Chengkan, called Longxi in ancient times, is located at the southern foot of Huangshan Mountain, and its specific address is Chengkan Village, Huizhou District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Luo Tianzhen, Jiangxi Nanchang Prefecture, and Tang Zhi, Luo Tian, moved to Shexian. "They chose the land 40 miles northwest and renamed it Chengkan." The main architectural age of Chengkan ancient buildings is from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty.
Chengkan integrates pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, bridges, wells, shrines, societies and houses with different architectural styles. Stone carving, brick carving and wood carving bring the ancient, huge, beautiful and elegant Huizhou architectural art into full play here. Chengkan is the most concentrated, distinctive and ornamental architectural village in southern Anhui in China.
200 1, Chengkan village ancient buildings were approved by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Layout of Chengkan ancient town
The layout of the whole Chengkan Village is based on the eight diagrams geomantic theory of "the unity of Yin and Yang and the unity of man and nature" in the Book of Changes. Three streets and 99 lanes in the village are like a maze. It is the only village in China built according to the model of innate gossip, and it is also the oldest gossip village in China.
At the same time, the Gulongxi River in Chengkan village is like a jade belt, which runs through the whole village in an "S" shape from north to south, forming the dividing line of the eight diagrams of Yin and Yang fish; There are eight mountains around the village, which naturally form eight directions of gossip, and the isomorphism of * * * becomes a natural gossip layout. The ingenious layout of the integration of humanistic gossip and natural gossip makes Chengkan a great miracle in the history of Chinese ancient village construction. It has always been regarded as a treasure trove of geomantic omen in Huizhou. The profound theories of "Book of Changes, Eight Diagrams and Feng Shui" are mysteriously linked with human living environment, social harmony and rural housing construction.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chengkan Village Ancient Architecture Complex