Nan Simazhuang Village is located in the northwest of Rushanzhai Town, , on the west side of Buru Highway. There are 2,250 mu of arable land, half of the hillside and half of the slopes. There are 3,000 acres of mountains. There are 576 households and 1,466 people in the village.
In the first year of Tianqi in Ming Dynasty (1621), Yu Xiangze and Yu Xiang said that they moved from Simazhuang to a village of about one mile south and established a village, named Nansimazhuang. Later, Wang, Zhao, Liu, An, Zhang and other surnames moved in, and the number of Yu households accounted for 93%. The main surnames are Yu, followed by Wang, Zhao, Liu, An, Zhang, Qu, Yang, and Gao.
At an altitude of 20 meters in Nansimazhuang Village, there is a ginkgo tree, female, , breast diameter html 1.5 meters, height 13 meters, main branch crown width 12 meters × 11 meters, and the tree is more than 400 years old. A large side branch grows east and west from 2.8 meters, as if two arms are stretched out. The sub-tree grows from the middle of the old ginkgo tree at the base. The sub-tree is 26 meters high, with a breast diameter of 1.2 meters, and is more than 200 years old. The two arms hugged the Zi Tree in their arms, and the local villagers called it "The End of the Zi". The crown on the top of the subtree is spherical, like a protective umbrella, firmly covering the female tree.
Nan Simazhuang Yu's former family (Yu Xiangchen's former residence), built in the Qing Dynasty, is a county-level cultural relics protection unit. Therefore, there are 7 rows in total, each row has 5 rooms; it is 104 meters long from north to south and 20 meters wide from east to west. The first three rows are now used by the village committee and are well preserved. The back four rows are now used by villagers and are well preserved as a whole. Yu Xiangchen was the 21st generation of the Yu family in Simazhuang. He was a tribute student in Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty. He was once a professor of Caozhou Prefecture. A Li family Zhenjie archway was built in the village, which was granted by the imperial court in the fifth year of Qianlong and completed in the thirteenth year. In the spring of 1966, it was demolished by "destroying the four olds". There are still stone tablets engraved with imperial edicts today.
Nan Simazhuang Village has outstanding people and beautiful places. Since the 24th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, three uncles and nephews have won three teachings in one subject. Yu Shen was a juren in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty and served as Professor Chengshanwei. Yupu, in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, was a tribute student and served as an education student in Anqiu. Yu Chunyao, a tribute student in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, served as the Qingcheng Education. Yu Peiji, a juren during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, served as a teacher in the Qing Dynasty's Prince's Mansion. Yu Xiangchen was a tribute student during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty and served as a professor at Caozhou Prefecture. During the Republic of China, there were professor-level figures such as Yu Zengxin, Yu Jinjie, Yu Zongjia, Yu Yanzeng, Yu Kaixiang, and Yu Leqing. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it will send 200 graduate students and undergraduate students.
The village party branch was established in August 1940. During the revolutionary war years, 10 martyrs sacrificed their lives for the revolution. Among them, the famous martyr Yu Xiangtian served as the reconnaissance platoon leader of the county brigade and received awards three times; the famous martyr Yu Xuetian was the reconnaissance platoon leader, and sacrificed his life to cover the transfer of heroic spirit in the leadership of the agency. During the Republic of China, the village was the government headquarters of Haiyang County and district government, and in the 1940s, it was the government headquarters of Rushan County and district government. It is the ancestral home of Zhang Xueliang’s original wife, Ms. Yu Fengzhi. There are two centenarians in the village, Leng Jing'e, female, born in November 1903 and died in September 2006; in the year of life, male, born in February 1904 and died in February 2007.
The village economy is mainly agriculture, and the main crops are wheat, corn, and peanuts. The forest and fruit industry is relatively developed, with more than 200 mu of orchards, and the annual total fruit output reaches more than 500 tons. strawberry greenhouses with 200 strawberry , with an annual income of 3 million to 4 million yuan. It is the dominant industry for villagers to get rich.
Haiyang Dayangge has been passed down in Simazhuang since the late Qing Dynasty. The opera troupe was established in 1948, the Lu Opera troupe was reorganized in 1954, and the Peking Opera troupe was adapted in 1963. In the 1970s, it changed to sing modern Peking Opera .
New countryside construction has achieved remarkable results. In 2008, 12,000 square meters of streets and entertainment venues were renovated and hardened. In 2009, the hardened streets were 4,000 square meters. In 2012, we vigorously carried out comprehensive environmental improvement, invested 800,000 yuan, built 2,640 square meters of flower walls, 4,000 square meters of ditches, installed 36 street lamps, planted 14,300 seedlings of various types, and hardened streets of 4,000 square meters.
