Outsiders think the name of "Zengcheng, Guangzhou" is very strange.
"Zengcheng is a city under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou" is also strange.
There is a city in the city, and there is a city in the city-the city under the city governs the city.
There is a Baicheng city in the northeast corner, but it is a prefecture-level city, and its name is certainly not as strange as Zengcheng. People seriously call it-Baicheng City, Jilin Province.
Back to Zengcheng.
Zengcheng, a county established in the sixth year of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 20 1 year), belongs to Nanhai County. Nanhai county was originally under the jurisdiction of 66 counties, and the newly established county plus one (county) city was called "Zengcheng".
There is Xintang Town under Zengcheng, and there are five ancient scenes in Xintang Town: Ningyuan Building, Zhanhuaide Temple, Zhanhengyun Tomb, Ancient Sea Relics and Tianxia Scholar Temple.
Ningyuan Building is located in Gualing Village, where we are going today.
Later, Zengcheng County was restructured into a county-level city, so it was called "Zengcheng City, Guangzhou", and its subordinates still governed Xintang Town-Gualing Village.
PS: Please don't be confused. This "Gualing Village, Xintang Town, Zengcheng City, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province" is not that "Watermelon Ling Village, Licheng Street, Zengcheng City, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province". Although both are in Zengcheng, the two villages are about 20 kilometers apart.
I know there are eight scenic spots in Xigualing Village of Licheng Street: Xiangyun in Yanshi, silver moon in Longchi, Chunbo in Arch Bridge, Wen Lan in Qushui, Tonggu in Jingchuan, Wang Yang in King Snake, Cold Spring in Zhu Jin and Table Stone in Daling.
And this Gualing village has only "one scene": Ningyuan Building.
Why don't we have eight views together? You need to see it.
A few years ago, after the east section of Guangyuan Expressway was opened to traffic, Gualing Village was on the first-class roadside leading directly to Guangzhou.
Starting from guangzhou east railway station today, we will drive eastward from Guangyuan Expressway. It took us an hour to reach the north intersection of Xinsha Avenue under the viaduct.
Where is the village road in Gualing Village?
We turned back and forth three times on Xinsha Avenue and Baishi Road. After more than ten minutes, we couldn't find the intersection into Gualing Village. Where is it? Where is it?
Our original Chrysler Cirrus consumes a lot of oil, so I can't bear to let it run back and forth to burn engine oil, so please always follow the motorcycle boy who is dangling behind our car to lead the way-he put away his sly eyes and said firmly, "Pick up mosquitoes, humble yourself first!" "
Pick up the RMB and give it first. The cost of gasoline for finding a way has already exceeded ten yuan.
The motorcycle boy leading the way turned around and got into a dirt road that turned right near the viaduct.
My horse, in 10 seconds, I saw the road sign of Gualing Village put down by the dirt road.
Then, in 30 seconds, I drove into Gualing Village!
I immediately realized that Gualing Village was actually very easy to find. If you are from Guangzhou, turn left from Guangyuan Expressway to Xinsha exit, cross the viaduct, pull over and turn to the first road on the right.
Looking back at that guy, he turned to smile at us and rode his motorcycle back to the highway.
You are as clever as a thief.
Why is Gualing Village called Gualing?
In the Ming Dynasty, it was found that the land and climate here were suitable for growing watermelons, so melon farmers from all over the country came to plant melons, set up sheds to see melons, sold melons with cameras and continued to grow melons.
Everything comes to him who waits, and the watermelon business is good. Watermelon people settled in villages and were called "Gualing" by the four townships.
Gualing Village was founded in the early years of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1465).
Gualing Village, with a history of 544 years, is a desert land (what it looks like).
When I came to explore today, I was the only one waving and it was very quiet.
At first impression, there was a slight mosquito bite, but there was no dog barking.
The second impression is that the village is quiet and clean, half new and half old.
The third impression is that the river is silted and the watchtower is stable.
When I entered the village, I stepped on the village road with blue bricks and mud stones, looked at the village scene where the watchtower and ancestral hall met, scolded about ten mud stone lanes, and commented that more than 200 old and new houses were interlaced into a military chessboard ... beautiful women followed.
Through the village, there are ancestral temples with beams and arches, private schools with brick carvings and gray carvings, houses with blue bricks and tiles, patched dilapidated house walls, roofs with swaying hedges, alleys connecting streets, and lush ancient banyan trees ... Miracles followed.
The widest street in the village is called "old street" by the villagers.
All the ancient buildings in the old street face east. Those buildings, such as Luofeng Huanggong Temple, Aixian Huanggong Temple, Zhuangyi Huanggong Temple, Shengkuang Huanggong Temple, Sifang Huanggong Temple and Guoming Huanggong Temple, seem to line up in the parade. We look to the left and move forward.
The main ancestral hall is "Gaosong Huanggong Temple", and its subordinate ancestral halls are dedicated to ancestors of different branches. There are eight ancestral halls, mostly in the form of two entrances.
The largest ancestral temple is the four-room Huanggong Temple, which is arranged in three steps.
Although this ancestral temple of Ming and Qing dynasties has been baptized for hundreds of years, it still looks simple and dignified.
By the way, Qingtouzai's people may not know what their name is "Luofeng Huanggong Temple". It's simple. Just read it backwards: Huangluofeng Gonggong Temple, Huangaixian Gonggong Temple, Huang Zhuang Gong Yi Temple, Huangshengkuang Gonggong Temple, Huangsifang Gonggong Temple, Huangmingguo Gonggong Temple ..., OK?
The ancestral hall is a snail's ear wall with Lingnan characteristics, and the carved design on the beam shows the mellow Cantonese carving skills.
Looking in from the outside of the ancestral temple, there are incense in several places.
A little further along the river road, there is a small Beidi Temple, which was built during the Qianlong period.
And that, the watchtower next to the trench, is the famous "Ningyuan Building". It is equivalent to the height of nine floors now.
Of course, it used to guard not the small ditch in front of us, but the water-based artery in the village by the bay.
The former Ningyuan Building stands in a river with a water depth of about five meters, with a height of 2 1 meter and a width of 5.2 meters.
Ningyuan building is very different from my grandmother's 41 tower. The building structure is large and small, and the facade is quite practical.
This watchtower is divided into four floors, equipped with iron spiral stairs, which can climb from the first floor to the fourth floor. There are four corners above the third floor, so it is called "Four Corners Watchtower" by the villagers.
There is a small bunker in every corner of the building, and there is an inverted cone hole outside its wall, which is about 2 meters high and can accommodate three people to stand and shoot with guns.
The building is fully functional, with a watchtower, machine gun muzzle, gun muzzle and gun rack moving track, as well as fresh water wells and toilets, as well as sound holes leading from the rooftop to each floor.
In the old days (Cantonese: formerly, the old society), the guard river around the village could pull up the suspension bridge connected with the river bank, making the watchtower easier to defend than to attack.
In the middle of the first floor of the tower, there is a stone tablet embedded in the wall, which records the history of the building.
In order to protect the villagers, overseas Chinese led by Huang Tianhui donated money to build the "Ningyuan Building" at 1929, praying for the villagers in Gualing to live a quiet and far-reaching life.
According to local officials, Ningyuan Tower is the only floating tower in Guangzhou, and it is the strangest and strongest tower building found in Guangzhou at present.
If the "Ningyuan Building" is the guard of the water whistle, then the "Tangyin Building" guarding the village is the Royal Guards.
19 19, bandits and soldiers from all over the country ran amok in the four townships of Zengcheng, robbing money and bullying women, and the government repeatedly banned them. A gang of bandits once rushed into Gualing village and kidnapped 36 relatives of overseas Chinese.
1928, overseas Chinese in our village jointly donated money to build Ningyuan Building on the Guardian River and Tangyin Building in the middle of the village.
During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, "the two watchtowers also shouldered the heavy responsibility of resisting Japanese aggression, and now there are still clear bullet marks on the poles of the two watchtowers, silently telling the history of resisting robbers".
Walk across a stone bridge connecting the two banks.
This is the "Dongan Bridge" built in the 1980s.
In ancient times, a long time ago, in Gualing, Shui Bo, villagers rowed boats and went out to farm and graze through criss-crossing water networks every day.
After the completion of Dongan Bridge, the villagers ended the "nurturing era" of crossing the river every day since ancient times.
In the past, the villagers were proud of the crystal clear water of the river.
Nowadays, the sparkling scenery and clear river bend no longer exist.
Men, women and children go to the river to catch shrimp, which was once a recreational activity for villagers.
The villagers said that since the bleaching and dyeing factory and electroplating factory were built in the upper reaches of the river in the mid-1980s, the rural appearance of Qinghe Yule is gone forever.
Standing on the stone bridge, looking at the litchi forest that has flourished on the other side for more than a hundred years, I feel happy:
Tuantuan litchi forest often leaves manuscripts; I don't know the end of the paper, but I didn't stop my paper (He He Sentence).
On the other side of Hedong, dormant dragon boats are parked in two branches respectively.
It is said that before the Dragon Boat Festival every year, the village will "drive a dragon boat" and row a dragon boat along the river. After practicing a few hands, the able-bodied men will compete with the dragon boats in the villages.
"Dragon Boat Rowing" is an important activity in Lingnan Water Town, so there are detailed records of dragon boats in the village history.
There were three dragon boats in the village before liberation.
After liberation, three new dragon boats were built.
Dragon boats usually stop in mud ponds on the shore and wait for the battle.
The first day of May before the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival for the whole village-boating.
These days, our village will compete with other villages for dragon boat races. Inviting other villages to visit is called "inviting scenery", and visiting other villages is called "borrowing scenery"
On the day of "Zhao Jing", on the gatehouse in front of the village, villagers were dressed in red and hung with green flags. Colorful flags fluttered along the banks of the river, and gongs and drums were loud. People outside the village flocked to the coast from all directions to watch the dragon boat show.
There are three treasures in Gualing Village-the ancient village of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the only floating tower in Guangzhou, and Guazhou Primary School in the same period as the Revolution of 1911.
When Guazhou Primary School was founded, Lin Sen, Sun Ke, Yu Youren and other important officials and generals of the Republic of China wrote inscriptions for it.
This is a cultural relic of great historical and cultural value in the village, but unfortunately no one teaches it. "Many wild places (Cantonese: many things) have been lost."
Gualing Village is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Xintang Town.
Around A.D. 1856, local villagers took a three-masted boat to make a living overseas and joined the gold rush in the United States.
In 1930s and 1940s, a large number of villagers "went to Japan" (avoiding the Japanese army) to make a living in New Zealand and other places in the southern hemisphere.
So although there are only more than 600 people in the village, there are 2000 overseas Chinese living abroad.
Most overseas Chinese in Gualing settled in New Zealand and Australia, and a few settled in the United States and Canada.
"Among these overseas Chinese, there are those who followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolution and served as the county magistrate of Zengcheng County, who were elected as the secretary-general of the New China Friendship Association, Huang, the overseas Chinese leader of San Francisco, USA, and outstanding scientists, educators and entrepreneurs ... They are full of patriotism and love for their hometown, and have long supported the education and construction of their hometown, adding a stronger humanistic color to Xiaogualing (The Fifth Series of Zengcheng Literature and History, 2000)
The above-mentioned Huang Guomin was an expatriate of Gualing Village who had an intersection with Sun Yat-sen, and Huang Guomin was one of the five outstanding figures in Xintang Town during the Republic of China.
At that time, Huang Guomin and his father and brother grew up together in New Zealand. When he was young, he was influenced by Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary thought. After becoming party member of the Kuomintang, he changed his name to Huang Guomin and launched overseas Chinese to actively participate in the anti-imperialist and anti-Qing movement (good boy! )。
Because of his outstanding performance, Sun Yat-sen ordered him to be the minister of Wellington Port Branch of China Kuomintang in New Zealand in 19 14. He also mobilized 427 Chinese in New Zealand to donate money to support the "yuan struggle" and continued to contribute to supporting the democratic revolution (he became a revolutionary cadre).
When Sun Yat-sen took office as interim president, Huang Guomin was recalled to participate in political construction and was appointed as the first county magistrate of Zengcheng County, Guangdong Province.
After returning home, Huang Guomin brought "Zengcheng Nianguo" from his hometown to pay a New Year call to Sun Yat-sen (God, don't bring too much, too much is a bribe).
In the year of the Revolution of 1911, Huang Guomin also actively supported his brother to establish Guazhou Primary School in Gualing Village and set up new education in his hometown (that's more like it).
It is said that in the village committee of Gualing Village, there are first-hand information about Huang Guomin's contacts with Sun Yat-sen, such as the letter of appointment for the post of "Overseas Chinese Begging Thief's Quartermaster of the Tenth Route Army Command" and the condolence letter from the Grand Presidential Palace (precious cultural relics) when Mrs. Huang Guomin died.
In the alley next to Tangyin Building, there is a row of houses that are neither in the middle nor in the west.
Marsh Street, an ancient wooden door, old or broken, Huang Guomin's former residence stands beside the alley. Although it is well preserved, due to disrepair, people can only imagine the style and splendor of Fu Huang from the European-style circular arch buildings decorated with doors and windows.
Some villagers said that a mirror that Sun Yat-sen gave to Huang Guomin is still preserved in Fu Huang's former residence.
It is not only a mirror, but also a period of time-cherry leaves in spring, butterflies flying with gold powder; Zigui cried and hated Xiao Louxi; Flexion sets off the twilight, melancholy roll gold mud; After the lonely people in the lanes leave, they hope that the smoke will be depressed; Looking for old songs and rain to make you sad (Song Kang and Rui He Xian Ling).
I checked the collective economic income of Gualing Village in 2006, and this year's income is 260,000 yuan, and the per capita income of villagers is 4 160 yuan-a year's collective economic income simply can't afford to build a decent club.
The main source of village collective economic income is the rental of shops and fish ponds, and the main source of villagers' income is to go out to work-it seems that the whole village has not found the resources to get rich.
There are 12 private enterprises in the village, most of which are textile supporting enterprises-Xintang Town is the manufacturing center of jeans in China, and the villagers in Gualing have a piece of the action.
The characteristic agriculture in the village is bananas, and there are five or six large growers with a planting area of 400 mu. In 2006, the output was 400 tons, achieving an annual output of 480,000 yuan, and the per capita annual income of growers was 3,700 yuan-a little sorry for those years of reform and opening up.
The good news is that the village has now realized the "six links", cement road, electricity, water, telephone, cable TV and bus.
A good prediction is that Gualing Village will be "supported" by Zengcheng City and Xintang Town, and the "beautiful countryside" will be established, and the village will be rationally planned, comprehensively renovated and landscaped.
A good project is to build "Riverside Park" in Hexi, "Litchi Park" in Hedong and "Yuxu Palace Square" in the village.
The bright future is that Gualing Village will be completely new.
If so, I will come again.
In the title of this article, I stole the seven laws of a politician and thinker and combined the word "Guazhou" with the famous ancient building "Ningyuan Building" in Gualing Village.
Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty overthrown by the court conservatives, has a saying that "the boat is in Guazhou": Guazhou is in Jingkou, separated by several mountains; Jiang Nanan spring breeze is green, when will the bright moon shine on me?
This was written by Wang Anshi on his way home for the first time, and was later dismissed for the second time.
Wang Shi said, "When will the bright moon shine on me?" (! ), hehe, he still wants to go back to North Korea for political reform or revival reform. ...
Stop, don't talk about the countryside, remember the original heart: We are here to see the countryside, so we are romantic, so we are butterfly lovers.
Seeing the sun, all his glory, Li Shangyin lamented, was buried in the coming night.
Office workers in the city will eventually leave even if they browse to the best countryside.
Tomorrow, Monday, 9 o'clock, I will return to the noise, derailment and love of Tianhe North Road.
But when we bid farewell to ancient villages, farmhouse music is a must. I heard that there are "fish bags" everywhere in Xintang Town, which is quite famous.
Fish bag, that is, the chef scraped off the shad meat, rubbed it repeatedly until it was transparent and pressed into thin slices, which became the fish foreskin. With stuffing such as lean meat, the entrance is sweet and smooth.
And Zengcheng cabbage and silk seedling chicken rice have never been eaten. You must try it.
Serving, Wang Guan's Fu in the Northern Song Dynasty;
Water is eye-catching, and mountains are eyebrows; Want to ask pedestrians which way to go, eyebrow eye Ying Ying; Send spring home and send you home; If you go to the south, you can catch up with spring, and you must keep the scenery of spring.
"Never born with spring" is not yellow, so it is white.
It's a Japanese composition, and my trip to the ancient village has begun.
2009-04- 12
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