Qiyuan Village, Fengtang Town, was founded in the Shaosheng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, known as "Qitou" in ancient times, the cultural heritage is extremely rich, there are many kinds of ancient buildings in the village, although the age is old, it is still functionally complete, carrying the vicissitudes of the ancient village of Qiyuan. Recently, Qiyuan Village was selected into the eighth batch of ancient villages in Guangdong Province.
Come to Qiyuan Village, Fengtang Town, the quaint ancestral halls, temples, and dwellings come into view, the years change, the four seasons reincarnate, these ancient buildings are full of traces of wind and rain, but brick by brick, it seems to tell the history of the past. Among them, the most legendary is one of the three bridges of the "Horse Bridge", which tells the story of Zheng Liang of the Qiyuan people, he is an upright official, not a powerful person, praised by future generations, the ancients "came to Gaogui Ling, I can't see the Horse Bridge;When you step on the horse bridge, you can't see Fengtang Township".
Zheng Xinhao, deputy secretary general of Zheng Zhiyong Cultural Research Association: Our ancestor Lang Gong was an official in Nanjing at that time, and he was honest and honest, and he brought a pile of stones back when he returned to his hometown, but at that time, there were some spies in the court who reported to the emperor after knowing it, and slandered Lang Gong and took a lot of gold, silver and jewelry home, and the court sent Xu Shangshu to inspect the situation and found that a boat was full of stones, so Shangshu reported the results to the court, saying that he was loyal and upright, and the emperor announced that he was forgiving and seeing that Zheng Liang had no intention of political affairs, and sighed that his road was far away, so he gave him "glory in the glory" Three words let him return to his hometown, there is a saying that when the passing ** saw these three words, the civil official got off the sedan chair and the military attache dismounted.
It is understood that Qiyuan Village still has 12 ancestral halls, 5 celebrity residences, and more than 50 traditional residential halls, its layout orientation, scale modulus, and construction decoration are built according to the layout of the five elements, and then with stone carving, wood carving, color painting and porcelain inlay and other processes, so that the shape of the building is more gorgeous and eye-catching. Zheng Zhiyong's former residence as a representative traditional residence of Qi Garden, covers an area of about 140 acres, 300 houses, the south to "Rong Ludi" as the main body, attached to the "horse trailer", the east to the "Haichou Ancestral Hall" as the main body, the left and right sides of the building 4 houses, the formation of "Ren Meili" huge building complex.
Zheng Xinhao, Deputy Secretary-General of Zheng Zhiyong Cultural Research Association: Mr. Zheng Zhiyong has been a poor farmer since he was a child, and later in order to break out of the rivers and lakes, he crossed Nanyang (Thailand), and made a lot of contributions to the construction of our hometown after his career. During the Qing Dynasty, in 1918, Chaoshan invested 380,000 taels to repair the north and south embankments, so that the people of Chaozhou could be peaceful. Later, a school was built, called Zhiyong Higher Primary School, to give poor children free education, and two roads were built, one leading to Chaozhou and the other leading to Fuyang, whose value was comparable to today's highways. "Second Brother Feng" is a person of great wisdom, compassion and compassion, and the ancient saying "born with Second Brother Feng and died with Dafeng Gong" is from him.
The towering tree must have its roots, and the water of the mountains must have its source, and so are the ancient villages. Over the past 900 years, the ancient ancestral halls and dwellings in Qitou have been like the "sweet spring" that nourishes the cultural bloodline, giving birth to countless literati with lofty ideals, and successively produced four scholars in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, including Zheng Boyu, Zheng Lang, Zheng Shiyi and Zheng Zhuozhuo. In recent years, Qiyuan Village has attached great importance to the protection and inheritance of ancient villages, and simultaneously promoted the renovation of ancient ancestral halls, intangible cultural heritage, and infrastructure transformation, so as to rejuvenate this "hometown in memory".
Zheng Zhangping, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Village Committee of Qiyuan Village: Since our village declared the 8th batch of ancient villages in Guangdong Province last year, it has received strong support and support from the villagers after publicizing the protection of ancient village culture, and mobilized villagers to donate funds to repair the ancient ancestral hall and public hall.
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