In the county 17 townships and 674 administrative villages, there are many villages named Xu. There are more than 20 villages named after Xu. Such as: Xu Zhuang, Xu, Xu Chuguo, Xu Putan, Xu Daqian, Xu Haizi, etc. Many Tancheng people, surnamed Xu, still hold important leadership positions in party and government organs at all levels, or become celebrities in all walks of life, and their achievements have spread all over the world.
For example, Xu, who served as the county magistrate of Tancheng County People's Government in the early 1980s, was a native of Guichang Township in Tancheng County. Later, in the process of dealing with accidents and rescuing workers, Xu died unfortunately in the line of duty and was regarded as a revolutionary martyr by the Shandong Provincial People's Government. With the development of ancient cultural research activities and the rise of root-seeking fever and tourism fever, the Xu family in Tancheng and its ancestral tomb Dunling have attracted great attention from Xu people at home and abroad. Some historians and cultural relics and archaeology departments have also conducted in-depth research and discussion on this, and gradually formed a "fever" in ancient history research and Xu Zu's root-seeking activities. Tancheng county government and relevant departments took advantage of the situation and thought it was a good start to carry forward national culture, enhance national unity, improve Tancheng's popularity and develop Tancheng's economy, and clearly instructed relevant personnel to spare no effort to carry out more publicity and research on Baogong Dunling, and to develop and protect it. Li Qun, secretary of Linyi Municipal Party Committee, vice mayor, president and vice president of Linyi aristocratic culture research society, Zhao and other leading comrades visited Dunling many times, demanding effective measures to develop and protect this very precious historical and cultural resource, and specially allocating funds to arrange relevant personnel to do this work well.
1998 in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, more than 400 representatives of the Xu clan in Tancheng county held a grand gathering in front of Dunling, and held a large-scale ancestor worship activity for the first time, and erected a "tomb of the Xu clan". In the next few years, every year around Tomb-Sweeping Day, the people of Tancheng County and the Xu family at home and abroad will gather in Dunling to seek roots and worship their ancestors to show their affection for each other.
On April 65438, 20065438, the clan of Xu Shi, xinyi city, Jiangsu Province and the clan of Xu Shi, a representative of 38 counties and cities in Sulu, Henan and Anhui provinces, specially carved two ancestral tablets, which were transported from far away places and erected in front of the ancestral tomb of Dunling. On this day, Li Zongtao, deputy head of Tancheng county government, made a special speech at the unveiling ceremony of memorial tablet for ancestor worship, and unveiled the newly established memorial tablet for ancestor worship.
In 200 1 year, Baogong Dunling was announced as a key cultural relics protection unit by Tancheng County People's Government. The governments of Linyi City and Tancheng County have incorporated the construction of the Chinese Xu ancestral tomb in Dunling into the overall planning of tourism development in Linyi City and Tancheng County, and plan to open a cemetery here, and build a memorial hall for Xu's ancestors, a forest of steles and a statue of Xu's celebrities. The Tombstone of the Ancestors of Xu Shi, China, signed by Linyi Cultural Research Association of Shandong Province and Tancheng County People's Government of Shandong Province, has been engraved. The inscription was drafted by the main leaders of Linyi Cultural Research Association and approved by Li Qun, secretary of Linyi Municipal Party Committee. The inscription, written by Xu Liming, a famous calligrapher in China, will be erected next to the tomb of Bao Gong Dun. After Linyi Daily, Tancheng Daily, Tancheng Culture Research and other newspapers published textual research articles and historical related articles on Dunling respectively, the large monograph "The Grand View of Xu's Ancient and Modern Culture" edited and published by Guangdong Xu and the World Xu Clan Association Journal edited and published by Taiwan Province Province both published books on literature and history. Many people surnamed Xu at home and abroad have written or called or come to Tancheng in person to express their urgent desire to seek their roots and worship their ancestors. Xu Shi's relatives in Guangdong, Taiwan Province, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan and other places also expressed their desire to contribute to the development and protection of Dunling.
It can be predicted that in this ancient land of Tancheng, China Xujia Zuling will play a great role with its unique position and advantages, showing a more brilliant prospect.