A plaque, also called the threshold. It is said that its appearance is due to the development of Heluo culture in the Central Plains, which is a manifestation of Chinese civilization. In ancient times, there was a custom of "plaque" to identify everything, "plaque" to distinguish the noble and the humble, and "plaque" to praise the good. There are many kinds of plaques, and the function of plaques in Fujian and Taiwan houses is to worship the virtues of ancestors and inspire. Styles include stone plaque, wooden plaque, gray plaque and so on. Generally, rectangles are common, and the size and specifications depend on the size of the facade, which is eye-catching and dignified. The book written by Mo Bao was inscribed by a famous scholar. The characteristics of the tablet: exquisite artistic conception, exquisite calligraphy and seal cutting, and concise content.
The historical documents of the plaque record: "The making process of the plaque is a demonstration of folk comprehensive skills. After long-term accumulation and evolution, it has formed the characteristics of integrating ci, poetry, calligraphy, sculpture, painting, seal cutting and other artistic forms, and it is the epitome of China's ci beauty and craft beauty. An excellent plaque can not only make people appreciate the simple and vivid inscription, but also perfectly reproduce the elegant calligraphy of the calligrapher. At the same time, it also carved a series of meticulous and exquisite patterns, which are the three-dimensional aesthetics of language art, calligraphy art and painting sculpture art, and have extremely high artistic, cultural, social and historical values. "
As a branch of China traditional architecture, Fujian-Taiwan traditional architecture inherits the cultural origin of Heluo area. The plaque culture in Fujian and Taiwan also inherits and develops the profound traditional cultural connotation of Heluo in the Central Plains. According to the Biography of Chen Yuanguang, the Holy King of Zhang Kai, in the second year of the Tang Dynasty (669), Zheng Chen, the commander of Weiyifu in Tang Gaozong, was sent to lead more than 3,600 soldiers with 58 surnames, including Chen Yuanguang, into Fujian to quell the border chaos between Fujian and Guangdong. Since then, Central Plains soldiers and their families have taken root in Zhangzhou, southern Fujian Province, lived and worked in peace and contentment, and have multiplied from generation to generation, becoming the ancestors of various surnames in Zhangzhou. They brought the culture and farming technology of the Central Plains, which made this ancient and wild place between Fujian and Guangdong move towards long-term stability and initial prosperity and development, and formed a political, military, economic and cultural unity with the Central Plains, becoming the eighth cultural relic (Zhangzhou County Records) that "captured the words of Fujian and Guangdong and opened the clothes of a thousand generations". After Chen Yuanguang's death, in the fourth year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (7 16), he was named "Hou of Yingchuan" by the court. In the Song Dynasty, it was also called "King Guangji, King Zhu Ling and King Cheng Hui". Their descendants became the main population composition in Minnan and Chaoshan areas, and migrated to Taiwan Province, Hongkong, Hainan Island, Nanyang and other places, forming a root-seeking cultural phenomenon of "Zhangjiang cherishes Gushi, and Tang people visit their ancestors in Minnan". People in Zhangzhou and Taiwan Province Province felt their goodwill and built temples and shrines to worship him, honoring him as "King Zhang Kai" and becoming the patron saint of the local people in Fujian, Taiwan and southern Fujian.
Trees never leave their roots, water never leaves their sources, and people never forget their ancestors. In order to honor their ancestors and pursue the distant future, people in Fujian and Taiwan pay special attention to the construction of ancestral halls, the continuation of genealogy and the prospect of county boundaries, so as to flaunt their surnames, family expectations and roots. Because the roots are in Heluo, in the ancestral halls and genealogy it built, the county names and hall numbers are based on the county names of Heluo, such as Yingchuan County, Xingyang County, Hongnong County, Chenliu County, Yingchuantang and Hongnongtang. Therefore, Chen's plaques are "Ying Chuan Shi Ze" and "Ying Chuan Yan Pai"; Huang surnamed "Jiangxia Liu Fang"; Zhang surnamed "Qinghe Shize" and "Yuyang Zheng Hui"; Li surname uses "Xilong Shize" and "Beihai Celebrity"; Lin used "Xihe Poetry" and "Jiu Mu Yan School" ... and used "Shide Liu Xin", "Shide Liu Fang" and "Wuma Liu Fang" to flaunt the fine habits of the ancestors of this family, such as perseverance and hard work. In Mr. Zhang's home in Tongling Town, Dongshan County, the author saw the plaque of "Qinghe Shize", which was linked with "Xilinyan Qinghe Shize, Xiarao Town Passage Zongzhi". The couplet tells the story of the clan factions in Zhang Dongshan, starting from Kaizu, Xiangfu County, Kaifeng, Henan Province, to Xilin Village, Yunxiao County, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, then from Xilin Village to Xiaraomei, Huanggang Town, Raoping County, Guangdong Province, and then from Xiaraomei to the top of Stalagmite Pond, the ancient city of Tongling, Dongshan County. The inscription "Yuan Pai" was written by Mr. Feng, the former chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Political Consultative Conference. The couplet "Yuan Peiqi flows around the front of the mountain, and the clouds are dry and Chengde is full of fragrance" entrusts today's Zhang family to carry on the family line through the ages, inheriting the glory of the Yuan Pai ancestors, and the new generation has a long history.