The ancient "Shentou Village".
Half Moon talks about reporter Ren Liying.
View the "Shentou Village" on the satellite map, which is located at the eastern foot of Taizi Rock in Taihang Mountain, hidden in the ten thousand "folds" of the vast Taihang Mountain Range. And when driving on the tourist road from Neiqiu County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province to Bian Que Temple, 21After 05 kilometers, the colorful mountain stone house, Bian Que temple group, a village on the mountainside, a thousand-year-old Jiulong cypress, and an ancient shop tea shed ......The scenery that appears one by one contains the ancient life of the people in the modern village. This lively ravine running east-west is the 2,000-year-old "Shentou Village".
The mountain residence of the Ming and Qing dynasties is chic.
The family heirloom gatehouse is exquisite.
Shentou Village is built by the mountain, the village is surrounded by mountains on the south, west and north sides, the village is in the shape of a mountain, it is a belt-like settlement, there are three streets in total, and there is a stone bridge in the east, middle and west of the village. There are still nine ancient alleys in the village, and each lane is made of local materials, using local river pebbles, natural stones, stone slabs, and stone strips.
Photo by Liu Jidong, Shentou Village, Neiqiu County.
Hou Sanyang, a 77-year-old man in Shentou Village, told Banyuetan reporters that the ancient houses in Shentou Village preserve the mountain township style and architectural pattern in the southern Hebei style of the Ming and Qing dynasties. There are shrines in the house, and there are ladders for each house.
Among them, the most distinctive building is "one Hou family, two Ning families, three into the house". This house is located at No. 193, No. 194, No. 195 Shenyi North Street, sitting in the north and facing south, three courtyards, houses are built on the east and west sides, and there is no gatehouse in the existing courtyard; The gatehouse is built in the middle of the second courtyard, and the wind shield is written with the word "Fu"; The gatehouse is built in the middle of the three-entry courtyard, the wind shield is written with the three words of "and is precious", the inner side is built with a wooden shadow wall screen, the existing gatehouse passage is 18 meters long, the house is 18 rooms, it is a marquis surnamed Liangning surname 3 households live, it is the building of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
In addition to the house, the "gatehouse" is the place where every household in Shentou Village is quite exquisite, and it is also the "façade" of the family, which directly reflects the social status and economic level of the owner. The height of the gatehouse, the brick and tile material, the painted brick carving and the relationship between the left and right neighbors are all stipulated, which should be consistent with the identity, including all kinds of gatehouses with tiled eaves, with hanging down, plus wind shields, single hanging eaves, etc. The exquisitely carved door pier stone is connected with the house, and the main house is equipped with a hugging building, and the foundation stone of the hugging building pillar is varied.
It is located at No. 441 and No. 442, Hemu Lane, Shenyi South Street, and sits on the Guojia Gatehouse facing north in the south, with a unique shape. From the top of the polio tile hard mountain, the head of the animal is tile; The wooden lintel occupies one-third of the entire gatehouse, the wood carving pattern is carved with openwork techniques to carve bats and lanterns to hang down, and the door windshield is engraved with the vigorous and powerful word "Fu" in the middle; Flowers such as peonies, peonies, lotus, and orchids are painted in red, yellow, blue, green, and white around the word Fu; There are patterns such as lotus pods, ploughing oxen, bats, pomegranates, grapes, bamboo joints, flower baskets, etc., which imply the arrival of the eight immortals, the coming of five blessings, the auspicious stars and high light, many sons and many blessings, cultivating and reading heirlooms, and passing on the traditional ideas and concepts.
"God Head" is named after "Bian Que".
The temple complex has undergone repairs from generation to generation.
Why is Shentou Village named? Liu Hongjun, a member of the village party branch, told a legendary story to the Banyuetan reporter: During Bian Que's practice of medicine in Pengshan (near Shentou Village, Nansai Township, Neiqiu County, Xingtai), because of his superb medical skills and growing fame, even the King of Qin sent people to ask him to see a doctor. The imperial physician of the Qin State made Li Li jealous of his ability, and knew that his skills were not as good as others, so he secretly sent someone to kill Bian Que. When the bad news reached Pengshan, the people were overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and Bian Que's eldest apprentice, Prince Yu, led people to Xianyang overnight, stole Bian Que's head back, buried it at the foot of Pengshan, and built a temple on the bank of the Kowloon River. Since then, Jiaojiazhuang and Wolfjiazhuang on both sides of the Jiulong River have been merged into one, and the village has been renamed "Shentou", and Pengshan has been renamed "Queshan".
Therefore, Shentou Village has always retained the temple group of worship Bian Que for thousands of years. The whole temple complex covers an area of about 820,000 square meters, backed by mountains and water, negative yin and yang, high in the north and low in the south. There are 27 original single buildings in the Bian Que temple group, namely the Huisheng Bridge, the bridge tower, the mountain gate, the dedication hall, the Bian Que Palace, the sleeping palace, the front hall of the back earth, the theater building, the back earth apse, the stele tower, the hundred son hall, the west wing room on the west side of the central axis, and the medicine king hall, the Jade Emperor Palace, the old mother hall, the old monarch hall and so on on the east side. There are 15 existing buildings.
Photo by Liu Jidong, Bian Que Temple Mountain Gate, Shentou Village, Neiqiu County.
For thousands of years, the people here have been good at accepting, absorbing and integrating a variety of cultures, so that different cultures such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have taken root in Shentou Village, and accepted the fireworks of the world together, forming a unique scene of 'temples everywhere and incense' in the ancient village. He Lianfen, the former chairman of the Neiqiu County Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said.
In May 2006, Bian Que Temple was included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units; In December 2012, Shentou Village was included in the first batch of Chinese traditional villages. In July 2020, Shentou Village was selected by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in the second batch of national rural tourism key villages.
Shentou Village receives more than 200,000 tourists every year, driving more than 350 villagers to eat 'tourist meals' at their doorsteps. Dong Yali, a member of the propaganda committee of Nansai Township, said.
Hanging on the mountainside "a village".
Away from the hustle and bustle into a "paradise".
Shentou Village consists of two natural villages, "Shentou" and "Yijiazhuang". A village is located in Shentou Village, Xiqueshan Mountainside Taizi Valley, about 1000 meters above sea level, backed by the main peak of Queshan Lotus Peak, north, west and south surrounded by mountains, east of Taizi Canyon cliff, steep mountain road risk. The current resident is surnamed Liu, who moved here from Shentou Village in the Qing Dynasty and has been passed down to the seventh generation.
They are a kind and simple family, and often provide convenience for people who go up the mountain. Because of the steep terrain and distance from the village, there is only one family, so it is called 'a village'. Liu Hongjun said.
A village is also known as a village, and there is only one village in a village. This particular village is located between steep cliffs.
For the needs of life, the male villagers have retained many self-sufficient rural production and life skills: hunting, carpentry, pioneer farming, livestock and poultry breeding, medicine collection, medicinal herb cultivation, fruit tree planting, forest management, self-made production tools, hand-woven wattle baskets, etc. And the housewife and daughter of this family can not only go to the field to farm, but also make cloth shoes, embroidered insoles, and baskets. Liu Yinshan, the head of a village, said.
The reporter walked along the mountain road in a village and found that there were relics in the village such as the third Buddha hall of Longxing Temple, the prince building, the prince cave, and the spinning flower cave. Between the Prince Building and the Longxing Temple, there are two east and west three Beiwu bungalows each, which are the houses of the Liu family for three generations and five people, constituting a landscape of temples in the village, villages in temples, staggered temples and villages, and integrated villages and temples.
Because the incense of Bian Que Temple is prosperous, in the long history, pilgrims from all over the world have built more than ten small temples such as Guanyin, Lao Mu, Mountain God, Guan Gong and so on around Longxing Temple, which has also created a folk belief wonder that a family guards more than a dozen temples.