According to Wuyi County Chronicles, the history of Guodong Village can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. From the He family tree, it is known that Guodong Village developed in the Yuan Dynasty. In the 10th year of Yuan Zhizheng (AD 1350), He Shouzhi, a descendant of Wuyi, went to the mountain to visit his grandmother who lived in Guodong Village. He saw thousands of green peaks, towering ancient trees, double streams of green water, and strange peaks. He Shouzhi never wanted to return. , suddenly the idea of ????relocating was born. Later, with the consent of his grandfather who was the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Administrative Department, his grandfather who served in the army in the imperial court, and his parents, he went to Guodong to build a house and buy property. Since then, for more than 640 years, the He family has continued to have descendants, and now has nearly 2,000 descendants, becoming a famous and famous family in Guodong. What makes the people of Guodong proud and talk about it is that their ancestors have numerous talents. Starting from He Zhizhong, the prime minister of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, they have been scholarly for generations. In the Ming and Qing dynasties alone, there were 10 tribute students, 14 Zengguang students, and Zhenshan students. 10, and 114 scholars from prefectures and counties. There is such a gathering of talents in Danwanshan Village. The people of Guodong in the old days attributed this to Feng Shui.
The topography of Guodong is indeed unique. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, like a blessed land. Shuangxi Convergence, Innate Spirituality. It is rare to have a flat land in the north, and there are green mountains on the left and right in the distance, which just fits the saying of "lion and elephant guard the door". The confluence of the two streams flows around the village along the west mountain, so a Huilong Bridge was built across the stream, tightly wrapping the Feng Shui of this treasure land. There is another legend about this building with the longest history in Guodong, which was built in the Yuan Dynasty. Huilong Bridge was originally called Shihong. The ancestors warned that Shihong could not collapse. "Since the bridge is broken, troubles occur frequently in the village. The four people are unemployed, suffering from disasters every year, and unable to survive.” There are also those who have physical skills who say that "the bridge is like a Genxiang. It rushes downwards and rushes upwards. It is not conducive to the palace to relax the bow from west to east." "Dragon Returns Qi Gathering" So the villagers focused on the favorable location and the hexagrams, and chose the location to build the bridge. Since then, the bridge has been destroyed and repaired, and then repaired and destroyed. During the Qianlong period, this became more beautiful. Ten miles away in Shicanngling, the tower on the north mountain and the Huilong Bridge are almost in a straight line, which shows that the ancients took great pains to create the Feng Shui situation. Any place, no matter how exquisite it is, will always lack aftertaste if it has no cultural connotation and cannot appreciate the cultural landscape. Guodong is attractive because it has a large area of ??ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although the rich and wealthy families have deep courtyards, the village houses are complete and well-preserved. It can be said to be an architectural chronicle from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. The simple and generous Ming Dynasty pillars and the finely carved Qing Dynasty corbels are inspired by Western style.
There are many doors and windows influenced by the Republic of China. What is of great interest is the overall layout of Guodong. Guodong consists of two connected parts, Guoshang Village and Guoxia Village. The roads are criss-crossed and paved with pebbles, and are suitable for rain or shine. There are 6 wells, half in the upper part of Guo and half in the lower part of Guo. The public facilities include a temple and four halls, which are distributed in the upper, middle and lower parts of the village. Villagers' sacrifices, weddings and weddings and other activities can be held nearby. The most noteworthy building among the buildings is the He Family Ancestral Hall, which was built in the 37th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1609). It is magnificent in scale and solemn, with a total area of ??1060 square meters, a beam height of 4.64 meters, and a Shensu Hall. 30 plaques were hung. Had it not been damaged during the Cultural Revolution, there would have been as many as 94 plaques. There is also a simple and elegant ancient stage of 36 square meters in the temple, with cornices and brilliant murals. On every important festival, the stage is full of gongs and drums, and the stage is packed with people, making it very lively.
Although Guodong is located deep in the mountains, education has been advocated from generation to generation and children are not determined to study and serve the motherland. This has become one of the folk customs of Guodong. More than 400 years ago, the 8th generation ancestor Jing Shanggong founded the private school "Xiaozhuzhai" in Guodong. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the school was expanded and renamed "Fengchi Academy" and a reading song was written: "One generation has a great scholarly atmosphere, but no one can continue it for ten generations. If the books are not read, the ancestral rituals are thin, even if there are children and grandchildren, they are all mediocre." It has been passed down from generation to generation. It is a pity that the original site of the academy has been destroyed and a new school has been built. Guodong people not only studied literature, but also practiced martial arts. A martial arts hall was built in the village. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were 114 scholars in the village, 35 of whom were martial arts scholars, and there was also a martial arts examiner. Most ancient villages have a "water mouth". Literally, it seems to be a place where streams converge, but it is actually a checkpoint that keeps foreign enemies away from the entrance of the village. There is a 5-meter-high solid city wall outside the bridge, and a road passes through it. In the old days, all villagers entered and exited through the city gate. There is a couplet carved in stone on the city gate: "The scenery outside Guo is ancient, and the sun and moon are long in the cave." The horizontal inscription is "Shuangquan Guli".
Shuikou can be said to be the place where Guodong’s soul is recorded, and outsiders come here. Most of them will be deeply affected and in awe. The Guodong people are knowledgeable in books, etiquette and martial arts, and are very patriotic. There is a record in Wuyi County: "In February of the fifth year of Shunzhi, Shankou City killed Liu Jiaqi, the county magistrate." This is the Guodong people's ambition to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and they were dissatisfied with the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. righteous deed.
Afterwards, the imperial court was furious and mobilized heavy troops to encircle Guodong. In order to protect the people of Guodong, Zhou Leize, who was in charge of Jin, Qu, and Yan Daotai at that time, lied that he had to pass through "thousands of miles of stone cang ridge, hundreds of miles of heavy loads, and five miles of big rocks" on the way. "People have to turn sideways, and horses have to have their bones broken." Only then can you enter the village. The Qing army was timid and retreated. Later, the imperial court finally found out the truth and skinned Zhou Daotai's mercury initiation. In order to commemorate this eternal benefactor, the villagers of Guodong made a colorful statue of Zhou Leize in the Xiazhao Temple outside the village, and placed his memorial tablet in the Wenchang Pavilion at the east end of Huilong Bridge to offer sacrifices every year. Wandering by the clear stream in Shuikou, walking alone under the towering ancient trees of Longshan, taking a sip of the treasure spring that has never dried up for a century, reading the beautiful texts of Hailin Courtyard and Wenchang Pavilion, watching the undulating pines and rushing rain clouds, your heart will also It will then sink into history, and your imagination will wander.