Xunyi Tangjia Minsu Museum

Xunyi County Tang Family Folk Museum is located in Tang Family Village, seven kilometers northeast of Xianyang Xunyi County. The predecessor of Xunyi Tang Family Folk Museum is Tang Family Landlord Manor. The mausoleum and stone archway of Tang Tingquan, the envoy of salt transportation, are combined with the northern courtyard and Suzhou-Hangzhou garden art. The roof of the entire courtyard is crouched with beasts flying, and the eaves and teeth are pecked by birds. The walls are made of terrazzo bricks, which are beautiful in shape. Anecdote of the Tang family - the landlord of the Tang family was the famous "Sanshui Tang family (Xunyi formerly known as Sanshui)" in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. When Tang Jingzhong was in the prosperous period of the Qing Emperor Qianlong, the Tang family also reached a prosperous period at this time. . It is based on agriculture and revitalized by business, and its business names are spread across thirteen provinces in China. Its size is evident from this. In the 60th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1795), Tang Jingzhong also went to Beijing to attend the "Thousand Old Man Banquet" held by Emperor Qianlong, and presented seven official uniforms, silver medals, walking sticks, and imperial seven-character laws. Since then, the Tang family has had an official title, and it has connected with the emperor and established officials, and exploited business profits. At that time, the Tang family owned a lot of land, tenant farmers and livestock in Xunyi, Binxian, Chunhua and Yaoxian counties, and charged huge rents every year. At that time, it was not only rich and powerful in Shaanxi, but also had the highest wealth in the whole country. During the reign of Emperor Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, the Tang family had only 60 members, employed 165 servants and maids, and also had 66 parrot sedan chairs. Because of the wealth and power of the Tang family, the houses they built were very elegant and the work was very meticulous. The number of craftsmen who built the house for a long time amounted to three to two hundred people a day. During the period of forty-three years, they built eighty-seven palace-style courtyards, about two to seven hundred rooms. All buildings are of wood, stone and brick structure. Not only are the foundations firm and solid, but each house is built with polished bricks and finely carved, painted dragon and phoenix stones. The brick joints are also made of lime and glutinous rice juice. water. The partition walls of the courtyard are engraved with various patterns such as "Eight Immortals" and "Twenty-Four Filial Piety", and the corner columns in the courtyard are engraved with "Eight Horses" and "Huashan Chess" on the walls. There are also relief works such as peony, plum and bamboo, and dry lotus. When the compound was completed, the Tang family built a large theater to celebrate and sang for more than three months. This large landlord family with a wealth of wealth has gradually fallen into disrepair since the end of the Qing Dynasty. All kinds of household items and treasures purchased with a lot of money at home have almost disappeared after many vicissitudes. Now the Tang family compound has been turned into a folk museum, and most of the descendants of the Tang family live in the Tang family village and live by hard work.