Back to the late Qing Dynasty through the exploration of the wonderful architecture of ancient villages in Guangdong (Photos )

geographical coordinates:

banner Village is located southwest of the town of Sanshui District, Foshan City, northeast 28 km, Leping Town, 2 kilometers west. Top of the existing residential Qing Dynasty more than 200 pot between the ears, covers an area of ​​52,000 square meters, construction area of ​​14,000 square meters in Guangdong area was typical of comb-type layout, building neat and vertical and horizontal linking, each building are hard-top pan-ear gable , all residential uses" three two corridors" style, scientific and practical.

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banner Village late Qing Dynasty Admiral Zheng Shaozhong Guangdong were allowed to come home when built , is typical of Guangdong, Guangdong in the region's most unique architectural style of the Qing Dynasty village, is the study of important historical buildings Lingnan ancient cultural relics units. In 2003, the banner Village Zhouzhuang, Jiangsu, Shenzhen Pengcheng Village, a, was named the first batch of 22 state-level historical and cultural towns and villages, one in 2004 it was named the Guangdong Department of Culture, Guangdong Province, the first village. Currently, local governments to increase efforts to put the protection and restoration of ancient villages, the ancient village will soon renewed Lingnan new style.

Leping town from the north not far away, you can see the road beside an ancient brick village green, village alley staggered terraced rice paddies , through vertical and horizontal, shaped like a chessboard, mottled walls, rounded ears pot, rolling. This is known as Guangdong in the region's most unique architectural style of the Qing Dynasty of ancient villages - Village of the banner.

and Guangdong province, like many other ancient villages, banner Village has long gone past fame. As people's living standards improve, the original windows that open to a very small defense needs, lack of indoor lighting and humid houses, already can not meet people's daily needs, coupled with the proliferation of the tribe later, more than 200 houses have long been fit, since the late 1970s, had lived in the ancient villages of the people gradually move out.

Although the left, but did not go far, out of the villagers in the homestead built around the banner of Village East, West, South North four villages, and ancient villages or all the way across, or impermeable sea. Although the different villages to live, but the villagers still like to gather under the banner of the first village of the trees, or play cards, or Chuishui, or read newspapers, or just a sleep sitting in a daze, where, with what they miss , in the ancient village next door to the leisurely life.

This is where we met Bor, 84-year-old Zheng Yanqian old, initially, is his great-grandfather built the now people can see the next to the brilliant architecture. Village banner old house in the yard was born and raised, living a lifetime of Bor, although it moved out, but come back every day around the village, of visitors to come here to talk about the story, he became important part of life.

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banner Village dates back to the early Ming Dynasty, the founder of Bell surname and Zheng Xing moved to here to open the village settlement. The village water system was reportedly developed northeast of the village built next to the bridge pier, which is called Bridge Village. But now see once and aerial networks of waterways, and most of the villagers building was filled into the homestead. Been renamed the Village called the banner, and the small villages of the legendary history of the fortune, which is a key figure in the village Zhengxing sixth generation descendant of Zheng Shaozhong.

Born in Qing dynasty, fourteen years (AD 1834) and Zheng Shaozhong, formerly known as Venus, do word reference spring, because the" big mouth to accommodate boxing" and the appetite up to six or seven bowls, of a" big mouth Gold" nickname." Sandy Gold" feisty young woman, who missed killing a priest, in order to avoid the bureaucratic pursuit, joined under the banner name of Fuming peasant rebel army, the Qing Tongzhi year (1863) Qing siege," big mouth Kim" kill the rebel army leader allegiance of the Qing court, and renamed Zheng Shaozhong to show allegiance to the court.

has been involved in cleaning up the Taiping uprising Zhengshao Zhong won the Empress Dowager Cixi loved, all the way to cement, in 1894, and the sixtieth birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi in the same year Zheng Shaozhong also received the Empress's handwriting," shou" character. Given the rank of Admiral in Guangdong, plus Book titles Zheng Shaozhong Tenet, then the front of innovation in the Qing navy, he expanded, additional battery docks and naval base, purchase new ships built, navy recruiting, organizing militia, compiled draw charts. He also expanded the number of military factories and naval base.

Zheng Shaozhong of this history was later used in the form of comic book, vividly displayed in the village of General Wei Zheng family temple walls. Said Zheng Shaozhong buried in the village after the death of the tiger post to the southwest, from the village overlooking, Shaozhong tomb," such as banner floating exhibition" , so future generations to change the banner head for the Bridge Village, the village name still in use.

Bor told reporters that his great-grandfather Zheng Shaozhong construction now we see this piece of ancient buildings, or the Empress Dowager Cixi purpose and funding awarded . Empress Dowager Cixi heard courtiers living in the home there is no decent homes, the decreed allocation of payments required to build the state treasury. There is no need of local building stone, Zheng Shaozhong Humen on the use of guard, rebuilt Fort opportunities opened up two quarries in Humen, sharing more than 200 masons quarrying the night, came back by sea Sanshui. Construction process is not only labor-and time-consuming, it is said, only the construction of the" Book Section" spent several years, this estate includes Jianwei Hall, Peacock Hall, paid thinking floor, drawing room, study, lounge, bedroom, garden , temple, monkeys floor, pigeon houses, stables, etc., there is a sixty to seventy kilograms of grain can be loaded the big barn.

According to Bor introduced Zhengshao Zhong Cheng family was prepared for the village area where the overall reconstruction, due to the resistance of a long room branch , the final build of the key areas of focus in his own this one. All the other houses in the village towards the northeast - southwest and northwest - southeast direction, Zheng Shaozhong focus on the construction of buildings are positive towards the east-west, take the" Purple East to" meaning, he also built the first in the Book of Zheng Ancestral Hall The next show of its prominent position.

is not just Zhengshao Zhong, Cheng other tribe also further improved the building, eventually forming a dense village neat now. The banner of the first village covers an area of ​​more than 50,000 square meters, Bor said," great-grandfather married my wife of 11 rooms, 8 rooms grandfather married, her father has two rooms, a flourishing population." Today, the Village has become the banner of the best preserved in southern China, the most representative of the residential buildings of the Qing Dynasty. Been so well preserved, but also with Zheng Shaozhong related, it is said, built in the village after the first banner, Zheng Shaozhong has set the rules: people who live in big houses, converted houses are not free, they have sold 10 years to sell the village Zhengxing people.