The 300-year-old ancestral tomb of the Chen clan in Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province, has been accused of “illegal construction”. (Screenshot of the video reported by the mainland media)
According to local official media, the ancestral tomb of the Chen clan in Huayuiling, Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang Province, is located in the courtyard of the Forestry Research Institute in Wuchuan Street. The villagers said the land was bought by their ancestors and has a history of more than 300 years. The genealogy records the process of establishing the ancestral graves, and it has long been a Family practice for generations of Chen villagers to visit the graves every year.
However, in December last year, the villagers suddenly received a notice from the authorities to move the graves within a Time limit, and had not received any news about the land being sold or expropriated before then. On Feb. 22 of this year, the villagers received another notice to move their graves, and the authorities threatened to forcibly dig the graves if they were not moved within the specified time frame.
The villagers claimed that they had never seen any documents and therefore questioned whether the land was really being legally auctioned.
Wuchuan government officials told the media that the ownership of the land here “does not belong to the Chen family” and that the villagers do not have a building permit or any procedures to prove ownership of the land, so the ancestral graves are “illegal” and must be moved unconditionally, but a little more may be given at their discretion. The cost of moving the graves.
The authorities claim that the plot of land where Chen’s ancestral grave is located was allocated to the Forestry Branch in 1977, and in 2004 the government granted it to Hongji real estate Development Co. The site involves the “Wuchuan Huahe Tianhai Project”, which is one of the key construction projects of Wuchuan City in 2020.
Chen’s villagers “lost ownership” of 300-year-old ancestral graves is not an isolated case. Previously, the precious tombs stolen from the tomb of the great grandfather of the villagers in Henan Province were also assigned to the “national”.
In April 2011, the tomb of Zheng Ruchi, the great-grandfather of the Zheng brothers, was stolen from Shangjiuwu Village in Baofeng County, Henan Province, and the authorities caught the culprits and identified 32 of the stolen tomb items, such as cui bangles and cui wrench fingers, as “national cultural relics” and refused to return them to the Zheng brothers. The Zheng brothers have been fighting for years to get their money back. Some netizens recently brought up this old story and angrily questioned, “Is there a more shameless robber than this?”
Has there ever been a more shameless bandit?! pic.twitter.com/EfEBSPvARk
-HeartjoyWhiteCloud4 (@MReyaE0bJYCGFEj) March5,2021
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