Nanshanhou Longevity Village

　　   Over five hundred years ago (during the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty), this area of Nanshanhou Village was uninhabited. On the slopes rising upward to the central and western parts of the current village site, there was the cemetery of the Shi family from Daitou. Among the graves was that of Shi Xue, a provincial vice-minister of Shandong during the Ming Dynasty, and his wife, who were buried here. Shi Xue had three sons: his eldest son, Jing, served as an official in Guangxi; his second son, Huai, held office in Nanjing; and his third son, Jizhang, once served alongside his father in Shandong. The family was of noble standing. The three sons funded the construction of a memorial archway and steles for their father, erecting a total of five stone archways and several commemorative tablets, and also assigned tomb guards to maintain the site. The eldest son, Jing, along with his wife Lady Zhang, concubines Lady Jiang, Lady Wang, Lady Zhan, and Lady Xiao, and the second son, Huai, along with his wife Lady Yu, were all later buried here. Generation after generation of tomb guards gradually settled here, becoming the village’s first permanent residents.