Scenic spots near Huangcheng Village

Guoyu Village (village under the jurisdiction of Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province)

Guoyu Village, located 500 meters south of the imperial city Xiangfu in AAAAA-level tourist scenic spot, is a "famous village of Chinese history and culture" and a castle-like village at the foot of Taihang Mountain. The city is a national key cultural relics protection unit, a unique architectural complex in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is praised as "the treasure of China residential buildings" by Luo, a master of ancient architecture. Also known as "the first city in rural China".

Guoyu Village was also the residence of Zhang, Governor of Shuntian in Ming Dynasty, Zhang, Assistant Minister of Punishment in Qing Dynasty, and Wang Ruo, a wealthy businessman in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. This is the place where Chen Tingjing, a great scholar of Wenyuange in Qing Dynasty, grew up and the place where the Seventh Military Medical University, the predecessor of the Third Military Medical University, was founded.

Guoyu Village has a long history. The village was built by the Guo family and named after the surname. Guoyu Village was founded in the early Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, Guoyu was a village, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was also called a town. In the sixth year of the Republic of China (19 17), the village system was implemented, and Guoyuli was changed into Guoyu Village.

Guoyu Village is a large-scale village with an ancient building area of 6,543.8+0.8 million square meters, including city walls, official houses, mansions, temples, ancestral halls, shops and workshops, gardens, gatehouses, wells and ruins. The present site of Guoyucheng was built in the 11th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1638), and it was used to resist peasant rebels such as Li Zicheng and Zhang. The city is irregular in shape, narrow from east to west and long from north to south, 400 meters long from north to south, 300 meters wide from east to west, 5.3 meters high and 5.3 meters wide, and its circumference is 1400 meters. There are three castles in the east, north and west, with the east gate 1 and the enemy building 10. There are three layers of caves with more than 600 eyes on the national jade wall, which have both residential and defensive functions. Therefore, the national jade wall is also called the "honeycomb wall" figuratively.

Guoyu architecture is mostly Ming and Qing architecture. The existing traditional courtyards remain intact in terms of architectural pattern, form, materials and technology. The overall design and construction are from the hands of local craftsmen, which is a true embodiment of local architectural cultural traditions.