I have a habit of searching online before I go to a place I have never been to. I saw an aerial bird's eye view on the internet, and the aerial photo was spectacular!
Unexpectedly, this stone village in Lufeng has a long history. Located in Daan Town, Lufeng City, Shanwei. Founded in the Tang Dynasty, it has a history of 1000 years. It was built at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it has a large scale. It has not suffered from large-scale natural and man-made disasters for hundreds of years. At present, it is also the only famous Chinese historical and cultural village in Shanwei.
In autumn in Guangdong, the air is crisp and the temperature is as high as 35 or 6 degrees. When we arrived at Shizhai, the time was just around 1:30 in the afternoon, and the sun was high in the sky, baking beyond description. At this time, the building was just overhead, so the effect was not very good. Another regret is that there was something wrong with my drone, so I took it back to DJI for maintenance and lost a very good aerial photography opportunity!
Shizhai Village, with a history of 1000 years, is the place where people of Huang's surname live. Shizhai people went to Shizhai to establish their inheritance during the Chongzhen period in the late Ming Dynasty (164 1). From the site selection of Shizhai Village, it can be seen that the ancestors of Shizhai were very particular about "Feng Shui". East-west trend, built on the mountain. It has distinctive ancient agricultural civilization and Lingnan regional cultural characteristics. From the overall pattern of the building to the security and defense settings, Shizhai Village is a miracle.
According to the villagers, the perimeter of Shizhai wall is about 700 meters and the height is 10 meter. The foundation part is built by south slate and is 3 meters high. The upper part of building materials is compacted with concrete. The wall is 4 meters wide and divided into internal and external walls of more than 3 meters. There is a 2-meter-wide path between the inner and outer walls. In order to prevent foreign invasion, the walls of Gundam Changyu are covered with ancient mottled gray and black, which are used for defense and external shooting.
Shizhai is divided into east, west, north and south gates, and there are walled castles on both sides 40 meters away from the city gate. Self-growing grass hangs poetically on the wall, which not only makes the mottled and vicissitudes of the wall show green vitality, but also plays a protective role. This is the secret that the wall is not old for hundreds of years.
Walking into the gate of Shizhai, the first thing you see is an ancestral temple building, the Huang Family Temple. At first, there were many surnames in Shizhai, such as Shi, Chen, Xie and Huang, which probably moved in at the end of Ming Dynasty. Later, all surnames moved out one after another, leaving only one surname, Huang, who spoke Minnan dialect.
The main building of the ancestral hall is centered on a hall with three entrances, and two "nine classrooms" are vertically arranged on both sides of the main building, separated from the main seat by a "fire alley", and the outermost side is surrounded by a "fire alley" and a row of houses, making it a huge independent unit.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, pirates were rampant in land and sea areas. This shows that no Japanese pirates dare to attack and besiege Fubian New Village. The building in the village is centered on Huang Ancestral Hall, with a five-horse trailer, an open square in front and two "nine-room buildings" in the back. Each building has two floors and nine rooms. The "eight-room building" on the left and right sides of the ancestral hall is protected horizontally, and there are two open spaces between it and the "nine-room building", which are called "longan". The residential buildings built around the village are surrounded by fences, forming a huge building complex.
Throughout all the buildings in the village, there are mutual calls and responses, including convergence, size, primary and secondary, internal and external, which are combined into an organic whole, forming a magnificent momentum, gathering without chaos, separating without dispersion, changing regularly and orderly, showing a group harmony and balance.
The villagers proudly introduced: "The original walled village has three more floors than it is now. When the village was built, the grandmother proposed to build three more floors, saying that it was left for future generations to tear down. After liberation, the superior ordered the demolition of the village wall, and the village organized young people to tear down three floors with shovels. In the end, they had to give up because the wall was really strong. "
Seeing my friend's aerial photos, I was amazed at the strange and rare terrain in Shizhai Village. I saw the ancient Shizhai City located on a hill, shaped like a lion, protruding from a flat valley in Fiona Fang. The word "Shicheng" is written on the city gate. The city is about ten meters high and built on a mountain. It is magnificent, like a silver ring hanging around the neck of a lion. Shizhai people once described it like this: "There are lake waves in front of the city, and the mountains outside the lake are like kettles, which is awe-inspiring; Surrounded by mountains and peaks, it is graceful and elegant, just thanking the children for their arrangement; There are dense trees outside the city, and there are hundreds of exotic flowers and grasses. Birds are chirping and making noise, so it's very lively. It's birds and flowers, and the four seasons are in Yichun. Being in Shizhai is like entering Taoyuan Wonderland. "