Yubei Ancient Village is located in Yantan, an important town in the north of Yongjia, more than 60 kilometers away from the county seat, bordering on Hayes Mountain in the National Forest Park. The village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the water on one side, with lush green hills, quiet environment, beautiful scenery and forests of pine, cypress and bamboo. It is surrounded by Jinshan, Xishan, Yushan, Yangshan and Heshan, just like lotus petals around the whole village.
According to the genealogy of Wang and Xu, Northern Henan was founded in the Tang Dynasty and lived in Xu's home. After the Song Dynasty, Wang Shang and his younger brother Wang Yinglong of the official department were persecuted and retired to Houtang in the north of the island. After the adoption of the fifth generation, Xu Jiakai began to migrate, and the Wang family was increasingly multiplying. The residential buildings in Yubei have strong local characteristics, the ancient buildings in the village are well preserved, and the overall planning of the village is unique. The mountains around Yubei Village overlap, shaped like lotus petals, and the villages gather and rush to the "Lotus Heart". Therefore, according to the method of geomantic pattern of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in the Taoist Book of Changes, the village is composed of Jinzi Mountain in the north, Yubeilin in the south, the fork in the east, the fertile loess (lotus heart) in the west and the city river around the lotus heart.
The layout of village houses is based on Zhou Dunyi's plan of "Love Lotus" and the concept of "Clear ripple without evil and pollution without dyeing". At the same time, according to the layout of twenty-eight lodges in the heavens and the earth, seven ancestral temples shaped like castles were built outside the residential building, distributed in four directions of the village. There are protective walls and moats around the village, and nine gates, large and small, are opened around the village. The whole village is like a lotus.
The unique planning concept and architectural form of ancient villages in Yubei reflect Wang Xianmin's thought of being close to nature and grasping nature, which makes the village site selection and architectural creation achieve the environmental effect of "harmony between man and nature" and become a bright pearl of nanxi river residential architectural culture. North Henan has a strong style of writing and talented people come forth in large numbers. In ancient times, it was known as "Little Zou Lu" in the Western Hills. It is also one of the revolutionary bases in southern Zhejiang. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, during the War of Liberation, was once the resident of the Central County Committee of Oubei. It has an epic battle story and made outstanding contributions to the cause of people's liberation in China. Wang's ancestors were deeply influenced by Confucian traditional culture, and adopted the idea that lotus was innocent and pollution-free in Zhou Dunyi's "Love Lotus Theory" in the layout of village houses. The village plane is lotus-shaped. In the core area of Lotus, main streets such as Central Street, Beimen Street, Xia Jie Road, Beimen Road, Simian Road and East-West North-South City Road are arranged in the east-west direction, and Ronghetang, Maoxiutang, Sanjin Jiumingtang, Yanghetang, Ledetang, Zhongshoutang, Xiancuntang and Yu Xiu are respectively arranged inside and outside the main street axes. At the same time, according to the layout of the twenty-eight nights of heaven, earth and stars, there are seven ancestral halls around the village outside the residential buildings, a protective wall and a moat around the village, and nine large and small gates are opened around the village. The landform and architectural layout of the whole village are like lotus flowers.
The residential buildings in the North Island have strong local characteristics and a strong sense of integrity, and most of them sit in the ancient East. The ancient buildings in the village account for more than 85% of the existing residential buildings, and the new area is clearly distinguished from the old area. The plane of residential buildings is divided into zigzag, H-shaped, zigzag, zigzag and other forms. The roofs of all residential buildings are hung on the top of the mountain to make clear water ridges. The ridge is solitary, high-end, flat-topped, slightly convex and elongated, covered with small gray tiles. The two mountains are large, and the roof is also made into a fake mountain-resting style, mostly two-story attic. There is a waist eaves in the building, which looks like a double eaves. Buildings are mostly in three or four hospitals.
The beam-frame structure of residential buildings adopts the mixed structure of suspended beam and bucket, which is relatively compact. Due to the large depth of the building and the long span of the beam, the indoor column adopts stealing column, and the corner between the main hall and the wing adopts falling column structure with vertical column, which is reasonable in structure and wonderful in practice. There is no bucket arch under the oblique item of the moon beam, and most of them are sparrows for sparrows. The top of the eaves gallery is a porch, and the eaves stigma is a "bucket jump" to increase the cornice. All the beams are made of uniform materials, and the columns are square and round. Shallow begonia lines are carved at the corner of the column base, which is very simple and simple. Architectural decoration style: the facade is brown, and there are no gorgeous carved beams and painted buildings. There are five doors in the main hall, and the cirrus pattern is carved according to the polyester ring plate. The process is simple, the outer wall is separated by a plate door and a row of lattice windows are opened. Indoor beams and eaves are made of bamboo and covered with mud, which is "made of bamboo" in "architectural French". The bucket beam on the mountain surface is exposed outside, and a wooden wall in the "bamboo weaving" is on top, with bright and elegant colors. The folk houses, ancestral halls, halls and pavilions in the village still preserve a large number of stone carving, wood carving and brick carving arts, which are combined with building components to add architectural beauty.
Application of stone art: people rely on natural pebbles, mountain stones and strips to build city walls, gates, fences, zhaobi and exterior walls of houses, and use pebbles to make different patterns to pave courtyards, streets and roads. Everything looks so simple, friendly and natural, with a strong local flavor, showing a world of original stone art.