Shangxu village has a long history and culture, and celebrities come forth in large numbers. Villages were formed before the Yuan Dynasty, and moved into the village from Lower Xu Cun in the Song Dynasty. The ancient village is located in the Diangu basin in front of Taqian and Keshan, with its back to Qingshan and its west to fertile land. Xihe and Taco highways run south from the village. It is said that Xu Heng, the first martial arts champion in Leping's history, was born in Xucun, Beixiang, Leping. He was awarded Imperial College by Song Huizong and was a civilian. With the increasing prosperity of northern Jurchen, the imperial court respected martial arts and worried about the country and the people. Xu Heng, determined to serve the country, practiced martial arts hard and devoted himself to the art of war. Martial arts won the championship in one fell swoop, and won the championship in the imperial examination. It is the champion of martial arts (1 106). He successively served as the right ambassador, Zhijin Ningjun, the low-cost ambassador of the East-West Road in the south of the Yangtze River, the provincial ambassador of the Guangdong Road, the transshipment ambassador, and the provincial ambassador of Kyoto, and later transferred to Kangzhou (Guangdong Deqing House) as the defense ambassador. Park 1 1 18, which coincided with Xu Heng's appointment as the low-cost envoy of the East and West Roads in Jiangnan. The Yangtze River is flooded and the disaster is serious, and millions of people are in danger. He was ordered to help the victims at the critical moment, but he still broke the routine and concentrated on storing food in the hands of officials and landlords, intercepting Gong Mi and saving the victims from extinction; Then he presided over the restoration of traffic, the delivery of medicines, the reduction of corvee and the promotion of production. The emperor praised his camera disposal and decisive action, ordered the world to learn, and betrothed his daughter to him, calling him Xu. Evonne loved Xu Heng deeply and lived with her husband. After retiring home in his later years, his husband and wife made up and were buried together in Phoenix Mountain. The story of Xu Heng and Evonne has been circulating in Xucun for thousands of years.
Upper Xu Cun is rich in material and cultural heritage. According to census statistics, there are provincial cultural relics 1 in Upper Xu Cun, 3 municipal cultural relics and 5 county cultural relics. The third national cultural relics survey found immovable cultural relics 19. These cultural relics are the accumulation of history and have witnessed the prosperity and civilization of Upper Xu Cun. Intangible cultural heritage is rich and colorful and has been passed down to this day. Such as folk literature, traditional music and dance. Ancient villagers' houses, stele forest stone carvings, ancestral genealogy, archways and shadow walls are all over the fields and villages. They are numerous, have a long history and are well preserved, shining like bright pearls embedded in the land of Xu Shang. Walking into Xu Shang is like walking into a museum without walls. There is a typical historical building in the Qing Dynasty-a residential building with mountains and waters, which was built in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and consists of a door cover, a front hall, a patio, a main hall, a back patio, a back hall and a companion house. Three openings, two entrances, two halls and four waters, belonging to the bucket roof, with an area of 15 * 23 square meters. It is a typical Rao-style residential building in the middle of Qing Dynasty, with a history of 130 years. Now it is a key cultural relic protection unit in leping city. There is also the Ming Dynasty archway-Liu Fang in Ishizawa, which was built to commemorate Xu Heng, the champion of both civil and military skills, and has a history of more than 600 years.
For a long time, Upper Xu Cun has made a unified plan for the cultural protection of the whole village according to its own characteristics. Nowadays, compared with the ancient village of Lao Xu in Upper Xu Cun, the settlement pattern has changed. The ancient villages are concentrated in the south of Taco Highway, and now the north of the highway is also covered with houses, connecting the neighboring village Chenjiacun from east to west. However, the antique of Xugu Village and the bluestone paving of ancient streets and lanes will not destroy the rut marks and are full of vicissitudes. Fortunately, the new "Shiyan Tianma Village Commercial Center and Conceptual Planning of Natural Scenery Tourism Project" has been widely recognized by the villagers, and the domestic garbage in the village has been collected and treated centrally. The new paradigm of "market engineering construction of thousands of villages and towns" established by the Ministry of Commerce extends from lower Xu Cun to upper Xu Cun, and there will be an innovative model of modern rural construction.
On August 26th, 20 13, Upper Xu Cun was included in the second batch of traditional villages in China.
There are many tourist attractions near Upper Xu Cun, such as Hongyan Wonderland, Jiangxi Guaishi Forest, Yanshan Mountains, Leping Ancient Street and Ancient Stage, and there are special foods such as paste soup in front of the tower, Leping dog meat, Leping flower pig, sepiolite and Cai Jia taro.