Sanjiadian Village, the First Village on the Ancient Road to the West of Beijing, is the first village on the ancient road to the west of Beijing.

New Beijing News (Reporter Wang Ying, trainee reporter Zhang Yichuan), backed by the West Mountain Group, west of the Yongding River, located in the Yongding River out of the mountain pass of the village of Sanyadian, once connected to the capital and the gateway to the West Mountain, and the mountains and the plains of the logistics trading center, known as the "first village of the Western Beijing ancient road".

Lane in the village.

During the Liao Dynasty, the Beijing-West Ancient Road was an important trade route from Beijing to Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. Now Beijing, Datong City, Shanxi Province, and Tianyi Town, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and Lindong Town, Bahrain Left Banner, are the five central cities of the Liao Dynasty that managed the country in the "five capitals system". Three stores village name, rumor has it that the three households first opened in this three stores and named, but the three family names, is a little different, difficult to verify.

Many of the houses in Sanjiajian Village have inscribed door couplets on their gates, reflecting the expectations of the farming and studying families. The stone pier under the door was once a common object in the old Beijing houses, and the brick carving on the door is a characteristic of the ancient houses in western Beijing.

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of the proximity of the western Beijing mining area, Sanjiadian Village has gradually become an important trading center for the coal industry along the route. Some scholars have testified that in the early Republic of China, the village business development to the heyday, *** there are more than 200 stores, of which 20 or 30 coal plants. Coal shipped from the west of Beijing converged in Sanjiadian Village, and then transported to Beijing by camel caravan. Camel Xiangzi", famous for selling camels, met the camels forcibly recruited by the soldiers near Sanjiadian Village.

The Tianli Coal Factory is one of the best-preserved and largest historical buildings in the village, and was described by Beijing Observer magazine as "the only most complete remnant of a coal factory from the Qing Dynasty in Beijing". It is also known locally as the "Yin Family Compound" because it is connected to the residence of the Yin family, who operated it. Some scholars examine the record, Yin family compound covers an area of 3508 square meters, construction area of 1048 square meters, *** there are 73 houses. 14 gates will be the compound separated into 8 independent courtyards, gateway heavy, and courtyard connected.

More than two hundred years of rain and wind, Tianli Coal Factory's roof has become dilapidated, need to borrow wire maintenance.

The complex and exquisite brick carvings are one of the characteristics of the ancient villagers' houses in the western part of Beijing, including birds and flowers, cityscapes, fishermen and woodcutters, etc. Because the Yin family is rich in the coal industry, there are also motifs related to the coal industry in the brick carvings of the Tianli Coal Factory. Stories circulating in the village say that during a special period of history, the villagers sealed the brick carvings with yellow mud, so that these exquisite works were spared and have survived to this day. Now many residential brick carvings, you can still see the yellow mud marks.

The brick carvings on the villagers' houses in Sanjiadian are one of the characteristics of the ancient houses in western Beijing, and the patterns often include bird and flower figures, cityscapes, fishermen and woodcutters, and so on.

Another large-scale historical building in the village is the Shanxi Guild Hall, which is located in the Sanjiadian Primary School with a history of 100 years, and was once used as an elementary school site for a period of time after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The village of more than a dozen ancient trees, also have two or three hundred years "old".

A hundred years of school history of the three store elementary school gate, three store village, one of the best-preserved historical building Shanxi Hall is located in the campus. When the reporter visited, the school is under construction repair, no chance to see.

Sanjiadian Village has been selected as one of the second 15 historical and cultural preservation areas in Beijing, the first list of Chinese traditional villages and the first list of municipal traditional villages in Beijing. With the development of the city, only 2 kilometers away from the Mentougou city Sanjiadian village, the function of the village is also quietly changing.

The reporter observed and studied the ancient houses in Sanjiadian Village. Sanjiadian Village has been selected as one of the second batch of 15 historical and cultural protection zones in Beijing, the first batch of traditional villages in China, and the first batch of municipal traditional villages in Beijing.

A paper published in 2016 recorded that the household population of Sanjiadian Village was only 446. The vast majority of the village's permanent residents are migrant workers, as many as 10,000 to 20,000 people.

The lintel of a residential house, on which some of the text is illegible.

Two children are sitting in front of the house eating ice cream. The villagers said that the building was part of a temple, but it was later converted into a residence, and the temple's shape is no longer visible from the outside.

The demand for housing has brought no small challenge to the protection of the ancient village. As early as in the 1950s and 1960s, the traditional residence of Sanjiadian Village, has been a rich businessman several into several out of the compound, turned into a number of **** living in the compound, only vaguely recognizable as the system pattern of the year. Villagers recalled that some of today's housing accommodation, the original site is actually a temple or compound, but from the appearance, has been unable to see a little bit of ancient architecture of the system.

Edited by Tang Zheng and proofread by Wu Xingfa

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