Main Attractions of Heping Ancient Town

Since the opening of the imperial examinations, Heping has produced 137 scholars, and has the reputation of being the town of scholars, which is closely related to the Heping Academy, which has a history of 1,000 years. Today we see the green stone road leading to the Heping Academy, many students of peace is through this road to achieve success. The Heping Academy was founded in the Later Tang Dynasty by Huang Cliff (871-953). During the Tang Dynasty, Huang Cliff's father, who was an official in Shaowu from Henan Province, found that the water in Heping flowed to the west, which was extraordinary, so he settled his family in Heping. His son really proved that the feng shui of Heping was good, and at the age of eighteen, he passed the entrance examination and became the minister of the Ministry of Public Works of the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties. When he was an official, Huang Yao's greatest ambition was to "restore the Tang Dynasty", and when he felt that there was no hope of restoring the Tang Dynasty, he abandoned his post and retired to Heping, where he founded the Heping Academy. Huang Cliff married concubines three houses (Shangguan's, Wu's, Zheng's), and each house has seven sons, *** counting 21. In its eightieth birthday, the 21 sons convened a family meeting, ordered each room only stay long filial piety to send the end of the other eighteen sons each get a horse and a bucket of melon gold, and oral occupation of the son of the poem "to give goodbye:" letter to the horse boarding trip to a different place, any search for resorts to revitalize the system. I am not in my own country, but I am in another country, which is my hometown. Don't forget your family's instructions in the morning and evening, and recommend your ancestors for a taste of steam in the spring and fall. The cloud of wealth and fortune is determined by God, 37 men when self-improvement." Because of his pioneering ideas, to the 20th century, the descendants of the Yellow Crags have spread to all continents of the world, amounting to more than 40 million people. Shaowu peace town has become a link between the more than 40 million Huang descendants at home and abroad.

Peace Academy's north gate design is very elaborate, the top shape like an official hat, reflecting the old society to study for the official, "learning is excellent," the idea of the three doors form a "character" word, meaning that to be a high-ranking officials. Entering the academy hall, you must climb thirteen steps, the first six for the hard work of reading, from the seventh level for the seventh to the first grade, meaning that step by step. Above the main door of the carved wood moon beam for the opening of the appearance of the scroll, meaning "open the scroll for the benefit of". "Scrolls" on the original inlaid with "heaven opened the four words of literary luck", it is regrettable that is no longer in. Peace Academy was first created when a yellow clan school, dedicated to the children of the clan school, creating a peaceful clan school precedent. Shaowu southern clans of various surnames to follow suit, clan schooling has since become customary. Since the Song Dynasty, the peace academy gradually became a local school, attracted a large number of famous historical figures to the academy lectures, such as the Song Dynasty famous masters of science Zhu Xi, Yang Shi have been to the peace academy lectures. It is said that the existing peace academy on the east door "peace academy" four words is Zhu Xi inscription. Peace in the history of developed culture and education, creating an atmosphere of peace for more than a thousand years of reading and study, the literary style blazing, creating a batch and batch of talented people. Such as the Song Dynasty Dali Prime Minister Huang Tong, Secretary for Agriculture Huang stretch, the list of Longke service system Shangguan are, the Yuan Dynasty, the national history editor, literary Huang Qing Lao, etc., are from the peace academy came out. Peace Academy can be said to be the cradle of Shaonan talent. "Peace Academy" of a line of books is still heavy in the sleeves of the townspeople. Li residence

In the peace of the East Gate Street next to a year-old scholar plaque, is the only existing peace of the year-old scholar plaque, for the twenty-seventh year of the Kangxi (1688) year-old scholar Li Youdu established, re-established during the reign of the Tongzhi. In the 27th year of the Kangxi reign (1688), the descendants of the seventh son of Li Gang, the famous prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, gathered in Heping and called the place where they lived "Li's Lane". According to the "Qing pro Li clan" records, the Qing Dynasty, the Li family in this lane produced three scholars, so also known as this lane for "scholars lane". Passing through the Scholar's Lane is the Li Mansion, whose gate tower is simple and spectacular. The Li Mansion is the only two existing Ming Dynasty buildings in the ancient town, and its structure is characterized by a large courtyard set of small courtyards, which are both independent and connected. The patio is characterized by the four waters returning to the hall and the use of open ditch to guide the flow. The two giant pillars erected in front of the hall are one of the architectural features of the Ming Dynasty.

Li's Dafu Di

Located in the east gate of the ancient town of peace. This door Li's late Qing Dynasty "a door nine doctor". Built in the Qing dynasty during the reign of Li's doctor, for the Fengzheng doctor, governor Li Chunjiang, FengZhiDaFu, ZhiLiZhouZhou with LiQiChuan's mansion, commonly known as "Li HengSheng" (meaning for ever prosperous). Its gateway brick carving is exquisite and delicate, and the characters are lifelike and beautiful. On the wall of the eight sides are four allusions to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Chopping Yanliang", "Huarong Road", "Chang坂坡", "Bowang Po "and "Song Taizu's Thousand Miles to Send Jingniang", as well as beautifully carved pine, bamboo, plum, crane, deer, unicorn and other combinations of images. The carved dragon in the lower, phoenix in the upper, is a typical product of the Qing dynasty between the Tongzhi, the historical era characteristics are very obvious. The building area of more than 1,000 square meters, four courtyard courtyard building, the south side of the wooden structure of the two-storey protection Alley. In the courtyard, there are three halls, all of which are three-roomed, with a pierced-double frame and a large style. Door lattice, window lattice, sparrow for the other components carved and decorated with flowers and plants patterns and characters stories. The stone pillars are all shackled. On the columns of the hall, there is a meaningful couplet carved by a large bamboo piece: the first person in the world is a loyal minister and filial son; there are only two things in the world, farming and reading. This fully embodies the traditional Confucian culture of loyalty and filial piety and the long-term culture of cultivation and study. Standing in the center of the third hall can be seen in the distance two into the hall roof has a four not like a monster ridge decoration, that is, simple and mysterious.

Huang's Dafu Di

Huang's Dafu Di is the residence of Huang Yingbi, the 19th grandson of Zheng's, the third house of Huang Cliff. The Huang family from the Yongzheng to the Jiaqing three generations of grandchildren are enjoined as a doctor, called "a door three doctors". Huang Yingbi for the Qing Jiaqing seventeen years (1812) Feng Zhidai Daifu, Zhili Prefecture, fifth-grade governor. Huang's "Dafu Di" No. "Da Dongjia". Located in the northern gate of the town of Huang's "Da Dafu Di" *** there are three courtyards, respectively, located in the peace of the main street east and west, covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters. Street east of the two side by side, sitting east to west, the rear of the original garden and theater, regrettably, the theater has been dismantled. Peaceful residential theater in the 21st century also found only this case, unique, rare. Street west of a, sitting west to east. Huang's doctor's main courtyard building skills. Brick and stone structure of the eight gateway, brick carving exquisite, magnificent. The four main picture using a rugged realism technique, carved plum, bamboo, pine, brocade chicken, cranes and other things, a metaphor for "pine and crane to prolong life", "wealth and prosperity to stay", "bamboo peace", "The beautiful and beautiful". It has both profound cultural connotation and strong local characteristics. The main courtyard is three into two halls, the main hall is a hall with three patios, all three openings, the south side of the protective alcove. The house is pierced bucket frame, large style, small and detailed wooden components, melon columns, moon beams, sparrow, flower windows, partitions of the carvings are exquisite, lifelike. In addition to the beautifully carved flowers and plants, the windows are also carved with bats and deer. The bat symbolizes "fortune" and the deer symbolizes "fortune", which fully expresses the master's wish for good fortune and fortune. Here, the patio, take the dark ditch drainage, water drain design into the shape of coins, and carving fine, implying the meaning of "fertilizer water does not flow outside the field"

Liao's Dafu Di

Liao's "Dafu Di," but also No. "Liao Jianshun," which is the name of the "Dafu Di. "Liao Jianshun", built in the Qing dynasty during the reign of the same period, for the court of the doctor, the fourth rank of the Guangdong alternate pass judge plus three levels of Liao Chuanzhen residence. Liao's house in the late Qing Dynasty, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, "a door of four doctors," also Confucian also official and business. Liao's doctor first **** 4 courtyards, covering an area of more than 2000 square meters. Two courtyards on the street three into two halls and three patios, the front store and the back of the house. Located in the west door of the two east to west, the main courtyard three into two halls and two patios, another courtyard for a single hall. West Gate Liao's Dafu Di main courtyard three into two halls, an area of more than 500 square meters. The main gate is a bit slanted, taking the west direction, which is one of the characteristics of Liao's Dafu Di. The first in the main courtyard outside the main gatehouse, and only on both sides of the corridor building, upstairs for the study, the name "class building". Doorway only a few brick carvings of flowers and grass patterns, simple and unadorned; door engraved with regular script "Dafu Di" three big words, strong and robust. "Classes building" of the carving and inscription and couplets calligraphy and painting, cultural connotation is rich and profound, for the best works of art, is the embodiment of traditional culture, its architecture to absorb the Western architectural culture, is the historical symbols and witnesses of the budding of Chinese capitalism. An ancient cypress on the south side of the porch building was there before the porch building was built. Retaining the ancient tree when building the house and letting it come out through the house is a reflection of the "unity of heaven and man" in ancient Chinese philosophy that emphasizes the harmony of heaven and earth, nature, time and space, and personnel, and pays attention to the coordination of the environment and the protection of the ecology in the architecture. A poem titled "Cypress through the house" reads: "Rooted in the sculpted corridor, dry through the roof shade. The color of the sculpture corridor is old, but the green cypress is still new." This is a true portrayal of the cypress. The plaque on the hall, "Virtuous and Filial Piety", was made by Zhu Xi'en, the head of Shaowu Province, in the late Qing Dynasty, in praise of Liao Dechang's daughter-in-law, Liao Yutang's wife, Fu's Yiren. Fu's Yiren is a virtuous, filial piety, public-spirited people, is a recognized good wife and mother. Door towards the west of the Liao's Dafu Di street courtyard, three into two halls and three patios, the front store and the back of the house. House through the bucket type frame, three openings. Gua pillar, door lattice, flower window carvings of flowers and grass patterns, historical stories. The window carvings include the allusions to Wang Xiang's "lying on the ice to seek carp", Huang Xiang's "consulting mosquitoes to satiate their blood" and "Meng Zong crying for bamboo shoots" among the Twenty-four Filial Piety Stories. In addition, there are also carvings of famous stories in history, such as Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon and Guan Yu releasing Cao Cao on Huarong Road. These carvings are skillful, and the characters are vividly portrayed.

In addition, there are also the Sima residence, the Langguan residence, the Enguang residence and the Gongyuan residence in Heping Ancient Town.

Langguan House

Langguan House, located on the west side of the main street of the town, is one of the two existing Langguan House. This Langguan house, the facade is simple, but the brick carving window is exquisite, profound meaning. The window lattice is carved with blue bricks, and the four things of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are carved, which fully demonstrates the artistic taste of the master of the house, Du Lingguang, a calligrapher in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

"Enlightenment" house

"Enlightenment" house is located in the north gate of the town, the house doorway built with green brick, brick carving a little, simple and generous, "Enlightenment" two words are carved in the forehead of the green slate. Engraved in the forehead of the green stone plate, the strokes strong and powerful. "Enlightenment" house has two main features: one is the door facing north, extremely rare in peace; two is not in the hall behind the patio, but in the patio next to the hall, and other ancient residential halls in the patio after the different. Heping ancient town survives in the northeast two bawls. The east gate biao tower is a three-eaved hermit style, while the other three biao are two-eaved. In the east gate bawl, the doorway is made of stone bars and the wall is built with large pebbles. The stone at the foot of the city wall, "Prohibition of transportation, to protect the place", is one of the "three prohibitions of the old city monument" of peace, set up in the Qing Dynasty. Due to the fact that there were few landlords and many peasants at that time, peasants gave most of their harvests to the landlords every time, and when there was a shortage of grain, the landlords transported most of the grain out of the city to Shaowu Chengguan or Fuzhou, which caused the grain-producing areas to become grain-deficit areas and the peasants were threatened with starvation, so they set up this monument and took turns in guarding the area, stipulating that all the grain transported out of the area privately had to be confiscated or purchased at a low price, which therefore played a role in safeguarding the grain market at that time. The role of the grain market at that time. North Gate Qiao Lou, locally known as "Wuyang Lou", because it is opposite the mountain called Wuyang Mountain, the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi years renovated. The doorway of the city gate is made of stone, which is taller than that of the east gate. On each side of the gate, there is a section of Ming city wall made of cobblestones, which is covered with moss, with green weeds growing between the cracks, and with wildflowers opening in all seasons, which is full of poetic and picturesque atmosphere. Qiaolou has witnessed a hundred years of sunset and rain; the ancient and simple city gate has welcomed the joys and sorrows of many ancient towns. Qiaolou walked through the years, describing the dilapidated and mottled, leaving behind an intriguing history of the town.

Peace the direction of the ancient dwellings, most of them are sitting in the west towards the east, or sitting in the east towards the west. This orientation causes the sun to shine from the upper patio to the hall for a long time in summer, making the hall very hot. In order to solve the problem of avoiding the heat, the house here adopts two methods of shading the sun, i.e., the rail sliding type and the rolling curtain type. Huang's Dafu Di west-facing two compound to take is the track push-pull type shading method of shading. This shading method is in front of the eaves of the hall on the beam square to set up the activities of the mechanism, made of oyster sheet can be both shade and light of the sun shading board. If you want to shade the sun on pulling the organ of the cable, the sunshade will run along the track to the top of the patio until it is completely blocked; and will pull the cable in the opposite direction, the sunshade will be back to the movement. Another kind of spindle type, i.e., a spindle is used to roll up and put down the sunshade cloth. Liao's Dafu Di is used in this method of shade. Located in the south gate of the "Xie's granary", also known as "Xie's warehouse", for the middle of the Qing Dynasty building, the appearance of brick firewalls closed for the courtyard style, the wind and firewalls have obvious Huizhou architectural features, covers an area of about 2000 square meters. The granary is made of wood, and the bottom plate of the granary is 20-30 centimeters from the ground to prevent moisture. Most of the granary is well-preserved, and it is a rare granary of an ancient manor owner.

The old city warehouse is located in the old town east. As early as the Ming Dynasty, peace has been built in the warehouse. Widows, orphans, poor and sick, and disaster relief in the year of disaster. The existing warehouse, built in the thirteenth year of the Qing Guangxu (1887), covers an area of nearly 400 square meters. The appearance of the building for the bucket wall seal fire wall courtyard style, within the barn 4 rooms, can store more than 1000 stone grain. As a result of years of disrepair, now see the warehouse has been very dilapidated, but embedded in the wall of the stone plate engraved on the warehouse rules and regulations and build a warehouse merit monument is still clearly recognizable. Peaceful ancient town of "Tin Hau Palace", "Wanshou Palace", "three immortal Palace", the valley called "the old city of three palaces".

Tianhou Palace is located in the ancient town area north of the street, sitting east to west, near the street, built in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng eight years (1858), enshrined in the A-Ma Zu Maiden. Shaowu history developed paper industry, peace of Liao Jianshun, Li Hsing-sheng two families in the Qing Dynasty to Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places to operate the paper industry and other trades, and thus become rich, become a rich party of the giant. The Tin Hau Palace is Liao Jian Shun, Li Xing Sheng and other head of the crowd to donate funds to help build. Covering an area of more than 400 square meters, there are two halls, and built a stage. Every year at the Lantern Festival, 8 people carry the official sedan chair to carry out the wooden statue of Mazu lantern parade, the palace play. Tin Hau Palace is usually used as a "Fuzhou Hall", mostly for paper merchants gathered to negotiate business and exchange of paper market.

Manshou Palace is located in the ancient town area north of the street, sitting east to west, near the street, for the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangxi travel Shao merchants built. Occupies an area of about 500 square meters, masonry four columns and three single door, eight open pagoda-style doorway, the lintel for the lapis lazuli plate engraved in seal script "Longevity Palace" three words, brick carvings are rich in content, skillful. There are two halls, only the upper hall is dedicated to a giant statue of Xu Zhenjun. The Palace does not welcome the gods, not worship, actually as "Jiangxi Hall", is the gathering of Jiangxi merchants in peace and activities.

In the ancient town of Dongmen in the northeast, there is a Taoist temple - three immortal Palace, also known as the "Lingxianguan", sitting west to east, for the upper and lower halls, for Qiu, Wang, Guo three immortal statues.

"Yanxi Baomian" is located in the west of the main street of peace, more than 30 meters away from the Huang's "Dafu Di," is the only amphitheater in the town. "YanXiBaoMian" was built in yuan dynasty, after several destroyed several built, the existing main building for the qing dynasty built in the 1980s, carried out repairs. Entering the door, you can see the Maitreya Buddha, who has a big belly and can tolerate all the tolerable things in the world, and laughs at all the ridiculous people in the world, and the main hall is dedicated to Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy. The old town of Heping has preserved the complete ancient streets and alleys. Castle has two respectively connected to the east and west gate and the north and south gates of the street, the street on both sides of the crisscrossing the size of the alley are the middle of the paved slabs, both sides of the paved cobblestones, and some of them all paved cobblestones. The old city street that runs through the north and south of the ancient town is known as the "First Street of Fujian". The old street is more than 600 meters long and 6-8 meters wide, the center of the street is paved with green stone slabs, because of the topography of the north high and south low, the street forms "nine curves and thirteen bends" with the shape of the street, just like a green dragon that wants to fly in the air. Distributed on both sides of the ancient street nearly a hundred criss-crossed network of ancient pebble lanes, or long or short, or wide or narrow, high walls and narrow alleys, simple and faraway. Ancient dwellings lined up, both the ancient style of the Central Plains, but also with local characteristics, known as the treasure of the ancient dwellings. Dongmen Street is crowded with old houses on both sides of the street, most of which are of brick and wooden structure. The street is paved with stone slabs, blocks of smooth, after the rain is clean as a mirror, picturesque. Every 100 meters on the street there is a paved with stones, like a chessboard pattern, locals call it the chessboard stone.

When you walk into Heping Town, you will be amazed by the traditional culture, simple folklore and rich specialties that have been preserved to this day. "Peace Academy" of a vein of books is still dense in the sleeves of the townspeople, folk respect for teachers and learning style infiltrated with students. Primitive Nuo dance, wedding folklore, rice paddy fish, ridge planting beans, listen to the guide to introduce the ancient folk customs is not a pleasure. While the farmer's water wine, peace carp, peace tofu, peace rice flour, Guanyin tea, etc., so that tourists taste the millennium old town of leisure and warmth.

It is full of South Wuyi local flavor of the mountain song, sung from far away to the present; it is a simple pearl, from far away to today; it is a historical museum, shaking off the dust, leaving behind the precious. It is the ancient town of peace that miraculously preserves more than 300 ancient houses of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Peace Town is located in the south of Shaowu, is an ancient cultural town with a history of more than 4,000 years, is the ancient Shaowu to Jiangxi, Taining, Jianning, Tingzhou, the throat of the main road, but also one of the three provinces in Fujian, the defile of the pass "worried about Siling" on the territory of the peace, and thus also become the place where soldiers must fight. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been set up as a village, township and sub-county. There are not only castles, bawls, sub-county Yamen, "Juqui Pagoda" which was inscribed by Yuan Chonghuan, a famous military man and national hero at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the earliest academy in the history of northern Fujian ---- Peace Academy, but also many temples, ancestral halls, ancestral halls and barns of righteousness, and there are more than 300 buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasty, which have excellent architectural skills, exquisite carvings, and beautiful appearance. Exquisite architectural skills, exquisite carvings, the appearance of the magnificent "Dafu Di" there are five, is China's best preserved, one of the most distinctive ancient residential complexes. The 600-meter-long ancient street is known as the "First Street of Fujian". There is a strong atmosphere of study and learning here, with a flourishing literary style and outstanding people. From the Tang Dynasty to the abolition of the imperial examinations, Heping produced 137 scholars, known as the "township of scholars". Here folk literature, folk music, theater and dance remains quite rich, only the dance variety of more than 70 kinds, mainly flower-drum lamps, seven coquettish lamps, stilt walkers, knife flower dance, etc., and especially valuable is the peace to retain the beginning of the slave society Nuo Dance, can be described as a living fossil of ancient culture. Into the deep alleys of the ancient town, a long ancient charm comes, people's eyes open, sigh of relief, thinking about it.

Peace is known as "Wo Ping" (Harvest of seedlings, lawn of the lawn) meaning flat terrain, abundant grain, is an ancient castle. During the Neolithic period, the ancestors of the ancient Vietnamese lived and prospered here. The written history began in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it was called "Di Jin", and in the Song Dynasty, it was called "Di Jin Township and Heping Li". Since the area was already densely populated in the Tang Dynasty, a bustling market was formed, so it was also called "Old Market Street" after the Song Dynasty. Yuan inherited the Song system. Ming for the "thirty-three capital", Wanli years peace began to repair the pagoda, built the castle. Qing dynasty Qianlong thirty-four years (1769) set up peace sub-county.

Ming Wanli twenty years (1592), some of the big families are often disturbed by bandits and plunder, in the Huang clan descendants of Huang Xianqi, Huang Ruoqi initiated the construction of Peace Castle. Castle circumference of 360 feet, covering an area of 0.43 square kilometers. Construction of the Peace Castle on the ground, all made of river pebbles, ingenious. The castle has four big gates, four small gates, east, west, south, north and south of the four main gates, and in the door built bawls, used for lookout.

The old town of peace has no shortage of mansions and valuable buildings.

The castle is crisscrossed with alleys paved with lapis lazuli and cobblestones, and the smooth cobblestones record the prosperity and vicissitudes of the ancient town.