Hongcun, also known as Hong village. AD 1131, Hongcun ancestor WANG Yan-Ji because it was a fire blight, the whole family from the Yixian Qi Shu Village, along the River which, in the post Ray Hill to build 13 rooms for the home, is the beginning of Hongcun. WANG Yan-Ji at the entrance to the village to build Suiyang Pavilion, as a landmark in the village. With the feudal economic development, cultural prosperity, as the cradle of Neo-Confucianism in Huizhou has also reached its zenith. Out an official surnamed Wang ancestors, business operators greatly increased, they accumulated a lot of people's money, in order to glorify their ancestors, have to buy fields in his home town estates, building bridges and paving the way to form 1401-1620 years and 1796-1911 years, the building hongcun two peaks.
1403 -1,424 years, the Wang clan Wangsi Qi, Wang Sheng-ping his son, please, Mr. Feng Shui What up "reading over the mountains and rivers, set the trial context," use Western streams into the village, dig Baizhang water, irrigation, and expansion of about 1,000 square meters of marsh months. Since then more than 100 years, Hongcun population proliferated, construction-intensive. In 1607 the size of the patriarch Wang's 16 funds, to buy hundreds of acres of rice seedling bed, dig deep, dig holes Michimura Nanda, springs, caves, beaches Tiancheng circular pond, the formation of South Lake. Thus the formation of a complete village water system.
1425 -1596 years, more than 170 years, Hongcun to "east Turkestan Road system (Long row of Temple), Southern soil-water system (red Yang, ginkgo), Northern Territory homemade (Lei Fu-hazelnut forest) and the Western territories Buddha system ( Kuanyin Pavilion) For the outlet layout (feng shui barriers). construction of the Music Hall and Syria, Prince Edward Temple, justice court and other temples, Hongcun gradually formed a lineage, geographic aggregation clan surname of the residential colony.
1662 -1,911 years, Hongcun South Lake College, Shu-tang, 3-li Tang, Lok Yin-tang, and other large Chengzhi Church College, houses built one after another. During the late Qing and the Republic, with the weakening of Huizhou merchants, the disintegration of the feudal patriarchal clan system, Hongcun development are becoming increasingly slow.
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