Where is the Xiguan Dajia in Guangzhou?

"Foreign daughter-in-law local Lang" is a good drama, the actors outstanding acting skills, the story is taken from the real, reflecting the life of the people of Guangzhou Xiguan portrayal of the background and place of filming is also taken from the Liwan District, the old Xiguan Dajia.

Guangzhou Xiguan so much pride; Xiguan style, Xiguan food , Miss Xiguan, Xiguan Daya ....... One of the Xiguan big house has three major features, one, the house is a brick structure must be green brick. Second, the door can be moved in front of the wooden bar, three, often have special style of each type of colorful pattern of the Manchurian window.

Decades, the city of Guangzhou, although after a number of relocation and demolition, but still retains a considerable Xiguan old big houses, mainly concentrated in Liwan District Longjin Road, Enning Road ...... and other sections with the inner streets.

In recent years, the Guangzhou Municipal Government attaches great importance to the protection of historical heritage and cultural relics, and therefore invested a lot of manpower and material resources to renovate or rebuild the old Xiguan streets and Xiguan houses, so that the Xiguan houses of this ancient architecture to get a better survival of the inheritance and protection.

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The courtyard is deep, through the foot gate, the bar, the front door, from both sides around the front patio and the middle patio, in the cascading wooden screen, is the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the civil period of the Xiguan big family life scene. Xiguan culture, is the epitome of Guangzhou culture, and Xiguan big house, reflects the essence of Xiguan architectural culture. Reporters recently visited Hongchang Street, Duo Bao Road, Longjin West Road, Sanlian Straight Street, Fengyuan Street and Xiguan Folk Museum, looking for the downtown Xiguan Daiya, the combination of Chinese and Western artistic features, architectural structure of the subtle design, telling the history of the past, presenting the ancient charm of the rich culture of Guangzhou.

Xiguan Folk Museum

The brick house is hidden in an alley with a strong traditional Xiguan style

Turning from the east side of the Liwan Museum, a brick house stands quietly in a narrow alley. This Xiguan Folk Museum to rebuild the Xiguan house as the main building, located in the original site east of the museum, with a floor area of 278 square meters, the entire structure of the house is basically a complete embodiment of the traditional Xiguan house of the main features. The alley outside the house is called "Qingyun Lane", carrying a variety of functions, so there are many aliases, called "Water Lane" because it can drain water, called "Fire Lane" because it can isolate the fire, called "Cold Lane", because it can isolate the fire, called "Cold Lane", called "Cold Lane". "Cold Lane" is that it can enter the cold air ventilation to the room.

Step into the short foot door, push open the trip bar and hardwood door, low visible ground red mud big step block, look up is a wooden board pull flower show carved into the sky curved cover, will be separated from the hall and the patio. Folk Museum adopts a three-room layout, directly across the door is the main hall, the tables and chairs in the eyes of the furniture is made of twigs, symmetrical arrangement. "In the old days, when big families received guests, the master and receptionists sat on the left side, and the guests and their attendants sat on the right side; look at this table, which was used for drinking tea and eating snacks." Prof. Tang Guohua, director of the Lingnan Architecture Research Institute of Guangzhou University, pointed to the round table in the middle of the hall and said. There is also a row of "water windows" directly above the main door, which are opened by a rope wheel sliding for ventilation.

The main hall in the restored Xiguan Folk Museum.

Further inside, after the main hall with a screen door surrounded by a small room called the head of the room, is the oldest elders of the family residence, after the head of the room is the second hall, is the family meal place. Folk Museum in this display a variety of old-time common items, such as teak juicer, copper water boiler, ring pulp basin, rubbing boards, etc., the most interesting is a large mixing stove, which is made of copper, on one side of the burning wood heating, the other two sides of the other side of the heat through the heat transfer can also be heated, warmth, the idea of the marvelous is amazing.

And the book hall is the home of the younger generation of reading place, the study in front of a small courtyard, "the book bias of the small garden is generally not to the outside window, will be the whole sealed, so that children can read without worrying about nuisance."

Hongchang Street 22

The combination of Chinese and Western craftsmanship show a brick and a tree have feelings

Hongchang Street 22 is one of the only remaining structurally well-preserved Xiguan house in Guangzhou, was composed of wood carvings, gray molding, iron columns, stained-glass windows and so on, with a strong combination of Western and Eastern art features. The whole building is situated from north to south, with two floors and half-open bar, covering an area of more than 200 square meters and a building area of more than 300 square meters. The whole house is a three-room, longitudinal wall load-bearing mainly, where the openings of the patio and the peaceful skylight through the sky are equipped with iron branches anti-theft grille.

Hongchang Street, No. 22 Xiguan Daiya is now being transformed into a kindergarten.

According to the introduction, Hongchang Street, No. 22 of the structure is: the main room (also known as the "middle") along the central axis from south to north in order for the porch, the entrance, the front patio, the sedan chair hall, the center patio, the main hall, the master's room, the back patio.

The first entry is the "Gate Hall", the east wall had a "door official" shrine, the center of the "block in the" consists of a wooden screen door, block in the front patio is open to the sky. The floor of the main entrance is made of white clay bricks, which are very rare nowadays and can absorb moisture in spring. The part of the patio slightly below the ground is paved with granite slabs, so that rainwater falling into the room can be discharged into the sewer by the money eye drainage holes.

The second is the sedan chair hall, is the reception of general guests of the teahouse, dignitaries enter the door after the block and the front patio after the fall of the place of pride. Wooden screen blocking the back of the center patio, guests must enter from both sides, after the center patio, into the third into the "main hall".

The main hall is the main hospitality, but also the master of the dining room, the main hall to the center of the patio open to light and air. Above the master's room is the God's House, separated from the back patio by a brick wall, with a 1.5-meter window on the wall from the ground, changing the superstitious habit of not opening the window on the back wall of the old traditional house.

There is a well under the back patio, and a narrow alley between the back wall and the neighboring houses is "Qingyun Lane". The back wall of the left and right each opened a door, the cold wind in the alley can enter the room, joining the "back patio - indoor cold alley - in the patio - the front patio - outdoor street" ventilation system.

Experts: narrow and broad Xiguan Daiya

The broad Xiguan Daiya refers to all the large-scale Xiguan residential houses built in the Xiguan area. Duo Bao Road, Longjin West Road, Fung Yuen North Street area, there are a lot of Xiguan western-style houses, houses still retain the trip bar door and other elements of the Xiguan Daiya, the overall western elements, but the houses have more than the traditional Xiguan Daiya two-storey high, building materials in addition to green brick also have red brick, but also common western-style stone columns.

There is no God building, can be said to be the narrow sense of the Xiguan Daiya and the broad sense of the biggest difference between the Xiguan Daiya, trip bar is in the Chinese and Western style. Prof. Tang Guohua believes that the narrow sense of the Xiguan Daxue built in the late Qing Dynasty, the prototype is the rural ancestral hall. At that time, the back of the middle road of the ancestral hall was used to worship ancestors, and the two sides of the road could be lived in, Xiguan Daiya borrowed this pattern, but the middle road was mainly used to receive guests, and there was a sacred building in the big house to worship ancestors.

The big house usually covers a large area, rich in Xiguan characteristics, architectural style is mostly Chinese, the basic structure includes a brick and wood structure, three entries, three sloped roofs, three openings on the front fa?ade, the front door has a clear brick stone feet and trips, stone door sets of the main door. The most brilliant Xiguan Daiya has seven deep, inside the living room, small hall, book Xuan, and the garden, mainly built by buyers and merchants.

The reporter visited the Duo Bao Road, Longjin West Road, Fung Yuen North Street area, found a lot of Xiguan Western-style houses, houses still retain the trip bar door and other elements of Xiguan Daiya, the overall Western-style elements, the height of the house has been more than the traditional Xiguan Daiya two-storey high, building materials in addition to brick, there are red bricks, reinforced concrete beams and boards, but also common Western-style stone pillars.

Long Jinzhong Road, Xiguan Mansion Gate is a combination of Chinese and Western Xiguan Dajia.

The 24th house on Duo Bao Road is the former site of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party. Tang Guohua told reporters that the layout and structure of this big house and the broader Xiguan big house is similar to join the reinforced concrete, the entrance to the Western-style stone columns, triangular mountain flower roof and iron decorations, the interior does not have the unique Xiguan big house ancestor worship God building.

"You see this stone pillar, stone pier with bamboo lines, belonging to the Chinese style, the column body and column head and western style, the wall front fa?ade with green brick masonry, and the rear part of the building is red brick, it is also the roof of the western style." Standing in front of the Xiguan mansion at 55 West Longjin Road, Tang Guohua explained to the reporter, "Like the former residence of Chen Lianbo and the former residence of Jiang Guang'nai, they are both Xiguan mansions in the broad sense."

Fung Yuen Street No. 8 house is located in the Xiguan Daiya Architectural Conservation Area, belonging to the three openings, sitting north to south, the front elevation of the water-worn brick masonry, the main room for the concave belly door, the stone door frame engraved with a few detailed border, trip bar, foot door with a pattern of wood carvings, sealing the eaves of the board carved wood carvings fine carving, the front elevation of the stone wall foot with a 22-centimeter-high pedestal, engraved with a few lines of footing. "Now its left and right side rooms are separated and newly opened as residential housing, which is no longer a complete layout." Tang Guohua said.

Extension: small knowledge about Xiguan Daiya

Basic structure:

Xiguan Daiya typical plane for the "three sides over" (i.e., three openings), the main room in the main hall, from the steps up to the concave entrance corridor - doorway three pieces (foot door, bar, door) - door official hall - blocking the middle door - patio - Sedan chair room -The patio -The main hall -The first room (elder room)-The second room -The last room, forming a deep and very long central axis, the two sides of the openings are called the book bias and the living room, mainly has the study, the bias hall, the bedrooms and the stairwells.

Green Lane:

It has many functions such as transportation, ventilation and lighting. If the alley is long, often in the middle section of the addition of a doorway wall separation to the wall plus a sense of hierarchy. Some Qingyun Lane has a well, the old thought that the well water to the sea, well spring Dragon God that the sea of the Dragon King, this God to protect the family peace. This is a water well, water wells on the top of the Well Spring Dragon God.

Qingyun Lane

Patio:

In the past, the patio is mostly square, especially between the door official hall, the sedan chair hall and the main hall of the patio more emphasis on being square. In the patio to water holes, often carved into the shape of money, which is believed to be "water for wealth" related to the past, but also has the function of the fence.

The water hole in the patio

Shrine Tower:

It is a mirror-framed shrine that looks like the stage of a classical opera, with a small door next to it for people to enter and exit, so that it is convenient for lighting joss sticks and lamps in the morning and evening.

Head Room:

The room where the oldest member of the family lives.

Inverted room (guest room):

A temporary room for guests. The furniture display is relatively simple and casual. Xiguan Dajia's roads are connected by horizontal doors. Horizontal door is often decorated with plaques or brick carvings, and some of them are made into semi-circular stained glass windows with butterfly patterns, commonly known as "butterfly window", the top of the window has a semi-circular arc of gray plastic mold lines, is clearly influenced by the Western influence.

The "butterfly window" on the upper part of the door head has Western characteristics.

Partial Hall:

A place for family members to rest, children to study and receive guests. The walls are often hung or engraved with calligraphy and painting couplets, reflecting the owner's cultural taste and cultivation. Such as "full of bright moon, two sleeves, clear". "Even if there are thousands of good land, it is difficult to buy money to the children and grandchildren," and so on.

The main hall:

is the "heart" of the house, is the main hall. This hall has the highest ridge, the largest area, the most elaborate architectural decoration process, the atmosphere is also the most solemn. It is a place for the extended family to gather, pay homage to the ancestors, decide on important family events and receive particularly important guests.

Xiguan Daiya, as the name suggests, of course, in Xiguan! So where is Xiguan? Of course, in the west of the city! How to divide the west side of the city? The old city wall of Guangzhou is divided! The old city wall of Guangzhou in the west of the People's Road and Zhongshan six road junction (where there is the site of the West Gate).

With the People's Road as the boundary, the west of the Republic of China's large houses can be called Xiguan Daiya! And the existing most concentrated group of Xiguan Daiya in the Enning Road, Feng Yuan Road, Hua Gui Road around! You can first lychee bay chung scenic stroll, and then extend the Duo Bao Road, turn into the En Ning Road, and finally walked to Shamian, all the way to like the big house, and Bruce Lee's former residence, the Xiguan Daiya Museum, the Cantonese Opera Museum, and so on!

Guangzhou has Xiguan this place, should be the prototype for making this film, reflecting the habits of the old Guangzhou people

In the Guangzhou Xiguan Riding House, that is, over the side of the Guangzhou Library

In the Liwan District, Lychee Bay scenic area. Guangzhou Xiguan is a former rich area, the current larger and more complete Xiguan house set up as an exhibition hall. Nearby is the Lychee Lake, now there is a Cantonese opera stage, every afternoon there are performances, Cantonese style and charm, you can go to feel good.

It is mainly concentrated in the area of Longjin Road in Liwan District.

Guangzhou used to have Xiguan District and Dongshan District now Xiguan is under Liwan District and Dongshan is under Yuexiu District. Xiguan Daiya is a very characteristic building in Guangzhou is mainly distributed in the present Liwan District, Liwan Bay Chung near Fengyuan Street is also a street of old (food). Welcome to Guangzhou to understand the deep history of Guangzhou. Dongshan also has a small foreign buildings are also very distinctive, Shamian also have European-style buildings.

First of all, to correct a lot of foreign friends may look at the meaning of the misunderstanding caused by: that Xiguan Daxue is a house! Xiguan refers to the western part of the old city of Guangzhou, Liwan District, and the big house is the Liwan District, Guangzhou, the area is characterized by residential buildings, customary windows with Manzhou windows, the door is a trip cage door. The most concentrated places of Xiguan Daiya in Liwan District are in the area of Duo Bao Road, Longjin Road, Changshou Road, Baohua Road, Enning Road and Shangshang Jiu Road.

The Xiguan Daiya in Guangzhou is in the area of Fengyuan Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou City, in addition, there is a Lingnan Daiya in Fengyuan North built in the Qing Dynasty travelers can enter to visit.