- Yuanjia'ao
Yuanjia'ao (袁家嶴) is a village in
Fenghua municipality,Zhejiang province,China . Situated at approx. 280m above sea level in theTiantai Mountain range, its main products arebamboo and timber. The village is traditionally considered the ancestral home of the Yuans of the greaterNingbo , who have been estimated to number some 20,000.The village itself is split in two by the Tangqi River, a small stream which can flood in the autumn months. Yuanjia'ao is famous in Fenghua because it is a thoroughfare to
Malongkeng , a religious site near the peak of Mount Dalei. There is a narrow concrete road to Yuanjia'ao fromXiaowangmiao in the north, which follows the Tangqi River all the way to Xujiashan in the south. On the 18th day of the sixth lunar month, when the religious festival to honour the dragon king of Malongkeng is held, the road becomes heavily congested.Of the 400 families of Yuanjia'ao, over 90% are surnamed Yuan. According to the "Yuanshi jiapu" of
1923 , all the Yuans of the village are descended from a certain Yuan Rong (袁蓉), who moved fromXinchang county and settled at the site in thetenth century . The village also has wider significance as the ancestral home of the Yuan clans of Ningbo and its hinterlands. Efforts have been made in recent years to revive and restore the clan monuments and religious buildings which were destroyed during theCultural Revolution . In1997 , a clan hall was reopened, and the Duling Temple and its connected memorial arch was erected. Since2001 , clan members have been studying the last remaining copy of the clan genealogy held by the Fenghua government and liaising with members of the Cilin Yuan clan to republish the genealogy.
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