The Walled City Pattern of Dayuan Ancient Miao Village

Inside the gate of the building is a manhole house. Outside the house, there is a high brick wall, also known as the fire wall, which is covered with mottled moss from a long time ago. The corners of the wall are built with ao head, upright and powerful, showing the masculinity of the cool Yang clan ancestors valor and warlike guns and halberds. Inside the wall are wooden houses. A cellar house is a huge complex. In order from the outside to the inside, they are the building door, the patio, the main house, and the compartments. The entrance of the building is paved with green striped stones. When you enter the door of the building, it is the center door. In the event that there is a guest of honor, a person of considerable status, or the owner of the house is celebrating a birthday, or a white wedding, the middle door will be opened wide. Inside the middle door is the patio, which is the center of the whole compound. The floor is paved with copper drum stone pebbles and schist, and in the center are set with dynamic patterns of flowers, birds, fishes and insects in a thousand different forms. The patio is a place for resting, gathering and playing. The patio is surrounded by steps, all of which are paved with wide green stones, the sides of which are also inlaid with green stone slabs. There is a big stone toad at each corner of the steps, and during the rainy season, the rainwater around the house will flow into the patio through the mouth of the toad, forming a pattern of four waters returning to the hall. The patio has a secret passage for drainage. Therefore, even on rainy days, the house is not damp and the soles of shoes are not wet even when wearing cloth shoes. Ascending the steps, you will reach the main house. This is the main building of the cellar house. One of the rooms is the hall. The door of the hall is "San San" (Kun) on the left and "≡" (Qian) on the right. In front of the door of the hall, there are four sides of the sky lanterns, and there are words on the four sides of the door, which are "good weather", "national prosperity", "Yang", "four knowledge of the hall", and "good weather". ". Turning over the age-old fragrance of the "Yang family tree", from the ink to find out such a paragraph - "(Zhen) Gong for the assassin of Jingzhou, Gong elected Jingzhou Maosai Wang Mi for the Changyi order. After the public moved to Donglai governor, the road through Changyi, Wang Mi ten pounds of gold to bequeath the public. He said: 'The late man knows you, but you don't know the late man. Wang Mi said: 'No one knows you at night.' Gong said: 'Heaven knows, earth knows, son knows, I know. What does it mean that no one knows?' Mi ashamed and out." This Zhen Gong that is the Eastern Han Dynasty lieutenant Yang Zhen, his innocence and self-defense, refused to gift deeds, "the Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Yang Zhen biography" has records. There are a lot of hall names in the Yang family name, which are used to distinguish the name of a family, and some of these hall names indicate the geographical relationship, some reflect the change of succession, and some are synonymous with the ancestor's merits and performance. Yang Zaisi, the ancestor of the Yang Clan, was a descendant of Yang Zhen, and the hall number of the "Four Knowledge Hall", which is "Heavenly Knowledge, Earthly Knowledge, Your Knowledge, and My Knowledge", is to commemorate the ancestor Yang Zhen, who was upright, clean, and honest, and to spur on him with his deeds of "Four Knowledge", which is a symbol of the ancestors' merits and performance. The hall name "Four Knowledge Hall" is to honor Yang Zhen's ancestor, who was upright and clean, and also to spur the clan on by his "Four Knowledge" deeds, and to emulate his clean family style.

Inside the center hall, there are shrines and ancestral tablets, and the gold lacquer makes it even more solemn and dignified as the years go by. There are couplets on the left and right, the left couplet is "the golden furnace keeps on burning for a thousand years", and the right couplet is "the jade lamp is always bright and long-lasting". The center hall is a place for ancestor worship, marriage, deliberation and white happiness, and the floor in the center hall is paved with three kinds of mud. That is, with lime, yellow mud, cooked glutinous rice, stirred and even, pounded flat and compacted. After a hundred years of frost, it is still hard and flat today. The doors and windows of the nave are all made of openwork and relief carvings, decorated with flowers and birds, most of which are bats, cranes, magpies and plum blossoms, symbolizing "fortune", "longevity", "happiness" and "wealth". "Luck".

The two sides of the main house is the hammock structure of the compartment, looking at each other, the door and window patterns to the pine, bamboo, plum and orchid mostly, between the abundant lotus and thin chrysanthemums, each room is also decorated with a wooden ladder to reach the upper and lower. The ground floor of the compartments to place agricultural implements and utensils, keeping animals and birds. Bird cage animal house outside the board wall sparsely topped with white palm prints, palm prints are Jiang Taigong's palm prints, to drive away the plague of evil spirits.