Where are the ancient houses in Tangjiatun?
Tangjiatun is located at the foot of Dupangling Mountain, with a superior geographical position. The village is backed by Dupangling, with dense rivers, surrounded by jade belts (water systems), and the natural environment is superior. The ancient villages were formed before the Yuan Dynasty, and most of the buildings followed the mountain trend and were built by the mountain, which constructed a landscape of integration of nature and humanity. The mountains, rivers and plains in the village have their own duties. The territory is dominated by mountains, with an area of about 3,600 mu of woodland, and the rest are paddy fields. On the whole, the north is high and the south is low. The village is surrounded by mountains and built on the mountain, which belongs to the mountain style. The building is built on the mountain, which is a good combination of the geomorphological characteristics dominated by hills and alluvial plains. Due to complex geological changes, the soil-forming parent materials of the village are diverse; Among them, limestone parent materials, diluvial and alluvial parent materials account for the vast majority. Coupled with the influence of climate, topography, vegetation and human activities, there are many paddy soils, such as red soil, alluvial parent material, sand shale parent material, red soil, limestone soil and other dry land soils, red yellow soil and limestone woodland barren hills and other soil types. The land is relatively flat and suitable for growing rice.
The land layout planning in the village is mainly based on agricultural production and residential land, and the layout is relatively regular. Land can be subdivided into: residential land, cultural relics land, road land, agricultural and forestry land, water area and cemetery.
Tangjiatun ancient residence is near Qingshan, and there is an open rural beauty in front of the village. The irrigation river flows around the front of the ancient village like a jade belt, and the ancient camphor and ginkgo in the village complement each other. Irrigation and running water constitute the overall spatial layout of "mountains like screens, water like cities, ponds like crescent dikes", giving people a sense of harmony, nature and relaxation. The ancient village is backed by Dupangling, and its upper abdomen is irrigated by river water. Willow trees on both sides of the irrigation river line up like jade belts. There is a pond shaped like a crescent moon on the north side, and there are four gates at the four corners of the ancient village, forming a landscape pattern. After careful planning and management for generations, the houses and houses of ancient buildings have been cleaned up, the roadway is flat, and the layout of river banks, temples and ancient wells is reasonable and spectacular.
The buildings are all brick and wood structures, all made of granite and brick. Pave the bluestone floor indoors. The roadway is planned neatly and the tunnel is unobstructed. The stairs between houses are smaller than the scales, and the heights are orderly. The internal wooden building has thick beams and columns, and the beams are all double-layer beams with carved windows and strong lighting. The layout of a house is usually one or two floors. On both sides of the hall are houses, which are reasonably distributed and tall and magnificent. The characteristics of residential buildings in Ming Dynasty are that the external walls are mostly gables, the main beam of the inner hall is arched and bent, and the column base is wooden pier, which is mostly carved into hanging lotus or hanging lotus shape, passing through the arch and connecting the edges. Generally, there are no sparrows to support, the windows are decorated with carved flowers, and the ancient servants are exquisite. Among them, the Tang ancestral hall is the most typical.
The couplets in front of the ancestral hall of the Tang family-"Mountains are like screens, water is like a city, and ponds are like crescent dikes"-the characters of seal script 14 are shining, with a long meaning, quietly showing the world the glory and glory when this family was established.
Source of information: Guanyang County People's Government Network