During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie was a famous family for a hundred years, and also had the merit of rejuvenating the country. Xie Lingyun was made public, and the world thanked him. After Emperor Wu of Song usurped Sima's regime, he attacked the old clan and Xie Lingyun was politically frustrated. In the third year of Emperor Wu of the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 422), 38-year-old Xie Lingyun was demoted to Yongjia Prefecture. After arriving in Yongjia, Xie Lingyun was unhappy, caring about mountains and rivers and not asking about political affairs. This "Song Shuzhuan" records: "The county takes mountains and rivers as its name and spiritual elements as its love. When I went out to defend, I was unsuccessful. I wandered around the counties and moved for more than ten days. The people listened to the lawsuit and ignored it. "
Xie Lingyun must be impressed by the beautiful scenery of nanxi river. After Xie Lingyun was killed in Guangzhou in the 10th year of Yuanjia in Song Wendi (AD 433), later generations helped his coffin to be transported back to Yongjia and built a tomb to settle in Wenzhou. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Xie's descendants returned to the riverside and built villages and villages, fulfilling Xie Lingyun's dream of seclusion in mountains and rivers 600 years ago.
The entrance of Pengxi Village is called Laid-off Head. In order to stop the flood coming down from Heshengxi, the villagers planted a towering ancient camphor tree here and built a Guandi Temple under the tree to pray for evil spirits and ensure the safety of the whole village. Little Square, in front of Guandi Temple, is the activity place of Youlong lion dance at 4: 08 in the village.
1985, a tractor-ploughed road was built in the village, and the mountain was blasted with stones. All the cliffs and plank roads turned into rubble, and dust rolled into Hesheng Creek, filling the quiet deep pools in the creek bay with shallows.
"The Millennium Feng Shui in Pengxi Village has been broken since then!" I thought: "The ancestors chose Pengxi as their residence to avoid the world, but the desire of later generations was to try to get out of this illusory paradise and pursue worldly pleasures. After the Xie clan settled here for thousands of years, they took a different road. "
Bypassing Guandi Temple and entering the village, there is an inconspicuous Xiaolekang Pavilion at the entrance of the village, which is a local building to commemorate the ancestor Xie Lingyun. Now it has become a paradise for young people in the village to play cards.
The feng shui in Pengxi Village is also excellent. There is a mountain spring and a pool in the east of the village, a snail-like Phoenix Island in the lake, and Wenbi Peak in the southeast of the lake, which is exactly the saying that "the pen enters the inkstone pool". However, in the past twenty years, the forests around the village have been cut down and the sediment has fallen with the rain. The "inkstone pool" that our ancestors worked so hard to dig has already become a real rice field.
There are some old houses in the village.
There is a typical "Shui Yuan" residence in nanxi river Valley, with three entrances and two exits. In front of Shui Yuan, there is a stone tunnel with two symmetrical pools on both sides. Behind the water yard, the whole yard is full of water, and firewood and straw are piled under the eaves of the pool. This Shui Yuan mansion was built in the Ming Dynasty. Together with the left and right courtyards, it has more than 70 rooms. Although it is obviously dilapidated now, it was one of the best luxury houses in China 400 years ago.
The most exquisite old house in Pengxi is "Near Yunshan Building", which was built in the late Qing Dynasty. There is a common brick-inlaid stone gate building in the south of the Yangtze River. On the forehead, the inscription "Near Yunshan Mansion" was written by Zhu, a great scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. On both sides, there are stone carvings reflecting the traditional Confucian doctrine "Loyalty and filial piety are far away from home, long live poetry and books". A beautifully carved brick wall is preserved in the courtyard near Yunshan Mansion, which is a protected cultural relic in Yongjia County. This wall used to be symmetrical on both sides, but the opposite one has been destroyed.
According to legend, Zhu visited nanxi river, a local scholar, when he was in Changping Salt Tea Industry in eastern Zhejiang, and one of them visited Pengxi Village. It turns out that the cliff stone carving on the cliff of Hesheng Creek at the entrance of the village has the word "Diaoyutai" inscribed by Zhu and a five-line poem:
Watching fish is better than the city, and fishing is better than Weiyang. When Yanzi comes here, she will definitely forget Fuchun River.
Four short poems commented on three super celebrities, Zhuangzi, Jiang Ziya and Yan Ziling, and also carried forward Shuikou, an excellent scenic spot in Pengxi Village. It's just that it's all in the past now. The stone carvings on the cliff of Laigangtou have been turned into smoke and dust in the blasting sound 16 years ago, and passed away forever with the clear water of Heshengxi.