Shishanxia

Traditional village listing

The list published on the provincial housing department's website on 8 April 2020 records 107 villages in the first batch of traditional villages of Jiangsu. Shishanxia appears as "Shishanxia, Ruijia Village, Jingqiao Town".

The later conservation and use of Shishanxia is attested by a government reply: a reply issued on 29 July 2022 by Nanjing Lishui Industrial Investment and Holding Group and carried on the district government website records that the group has divided Cangkou, Shishanxia and Lixiang into three characteristic traditional villages for grouped development, proceeding around the theme of protecting and using provincial traditional villages. It follows that Shishanxia was brought into the grouped development scope of the district-owned enterprise; the reply names the Red Lixiang patriotic education base with Lijiashan and the Qiu and Fan ancestral halls at Cangkou Village among the projects "completed and put into operation", and does not list Shishanxia among them, so the state of the Shishanxia project is not inferred here.

Surnames and ancestral halls

The Paper reported on 8 April 2020 that the ancestral hall of the Liu family in the village was built in 1820, that it survived almost two centuries intact at the head of the village, and that it entered the municipal list of protected cultural relics in 2006. The report is a second-hand source of moderate authority; the protection grade and publication batch of the hall belong to the history site of this group. This entry records only the existence and date of the building at village level and does not infer the founding date of the village from it.

The report's dating can be checked against the official published document. Among the five Lishui entries under the ancient buildings category in the third batch of municipal protected cultural relics published under Ning Zheng Fa [2006] No. 131 is the "Liu Ancestral Hall, Jingqiao", dated to the Ming dynasty, with its address given as Jingqiao Town, Lishui County. Two points are worth recording: the 2006 of the published document agrees with the year the report gives for entry on the list, so the grade and batch can be confirmed from the published document; and the period given in the document, Ming dynasty, is inconsistent with the 1820 of the report (the twenty-fifth year of the Jiaqing reign of the Qing). The two accounts stand side by side, and the period of the published document is not rewritten here on the strength of the report's 1820; the founding date of the hall still awaits determination in the record of the cultural heritage authorities.

A further source shows the place name in continuing use: in the public notice of 3 June 2026 of the fifth batch of district place-name cultural heritage, the "Liu Ancestral Hall" appears as a proposed entry under the Jingqiao Town row, in the category of commemorative facilities. That document is a draft seeking comment rather than a final published list; it shows only that the place name is still used in Jingqiao Town, and settles neither the founding date nor the form and protection extent of the hall.

Points of doubt

• The specific construction date of the Liu ancestral hall appears only in press reports, while the 2006 of entry on the municipal list is confirmed by the published document Ning Zheng Fa [2006] No. 131.
• The 1820 of the report and the "Ming dynasty" of the published document stand side by side; the exact founding date of the hall awaits determination in the record of the cultural heritage authorities.
• The date of founding and the origin of the name are not recorded in the sources used here.
• Shishanxia is a settlement within Ruijia Village and has a separate entry from the administrative village.
• The entry of the "Liu Ancestral Hall" in the fifth batch of district place-name cultural heritage rests here on a draft notice.
• The specific projects at Shishanxia under the district-owned enterprise's grouped development, and their state of completion, are not recorded in the 2022 reply.