Of course, the village chief hesitated, this club was only available in the city, and they countrymen would definitely find it strange, so that some people would want to come in and sit down, and they would be able to earn money. But if you build an ancestral hall, how can you make money?

Professor Hu didn't hear the village chief's reply, and after looking at him for a while, he laughed.

"This ancestral hall may be a little different from what you think. ”

At the request of Professor Huan, the staff who accompanied them in the town found the key and opened the door, and a group of people entered the dam of the old ancestral hall.

The area of the old ancestral hall is not small, covering an area of about five acres, and the specific area needs to be measured to know. Originally, it was a courtyard house. That year, the houses on the east and west sides were smashed, and even the interior of the main house was not spared, if it weren't for the old people in the town fighting to the death, it is estimated that there would not be a piece of bricks and tiles left in the entire ancestral hall.

Looking at it now, there are still foundations left in the smashed place, but they are already overgrown with weeds, and even the bluestone-paved dam in front of the ancestral hall is covered with artemisia grass from between the cracks in the stones. The main house in front of it was originally two stories high, but now it has collapsed a little by half, and the stairs up the stairs are also decayed, and I dare not step on it.

Professor Hu's son took a sketchbook and drew the general topographical distribution with a brush. Because the foundation was still there, they didn't know what kind of building it was originally on the ground, so they only drew a half-section of the schematic diagram, and walked around the main house, and together with Professor Huan, they took a tape measure and measured the length.

Before Chen Xin came, she called Liu Chunyan and asked her to look up the information here in the county library, mainly because of which ethnic group is the main one in the town. But what disappointed her was that there were very few records on this side in the county annals, only one sentence, saying that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Huan family was the largest landlord here.

"If the information you find is true, then it is likely that this ancestral hall is the Huan family ancestral hall. After I go back, I will find a way to check, if I can determine the best, maybe I can find the introduction of the Huan family ancestral hall back then. ”

Hearing Chen Xin's conversation with Professor Huan, the village chief couldn't stand it, pulled Chen Xin aside, and asked her anxiously if the plan for this hall was gone.

"Uncle Village Chief, don't worry, the professor means to restore and rebuild as much as possible on the basis of preserving the existing pattern, and then the reconstructed building is divided into several functional areas, you can have everything you want, but the most important thing is to build a platform for cultural inheritance. ”

Seeing that the village chief didn't understand, Chen Xin thought about it and asked him if he had seen the popular puppet drama here before.

"Of course I did. The village chief's eyes widened, "When I was a child, every village would pool money to invite the opera troupe to sing during the New Year's Festival. However, our village in the mountains is poor, and we don't get it every year. Later, the conditions were a little better, and the town would also set up a stage to compete during the New Year, and a performance was a day and a night, and people from ten miles and eight towns would come to the town to watch the play at that time. But later, there were fewer and fewer people singing operas, and everyone stopped watching operas, and now there is still a tradition of inviting people to sing in the villages in Cangxi, but the old artists who sing well are almost gone, and the younger ones can't sing that taste. ”

Chen Xin patiently waited for the village chief to finish speaking before explaining with a smile: "Professor Huan's meaning is to build a stage here in the main house, whether it is singing or opera, or ethnic performances in various villages, and when the Chinese New Year resumes the tradition of the previous competition, the government will take the lead in organizing and giving certain financial support to each performance team." And then you don't have to buy the money to build it, sign an agreement with the government, the government will fix it, you can contract it and run it, pay taxes and rent normally, so that you can find a source of money and you don't have to invest too much. And the same is true for the government, which can also make cultural achievements, and count them in one fell swoop. ”

The village chief frowned: "But the house is not ours, if the government doesn't do it for us, what should we do?"

"Before the contract, sign an agreement to specify the contract period, at least 10 years, if you don't want to do it halfway, you can directly negotiate with the government and return part of the rent. This is negotiable, and I don't think the town will be willing to give up this opportunity. ”

The village chief still hesitated, and Chen Xin persuaded him that if it was bought by three villages as a joint venture, if something uncontrollable happened in the future, it would be very difficult for them to deal with it without hurting the peace. Moreover, the funds for land purchase and reconstruction are not small, even if you want to sponsor, the profit sharing involved in this is very troublesome, and such a large amount of money, it is impossible for the sponsors to cover all of them, and each village still has a part. The economy of their village is okay now, but it is more difficult on the Shiba side.

"The most important thing is that now the provinces have begun to pay attention to cultural construction. If someone catches talking about this in the future, it will be very difficult for you to solve this problem. It is better to let the government take the lead now, and you will directly contract, and if the country's policy changes in the future, it will be easier to advance and retreat. ”

Chen Xin knows that in a few years, intangible cultural heritage will begin to be valued, and the winner will be the one who eats this cake first.

Zhangjiacun does not lack the inheritance of national culture, what they lack is vision and fame. If you take the lead in building a good relationship with the town government, Zhangjiacun will respond to the call in time and set up a good field for the government, and you will definitely get a lot of benefits.

The village chief frowned and discussed with the branch secretary and several others, and decided to go back and convene a small meeting of the heads of the three villages, and then ask Professor Wei to give them a detailed explanation before making a decision.

"That's the safest thing to do. We also need to get your consent before we can start the design and construction. "Professor Wei and they are just making suggestions, and whether they can implement this depends on whether the three villages can reach a reunification.

"In addition, can you help contact the person in charge of the relevant departments in the town? There are some things that we also need to ask for the government's opinion, after all, the most important thing in this plan is the government's support. ”

Professor Wei has a good relationship with the leaders of the provinces and cities, but the king of Hades is better than the little ghosts, and the local support is needed to do things in this place, not to mention that the situation here is more complicated, it is a rare ethnic settlement, and it is a poor area for the old and the young, and it is also subject to many restrictions.

The staff of the town government who accompanied them didn't know much about this, but he knew that the person who came was a professor from University C, and he naturally had extraordinary respect for Professor Hu. Hearing that Professor Huan said that he wanted to meet with the relevant leaders for a chat, he immediately said that he could contact the leaders now.

"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, if it's convenient for the leader, then go now. It just so happened that I told the leaders about our ideas to see if they could do it, so that the village chief and them could have a bottom in their hearts when they discussed. ”

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