The New Face of Dayuwan Ancient Village
The house built by Dayuwan people embodies a very complete concept of living in peace in terms of form and pattern, materials and technology: "The front wall is surrounded by water, the back wall is surrounded by mountains, the courtyard is surrounded by small courtyards, and the house is surrounded by small courtyards. There are hundreds of families in the village, interspersed with 20 alleys, and every household is connected. Every household is separated by a concierge, a square stone road and a drip line stone wall. There are many carvings indoors, and there are eaves galleries in front of the door. "
Dayuwan and Wuyuan are indeed in the same strain. The ancestors of this bay are a large family named Yu. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered a great migration from Jiangxi to Hunan, and in the second year of Hongwu (1369), he moved from Wuyuan and Dexing in Jiangxi to Mulan River today, which was recorded in Yu's genealogy for the first time. I chose to settle here because I thought this bay was an extremely rare "land of geomantic omen".
The ancient village of Dayuwan embodies the humanistic spirit of being close to and respecting nature. Mulan Mountain is Zhong Ling's masterpiece in nature, and Mulan River is a gallery-style ecological canyon with a length of 10 km. Dayu Bay is located on the southeast slope of Mulan Mountain, at the south exit of Mulan River, which makes the beautiful natural scenery in this area strongly participate in the shaping of the local culture of Dayu Bay. The landscape in front of the village and behind the village has been incorporated into the overall planning and layout of the village, and has been given a unique humanistic connotation. Entering Dayuwan in Shuangquan Village, a group of villagers dressed in red and green are playing the beat in the square next to Youyou Pavilion, and two tourists dress up as brides and grooms to perform the folk custom of welcoming the bride. More than 40 old houses are centered on this and extend around along several bluestone paths. Exquisite old houses, drip line stone walls, flying Ryukyu tiles, eaves of birds and animals, exquisite wood carvings indoors, and eaves galleries painted in front of the door are magnificent. Time has destroyed some details and added some vicissitudes.
This village was built in the early Ming Dynasty. The main part was built in the early years of the Republic of China, and a few were ancient residential buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province. Liu Aixiang, general manager of Dayuwan Scenic Area, introduced the architectural model here: the front wall is surrounded by water, the back wall is surrounded by mountains, the courtyard surrounds the small courtyard, and the small courtyard surrounds each room. The village is full of Huangpi dialect. Why is it located in the east of Hubei, but there are two or three stacked horse-headed walls in the old house-this is obviously Huizhou architecture.
The genealogy of the Yu family in the village answered this question: During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Xiushan, the ancestor of the Yu family, led his people to move from Jiangxi to Huangpi Yanzi and Mulan River, where they thrived and gradually formed villages. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, people in Dayuwan became rich in business and began to build a beautiful home. What remains is the old building in Dayuwan today. The name of Shuangquan Village, to which Dayu Bay belongs, comes from a legend. According to Li Shiyan, an expert in literature and history of Huangpi, it is said that a monk in the Tang Dynasty visited Mulan Mountain and passed through Mulan River to a hill behind Dayu Bay. Looking around, he can't help but sigh that this is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. When the temple was built, incense was everywhere. I read aloud: "Amitabha, Amitabha". However, I can't help feeling sorry: "Unfortunately, such a beautiful scenery lacks sweet spring." Inadvertently stamped my foot, and two eyes of spring water rolled by, clear and sweet.
Since then, the monks have been begging for alms everywhere and finally built the Shuangquan Temple on the mountain. This temple was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. Archaeologists unearthed more than 300 kilograms of coins in a kiln here, from Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty to Qianlong in Qing Dynasty.
Not far from the gate of the scenic spot, I saw an old man sitting in front of my old house listening to Chu Opera, with a dozen beehives piled behind him, a few bottles of homemade honey on the stall, and his wife sitting in the shade next to him doing needlework.
In the old house, the house protection sign of "Yu Jiaming House" is hung, and the Xiao Mu sign of "Bee Farmers" is nailed on the outer wall. The reporter chatted with him.
The old man said he was Yu Jiaming. This old house was built by our ancestors. The stone external wall is very strong, and the internal wall is a "drum skin" wooden wall, which was changed into a masonry wall after being damaged. The old house is a protected building, and it can't be built or rebuilt without permission.
The old man used to work in Huangpi Grain Bureau. He was convicted of speech crimes in the late 1950s and spent more than a year in prison. After he was released from prison, he returned to his hometown of Dayuwan to farm. /kloc-rehabilitated and resumed work in the 1980s. After retirement, I returned to Dayuwan and enjoyed the rural life. I keep my own bees, and there are a group of pigeons upstairs. The seasonal Vitex negundo and Baihua honey sold by the old people are not expensive, so buy one bottle each and go home to taste it. The sweetness has the fragrance of flowers and trees, which is closer to the original flavor of honey than that in the supermarket.