Yuanyangshui, Fangshan, Beijing, the first meeting place in front of Baihua Mountain ~ exploring the village

The first time I walked into Yuanyangshui Village was by accident, and it was a temporary idea! On a Monday in mid-April, I took advantage of few people to go to Datan Village, a famous online celebrity, and saw the famous pear garden and apricot garden. The temperature in the mountains is still low, and the pear blossoms have just opened, and it will take ten and a half days to bloom. At noon, I'm going down the mountain and back to the city. As soon as the car started, it called the police when it found the oil meter, fearing that it would break down in the mountains for lack of oil. I found the nearest Jiashi Road gas station more than 20 kilometers away and navigated away! I refueled, drank a few mouthfuls of water and ate something. I feel much more relaxed, and I plan to find another place to walk when I return! Just out of the gas station, I found two big signs on the roadside!

Instead of running around, do it! Drive straight into the village! Go along the road to the village on the right until you come to Longwangmiao Mountain and stop! First, I visited the Longwang Temple and the ancient well in front of it. According to the villagers, this well has never dried up, and it will be enough for people and animals in the village to drink!

After visiting Longwang Temple, turn the car around, follow the highest road on the right, drive to a villager's parking place in front of the mountain on the north side of the village, and park your car!

The car is parked in the north of the house.

I walked back and forth two times along the mountain road on the north side and saw the whole picture of the village. I can't help being surprised. This village has preserved dozens of traditional stone houses in Jingxi! The core area is a semicircle with the center of my parking place and the diameter of 100m!

Stop at the opening of the orange circle, between the word "fate".

What attracted me most was the second floor and the front yard. I thought this should be the house of the former landlord of this village! The next visit proved my judgment!

The brother wearing a red vest in the picture is now the president of the East House of the Landlord House, Brother Liu.

This is the author and Liu Dage and his twin grandchildren!

According to Liu Dage, Yuanyangshui Village, formerly named Yuanyangshui Village, is the first village in Jinshan, Shijiaying Township, Fangshan District, located 6 kilometers east of Jiayukou (108 National Road), 5 kilometers northwest of Liulinshui Village 1 km away from Liansheng Mountain. It is a Beijing-level folk tourism village! Shilong Mountain in the east of the village winds up from the north like a dragon until it reaches the Dayan River. Longan is located in a pair of caves, where a pair of mandarin ducks live. Later, southerners came to suppress the treasure and wanted to catch it, so they flew away from the small hole in the east (it was also said that Yuanyang was scared away because of the bad mountain road). Therefore, this village was named Yuanyangshui Village, or Yuanyangshui for short.

Yuanyangshui Village is the residence of the Liu family, and most villagers are surnamed Liu! In the second year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, Liu's ancestors moved from Hongdong in Shanxi to Zhaitangchuan under Baihua Mountain in the west of Beijing. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, ancestor Liu crossed Baihua Mountain and settled in Xianrenshui Houling in the south of the mountain, reclaimed land and dug wells to repair terraces. Married Yang's three sons: Dajin, Dayin and Dayuan, and continued the generation of 16, forming three branches: Daliushuxia, Ximen and Dongmen! Brother Liu is a genius and his grandson is Yuan!

Liu is the landlord of Yuanyang Water Town and has three sons (descendants are in Beijing, Tianjin and Zhangjiakou). The son of Tianjin is said to be a lawyer in the Republic of China. 1948, Liu was criticized by the poverty alleviation association and killed in Xihetan!

Liu Dage's current residence is the East Courtyard of the Third Hospital, which is the best preserved in the original main courtyard. Most of the houses in the landlord's yard were destroyed by the Japanese. At that time, guerrillas hung mines at the entrance building of the landlord's compound, injuring the Japanese. The Japanese army retaliated crazily and burned more than 80 rooms in Yuanyangshui Village/KLOC-0! However, the basic pattern of the landlord's compound is still there. At present, the east and west courtyards of Sanjin Courtyard are well preserved, and the gatehouse, murals, slates, lace windows and inlaid tunnels are well preserved!

Thanks to Liu Ge, I turned around roughly and saw several courtyards. Although it is remote, it has unique living characteristics in the west of Beijing!

In the village, I only turned near the main courtyard, so I quickly drove out of the village and came to the foot of Shilong Mountain to explore the "longan" cave where Yuanyang once lived. It took a lot of effort to get to the mouth of the cave, and I felt that I was in danger of collapse at any time. I hurried out of the mountain to climb, where I could have a panoramic view of the village! How time flies! The sun is going down and my stomach is growling! Haven't you finished?

This is a storytelling, living village, clean and mysterious! Strange second floor, Yuanyang terrace with big slope and high drop (of course, it can't be compared with Yuanyang terrace), I am reluctant to drive away, thinking, come back in a few days! (To be continued)

May 7, 2022 in Jingxi.