Sichuan Longchang Yundingzhai Guo style family is not after the famous general Guo Ziyi in the Middle Tang Dynasty?

20 kilometers from the county, located at an altitude of 530 meters on the Yunding Mountain, was built in the Ming Dynasty Hongwu four years to the Qing Xianfeng eleven years completed. Walled wall is 1640 meters long, 75 meters high, face width of 3 to 4 meters, there are 6 fortress door, is a well-preserved ancient fortress. 1 miles from the fortress Yunding field, is to adapt to the walled city at night after playing cards for fun shopping, dining needs and set up, people enter the field in the middle of the night trading, daybreak dispersal, this custom has not changed. Yunding Walled outside the Yunding field, connected to the Walled by the Happy Valley Road and was zigzag, flagstone roads, paved streets, but also the sale of the field gradually developed. The establishment of the field and business are closely related to the owner of the Kuo family, that is, controlled by the Kuo family and for its services. Local people say that the field house ninety-five percent of Guo's built; Walled prosperity, the field of business is also booming, from the hotel teahouse to the money shop store to the mountain goods store silk store medicine store rice store and so on all together. Of course, this scene has been lost for many years. Along the horse road towards the up a few steps to the famous Yundingzhai. The first thing that comes to mind is the overgrown ancient city wall, in front of the first to arrive at the Tongyongmen Cave there is a stone tablet, a brief description of the wall: the city in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng nine years by the local Guo clan ancestors to build, Tongzhi eleven years of re-repair, covers an area of 245 acres, the city wall length of 1,640 meters, there are six holes in the door, there are 154 patios inside the city clouds. It is reported that Guo's ancestor Guo Meng four in the Ming Dynasty Hongwu four years (1371 AD) from Hubei Macheng into Shu, walked to Yunding Mountain Pass, picking luggage basket rolled down the mountain, so simply inserted into the field cultivation, settled in this. Later generations Guo Lian, Guo Yuanzhu successively in the Ming Dynasty, high official. Guo's generation of hairpin, gradually become a big family in Yunding. Guo Lian returned to the forest and built a nest on the top of the mountain, which was named "Yunding" because of its height. The clan officials and gentry, people and wealth are rich, acres of manor and broad, to the end of the Ming dynasty Wanli years, but also due to local thieves and bandits and base stone walls, fortress security; until the Qing Xianfeng nine years of Guo Renyong "by his father's order to build a wall of cloud tops", Guangxu twenty years of Guo Zuqian Zhai expansion and reinforcement, only to form the scale of today's city walls such as county towns. Into the walled city, along the stone path up, in addition to sporadic houses, seems to have no compound, in a staging hall on the slope of the old site, the broad terrace has been plowed into the field, has long been heard the sound of guns and knives, and sparsely populated, the mountain atmosphere comes to the surface. Near dusk, can not go deeper, drilling out of the sunrise gate will see the moon hanging high, and the setting sun slanting light sprinkled on the city walls, this situation, the heart of the natural chanting of the "lone city of the sunset fighting soldiers scarce" poem. Guo's family for five hundred years, through three dynasties, the folk have "Yunding country" said, because of its territory across the county more than 40 miles south, such as the ancient vassal state; and more food, solid as a castle; coupled with the clan right above all, the patriarch of the government from their own, have the right of life and death; and even not be subject to the government, the power of the wealth of the local no one can rival. But when you touch the wall bricks and the Walled City of the remaining buildings, look at the grass deep covered stone paths and deserted military and living facilities, you can not help but a family after how many generations of arduous struggle to reach the brilliant and then to the end of the decline and issued a deep sigh! History is merciless and fair, when the country is still in turmoil, when dynasties change, how can a family talk about stability and continued prosperity? The most interesting part of the event is the night show at Genting Village, which is held in the early hours of the morning when the night is misty. When the opening, you can see the torches all the way up the mountain road; trading time is short (usually one hour), and "sneaky", like something robbed, so the number "robbers field". The next day, six o'clock in the morning, the field has been swaying, the light from a few stores open to the street, selling things squatting along the street, the townspeople shuttling between them, no noise, feel a little sneaky, like trafficking in contraband, and take a closer look at the vegetables and vegetables, side dishes, groceries and groceries of a kind. Let the city people seem, these countryside life is not worth such a half of the morning and night to do business, right. In addition to meet the survival needs of the market, different places contain the countryside of the long-established conventions and customary factors. As a special social occasion, the market in the village life implicitly played a role in regulating the psychological balance. Saying that the night market has the significance of interaction, inevitably seems far-fetched and unbelievable, since a few years ago, the township government moved down the hill, the night market time is short and fewer people, the sale in the end mixed with how many years of the psychological effect produced by inheritance, who can not say. In the city walls think outside the city walls, although all belong to the Yunding Walled City, but each other's lives and relationships in the past long days to think of some drama. Today's Yundingbaek is more than capable of providing historical clues to explore the lives of the local clans. Walking down the street, or see the patio in-laws, the old house with the old man life is deep and elusive; or see a very large and empty room in a child with a large square table to do homework, thinking that is very open; and see an old traditional Chinese medicine store, the counter of the old man has a scholar's appearance, although there are no customers, but the demeanor of the peaceful. In the people less store sparse streets in the cold countryside on a decent and clean Chinese medicine store can not be taken lightly. In the old days, most people who sold Chinese herbs knew traditional medicine, and a bone-setter should be categorized as a cultural person. Yundingzhai old man seems to come from a family of books, its face more than the style of the literary world of the elders, even if the rainbow bridge on a look at the forest people are difficult to hide through the wisdom of the learned man. So the theory is not.