Huizhou Notes on visit to Cuba
With the erosion of modern industrial civilization, the traditional handmade art is growing decline of the ancient legacy of hand-crafted boutique is also becoming more precious. Located in the foot of Huangshan, Huizhou Xin'anjiang the source of the world because it must preserve fine wood carvings, brick carvings and stone carvings as well as the towering horse wall Shenyou bluestone lane became Zhuimu traditional Chinese urban civilization, a land of pilgrimage, Huizhou Middle Kingdom is actively Shenping World Heritage Site, in the village for hundreds of years to silence left out of the bustling alleys are packed with tourists all day long.
Huizhou ancient times known as Xin, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Xinan merchants operating salt, pawn, bamboo tea industry, the accumulated wealth of the sea off a male. Ju Huan Canadian literati and wealthy craftsmen, cultivating the Olive Tree Huizhou culture, including Xinan Science, Science Park, Huizhou, Xin'an school of painting, engraving Huizhou, Huizhou architecture. ZHONG Ling Yuxiu Huizhou has become Jiangnan Lu Zou, cultural name state.
Huizhou set foot on land, white walls and cornices everywhere Daiwa volley of Huizhou houses, preservation of good can be said to Ming and Qing architecture and local art museum. The arch, House, ancestral hall, college, private gardens, exquisite doorway pane, luxury brackets and beams of the QT Gui Qi bracket, dazzling surprise. Over the unfamiliar ordinary Huizhou villages, may be deep with precious works of art of ancient buildings, and the present development of the most lively, most visitors, reputation is also the largest, should be the Yixian County of Xidi and Hongcun.
Xidi, because the ancient Huizhou Prefecture is located in the West, has set up Inn, "delivered by the shop" and named. Xidi village, established in the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Tang royal family is descended from the asylum after the retreat instead of the land given the surname Hu. Almost a thousand village history, poetry and literature Xidi people pass on from the examination and those layers of entering political stratum not be extinguished, in the peak of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi Qianlong Xidi village there are more than 600 blocks gorgeous house, spawned ten thousand. Ying-play tournament that year the shrine, the pomp extravagant generosity, so that the Quartet admiration.
Experienced the vicissitudes and calamities, the Xidi also survived the Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings house more than one hundred and twentieth. Entrance to the village to commemorate the Ming Dynasty, "glue Zhouci Shi, Jing Fan Prime Minister" Hu-ray imposing stone arch, this was built in the Wanli era has been 400 years ago Shihfang representative of the Ming Dynasty Huizhou St. Paul's well-preserved. For outsiders, the village's brick wall, horse seems to be particularly high, so high wall between the narrow village lane in particular seems to be particularly deep in the desolate in the rain, walking alone in this alley, would there be a rich and prosperous a sense of destiny after all mortal things. May be out of money rather than reveal rich and attention to defensive reasons, Huizhou old house apart from the wall is particularly high, rich family is also made with a special thick plank, into the house after the door closed, eyes open courtyard on the left the dark days of the weak light of the old hall, long narrow table placed on the left-right mirror bottles, Yue "benign," meaning, the whole quiet courtyard and the wall of the turbulence seems to struggle across the world into two. Huizhou dwellings there is "owned by Four Rivers Church," saying that the roof rain water through pipes around the pool in their own courtyard, take fertile water must not drain meaning, may also be a manifestation of Huizhou culture, bar. Xidi village, West Park, the prefect of the Department of Hu Qing Tao-kuang was built according to the garden, in addition to flowers, fish ponds, rockeries bonsai, stone a few stone bench, the most sophisticated is never a pair of three friends of winter pine, bamboo and stone leaking window, composition full, carving exquisite, is a valuable technique in Huizhou local relics.
Hongcun is located in Yixian County, north at 10 kilometers, Wang surname tribe in the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing years, moved here and should be widely developed PHILIP meaning, named Philip Village, also known as Hongcun. The ancients built the village pay attention to feng shui geomancy of the operation, the village water system design of scientific and practical man and has still to provide the essential daily lives of villagers washing water features. Hongcun Yishanbangshui is the famous cattle-shaped villages. Lei Kong mountains north of the village ox, Yushan Wang's clan in the village of West Creek stone check dams, diversion into the village, the dam shall be tongue. Ming Yongle, the village spring of living water by digging ponds expanded semilunar "Moon marsh" as cow stomach, then drilled 1000 meters in the village drainage channel, around the homes to wear households, is a cow intestines. Wanli, Red Beans Love imitation of the West Lake in Hangzhou in the village dug into the South Lake South for the tripe. Around the village of Yushan Creek on four wooden bridge as a neat's foot. Wang's clan After several centuries of unified planning and tireless efforts, and finally built for future generations, "Heaven and Man," a high degree of coordination with the natural environment of comfort to their homes.
The village "Chengzhi Church" as the late Qing Wang large salt merchants set your house, an area of grand, structure compact, the various types of wooden house, excluding Gongben, carving thin Lou, known as "folk Forbidden City." The door of the hall are carved on the beams is the "100 sub-Lantern Festival", 100 little boy, with dancing dragon, phoenix lamp, fish lamp, lion lamp, there are trumpet designated Han Chuan, there are pounding on drums and firecrackers, and there are hands clutching his ears, the screen is full of rich joy. The door is carved on the amount of beam is the "Tang Suzong Feast official map", a total of more than 30 officials, surrounded by four square table, or playing music, or chess or read a book or painting, behavior patterns vary, the right one servants are fan furnace burning tea, teapots still steaming on the left sat a Vicia squint of the minister, are allowed himself to dig cerumen. Back when making Chengzhi Wang's Hall, hundreds of thousands of silver consumption of two whole-house carpenter takes wood from 20 years be considered completed, is a wooden model of Huizhou. Church a few steps away from anything else away, is the Republic of South Lake Primary School WANG Xi-ray × ?ê ? "De Yi Tang," hall was built in Germany and Italy Jiaqing years, the area is small, but it is Hongcun design the most exquisite garden-style houses. Are grouped under a house front is a dark thing out two small gardens. East Garden, a water park in the middle of the square is an exquisite pool, a dark hole to introduce the channel wall of flowing water, the pool Pan raises flocks of red carp. The north is a small Chinese Room, inside the pavilion can accommodate 35 friends tea chat, temporary pools are people rely on for Guan Yu, pool home fish tanks, a few stones, bonsai and so on. What the garden wall chisel a hole on the window, the window bright peony cultivation, take "Elixir of Love" was intended. West Garden planted fruit, thick walls, on the southern Anhui Kiwi Panzhe old vine, two hundred years loquat tree flourish banana blocks out the sun, under a tree home stone table, stone stool, a friend visiting the countryside available for chess playing and All these designs revealing the owner of leisure hermit mentality and a strong taste of the literati.
Xidi and Hongcun exhumation from the foot of Huangshan Tunxi, collection of antiques of interest to friends, can not but take the Tunxi Old Street. Miles-long Street, a type brown stone road, row upon row of shops on both sides, there are hundreds of antique craft shops, porcelain, jade, bronzes, ancient books, wood carvings, stone carvings, brick carvings and y numismatica, dazzling, though filled with many counterfeit, but if you have good eyesight, maybe it would be a windfall.
Fujiya winter month in 2001
Author: ttzrb
