The history and culture of Ta Tam Village

It is reported that the old records of Tatan Village once said: "Tatan, the original social number is Baotan." The earliest historical documents mentioning Tatan Village are "Sanping Temple" and "The Legend of Sanping Patriarch". These materials fully prove that Tatan Village existed as early as the Yang Yizhong era of Sanping (845 AD) after the "Anshi Rebellion" in the Middle Tang Dynasty (*). It is better than Ouyang Baifu's in the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1371 AD). "Opening the pagoda theory" was 527 years early. Among the total permanent population of Tatan Village today, about 75% of the population have the surname Ouyang, and they claim to be of the ethnic origin of Ouyang Zhan, the assistant teacher of the Fourth Gate of the Imperial Academy of Tang Dynasty. There was a later scholar who tried to change the poem and said: "This is the hometown of the Fujian people, where they built pagodas and made great achievements in ancient times. The mulberry fields and the sea have changed dramatically. Today, many people in Baotan have the surname Ou!"

Remarks: (*) This The legend has not been confirmed by relevant archaeological evidence, because if the Tatan Village had existed in 845 AD, there would have been a certain number of residents living in the village, or there would have been a certain number of Tang Dynasty tombs in the village. and ancient buildings of the Tang Dynasty are two important cultural relics. Even if the total population of Tatan in the mid-Tang Dynasty was only 20 people, or the total number of households in Tatan was only 5 households in the mid-Tang Dynasty, according to the common principle that "general civilians generally have only one relatively fixed earthen tomb (cave) address after death", then , there are at least 20 tombs of Tatan civilians in the mid-Tang Dynasty inside and outside the village. However, archaeologists have "still" not found any tombs belonging to Tatan civilians in the mid-Tang Dynasty at any location inside or outside the village. Therefore, the legend related to Ta Tan - "A True Monk Dressed as a Man and a Woman" has no factual basis at all and is purely fabricated. However, the Cultural and Historical Materials Committee of the Pinghe County Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unilaterally recorded storylines such as "A real monk dressed as a man and a woman" in his special local chronicle "Sanping Temple" (compiled on December 30, 1995). This storyline strives to beautify the image of Sanping's "ancestral master" who "punishes evil and promotes good, benefits the people, and is well-known by everyone." It is an almost perfect (sage) person with good family traditions. For the few aboriginal people in Tatan, it has been ancestral for generations Conduct malicious attacks on the ground and carry out disguised vilification through word of mouth. This storyline obviously has a one-sided and wrong ultra-nationalist flavor, which will inevitably lead to another series of "unbelievable" things.