Tell me about three villages in Taiping

In terms of Huizhou cultural elements, compared with other counties and districts in Huangshan City, Taiping is relatively weak and there is no particularly famous human landscape. I'm talking about the present. As for the past, I don't understand.

The three villages I mentioned below are not scenic spots, not to mention outsiders, even Taiping locals may not all know. Like Ueda village, I don't believe it has a long history, but it is beautiful and suitable for photographers to take pictures, that's all.

I have been to Xialing Village three times, and this is the second time. I took an eastward cement road from Lingyang Town, Qingyang County. The abandoned arch bridge is in the middle of the road. It's exquisite. I don't know when. I like it very much. I hope not, but it's also a good landscape sculpture.

Xialing Village, also known as Su Village, is located on the north bank of Taiping Lake, about 3 kilometers away from Yongfeng Township, huangshan district.

The picture below shows the Su ancestral hall in the village on the left, which was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qianlong and Tongzhi years. The whole building is well preserved.

The village is also the former residence of Su, a famous contemporary writer and scholar. Su died in Taiwan Province Province at the end of last century, and his ashes were buried in his hometown.

She once described Sue like this: "There is an ancient house at the foot of Taiping Mountain in Anhui Province, surrounded by scenery, not far from Huangshan Mountain, which is the most suitable for seclusion."

Who would have thought that this seemingly weak woman had scolded the distinguished Mr. Lu Xun for half her life. It's incredible, but this maverick woman comes from a remote and isolated mountain village in southern Anhui. I didn't expect this.

Although the local government has invested some money, it has always wanted to build Xia Ling. However, due to the relatively few tourism resources and inconvenient transportation in the village, tourists rarely patronize it, which is really like a "chicken rib".

This is an alley in the village. It seems to have been renovated without destroying the basic style of Huizhou school. It is a transformation of "repairing the old as the old". If you look neat, life can be extremely poor and simple, but you can't be sloppy.

Pat and rinse, the little girl works like a model, just like grandma. The riverbed of the stream on the north bank of Taiping Lake looks a little different from that on the south bank. The former is sand and the latter is stone.

This unique building is called "Haining Society" and was built in 1924. It is a combination of Chinese and western styles. It is a two-story building with three bays, brick and wood structure, carved with lattice doors and windows. The gurgling stream flows through the window, and there are mountains in the distance, which is especially elegant and quiet. No wonder Su said "seclusion is the best"

Through Shang Ling Village, Yongfeng Township, there is a dirt road leading to Houan Town, Jingxian County, which is also the former residence of Wang Jiaxiang, the early leader of China.

In some areas, roads are pitted by rain, making it difficult for motor vehicles to pass. I don't know what's going on now. The stream along the road is clean. I have walked this road twice.

Shangtian Village is located on the roadside near Xiancun on huangshan district Provincial Highway 2 18, with high terrain and hidden in a green ocean. Every time I pass by, I will stop and watch for a while. I don't know if there are any Han people who can speak Wei and Jin Dynasties.

On the edge of the village, there is a road paved with stone slabs, winding and winding up. In this season, the rural areas in southern Anhui can be described as branches bearing fruit and sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. Traveling is a pleasant thing. In fact, on the way back, I sat on the slate and had a rest for a while, accompanied by the bamboo forest and listening to the trickle of water in the roadside ditch, and felt that I had a little more character in Wei and Jin Dynasties.

The stone steps are crooked, and they are high and low when walking, but they are beautiful. If a thing is too regular, it will lose its stubbornness and naivety, become stiff and boring, or be like a straight road, just convenient and unattractive.

Looking east from the village, you can see Huangshan Mountain.

White walls and tiles, stone walls and stone steps, and chicken houses in vegetable fields are in good order. Rural reconstruction is a technical job, you have to know something about humanities. Shangtian Village is not a tourist attraction, even less than Baidu. The village paid for painting the external walls of various houses and started a "horse head wall". The overall feeling is good. This may also be to highlight the aesthetic feeling of Huizhou architecture and prepare for the next trip.

The current farmhouse music in southern Anhui is basically a modern version of Huizhou architecture. I am not a stubborn old-fashioned person. As long as the houses in southern Anhui maintain the basic pattern of Huizhou architecture, there is no need to stick to those red tape. At present, this is very good, simple and generous, and it matches the surrounding environment very well.

I have seen some photos of minority villages in southwest China. Dense board houses are built on the mountain, with bare limestone and narrow passages. Life must be inconvenient. It's a bit far-fetched to say that there is some aesthetic feeling from a distance, but it's hard to think of the so-called "wisdom" of human existence and then derive several allusions. Rather, it is a helpless choice of human beings under the condition of natural scarcity, and it is a forced embarrassment. I think it's really not suitable for modern people to live in. I will only explore like a specimen, and it is difficult to really love.

There is a highland not far from Shangtian Village. You can see the clearing below. As the sun sets, the afterglow falls on Yuan Ye. The ridge of the field outlines a beautiful curve, and there is a forest in the distance. I think when the bird came home, it was chirping and singing very late. I took a short video with my mobile phone, which was accompanied by Cao Fujia's Playing My Beloved Pipa. It was very nice.

Guo Cun is now affiliated to Jiaocun Town, huangshan district, Huangshan City, Anhui Province.

Guo Village has a long history and was located at the intersection of Huizhou, Chizhou and Ningguo in ancient times. As you can see below, the stone roads and stone bridges in the village were built later.

People from the south to the north often settled in Guo Village, where a street about 1 km long was formed in the Qing Dynasty, and restaurants, hotels and grocery stores were bustling.

Later, the village declined, and the size of market towns tended to drop sharply.

Guocun is next to S2 18. I have passed Guo Village countless times, only once. Although it still retains the basic pattern of ancient villages, I feel that its existence is very strange, lacking the connotation of real Huizhou villages, or lacking the sense of historical precipitation and historical continuity. It seems that there is only an empty shell. Life with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar is gone, and the fun is greatly reduced.

It is a pity to say that the existing ancient villages in Taiping are probably Village and Guo Village.

There is no need to visit the village mentioned above, just saying to drop in when passing by. Actually, I don't fully understand Taiping area. I don't often go to towns and villages east of Taiping, such as Longmen, Yuan Xian, Sankou, Tanjiaqiao and Tangkou.

There is a very strange and common phenomenon in Taiping, that is, ruins can be seen everywhere in many deep mountains and wild places. When did you leave them? Why did it disappear again? Even the villagers living nearby can't tell why, just like the Mayan civilization in South America that suddenly disappeared.

In Taiping area, there are cultural and historical faults.

I remember last winter, I went to Wubei Village in Jiaocun. Wubei Village is the last village where the 2 18 provincial road on the edge of West Huangshan Mountain enters from the village of Eighteen Surnames. Although the village is small, there are two ancient bridges and a stone road extending to Yixian, a remote village with only a few dozen people nearby. It is no accident that there are so many remaining historical sites nearby.

The area around this village was once prosperous in ancient times. The local villagers vividly told me that in ancient times, there were more than 1000 chimneys near Wubei Village. Think about it, there must be at least a few thousand people. This is not nonsense. A large number of wall foundations still left in the nearby wilderness and fields can prove this.

As for why it became so sparse later, I think it was because of the long hair in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. Other than that, there is no explanation. Like the ruins in the wilderness, the graves of ancient roads, inexplicably disappeared into the wormwood in the wilderness, leaving no words.

The current history textbooks still give a positive evaluation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and say nothing about the destructive destruction of productive forces at that time. However, in southern Anhui, since the late Qing Dynasty, it seems that every village has a history of slaughter. Whenever long hair is mentioned, it is pointed at by a thousand people, and everyone says it can be killed.

As far as I know, the general situation of population changes in Taiping County in the past hundred years is: after the looting of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the late Qing Dynasty, the population of the county dropped sharply to only 20,000 to 30,000. In the early days of liberation, the so-called Jiangbei people in Anqing, Lu 'an and Hefei moved southward one after another, and the population slowly recovered to the present. The population in the village is generally mixed, and villagers often can't tell the stories of generations in the village. There are very few local people who have really bred here for more than four or five generations. In Xiuning and Wuyuan, almost every village has a surname, clan rules and unique culture, traceable genealogy and inheritance, where Huizhou culture is very rich.