What kind of place is Xidi?
Xidi, formerly known as Xichuan, was called Dongshui Xidi because the stream in front of the village and the stream in the back flowed from east to west. It was later renamed Xidi to this day.
Xidi is located about 8 kilometers southeast of Yixian County. It is surrounded by mountains and green trees. There are large peach groves planted on the southeastern slopes. In early spring in March, peach blossoms are in full bloom, and the village looks more beautiful and charming among the green mountains and green waters, earning it the reputation of "people's home in the peach blossom garden". Xidi Village covers an area of about 13 hectares. It is wide in the middle and pointed at both ends, like a sailing ship. It is also known as a "ship-shaped village". Xidi Village has 124 well-preserved ancient residences from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ancient residences are well-preserved, with neat layout, ingenious structure, exquisite decoration and unique construction. They have profound cultural accumulation and profound connotation. They are "a treasure house of Chinese residential architectural art in the Ming and Qing Dynasties". "", there are more than 20 buildings open to receive Chinese and foreign tourists.
Xidi is where the Hu clan lives. According to the Genealogy of the Hu Family Ren Sect in the Xidi Ming Jing, the ancestor was the son of Li Ye, Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty. In 904 AD, Liang Wang Zhu Wen forced Li Ye to move the capital to Luoyang. Li Ye was afraid of Zhu Wen's power, so he left Chang'an in a hurry and drove eastward. Passing through Shaanzhou, Henan, Queen He gave birth to a baby boy. Li Ye knew that Zhu Wen was by no means a kind person and his future was uncertain, so he secretly entrusted Shaanzhou official Hu San to secretly take the prince back to Wuyuan, Shezhou, and changed the little prince's surname from Li to Hu, and named him Changyi, which became the Hu family in Xidi. The ancestor. Therefore, Xidi people jokingly say that the Hu surname in Jixi belongs to the "real" Hu, while the Hu surname in Xidi belongs to the "fake" Hu.
In the blink of an eye, a hundred years later, Hu Shiliang, the fifth generation ancestor of the Hu family, went to Nanjing and passed through Xidi. He was attracted by this geomantic treasure land with sheltered wind and pleasant scenery. He resolutely moved his family to Xidi in 1077. Farm the land, study, build houses, and multiply.