The ancient villages in Guiyang followed the principle of unity of man and nature from the location of the villages, to the layout of the village planning and architectural techniques, which were based on the mountains with the water, and the front was low and the back was high. Inside the village, the groove gate guards, horse head high wall, brick and tile, building patio courtyard, build family ancestral hall, good style.
History of inheritance, the continuation of incense, the ancient village through the prosperity and despair still stands on earth.
Miao Xia Ancient Village
History: More than 1,000 years ago
Location: Yangshi Town, Guiyang County
Miao Xia Ancient Village is located in Yangshi Town, Guiyang County, and was built in the Northern Song Dynasty in the year of xiangfu, more than 1,000 years ago. The village has more than 270 well-preserved ancient houses of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
These ancient dwellings are colorful, carved dragons and phoenixes, and the characters, birds and animals are vivid. The ancient wells, pavilions and ancestral halls in the village are carefully arranged and perfectly integrated with the ancient architectural complexes, which have distinctive characteristics of southern Hunan dwellings and high historical, cultural and scientific values.
Miaoxia Village, with its concentration of ancient dwellings, well-preserved and rich cultural connotations, has been awarded the "Model Village for the Overall Protection and Utilization of the Cultural Heritage of Traditional Villages Concentrated in Pieces of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units and Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units in Hunan Province".
Xiliwei Jia Village
Historical era: built in the Song Jiading six years (1214), 798 years ago
Location: Guiyang County Longtan Street Office
Xiliwei Jia Village, also known as Zhaogin Weijia, commonly known as the Xili hole, is located in Guiyang County, Longtan Street Office, the village sits in the north and faces the south, was founded in the Song Jiading six years (1214), 798 years ago. 798 years. Covering an area of more than 500,000 square meters, the existing Qing Dynasty monolithic houses whose architectural features are Hakka style well maintained with more than 50 families, population of more than 230.
The whole village layout in order, the street paved with green stone, house green brick diffuse ground; after hundreds of years of vicissitudes, the spirit remains, maintains the Hakka folk style, reflecting the origin of the deep and very precious cultural connotations. Among them, Wei Mingxin official hall is very grand in scale, scientific and rigorous structure, is the representative building of the village. There is the Wei family Kunqu ancient theater architectural style is a scenic route, was built in the Qing dynasty Tongzhi two years (1863), the public ancestral hall open the main gate, the door in front of the two big stone lions lined up on both sides, a large ping in front of the ping, ping before the surrounded by a half-moon shaped high wall protection, into the two sides of the house, the middle is a small patio, after the ancient theater, the entire theater is a wooden frame, under the stage 10 wooden columns to support to the top, the stage edges of the three sides of the wooden bar surrounded by the four sides of the water, the upper top, the four sides of the water. On the top of the four sides of the water, the upper eaves of the seal plate is beautifully carved, dragons and phoenixes; backstage partition wall, recorded in the "Wenxiu class" and other 15 theater respectively in the Qing dynasty in the fourth year (1854), six years, ten years and the Republic of China, such as in the performance of the Kun Opera repertoire, reflecting the prevalence of the Kun Opera in the Guiyang at the time of the situation. In front of the ancient stage is a large stone patio with 251 square meters, on both sides of the patio are corridors and platform rooms, and on the walls of the corridors there are four big characters of "loyalty, filial piety, honesty and integrity" (two characters on each of the east and west walls). In short, the Xili Wei family Wei Mingxin official hall and other buildings of the scale of the grand, architectural skills, preservation of the integrity of the southern Hunan region is rare, let a person marvel.
Zhuyuanxia Village
History: built in the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 760 years ago
Location: Aoquan Town, Guiyang County
Historic Xiangshange Academy is located in Aoquan Town, Guiyang County, under the village of Zhu Yuan, built in the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 760 years ago, the building for the brick and tile adobe structure, with a total land area of about 1500 square meters. The building is a brick and tile adobe structure, covering a total area of about 1,500 square meters, maintaining the architectural style of the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, which is the only remaining ancient academy in Guiyang.
Jinhu Village
History: Song Kaiqing (1259) years from Jiangxi Luling goose neck mound moved here, more than 700 years of history
Location: Guiyang County, Liantang Town
Fu's gathering of the family and the residence of the first ancestor, Ximeng Gong, because of the chaos of the Jin and Yuan, the Song Kaiqing years from Jiangxi Luling goose neck mound moved to this. Unique layout of the village, the center of a circular pond, the villagers live around the pond. In the pond, there are several pieces of natural green stones like lambs, either lying or kneeling, leisurely and quiet.
According to the family shrine inscription, the Jinhu Family Shrine was built in the 10th year of the Qianlong reign, and it is the only clan shrine in Guiyang that is named after a village rather than a family name.
Shiaotang Village
History: Built before the Ming Dynasty, it has a history of more than 700 years
Location: Heping Township, Guiyang County
Has a very long history, the entire village clan surnamed Li, with a rich history and a lot of talented people, Li Sicong, who was a successful candidate in the Ming Dynasty, was a native of Shiaotang. Li Sicong was ordered by the court to go to Burma, all the way to the duty of loyalty, honesty and self-discipline, exhortation of the hundred barbarians, the rest of the military peace and security, and will go to Burma's entire experience, what they saw and heard, folklore, etiquette, feasts and music, the mountains and rivers and the terrain, the post village, such as written into a hundred barbarians biography "on the court by the Zhu Yuanzhang decree of awards.
At the entrance of the village, the first thing that comes into view is a big tree, which is rumored to have a history of 750 years.
Lutangxia Village
Historical era: the first ancestor moved here in 1440, with a history of about 600 years
Location: Zhangshi Town, Guiyang County
A forgotten historical village, the village is located in Zhangshi Town, Guiyang County, 3 kilometers north of the county town. The village clan surnamed Li, one of the birthplaces of the Li surname, the first ancestor of the South Gate within the Li clan Li Yilang Gong's seventh grandson of the Yuan De Gong, Yuan De Gong in 1440 AD moved to live under the Lutang, the history of the history of the move before there is no way to prove it. The village once had an ancient well, which was later renovated and buried. At the bottom of the ancient well, there is a stone plate recording the records of all the clansmen who came to help and donate 600 years ago, and the stone plate was discarded and buried when the new well was built.
The village is named after the lower water level of Lutang. Inside the village, there is a large cypress tree that requires several people to embrace, as well as an undeveloped cave, which is hundreds of meters away from the cypress tree and is rumored to be infested by a green dragon deep below the cypress tree.
The village hundred years of housing heritage is not valued, the villagers lack of awareness of the protection of cultural relics, there is no relevant units of attention, the original patchwork of the village site is now in disrepair, the overgrown green stone road tells the history of the past.
Dawan Ancient Village
Historical era: the village was built in the Yuan Dynasty Yuan quarter, more than 600 years ago
Location: Guiyang County, Liantang Town
Dawan Ancient Village is located in Guiyang County, Liantang Town, situated in the north towards the south, the village was built in the Yuan Dynasty Yuan quarter, more than 600 years ago. The entire village covers an area of 2 square kilometers, was "a" shape, a main street from west to east, green stone road, branch alley stone road connecting the main street, on both sides of the staggered more than 100 blocks of ancient buildings in the Qing Dynasty; so far well-preserved. The buildings have carved beams and painted buildings, flying eaves and corners, water-worn bricks, stone and wood carvings, and their craftsmanship is very exquisite, so that people marveled at. Among them: the village before the building - the eye of the first (Xia Shoutian's former residence) includes since the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi to the Guangxu years built successively, "the eye of the first, the governor of the residence, the garden, the Prime Minister of the first, the Hanlin Square, the family ancestral hall, the study, kitchen, as well as the Tianlu Gongju, Meixin Gongju, Xia Shikongju*** 11 buildings. The total land area of more than 10,000 square meters, built 6570 square meters. Is the most representative of a; and is built in the Qing dynasty in the Qianlong period of the Xia clan ancestral hall, its ancient theater stone columns on the dragon winding up the stone carving, flying eaves, sealing the eaves on the board of the image of the beautiful and vivid wood carving, flying eaves tiles on the front of the white plaster clay dragon, is really exquisite one of the best.
The whole building is basically a brick and wood structure, with small green tiles on the top of the hard hill, all of which are traditional Xiangnan residential courtyard-style buildings. The most prominent number of the Punggol Diyi monolith, which is a combination of the traditional Xiangnan courtyard and palace style in the architecture, with a strange shape. Dawan Ancient Village harbors the ancient Chinese concepts of feng shui, architectural techniques and ecological principles. The specification of its list of the first large, very rare in southern Hunan.
Yangshan Ancient Village
Historical era: the village was built in Hongzhi years (1497), about 520 years of history
Location: Guiyang County, Zhenghe Township
Yangshan Village is located in Guiyang County, Zhenghe Township within the territory of the city, 30 kilometers away from the city, by the Highway, Chenyang Highway and the formation of the Golden Triangle of Tourism with the Wanhuayan, Yangtian Lake. The village got its name from the fact that it is based on Riding Field Ridge (anciently known as Yangshan).
The village is surrounded by green mountains and beautiful water, which is quite similar to the realm described in "The Story of Peach Blossom Garden". Since the early Ming Dynasty, the village has been settled by the first ancestor and has been inhabited by many descendants for more than 600 years. The village was built in Hongzhi (1497), became in the Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties, and flourished in the Daoguang Dynasty. Covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters, there are more than 60 ancient buildings and 5,000 square meters.
The village is a perfect combination of folk culture and architecture with the layout of "heaven and earth and people" and the structure reflecting Confucianism's "neutralization" idea.
Guantang Upper Wangjia Village
History: Relocated from Linwu in 1510 AD, about 510 years old
Location: Heye Township, Guiyang County
Guantang Upper Wangjia Village is located in Heye Township, Guiyang County, about 1.5 kilometers away from the township, and it was relocated from Linwu in 1510 AD, and now has 180 households and 600 people. Wangjia Village sits in the south and faces the north, and the entire village occupies more than 80% of the ancient buildings, which are concentrated in one piece, and the vast majority of the ancient houses are inhabited and managed by people. The village to the gentleman township, the dance phoenix building, the gentleman first, the secret grant hall, Zhaojin ancestral temple and other buildings as a characteristic, especially "gentleman township", the north and south wall is up to 50 meters long, the south wall set the door towards the south, the north wall has no door and no window, only in the middle of the east and west to set the door towards the outside, the horizontal swing in front of the village looks like a siege, mighty and majestic. The whole village layout is reasonable, the horizontal and vertical streets are interlaced and orderly, the ground are paved with green stone slabs. Ancient buildings are green brick, green tile, two-story courtyard, the doorway on the grid of flower windows, valves carved beautifully; housing ground brick diffuse ground, patio and corridors, outdoor aisles and other paved with green slate, patio boards have wells patio and the sea slow smallpox and so on. The village is very rich in cultural connotations, the ancient village has eight scenic spots, the doorway has plaques, door couplets and so on.
Di Jie Village
Historical era: built in the Ming Jiaqing period, more than 300 years of history
Location: Guiyang County, Taihe Town
Di Jie Village is located in Guiyang County, Taihe Town. The ancient residence was built during the Ming Jiaqing period, sitting in the south and facing the north, covering an area of more than 20,000 square meters, with more than 40 existing buildings of the Qing Dynasty, and the village has an ancient theater, the Shun Gong Ancestral Hall, and the municipal cultural relics protection unit, such as the former residence of Xu Liansheng. The layout of the whole ancient residence is reasonable, with four lanes spread vertically, scientific and rigorous structure, which is suitable for ventilation and lighting, and fully embodies the characteristics of ancient architecture in southern Hunan.
The existing ancient buildings in the village of Dijie are 25 households, with a population of more than 100, all of whom are surnamed Xu, with a floor area of more than 3,000 square meters, which is of the traditional quadrangle style. The patio in the main courtyard is used for lighting, ventilation and drainage functions. The center of the main door is used for ancestor worship and shrine. The corners of the walls of the ancient residence are made of whole blocks of stone, carved into birds and animals, and embedded. Roof eaves blank and under the eaves, are carved into a variety of flowers, birds and animals, reflecting the harmony between man and nature. With the change of history, the ancient theater with large eaves in the garden style has long been "wind and candles", and the appearance of Shun Gong Ancestral Hall has gone through the vicissitudes of the centuries, recording different stories. Connected to the ancient residence between the green stone board, perennial rain corrosion on the stone surface, recorded the passing years.