Yujiacun is the birthplace of the direct descendants of Yu Qian, a politician and national hero of the Ming Dynasty. More than 95% of the village belongs to the Yu family. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian's eldest grandson Yu Youdao moved here from Jingxing Nanyu Village. It has been here for 24 generations, with more than 400 households and more than 1,600 people. According to available historical records, Yu Qian had a son, Yu Mian, and another adopted son, Yu Kang. Yu Mian had no children, and there is no way to verify this after Yu Kang. According to the elders in the village, after the ancestor Yu Qian was killed 500 years ago, his son fled to Nanyu Village outside Niangziguan at the junction of Hebei and Shanxi to live in seclusion. He later gave birth to three sons. During the Chenghua period, due to the pressure of life, Yu Qian's eldest grandson Yu Youdao moved to Yujia Village. Descendants of the Yu family still refer to this land chosen by their ancestors as the "Feng Shui Treasure Land".
I wonder if it is the guidance from the ancestors, but the "Feng Shui Treasure Land" is indeed effective. In the land where they "dwelled with wood and stone, and roamed with deer and hogs", the ancestors of the Yu family relied on their hard-working hands to cut mountains and stones for generations, and built houses for generations, building a well-planned, unique, rough and bold building. , a unique stone village. Today, 500 years later, Yujiacun has become a well-known Stone Village tourist area in Hebei Province. Walking on the path of Stone Village, you can see stone buildings, stone pavilions, stone houses, stone courtyards, stone tables and stone benches everywhere. The farmhouses are built according to the situation, and "work at sunrise and rest at sunset" is still the basic life pattern of the villagers in Shitou Village.
The Qingliang Pavilion in the east of the village is the landmark building of Stone Village. Such a tall building does not need to lay a foundation or fill in auxiliary materials. It is based on a natural stone base and is completely built from bottom to top by dry base. According to the analysis of experts accompanying the tracing team, such a building should have been built during the Ming Dynasty.