The Millennium-Old Government Office in Bo Les Hometown

Understand the history of Chengwu County, Heze City, Shandong Province, and continue the millennium-old cultural heritage.Hello everyone, I'm Guo Li, the curator of Chengwu County Museum, Heze City, Shandong Province. Where I am now, it is a municipal cultural relics protection unit, Chengwu county government office ruins, that is, the old yamen that our Chengwu people often say.

In the Qing Dynasty, Daoguang Gengyin Chengwu County Chronicles recorded the pattern of the Chengwu County Government Office in that year: there were five doors, there is a tall shadow wall outside the door, both sides of the gate, it is the duty room of the yamen. Enter the gate and go inside, both sides of the corridor in the courtyard, each has five granaries, on every granary is a word, the names of the granaries are linked together to form a couplet, call "Tang Yu more prosperous, Takazawa Duofenian". The second door is the instrument door, inside the instrument door, that's where our county official's office was at that time. The east side of the courtyard is the official house, waiting for the office space of the civil servant. On the west side are office rooms such as soldiers and torturers. In this middle corridor, there is also a ring stone workshop. The main hall faces south, there are five rooms with corridors in total. On the east side of the lobby is the council hall, it was also the place where the county magistrate mediated the affairs of the county at that time. After the lobby is the second hall, behind the second hall is the inner house where the county official lives. Because the inner house itself is very tall, and it's on a higher ground, therefore, the common people call it Jiujianlou, the whole is still relatively regular.

This county government office, it can be said that for thousands of years we, the political and cultural center of Chengwu County, it has witnessed the generation of Chengwu County, another generation of historical changes. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this lobby was rebuilt during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, it's basically intact. Unfortunately, in the 1960s, it was demolished due to a fire, only this part of the east gable remains. The second hall was also converted into a conference room for the county government. The most complete one is the construction of the chamber and the back house, there are also four buildings in the Republic of China period, two newly built communication rooms after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and a movie wall from the 1970s, it is also basically intact. It turns out that this courtyard is still scattered, a Monument of Confucianism Erected by Ming Dynasty County Official Zheng Han, Master Guo, Marquis of Yi in the Qing Dynasty, is honest and kind, and Zhang Bingzhang County Mayor during the Republic of China, the monument of Feng Yuxiang's precepts established, it has now been properly preserved. The identity of this county office, it's happened over time. It is not only the seat of the Chengwu Ya Office in the past dynasties, it also carries the complete modern history of Chengwu County.

Republic of China, here have been county offices and county anti-Japanese democratic governments, it was also occupied by Japanese invaders. After the founding of New China, this has long been the office of the county government, it is also the office of the county revolutionary committee and the county people's congress, therefore, many people are also accustomed to calling, this is for the old revolutionary committee and the elderly. Until the 1980s, after the county government office moved out, it's becoming a residential area. By the beginning of 2017, in order to improve the living environment of the people in Gucheng Street, enhance the taste of the city, we Chengwu County Party Committee and County Government, the old city has been upgraded and renovated. In the process of transformation, the old county government house in the area, including historical sites such as girls' schools, all are included in the scope of protection, we invested a lot of money, scientific restoration was carried out, it should be guaranteed. Not only does it preserve the historical memory of our Chengwu Old Town, he has also become an old resident of many ancient city streets, an important reference to the original place of residence.

Nowadays, this old county government office, it is more than just an ancient building site, it carries the culture of official morality, a Living Textbook of Red History. Although the original building is no longer complete, but still like this, remains of County Government Pattern in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is also the only place in our Heze City. You could say, every brick here, they are all telling the ancient government of Chengwu County, the Complete Story of Modern Revolutions and Contemporary Developments, let's find ourselves in this modern city, keep the historical roots that belong to Bole's hometown.