What are the details of the ancient villages in South Anhui Province

Ancient villages in South Anhui are located in Yixian County East, Anhui Province, represented by Xidi Village and Hongcun Village. Xidi and Hongcun ancient residential villages are located in the Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area in Yixian County, Anhui Province, East China. Xidi Village covers an area of nearly 13 hectares and has a history of more than 950 years, with three ancestral halls, one pagoda and 224 ancient dwellings from the 14th to the 19th century.

Xidi Village has preserved the typical ancient village style of Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is known as "living museum of ancient houses". Hongcun was built in 1131 A.D., and now there are 137 ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the carrier of Huizhou culture, which is the typical representative of the culture of the late feudal society in China, and it focuses on the characteristics of Huizhou style houses with exquisite craftsmanship.

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Introduction of attractions

1, Moon Marsh

Moon Marsh, the people called Moon Pond, is the so-called "cattle small belly". Moon Swamp, built in the Ming Yongle years (AD 1403 - 1424), when Hongcun out of a Wang Siqi, he found a natural spring in the village, winter and summer springs, three times to hire Haiyang County (now Xiuning) Feng Shui Mr. He Koda.

And the high generation of people within the family, "read the mountains and rivers, detailed review of the veins", the development of the expansion of Hongcun site and the village comprehensive planning of the cattle-shaped water blueprints, the introduction of Xixi River water around the village house, its cattle intestinal canals nine curves and ten bends, and the introduction of the water into the center of the village natural wells and springs to build a moon pond, in order to save water within the sun for fire prevention, drinking, and so on. Descendants Wang Shengping and others invested more than ten thousand gold.

2. Deyitang

Built in the twentieth year of the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1815), it is a two-storied, three-room building.

The Deyi Hall has 16 half-block lotus doors in front of the hall, with passages connecting indoor and outdoor areas, and there is a water pond in front of the hall, which is connected with a dark ditch and a water canal. In the pond is surrounded by bonsai. Wooden combs and flowers flourish in the courtyard of Deyi Hall. It is called "open-air flower hall" with layers of green shade. A kiwi vine climbs on the east wall. In the garden, there are two gardens in the east and west, one bright and one hidden, planted with fruit trees and flowers.

3, Chengzhi Hall

Chengzhi Hall is located in the middle section of Hongcun's Shangshui Canal, which was built in the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1855), and is the residence of Wang Dinggui, a big salt merchant at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The whole building is a wooden structure with richly decorated internal brick, stone and wood carvings, covering a total area of about 2,100 square meters and a building area of more than 3,000 square meters, making it a well-preserved large residential building.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui