History of Yang Family Compound on West Street of Quanzhou

The Yang Family Compound is located in the middle section of Yinzi City Street on the east side of the road, which was constructed according to the plot needs of the TV series "Dry Dock", and is the main filming site of the series.2006, the TV series "Dry Dock", which was jointly filmed by the China Central Television (CCTV), Shandong Film and Television Production Center, and Zhoucun District Committee and District Government, was set in the background of the century-old merchant port of Zhoucun, and with the main line of the protagonist Yang Rui-Qing's experience of being a merchant, reflecting the entrepreneurial history of Chinese national capitalists during the period of the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. It reflects the entrepreneurial history of Chinese national capitalists in the late Qing Dynasty and early Civil War. With a total investment of 15 million RMB, the drama "Dry Dock" is another work of Mr. Chen Jie's after "Dye House", in which the main character Yang Ruiqing is played by the famous actor Zhang Fengyi, Xia Zhiqin is played by Fan Zhibo, and Sisheng is played by Wu Jun. The panels on both sides were the plot synopsis and some stills of "Dry Dock". Mr. Chen Jie with unlimited creative passion for this special history of Zhou Village, with a rigorous attitude to work in-depth folk picking investigation, and finally complete the script of the "Dry Dock" TV series, in the TV series killed when Mr. Chen Jie also left us forever.

Why is Zhoucun called the dry dock? According to the Jiaqing three years, the euphonious Wang Yan Lin "Zhou Village to rebuild the Xinglong Bridge monument" records: "Zhou Village, smoke and fire, spring goods full of stuff, the residents called the dry dock. Docks, merchants to and from the mooring, such as Hankou, Foshan, Jingde, Zhuxianzhen belongs to the waterway, no giant ship sails breaking the waves and turning the wind, so don't say that the dry dock ...... ".

The end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Civil War, Zhou Village, five lines of eight works complete, the three religions and nine streams of salty set, the main business items for raw silk, porcelain, tea and other items, all by the representative of the official power of the Wang family, forming the so-called "by decree to operate" situation. Yang Ruiqing, the main character of the play, is a scholar who is smart and has a great business mind, but is tired of his career. His father runs a small silk workshop, but he can only collect cocoons every year after the Wang family has finished collecting cocoons. He hated this unfair deal, and while his father was away, he broke the rules with another cocoon supplier to collect cocoons. The Wang family was enraged and regarded it as treasonous. On a dark and windy night, they burned down Yang's workshop and Yang Ruiqing's father died of grief. Yang Ruiqing had no choice but to leave his lover Guihua and venture into the Shanghai Bund, joining a foreign bank and entering the business world. Yang Ruiqing from the business like a fish out of water, in Shanghai foreign banks soon came to prominence, to the opening of the port of Zhoucun in 1904, with his wife Xia Zhiqin back to Zhoucun, and the Wang family business forces to compete. Although the Wang family is financially strong, but the face of Yang Ruiqing's new mode of business operations and the use of new machines, and soon lost the battle. Wang family see the old business model can not keep up with the trend of the times, take the initiative to show good Yang Ruiqing, Yang Ruiqing, regardless of former grudges, as a business partner, *** with the founding of a new reeling factories, porcelain factories, power plants, and the products are exported to the sea, the national capital began to dominate the tide of commerce, but the good times do not last long, the Qing emperor abdicated, warlordism, so that the budding of the national industrial and commercial tragedy died in infancy, a regrettable thing. The play "The Dry Docks" has many twists and turns and many characters, including the interpretation of the Lu business culture - honesty and forgiveness - as well as the love entanglements between the main character and two women, and also the changes in the business wars, which makes it highly enjoyable to watch.

The Yang Family Compound is a two-entry deep compound with a total area of about 2 acres. The south side is the living room of Miss Guihua, who was Yang Ruiqing's childhood sweetheart, and the two did not come together because the two families were not in the right place at the right time. After Yang Ruiqing was forced to go to Shanghai to do business, he met Ms. Xia, who was a sensible, gentle and virtuous woman, and eventually got married. After making a fortune and returning to his hometown of Zhoucun, Yang Ruiqing was so sentimental and righteous that he saw Guihua living in dire straits, so he built such a house for her in the Yang residence. Since Yang Ruiqing often did business with foreigners, his thinking was more westernized, so the structure of the house also has a Chinese and Western style, but Guihua's traditional thinking is relatively strong. Please look at the plaque on the wall, the first line is "Five blessings are coming together to bring auspicious light" and the second line is "Three stars are shining on the sky to increase the auspicious energy". There are also a few words on the picture, "The Five Fortunes are coming today". The plaque reflects the traditional feudal thinking of Guihua.

Opposite the north room is a calligraphy and painting exhibition hall, welcome to the door we see these powerful words is the Zhou village calligrapher, the former Zibo Silk Vocational College of the old principal, Mr. Li Shenshan writing, nearly 80 years old, the word is written quite beautiful, there is a certain collector's value. This is the Northern Song Dynasty Su Shi made "Nian Nujiao Chibi Huai Gu", which is the theme song of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "rolling Yangtze River eastward". Mr. Li's calligraphy is like flowing clouds and water, flowing and free!

The front of this room in the hall, is Yang Ruiqing reception of customers, business negotiation place, the door to hang a four-letter plaque "sincerity as God", integrity of every business is critical. "Sincerity as the basis, integrity of the world" is the Yang family business follow the principle of hospitality, but also on the real portrayal of the merchants in Zhoucun, is now the antique boutique showroom. Into the showroom, we can see both sides used as a partition screen, above all hollow carving. Next to the cabinet display of these antiques, are some private collections. There are three-legged tripods from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, handmade gold cups and goblets from the Tang Dynasty, and coral-red gold vases from the Qing Dynasty. The most worthy of viewing is this piece of Russian white jade weighing one ton, which was appraised by the CCTV Treasure Appraisal Team in 2007 to be worth more than ten million yuan. You can take a closer look, this piece of white jade carved figures, landscapes are very realistic. The window on the right shows some copper mirrors, and a pair of alabaster unicorn.

Exit this gallery and visit the backyard. After Yang Ruiqing arrived in Shanghai, he met Xia Zhiqin, one of the city's leading ladies. This Ms. Xia gave Yang Ruiqing a lot of help, and later they naturally came together and got married. In 1904, when Zhoucun opened, Yang Ruiqing returned to Zhoucun with Xia Zhiqin. This north room was their living room. The small round door on the left, which is a Shanghai-style building; and then look at the back wall of the plaques, the top is "Hai Nai Bai Chuan", the bottom is "benevolence, righteousness, Taoism, virtue". Each of the four words "benevolence, righteousness, morality" is a plaque, and each word is explained in detail. From these plaques, it is not difficult to see that a generation of Confucian businessman Yang Ruiqing's broad-mindedness and integrity of the business philosophy of hospitality.

The following exhibition hall is the living room of Yang Ruiqing's father. Walking into the exhibition hall, you can see a few big words "Confucian businessmen to help the country", which is the late Qing Dynasty official Zhang Zhidong inscription, intended to encourage the development of national industry and commerce. On the right is Yang Ruiqing's father's bedroom, which has a kang. This kind of kang is especially practical in the north, burning fire under the kang in winter, sitting on the kang to keep warm during the day, and lying on it to sleep at night is very warm, especially suitable for the elderly. On the left is a study, where Yang Ruiqing studied. Yang Ruiqing was a brilliant young man and became a successful candidate at the age of 16, but he grew tired of the career path and eventually embarked on a business career.

The exquisite courtyard-style layout and the festive wedding cave in the Yang family compound have become a model base for traditional folk weddings in Shandong. Since January 11, 2009 in the Zhoucun Ancient Mall held a "love in Qilu, the love of the ancient city" folk wedding, more and more young people to hold weddings here. Zhoucun Ancient Mall's deep cultural heritage, colorful folk activities, ancient centuries-old buildings and traditional folk wedding contrast with each other, adding a lot of romantic colors to the wedding. Here you can enjoy the original traditional folk wedding process, the flaming red sedan chair, festive cape, over the fire bowl, cross the saddle, drink the cup of wine and other links to surprise the new couple. In the trend of more and more young people advocating retro, to participate in an unattainable folk wedding, wearing a often seen in the image of the cape, experience a time-traveling marriage, leaving a book of good memories of the outgoing album, Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Center will make your dreams come true.

Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Center is also a famous film and television shooting base. 4-6 episodes of 2008's opening drama, "The Great Dye House", were shot in the Yang family compound and the Dye House. The ancient houses, plaques, reels, the stone road under the feet, and the small round door next to the center hall, all appeared in the camera, you can think back carefully. Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Center by film and television crews, as a film and television shooting base, from 1993 Zhang Yimou shooting "alive" began. It is said that Zhang Yimou set "alive" shooting plan, looking around for a suitable location, but due to the film's time span is very large, there has been no satisfactory place. A chance, a friend recommended to him in Shandong Zhoucun Street, and find the information film for him to appreciate - long stone road, a forest of stores, with the color of the last century of the deep house, so that he was overjoyed. When he came to the site, he was even more delighted. There are traditional buildings with flying eaves and arches, the remains of Arab-style stores, and traces of the reforms of the Chinese foreign affairs faction at the end of the Qing Dynasty. That staggered pattern, changing facades, and colorful plaques and signboards, is simply a typical Chinese ancient commercial street market living specimen. He immediately said: such a market, the only one in the country. Now the south end of the street is the pagoda when Zhang Yimou filming the movie "alive" cost more than 100,000 yuan to re-construct the original "Jiu Da Tong Qu" of the pagoda. The pagoda is 7 meters high and 10 meters wide, with a main gate and two side gates, reflecting the gravity and solemnity of the pagodas in Shandong, but also with the delicate and ornate features of pagodas in other parts of China. Its main materials are wood and cement, but after the artists brush color, painting, old treatment, even experienced old artists see, also thought it was the authentic ancient architecture. 1993 August 17, in this newly completed pagoda, Zhang Yimou, Gong Li, Ge You and other held the opening ceremony of "alive".

Later, "Who pays for the dream", "Wang Zhenmei", "black and white past", "hanging Tianya incident", "break into the East", "mother", "Chinese merchants" and other film and television crews have entered the Zhoucun Ancient Mall, where the market, stores, restaurants, homes are maintained in a particular era of the original style, eye-catching cloth front, neat green stone road, eaves arch of the traditional architecture, the length of the The streets, alleyways, alleyways, and large and small patios all seem to take visitors back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. After a hundred years, the market is still prosperous for film and television creation provides a very ideal location for filming, and the centuries-old stores are the best interior studio, the crew came here to take the scene, there is no need to purchase and set up a separate. Therefore, some of the crew said, in the Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Center, the ancient market without building on the scene; selecting actors, ordinary people living here without makeup on the type. The original flavor of the Ming and Qing Dynasty style makes people feel that the play is around, people in the play, every corner of the ancient shopping center is the scene, every angle can be mirrored. In 2009, Shandong Film and Television Culture Society, Shandong Film and Television Drama Production Center and other units jointly awarded Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Center as one of the "Top Ten Film and Television Shooting Bases in Shandong Province". "In 2009, Shandong Film and Television Culture Association, Shandong Film and Television Drama Production Center and other units jointly awarded the Zhoucun Ancient Shopping Center as the "Top Ten Film and Television Shooting Bases in Shandong Province.