so it was called settlement). Every village has its own name, such as Ye CuO, Mai Zhai, Chen CuO, Zeng CuO Liao and so on. Although there were many surnames at that time, the population living in Qingtang was very small, and the number of people with various surnames was of course different. Since my ancestor Huang made his fortune here in Yongle of Ming Dynasty, after five or six generations, the grandchildren of all families have flourished, but there are fewer and fewer people with other surnames. According to the old people, since our ancestor Huang came to live in Qingtang, Yejia was the most obvious one to fall. Our surname is Huang, and theirs is Ye. They said that our surname Huang hit their surname Ye, and the leaves turned yellow. The feng shui in our ancestral temple was much better than theirs, so they fell down. They felt that they couldn't afford to live here, and then they gradually moved to other places. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, they had moved 18 ethnic groups with surnames, such as Maizhai and Chencuo, and they moved very slowly. The year of moving was about the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and it was not until a few years ago that I moved out of Lujia in Qingtang with Huang Ju Liao. Now only the Tseng family is adjacent to our Qingtang. Personally, I think this situation has a lot to do with the political situation at that time, whether there are capable people in society and family. ) The name of Qingtang is said to be a pond on the right back of my ancestral home (now the ancestral temple), named Qingtang, hence the name Qingtang Township. It is said that the water in this pond is crystal clear. Even if it rains, it will clear up after a while. There is a spring hidden in that pond, and the water will not dry up all year round, even in dry years, it is still full. My ancestor Yongxing Gong, the founder of the Huang family in Qingtang, has been here for 560 years since the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and has been breeding for more than 20 generations. The big house, the second house and the third house found another resort to spread branches and leaves, while the descendants of the four houses, the five houses and the six houses lived in the village, and some ancestors of the five houses and the six houses also spread branches and leaves elsewhere. There are about 2,000 descendants of Huang living in Qingtang Village, about 20,000 people. According to an elder who once served as the mayor of Xinan Town, Beimenyuan, according to conservative statistics, there are about 90,000 descendants of six houses handed down by Yongxing Gong (including all descendants of Yongxing Gong from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan at home and abroad). The houses in Qingtang Village are basically built around the big lotus pond in the village, with the back mountain facing the pond and compact layout. The big lotus pond can be said to be a center of our village.