Zhujia

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. Zhujia appears as "Zhujia, Zhangjia Village, Hefeng Town".

Surnames and ancestral halls

The Paper reported on 8 April 2020 that the ancestral hall of the Zhu family in the village was built some four hundred years ago, with three bays in depth and three in width, whitewashed walls and grey tiles, a floor area of 638 square metres, and stepped gable walls in the Huizhou manner. The report is a second-hand source of moderate authority; the form, protection grade and publication batch of the hall belong to the history site of this group, and this entry records only village-level facts.

The protected status of the hall can be confirmed from 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 "Zhu Ancestral Hall, Hefeng", dated to the Qing dynasty, with its address given as Hefeng Town, Lishui County. It follows that the hall is a municipal-level protected cultural relic, published on 10 June 2006. Two accounts must be kept side by side: the published document gives the period as Qing dynasty, whereas the report's "some four hundred years ago" points roughly to the Ming dynasty; the two are inconsistent, and the period of the published document is followed here, not rewritten on the strength of the report's approximation.

The published document gives only the grade, period and address, with no protection extent, boundary or description of form, so the figures given in the report — three bays in depth and three in width, 638 square metres — still have no official source to corroborate them and await determination in the record of the cultural heritage authorities.

Points of doubt

• "Built four hundred years ago" is the report's approximation and is not used here as a dating; the figures given in the report for the form, three bays in depth and three in width and 638 square metres, rest on that single source, and the published document contains no description of form.
• The report's "some four hundred years ago" and the "Qing dynasty" of the published document stand side by side; the exact founding date of the hall would require an inscription or genealogy, which this library does not hold.
• The address in the published document reads "Hefeng Town, Lishui County" without specifying Zhujia in Zhangjia Village; the correspondence between the hall and this village is supported jointly by the village-level form of the list and the report, and still needs checking.
• The origin of the name and the date of founding are not recorded in the sources used here.
• Zhujia is a settlement within Zhangjia Village and has a separate entry from the administrative village.