Historical relics of Wanjia Village

Liang manor is located in Wanjiazhuang, Gaocun town. It is a mansion built by Liang Jia, the richest man in Wendeng in Qing Dynasty. Liang Aihan, the founder of the manor, was the governor of Shanxi and Yunnan during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Daoguang period, Liang Ehan (now a native of Mengjiazhuang, Huancui District, Weihai City) retired and returned to his hometown. When passing through Wanjiazhuang, the accompanying Mr. Feng Shui advised him to choose this place to live. In the seventeenth year of Daoguang (1837), Liang Ehan moved here from Mengjiazhuang, Rongcheng, and built the famous Liang Manor in the village. In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), in order to expand the scale of the manor, subsequent people bought a lot of land many times and built a lot of buildings year after year. It was built by the Liang family for generations and completed in the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925). The manor covers an area of 100 mu, with more than 1000 rooms, including buildings, tile houses, escort rooms and tenant houses. It became the largest bureaucratic landlord manor in Wendeng, Rongcheng, Weihai and Mu Ping at that time. By the time of the land reform in 1946, Liang's family occupied an area of more than 32,000 mu, built nearly 20 warehouses, and collected more than 50,000 liters of land rent annually. There are more than 20 companies, oil mills and pharmacies.

The manor is a group building with clear wood and masonry structure. Liang Yusheng is an official in Yunnan and Shanxi. The architecture of Liang Manor concentrates on the styles of Jiaodong, western Yunnan and Jinzhong, and absorbs the characteristics of quadrangles and military fortresses in the north. Among them, the main house embodies the characteristics of Jiaodong area, and the roof, tiles, doors, windows and walls are all Jiaodong style. The roof of the house in Jiaodong is ridged, with isosceles triangles on both sides of the gable head, and the gable heads in Jinzhong and western Yunnan are round or semicircular. It is rare for a manor to present three architectural styles. It is a specimen of China residential buildings in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Liang's house is in the middle, and the firm, long workshop, tenant house and barn are located on the east and west sides respectively. There are five buildings in front, each with 9 rooms. The five main rooms in the west are tall, the four in the east are companion rooms with gates and aisles in the middle, a gatehouse (reception room) in the east and four small warehouses in the east. Go through the first aisle, in front of which are the instrument door and the side door, turn right to the north for the alley and lead to the courtyard. The second main building has five living rooms, four small study rooms in the east and guest rooms in the east and west compartments. On the third floor, there are five main rooms, high and wide, with rafters in the front and back, where the elders live, four in the east are grain and rice warehouses, the east is a small kitchen, and the west is the maid's residence. Five rooms on the fourth floor are the daughter-in-law's residence, four rooms on the east are the mill, and two rooms are the daughter-in-law's warehouse. Five rooms on the fifth floor are granddaughter's residence, four rooms on the east are warehouses, and the east and west hatchbacks are granddaughter's clothing warehouses.

There are fish ponds, vegetable gardens and pigsty in the manor; There are three east-west streets and six gates; Forks and tunnels are all patterns made of pebbles or bricks. There is a 3-meter-high fence around the manor, and six turrets are built in the four corners and east and west sides; Dig a river outside the east and west walls to protect the village, which is called "sedan chair carrying pole river". There are three east-west streets and six gates in the village, which are guarded by special personnel.

From 65438 to 0947, during the land reform, the Liang clan in the manor was moved to the poor farm labourers in Wen and Rong counties, and more than 40 poor farm labourers in the two counties were moved to the south row of the manor. Shiwendeng County Hall is located in Wanjia Village, with two rows in the north as the armory and grain depot of the county hall. After the explosion of the armory, it was seriously damaged and rebuilt many times, but the old appearance remained few. There is Aliangjia Temple in the southeast of the original manor, with 20 rooms/kloc-0, which was demolished in 1964.

The former Liang Manor is now the residence of villagers. The existing buildings are basically brick and wood structures, and they are all frames with blue bricks and white lines and white columns. They are well-made and simple in shape. The doors of many houses still remain the same, with carvings and antique knockers on the lintels. The majesty and reserve of the former high officials and tycoons still remain in the solemn and heavy style. Pavilions, pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings are all gone, and we can only infer the grandeur and luxury of Liang's manor from several scattered and orderly quadrangles. The overall layout of the existing Liang's manor house group has been divided into two by a new road in the village, which has destroyed the original manor layout, but it is still possible to vaguely distinguish the east and west streets from the original style.