Shangyue Ancient Village Guide
Shangyue Ancient Village is a characteristic ancient village full of humanistic sentiments, and it is also the most famous and culturally rich place in the local area. There are many ancient buildings here, attracting many tourists from surrounding areas. So what is there to do in Shangyue Ancient Village?
There is such an ancient village in Qingyuan, Guangdong. Speaking of getting to know this ancient village, it all started from a mistake. However, Shangyue Ancient Village, one of the most beautiful ancient villages in Guangdong, was discovered.
Shanggu Village is a place I saw by chance. The ancient village was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The gables in the village are shaped like pot ears, so they are also called pot ear walls.
Although Shanggu Village is a scenic spot, it does not charge tickets now. Visitors can play for free. At present, the most convenient way to go to the ancient village is by car. You can also take the bus first and then ride a motorcycle.
According to historical records and their genealogy, it can be seen that the ancestor of this family is the famous anti-Yuan general Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty (Zhu's sixth grandson), and he has reached the 32nd generation.
This family fled south with Emperor Gong of the Song Dynasty in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and chose this quiet and remote place to live in the chaos. It can be said that this place has been a place of officials and wealth from the beginning.
The shape of the ancient gable wall is like an enlarged version of the handle of a cooking pot, commonly known as the "pot ear wall". In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it was a symbol of official position, shaped like an official hat. Only people with a good reputation are qualified to build such houses with pot ears. The height of the pot ears also represents the size of the official position.
If you see dragons carved on the ear walls of some pots and phoenixes painted on the forehead, you can know that the owner was in a prominent position at that time.
In addition, there are many ancient wells in the village. It is said that there are more than 20 well-preserved ancient wells, three of which are hundreds of years old. There is even a culture of worshiping the well god, which is very rare in the country.
There are 108 ancient houses in the village hidden among the orange groves. The layout of the front pool and the back mountain implies hidden Feng Shui. It embodies the wisdom of previous generations on rural architecture. In ancient times, all streets and alleys ended in "li".
The ancient village consists of 18 villages including Guirenli, Zhongguirenli and Xiaguirenli. Walking into it, weeds have grown on the neat road paved with bluestones, which are all traces left by the years.
Most buildings have four bedrooms, a living room and two kitchens. The layout of the houses in the building is reasonable, and the buildings are built according to Feng Shui pattern. These green bricks and tiles, with undulating ears, are buckled together one by one to form a different ink painting.
The poems and paintings of ancient villages are all here. When traveling here, you can always see many people sketching from life, describing the most beautiful villages.
Passing through the mottled brick walls, desolate ancestral halls, heavy thresholds, and paved lanes in the alley, more than 700 years have passed quietly. Now many villagers in the ancient village have moved away from their old living areas, so there are large abandoned residential areas in the village, which is a bit desolate.
The mottled houses have a history of sedimentation. It is said that the aroma of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. Looking around, there are not many, they are rare, and it is not easy to preserve and present them perfectly. It is rated as a famous historical and cultural village in China. Worth a visit.
When I don’t want to travel, I can only see huge crowds of people. You might as well come to this small ethnic minority scenic spot for a trip. The scenery is not inferior at all, and the tranquility is incomparable to the suspense. It’s just that this unique Guoerlou is unique.