Dalu Village, located in Fozi Town, Lingshan, Qinzhou City, Guangxi, is famous for its ancient architecture, ancient culture and ancient trees. It is one of the three ancient villages and towns in Guangxi, enjoying the reputation of "the first village of Guangxi couplets", "the famous village of Chinese history and culture", "the most beautiful ancient village in China" and "the national civilized village".
Entering Dalu Village, the first thing you see is an ancient village building with Lingnan characteristics. It is built on a slope, with a fish pond in front and a undulating roof. It is one of the most well-preserved Ming and Qing residential buildings in Guangxi. Each community adopts the form of external circulation, especially the eaves gallery of Dongyuan villa is vertical and horizontal, tortuous, like a maze.
A small village has a folk culture that has been deposited for hundreds of years, antique buildings, fantastic carved beams and painted buildings, and ancient plaques hanging high in the hall ... Every door, window, brick and tile in the yard gives people a sense of history.
Historical review:
Dalu village was originally a barren land full of reeds, and people began to smoke in the middle of15th century. Their ancestors can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. Because of the meritorious service in jointly developing Lingnan with the King of South Vietnam, he was given the surname Lao.
In the Song Dynasty, a man named Lao Wei was appointed as a county magistrate in Guangdong, and his family moved to Nanhai County until the reign of Xianchun. Later, Yu Qing appointed Lingshan scholar and moved to Tanxu. In the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing successively built three halls, Shuangqing Hall and Dongyuan Villa.
After the development of the old ancestors, by the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it had developed from the initial reeds to a large village with fifteen surnames, and named it Panlongtang, Cunninghamia lanceolata Garden, Chen Zhuo Garden, etc. According to the topographic signs of the product or its construction site. In order to make the younger generation not forget the hardships of starting a business that year, the village was named Dalu Village.
The old ancestors paid attention to the pattern of geomantic omen, and from the construction of the first ancient house, they tried to create a harmonious atmosphere with the surrounding environment. In the construction of houses, we should not only consider mountains and rivers, but also consider the harmony between heaven, earth, people and environment.
The complementarity of the five elements is also considered. If there is no pool in front of the house, artificially dig the pond to store water. If there is no mountain behind the house, plant trees to build mountains, thus forming a treasure house of geomantic omen with its back against the green hills and facing the green water.