According to the 2006 "Fuyong Town Chronicles" and "Bao'an Folk Literature Collection" (May 2006), the legend of the Smoke Watching Tower has a history of more than 700 years. The legend records the nephew of Wen Tianxiang, who was against the Yuan Dynasty, Wen Yinglin, who founded a village at the foot of Damao Mountain in Fuyong, was kind and generous, and cared about the suffering of the people. In order to commemorate this kind and generous man who cared about the suffering of the people, the descendants built this Smoke Watching Tower on the top of Fenghuang Mountain, where he used to understand the people's sentiments. Every New Year and festival, nearby villagers spontaneously come here to worship. They express their respect and admiration for Wen Yinglin here, and at the same time encourage future generations to inherit his legacy and continue to pass on Chinese virtues and the custom of helping others. Wen Yinglin was dissatisfied with the rule of the Yuan Dynasty during the Dade period of the Yuan Dynasty (1297 AD to 1307 AD), and drifted to the foot of Damao Mountain with his ancestors, where he multiplied and founded a village. Wen Yinglin was a passionate young man with great ideals and ambitions. He led the Wen family to start a business with great difficulty and make the family prosperous. He hated the rule of foreign races in the Yuan Dynasty, valued integrity, had great righteousness, sympathized with the people's plight, was kind and generous, and helped the poor. At that time, it was inconvenient to go out to understand the situation of the people. He thought of a way to understand the people's sentiments. Every time there was a shortage of food or a disaster year, he would often climb to the top of Phoenix Mountain to see if there was smoke in the chimneys of each household in the village near the foot of the mountain to judge whether there was a shortage of food. If you see smoke coming out of the chimneys of the villages near the foot of the mountain, it means that there is no shortage of food. If you see no smoke coming out of the chimneys of the villages near the foot of the mountain, it means that every household has no smoke and no rice to cook. So he sent his clansmen to deliver food to the households to help the poor. The people were very grateful to him and called him a living Bodhisattva with great compassion. In order to facilitate observation, he simply built a temporary smoke-watching tower on the top of Phoenix Mountain. In the evening, he looked out over the surrounding villages from the smoke-watching tower so as to understand the people's sentiments and help the poor. After that, neighbors and villagers praised him as a "righteous man" and a living bodhisattva. In order to commemorate this righteous man who was kind and caring about the suffering of the people, later generations built a smoke-watching tower on the top of Phoenix Mountain where he had built a temporary observation tower to understand the people's sentiments. Later generations called the smoke-watching tower "smoke-watching tower at night". His descendants used the allusion of the smoke-watching tower as a warning. The couplets on both sides of his Wen's feeding hall, "smoke-watching tower, family tradition of righteousness", are such a portrayal. The smoke-watching tower was built by Wen Yinglin, the nephew of Wen Tianxiang, a national hero who fought against the Yuan Dynasty, on Phoenix Mountain to observe the people's sentiments. He was closely connected with historical celebrities and has become a place to carry Wen Tianxiang's deeds in Shenzhen. Wen Yinglin is closely connected with Fenghuang Mountain, Fengyan Ancient Temple, Shijian Stone, Wangyan Tower, etc., and has high tourism development value. Now thousands of people come here for sightseeing and leisure every year. While bringing social effects to the local people, it also creates considerable economic value for the local people. This folk legend has a history of 700 years. It is the inheritance and sustenance of the spiritual beliefs of the local villagers. It has a certain reference value for studying the local village style and folk customs. The legend of Wangyan Tower has been passed down from generation to generation among the people, and it has played a good learning and educational role for future generations. The couplet written on the current Wen Family Feeding Hall, "Yanyan Tower's Family Heritage, Upright Family Style" is a better proof. 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In the same year, he was selected as a tribute scholar in Jizhou and went to Lin'an (now Hangzhou) with his father to take the examination. In the palace examination, his "Imperial Examination Strategy" hit the mark...more>>>Wen Yinglin was born in 1307 (the 11th year of the Yuan Dynasty) and died in 1378 (the 8th year of the Yuan Dynasty). He was the eldest grandson of Wen Tianxiang's younger brother Wen Bi. During the Jingding period of the Song Dynasty (1260-1264), Wen Bi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, led his troops to garrison Huizhou. Wen Tianrui, the cousin of Wen Tianxiang, served in Huizhou with Wen Bi. Seeing that the Yuan army was approaching, Wen Tianrui repeatedly advised Wen Bi to "repair the city walls, build towers, and store grain for strict defense." Wen Bi did not listen. In the first year of Jingyan (1276), the Yuan army invaded the south, and he surrendered. Wen Bi had three sons: the eldest son, Longzi (named Zhongxun); the second son, Shengzi (adopted by Wen Tianxiang); the third son, Jingzi (adopted by Wen Tianrui). Wen Yinglin is a literary scholar...more>>>Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283) Wen Tianxiang, the top scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, was born in 1236 in a landlord family in Futian Village, Chunhua Township, Luling, Jiangxi (now Ji'an, Jiangxi) in 1236. His father loved reading and attached great importance to his children's studies, and tried to hire famous teachers to teach them. Wen Tianxiang would recite, write, and discuss the past and the present with his younger brother in a study full of aphorisms and aphorisms regardless of the weather. At the age of 18, Wen Tianxiang won the first place in the Luling Township School Examination. At the age of 20, he entered the Bailuzhou Academy in Jizhou (now Ji'an, Jiangxi) to study. In the same year, he was selected as a Jizhou Gongshi and went to Lin'an (now Hangzhou) with his father to take the examination. In the palace examination, he wrote a "Imperial Examination Strategy" that hit the mark of the time...more>>>Wen Tianxiang, the top scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, was born in 1236 in a landlord family in Futian Village, Chunhua Township, Luling, Jiangxi (now Ji'an, Jiangxi) in 1236. His father loved reading and attached great importance to his children's studies. He tried to hire famous teachers. Wen Tianxiang would recite, write, and discuss the past and the present with his brother in the study full of aphorisms and maxims regardless of the season. At the age of 18, Wen Tianxiang won the first place in the Luling Township School Examination. At the age of 20, he entered the Bailuzhou Academy in Jizhou (now Ji'an, Jiangxi). In the same year, he was selected as a Jizhou Gongshi and went to Lin'an (now Hangzhou) with his father to take the examination. In the palace examination, he wrote the "Imperial Examination Strategy" which hit the mark of the time......more>>>