Huanglianyu village in Boshan: the sky yellow neem thousand-year-old cypress deep mountain flow of ancient meaning

Wen/Fu reporter Wang Xiaoming Wang Bing Zhao Bowen

Huanglianyu Village is located in the Boshan domain town of Shimen Scenic Area, is located in Zhangqiu, Laiwu, Zichuan, Boshan, the junction of the four places, the south, north, and east of the three sides of the mountains, west of the lower reaches of the Qingyang River Dragon Pool, the village area of 1.7 square kilometers, the village occupies an area of 500 acres, the forest area of 2,500 acres, 150 households, the entire village, average altitude of 600 meters above sea level, is the highest "Chinese traditional ancient village". With an average elevation of 600 meters above sea level, it is the highest "Traditional Chinese Ancient Village" in Boshan District.

July 15, the reporter and his party came to Huanglianyu village, the quiet village paths occasionally villagers to and fro, although the weather is hot, but in the mountain forest green cover the village is quiet and peaceful. In the eyes of the 56-year-old villager Sun Xiu Lian, Dazheng Zhai seventy-two buildings, long work house, horse breeding stables, dyeing well, are the village is quite representative of the place, but also a period of history and legend in the village of a brick and mortar.

The Neem in the sky gives the village its name, and the old well in the dye house tells of the love of fish and water

"Huanglianyu", at first glance, the name is related to "bitter", but in fact, it's not.

Huanglianyu is located 18 kilometers northwest of the city of Boshan, according to the villagers, Huanglianyu mountain rich forests, because of the early years of the village area Neem trees flourished, so the village name is "Neem Valley", because the word "Neem" is too complicated and difficult to write, it gradually evolved into "Neem Valley". The name of the village was "Huanglianyu" because the character "楝" was too complicated and difficult to write. According to the information, in the twelfth year of the Ming Chongzhen "Mountain God Temple Tablet" and the forty-first year of the Qing dynasty Qianlong "Zichuan County Records" have the name of the village of Huanglianyu, and it can be deduced from this that since the first year of the Ming dynasty, Huanglianyu has already been inhabited. Walking in the village, looking up, a lot of trees stand in the sky, large size, but also tells the ancient history of the village.

Apart from the neem trees, the old well is also a major feature of the village. According to the legend, during the late Ming Dynasty, the villagers drilled wells to save the village from a severe drought. Now there are 6 ancient wells in the village, except one of them has been filled in, the other 5 ancient wells are still in normal use, it is also due to the rich resources, in the anti-Japanese war period, the Eighth Route Army's uniform factory dedicated well water with neem sap, with a unique process of dyeing yellow uniforms, the use of the wells are also known as "dyeing wells".

To this day, it is difficult to recognize the traces of the uniform processing plant, but the "dyeing well" is still intact, lifting the cover at the mouth of the well, the walls of the well are long, the well water is calm, seems to be telling the people and the people of that year's military love.

The two districts*** repair "Friendship Street" thousand-year-old cypress guarding the mountain village

Huanglianyu village is surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the Nine Cauldrons Lotus Mountain. The villagers' houses are distributed in the valley, built according to the mountain, staggered. Most of the houses in the village are divided into two layers, the upper layer for people to live, and the lower layer for raising livestock or storing grain and grass. The walls are mostly built with exquisitely carved and beautifully textured bluestone masonry, the roofs of the houses are slope-shaped, the eaves of the houses are flat and slanting out, all constructed of high-quality flat stones, and in the eaves of many houses, you can still see the exquisite carving marks of flower and bird motifs.

Along the stone path from the dyeing well, an ancient cypress in the village attracts attention. According to reports, this cypress tree is more than a thousand years old, more than 3 meters in diameter, more than 20 meters in height, under the tree is the village of the Temple of the Mountain God and the monument called "Friendship Street", 67-year-old Li Qinshu said, the monument is the village of the renovation of the road at that time, Zhangdian, Boshang two places to build, in order to commemorate this matter, the road will be named "Friendship Street", "Friendship Street". "Friendship Street".

Under the big cypress tree is the village where the "official house" is located. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the old government house was the place where officials and family heads and so on had their offices and deliberations, and on the wall on the west side of the government house, the two pieces of stone built into the wall are recorded on the functionality of the house when the government house was repaired and the information of the person who provided the foundation and so on, and one of them was in the first year of the Qing Guangxu reign, and the other one was in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China.

On the east side of the cypress, along the road, is the village's famous "long house", from the gate it is not difficult to see the scale of the long house is magnificent, after entering, although the age of repair, most of the houses are only survived the main appearance of the characteristics. According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng Clan of Huanglianyu, a family of officials and eunuchs, employed a large number of craftsmen and agricultural workers, and built a residence, the Changgong Shelter, for them to facilitate control and management. Stone carvings and carvings can be seen everywhere in the building, the upper courtyard, the lower courtyard workhouse 36, work shed 3, covering an area of 15,000 square meters, the scale is magnificent. One of the long workers live in the workhouse, short workers live in the shed, visible with a strict management system.