Related attractions in Banliang Ancient Village
Every household in Banliang Village is connected by a stone road, which is more than 10 kilometers long. It is meant to bring the dragon spirit home. The villagers' houses may be poor, but the stone road is definitely good. Before everyone visits Rungong Hall, one of the three ancient temples in Banliang, the first thing to do is to look at Feng Shui. Feng shui is an ancient culture, and experts say that Banliang has the best feng shui. The most important thing in ancient Feng Shui is the orientation of the ground. Generally, you sit in the north facing south, and in the west facing east. However, in Banliang Ancient Village, you sit in the east facing west. It seems to be against the rules, but the four directions of the village are the green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the red bird in front, and the basalt behind. . You see, the ancient temple is backed by Xiangshan Mountain, with a broad outlook. There are strange peaks in the distance coming to pay tribute, and a beautiful table nearby to pay tribute. On the opposite side, there are three mountains lined up horizontally and three mountains lined up vertically. Laozi said: "Tao gives birth to one, and one gives birth to two. Two "Three, three give birth to all things." The four mountains form a circle, there is no canyon wind, there is no impact from the mountain, and the auspiciousness is peaceful and harmonious, so it is said that Banliang Fengshui is excellent.
The half-moon pond in front is called Mingtang, which corresponds to Feng Shui. It has a screen wall inside and a bright pond outside, which means "the mountains are prosperous and people are prosperous, but the water is prosperous and wealth is prosperous". Why should it be made into a semicircle? The ancestors of Banliang were well versed in Zhou Gong's etiquette and golden mean, and were well versed in the philosophy of "when the moon is full, it will lose, and when the water is full, it will prosper." Therefore, he warned his descendants to always be humble and tolerant and never be complacent. There is a small but peculiar building on the cliff of Elephant Trunk Mountain in the north of the village, named "Wangfu Tower". From the top of the building, you can see across the river and the end of the official road.
In Banliang Commercial Port, men often go out to do business by boat along the stream. He went up to Guangdong and down to Changsha, Jianghan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. My husband would go there for more than a month at least, and he would not be able to return for several months at most. The business journey was long and the risks were unpredictable. The women were worried and loved at home day and night, so they went to Longquan Temple early in the morning to burn incense and pray. In the evening, they went up to the cliff to watch closely, rain or shine.
The surging stream goes with the boat, and the sails return with little hope for the husband to come. Over time, the villagers called the cliff head Wangfu Terrace. Strange to say, businessmen can return home safely and make a lot of money despite the concern of their housewives. In order to thank the housewives for their concern and to provide shade and rain for the married women, merchants raised funds to build a tower-shaped building with a platform on Wangfu Tower, named it "Wangfu Tower". There is a house in Banliang. An independent unit, the Baby Care Bureau, as its name suggests, is a place where babies are raised. It has a history of 200 years and is the earliest private charity unit established by Banliang's ancestors.
The phenomenon of favoring boys over girls was very serious in the Liu clan at that time. There was no family planning at that time, and it became a common phenomenon for some families to give birth to baby girls. For the sake of the reputation of the Liu clan and in order to provide care for these abandoned babies, the clan members established a nursery bureau to adopt and care for babies. They also raised funds and allocated 1,000 acres as fixed assets. They collected rents to maintain the daily expenses of the nursery bureau. . Later, some families with many children took the initiative to send their baby girls to the infant care bureau, so there were no more abandoned babies in the Liu clan. The Infant Care Bureau has made countless contributions and still has certain enlightenment and reference significance for today's family planning. It is said that Liu Zifang, the founder of Banliang, came to the temple to offer incense and was surprised to see the road passing under the elephant trunk stone by the stream in front of the temple and the majestic mountains behind the temple. When he returned to Beijing, he asked the Earthly Immortal. The Earthly Immortal said: "The mountains are prosperous, the people are prosperous, the water is prosperous, and the wealth is prosperous. The civil servants want to get off their sedan chairs and the military attaches have to dismount their horses. This is a sign that officials live in a blessed place. Knowing this place means they are destined, so Zifang Gong moved from Yingpanli Village." Building a residence next to Longquan Temple has indeed brought prosperity to people and wealth. Over the past few hundred years, there have been more than 400 villages with the Liu surname and more than 80,000 people living in Banliang, including hundreds of officials in the past dynasties. There were Liu Changsong, the fourth-rank blue-collar general judge in the Qing Dynasty; Liu Shaofang, the fourth-rank Intermediate Court judge; Liu Shen, the guerrilla commander and senator in Huangpu; Liu Jin, the major general of the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force in Huangpu; Liu Longsheng, the contemporary major general, and so on. Huang Kecheng, the founding general of the People's Republic of China, successfully moved from the Banliang riot to the revolutionary road.
On February 3, 1928, Huang Kecheng came to Banliang and contacted the righteous Liu Chengao to organize villagers to raid the Kuomintang door-to-door group at the "Infant Care Bureau" in Banliang, and used outsmarting methods to entertain the door-to-door group. Without firing a shot, he eliminated 22 people including Wu Guobin, leader of the door-to-door regiment, and seized 18 guns and a batch of ammunition. He then followed the Hunan riot team to Jinggangshan. As a result, Banliang Village was killed in retaliation by the Kuomintang and many people died, making immortal contributions to the founding of New China. When you enter Banliang Farmhouse, the villagers will warmly prepare a bowl of soil black tea - Tu Chong Tea to entertain you. Drink bug tea for indigestion, drink bug tea for motion sickness, a bowl of bug tea, a bowl of bug tea can cure all diseases.
Chongzhi tea is fried from the buds of maple trees in the mountains. It is picked in spring and the process is kept secret. Each family has its own preparation method and can be consumed in the coming year. However, this tea is only called maple tea.
The real insect tea is maple tea that has been sealed for more than one year. After insect transformation, it turns into small dark green particles. It has a light fragrance and a mellow and sweet taste. The longer it is, the more fragrant and rich the medicinal effect is. better. It has special effects on travel fatigue, stiffness, swelling and pain, and gastrointestinal inflammation. Drinking two bowls of tea will have immediate effects and the disease will be cured. Banliang’s traditional home-cooked dishes are all spicy and red stir-fried. On weddings and weddings, when villagers serve wine and serve food, they call it "Ten Bowls of Meat". This is a legacy of hundreds of years of tradition. The ten bowls of dishes have fixed names, and the order in which each dish is served is fixed and very particular. Firecrackers must be set off when serving "yuanzi", and the host will no longer ask for wine when serving fish. Although the ingredients are the same, the taste depends on the chef's skills. The skills of the village chef are all passed down from ancestors, and their taste is far beyond that of a hotel.