Chinese painting village - the three Wannan travel here, I would like to extract the whole period of 24th session of the World Heritage Committee on the Xidi, Hongcun evaluation: Xidi, Hongcun these two traditional villages, maintaining an amazing character of rural residential area, and this style has been in the past years a large number of disappeared or changed. Its street form, building and decoration, as well as housing and a wide range of water combination is unique remains a model.
Hongcun is located in Yixian County, north-east, 10 km away from the county seat, Beiyi Lei Gang Hill, east, west Dongshan and Shek Kwu Shan, Tsuen Nam flat, there are very large pond - South Lake. The film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon The location shooting in South Lake.
Hongcun in a landscape surrounded by the middle of the formation of pillow mountain surface water of the "pillow mountain, Central water, surface screen" ideal feng shui environment. Due to higher ground, often steamed-xia Yun Wei, sometimes, such as Dan Ma impressionistic, sometimes, such as re-color ink, had been praised as "China's painting of the village."
500 years ago, Mr. Feng Shui Ho Hongcun up under the proposal, the construction of a cow-shaped villages become the world's cultural heritage in a big miracle.
"The mountains of Upper Ngau Tau, tree for the angle, the bridge bracket housing estates for the body, deep lake as tripe, as quoted in spring for the cow intestines" cow-shaped layout of the village, bringing life to the Hongcun.
"Cow stomach" Month marsh, resembles a huge "stomach", and also because it is like half of light, so called "on marsh."
It is said that in 1407, cattle stomach first built, everyone dug into the full moon this claim form, then presided over the project is Wang Xin, and his wife, Hu heavy mother heard the news, immediately come out against it. She believes that we should never dig into a pond full moon-shaped, "flowers were laid, full moon the loss," can only be dug into a half-moon. "I am seeking is 'flowers did not open on unrealized' realm." She said.
Hu re-Niang is Xidi this talented woman, his father is a well-known feng shui Mr. Yi Xian. Some of her remarks won praise everyone, so, ponds also be laid down, digging into a half-moon.
People do not think that this is full of Aura's "cow stomach" of the designer, was actually one of the daughter from the Xidi. It should be said, this daughter of Hongcun Xidi the prosperity of Wang's family has made an outstanding contribution. Today, Xidi and Hongcun have entered the "World Heritage List", it seems that this is not just a coincidence, it seems that between them there is a necessary link.
We Hongcun generation descendant of Wang's 93, "Love Me Hongcun" Civil Association, private tour led by Wang Baby Grandpa, and visited the Forbidden City known as civil society, "Chengzhi Church."
"Chengzhi Church" is a large salt merchants in Qing Dynasty in 1855, Wang set your before and after the construction of private homes, dating back 140 years.
Yixian existing in the Ming and Qing nearly 400 residential buildings, from large-scale, rational layout, structure, perfect facilities, well-made and so on for the integrated assessment, when the devaluation, "Chengzhi Church."
"Chengzhi Hall," The most prominent feature is that it has a large number of wooden art treasures. "Chengzhi Tong" wood carvings, most complex level, many people, but people are different from surface is different from God, each life-like. Even the experts from the National Palace Museum, also whom praise, they say, these carvings treasures, in the concentrated essence of our ancient architecture Forbidden City, Summer Palace is also rarely seen.
Is the emperor financial and material resources, power, might as well set your Wang? This is of course impossible. But the supremacy of the emperors, their heads are not allowed someone else's image. Therefore, the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, the palace at the top of the wood, non-dragon or phoenix, there are very few image.
Is this wood, not "emperor," not "monsters"? During the Cultural Revolution, why did not suffer? Some of us wonder.
Wang baby guide told us: it was some sense of justice of the knowledgeable people braved the risk of these engraved with carved wooden beams, windows and doors paste on the Wong Nai, labeled as "devastating" Quotations of Mao Zedong, was to make these national treasures-free by catastrophe. For these "unsung heroes" of history should not forget them.
Note that the construction of facilities pleasure is "Chengzhi Church," another feature, where not only gardens, fish ponds for people to enjoy the pleasure, there are specially designed for family entertainment, play mahjong, "Pai Mountain Club", specifically for the family of opium smoking "Tun Yun Xuan." Here, the display of "Chengzhi Hall" owner of the pursuit of pleasure and extravagance of history.
About "Chengzhi Church" and the review of the history of Huizhou merchants, "Peach Blossom Spring Lane people," the author, the writer I have a penetrating discussion on the Huai are copied Zhai is as follows:
"Chengzhi Church" is the ancient Chinese Vernacular Architecture of the essence and treasures. However, "Chengzhi Hall," a magnificent and China and the United States, reflects a painful historical phenomenon, that is, in modern China has to make a significant contribution to business prosperity Huizhou merchants, due to the constraints of the feudal system and the traditional ideas, not put their hard-accumulated capital investment to expand production operations, but rather consumed in this pursuit of pleasure into their own with their family members and eventually lead to "Huishang" this bright constellation in the history of the "Galaxy" gradually dim, till Fall.
I Huaihe River, Anhui Yixian County, Huangshan City Writers Honorary Chairman, this time we Xidi visit, I had met him and took photos together.
The Hongcun visited the two and a half hours, we drove rushed to the Taoist mountains - Qi Yun.
Yixian County, there are two places: one actor Shue House, courtesan Sai Jinhua boudoir, should go to a go, but time is limited, obtaining satisfaction.
Author: huankeyi2001
