During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Xin, an official of Hongcun, married a woman named Hu Chongniang. After she married Hongcun, she was worried that Hongcun had a small population at that time, so she invited her father's friend in Xiuning, the famous Mr. Feng Shui at that time, to survey and plan.
He Keda spent ten years planning Hongcun, that is, building houses and ditches into the shape of cows.