Later, descendants multiplied, forming such a big house yard with uneven pavilions, vertical and horizontal roads, roof connected to roof and patio followed by patio. The descendants of the Zhang family named their residence Zhangguying Village after their ancestors.
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Zhangguying Village belongs to Zhangguying Town, Yueyang County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, and is located at the foot of Bidong Bijia Mountain in the east of Yueyang County. Experts believe that Zhangguying Village is called "the first village in the world" because of its large scale, unique architectural style and beautiful architectural art. It has a history of more than 500 years. More than 1700 Ming and Qing buildings have been preserved.
According to legend, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi Zhang traveled to Weidong along the shogunate Shanxi, saw a basin surrounded by mountains and with beautiful natural environment, and suddenly had the idea of settling here. Zhang is a master of Feng Shui. After careful investigation, he chose this homestead, so he built many buildings and prospered, hence the name Zhangguying Village.
Zhangguying Village has gone through many vicissitudes and basically retained its original appearance. There are three relatively complete doorways: going to the new building, being the door and Panjiachong. Each connected doorway with different specifications is composed of four entrances, such as hall, auditorium, ancestral hall and back hall, and three patios formed by wing rooms and wing rooms.
Looking down from the roof, the whole building of Zhangguying Village has become countless "wells". There are cloisters on both sides of the main hall, and the patios are patchwork and neat, supplemented by blue bricks and granite.
Zhangguying village is located at the foot of the dragon-shaped mountain in the east of Yueyang County, with a half-moon distribution. There are four peaks in the southeast and northwest-Xufeng Mountain, Bijia Mountain, Taohua Mountain and Dafeng Mountain. These peaks surround a hill in the middle. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and the Weixi River runs through the village.
According to the traditional concept of "water is the first priority" and "mountain is the potential", the old house is both "beside the mountain and water" and "surrounded by a golden belt", which accords with the understanding of landscape in China's traditional survival geomantic omen. There is no doubt that Zhang is an ancient name, that is, the ancestor of Zhang who moved from Jiangxi to Yueyang, Hunan. He lived in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. With the passage of time, people's names have gradually changed. ?
All the residents of Zhangguying Village are descendants of Zhang. Now there are more than 600 households with more than 2,000 people living in this village. This single-family village with the same surname of Han nationality has remained so pure after more than 600 years, which is rare in China.
Walking into Zhangguying Village, you seem to feel that history seems closer to us, while reality seems farther away from us. This may be the greatest value of Zhangguying Village. The origin of this Gu Yinggong comes from a beautiful legend. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, three people came to Hunan from Jiangxi to live in seclusion at the same time.
One is Li Qianjin, and the other is Zhang. When they lived in seclusion here, they gave Gu Yinggong the task of choosing Feng Shui, because Gu Yinggong was the only one among them who knew Feng Shui. I walked a long way when I chose the land of geomantic omen.
However, in the end, in Weidong Mountain area, in a Weidong Mountain area in Hunan Province, three feng shui treasures were discovered, one is called prosperous population, the other is called Lushi Goldman Sachs, and the other is called Four Seasons Wealth.
Liu Wanfu picked a piece of Four Seasons himself to make a fortune. Since he lived in it, his descendants have really made a fortune, and financial resources have been rolling in; Li Qianjin chose a promotion. Since he moved in, his descendants' positions have become bigger and bigger, and now they have gradually moved away. Zhang chose the one with a rich population. Since then, houses in Zhangguying Village have been continuously built to meet the needs of population reproduction.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhangguying Village