Yingying water, the dovetail roof ridge rises side by side, and the 276 ancient red brick houses in southern Fujian are as regular as a chessboard.
The aerial camera arrived earlier than the reporter's footsteps to record the whole picture of Daimei Village. This ancient village on the water located in Dongyuan Town, Longhai District, Zhangzhou, is closely integrated into a complete family community by a neat and uniform family space.
The countryside is tangible and more rhymed. Hundreds of years later, the descendants of the Chen family are still inheriting the simple family style in the ancient houses, closely linking the wandering wanderers with their hometowns, and inheriting the history and culture of the ancient houses from a humanistic point of view, making it a well-known local cultural tourism destination in southern Fujian.
Carry forward the quaint family style.
A planning plan for 500 years, is it true or false?
For hundreds of years, our houses were only distinguished from the old and the new. Looking down from the air, no matter the horizontal line, the vertical line, even the diagonal line is aligned. "Many years ago, the Longhai Shuanglong Gezai Troupe went to Malaysia to perform, and talked about the architectural style of their hometown of Daimei, which attracted a group of photographers to come and explore.
For a time, Daimei's beautiful photos were spread overseas by this group of photographers and became famous.
Chen Yahong, who graduated with a major in tourism management, is employed by China Travel Service, responsible for receiving overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. "This is my hometown, and the most central house is my home. After Daimei became popular, thousands of Singaporean and Malaysian friends came to visit it as a family unit.
At that time, Longhai District hired the China Urban Construction Research Institute to compile the protection plan of Daimei Village, following the principle of "no cutting down trees, no landscaping, and no fake ecology", and invested more than 70 million yuan for the comprehensive environmental improvement and infrastructure construction of Daimei, and restored hundreds of ancient houses according to the old as before.
Sort out the family style and family motto of Daimei, select an ancient house covering an area of 250 square meters, repair the "family style hall" with the strength of the whole village, and set up 8 exhibition halls of "family style and family music", "good recipe for teaching children", "self-cultivation and housekeeping", "family reputation full of hall", "unity and friendship", "abundant food and clothing", "respect for the old and love for the young", "family and everything is prosperous", and was rated as "Fujian Province Family Style and Family Education Demonstration Base". Not far away, there is a big house built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the main body is the front and back two falls, once lived in 26 households. In 2014, 26 households moved out of the house and rented it to the village to be transformed into a nostalgia hall with an exhibition function, displaying the molds of making turtle kueh and the fishing gear of ancient fishermen, making the memories of the village all-encompassing.
Chen Yahong, who was touched by it, set out to awaken her hometown and rented 32 ancient houses in Daimei Village at one time. After simple decoration, the three-courtyard pattern of the ancient houses is restored, and a group of nostalgic travelers are ushered in, whether it is the villagers of the village or the neighboring villages, everyone shows their skills to hold puppets, cymbals, nanyin, Min zheng, Chinese opera, paper-cutting and other intangible cultural heritage skills performances, and restores the living space and cultural form of the southern Fujian countryside.
Stone mortars and wooden mallets are essential for almost every household, and a mallet and mallet are pounded out of soft and glutinous and sweet mochi. We have turned this delicacy into a self-guided experience for tourists, attracting many visitors to recall their childhood memories from the turning of the stone mill. Xu Lilian, Secretary of the Party Committee of Daiwei Village, introduced that during the Spring Festival of 2023, Yao Chen, the image ambassador of Fujian tourism, appeared in Longhai, not only visiting temples and watching folk customs, but also immersively experiencing the ancient production of stone grinding puree on the side of the pot in Daimei Ancient Village, attracting many tourists to come to Daimei to "eat and drink".
Cultivate a new style of civilization.
Hometown has gathered popularity, how to have more "aura"?
In the days when the house was being repaired, Chen Yahong found that rural children could not avoid comparison and involution, more or less rebellious and disgusted with school, and even ran away from home, which was contrary to her original intention of awakening her hometown.
Donating money and materials cannot completely solve the plight of rural children. Chen Yahong shared her thoughts in the entrepreneur's WeChat group, which caused a lot of resonance. "This is related to the education method of the original family", "parents should grow up first", "such a social phenomenon is worthy of our joint efforts", ......This "brainstorming" is different from usual, and entrepreneurs have reached a unified solution to a common problem - implanting spiritual power.
In September 2023, social caring entrepreneurs established the "Hedao Book House", which means that 28 like-minded people will meet with books. At the same time, the Daimei Village Township Sage Promotion Association was established, and the two forces were twisted into one to jointly launch a fully open public welfare exchange platform by the "Family Style Hall", focusing on caring for the family, and regularly carrying out public welfare reading salons and family lectures.
On November 25, 2023, the first phase of the public welfare action "Smart Family" parent-child learning journey was launched in the "Family Wind Hall".
Just talking about the Analects and ** rules may be a bit boring. In the activity, children were added to feed their parents and support their blindfolded parents to walk, so that children and parents could empathize and communicate effectively. Chen Riwei, a national second-level psychological counselor, served as the lecturer and designed a series of parent-child communication experience games, so that dozens of pairs of parents and children who participated in the activity were full of harvest.
On this day, Xiangxian and entrepreneurs acted as volunteers for the event, cooperating with the rhythm of the lecturer to provide multiple forms of parent-child reading, cultivate children's energy from reading, guide parents to grasp the critical period of children's growth and development, and guide parents to carry out effective family contact.
A series of family style activities are passed on in the countryside, providing tourists with a unique cultural experience.
Daimei's family style activities have formed a signboard to promote to other cities, and collide with more people who love their hometown. At present, Chen Yahong and her friends are planning to build the Daimei Ancient Village Cultural and Creative Center and Tourism Distribution Center, design the cultural and creative products of the Daimei Ancient House, and increase the experience projects on the water, so that tourists can take a boat from the Daimei Wanding River and feel the former glory of Yuegang to go to sea.
I went out of my hometown in order to bring the world back to my hometown and make my hometown more vibrant. Chen Yahong said.