In Jingximentougou Zhaitang Town, there is an ancient village called Lingshui Village. The village is surrounded by the remnants of Taihang, and it is ancient and quiet. The stone road in the village is polished and polished; the old people in the village, sitting in front of the door, are chatting under the warm winter sun, very peaceful.
Another name for this village is even louder: "Lifting People Village". Because this village in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been 22 lifters, 2 jinshi, and more than 10 Guozi supervisors. During the Republic of China period, 6 yenching university graduates came out of the village. It can be said that the context is long and admirable.
According to the investigation, the village was formed in the Liaojin Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. To this day, it is still very large. Many ancient houses have survived to the present day. Standing on the hill behind the village, you can see the whole village. Under the sunset, the village is full of cooking smoke and is full of the smell of fireworks in the world.
The whole village is divided by front, back, middle and crisscrossing alleys, and the village is full of green brick and tiled houses, with many large and small courtyards. The largest courtyard has five entrances, which is also relatively rare in Beijing. Unfortunately, because of the epidemic situation, most of the large courtyards are closed and locked, and they can only be seen outside. Overlooking the mountain, the more regular squares in the center of the village are several courtyards.
The most famous person in the village is Liu Maoheng, who was admitted to xiucai at the age of thirteen and lifted at the age of sixteen. He once served as the prefect of Fenzhou, Shanxi, and was an official Qingzheng, and when there was a famine, he would provide relief to the people, which was quite official. After his death, the Kangxi Emperor gave the stele, which was written by Zhang Yushu, a scholar of Wenhuadian University and a hubu Shangshu, and this stele is still standing on the hill on the edge of the village. His family's courtyard is also the largest in the area.
There is also a "one door and five moves" home in the village, which can be called a "school bully" family. The courtyard of the "one door and five moves" family still has posterity to live in, but the courtyard door is also closed. From the outside, it was very rustic.
Sanyuantang is the former residence of Tan Tiren, a famous educator who graduated from Yenching University. The green brick wooden door looks ancient and leisurely. The word "Fu" on the shadow wall in the courtyard is strong and powerful. The brick carvings next to the gate are very impressive. During the Battle of Nankou during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wei Lihuang's command post was set up in this courtyard.
Such a flourishing cultural context is truly remarkable in a mountain village where even today's transportation is not very developed. The reason is that this place was once the place where the Jingxi Ancient Road passed, the economy was relatively developed, and there were once eight large businesses in the village, called "Eight Halls". Xihedian is not only a business hall, but also cultivated tributes. It seems that having financial resources and a wide range of vision is a prerequisite for investment in education.
The construction of temples is also the embodiment of financial resources and culture. Lingshui Village used to have more than a dozen temples dedicated to the gods of folk belief. Unfortunately, many temples were destroyed. At present, the largest remaining scale is the South China Sea Fire Dragon King Temple in the west of the village, the Temple of the Virgin of Heavenly Immortals and other four closely adjacent temples.
Under the towering ancient trees, the brick and stone arches and stone steps of the temple show a strong ancient meaning. Indeed, it is ancient enough, the South China Sea Fire Dragon King Temple, according to legend, was built in the Jin Dynasty and rebuilt in the fifteenth year of Ming Jiajing. Opposite the temple, there is also an ancient opera stage.
On the western side of the mountain, there is the ruins of the Lingquan Zen Temple built from the Han Dynasty. The Ming "Miscellaneous Records of the Wanju Department" records: "Lingquan Zen Temple, in the Ling (Ling) Water Village, began in the Han Dynasty, and was rebuilt by monks and seamen during the Hongzhi period. "This is the earliest written temple in Lingshui Village, and it is said to be the earliest Buddhist temple in the Beijing area with written records. At present, only one mountain gate remains at Lingquan Temple. Standing at the door, you can see several levels of high platforms in the courtyard, and I think it is the original base of the main hall. Later, several red brick bungalows were built with the slogan "Study well and work up every day", which should be the primary school in the village. Now the elementary school is also abandoned.
On the hill south of the village there is the Temple of the White-clothed Guanyin Bodhisattva, and in the northeast halfway up the mountain there is Wenchang Pavilion and Kuixing Building, which are the old sites of the year and are now new buildings. It can also be said that the context of that year was circulated. Anyone who has students in their families must go up here to worship.
There are also many ancient trees in the village, which can also confirm the ancient history of this mountain village. In the Temple of the Fire Dragon King, two thousand-year-old cypresses with a diameter of two or three meters were planted in the Jin Dynasty and are already 1800 years old. One of the trunk trees has a 20 cm diameter mulberry tree in the middle of the hole, and the other has a 70 cm diameter elm tree in the lower branch of the thick trunk. Cypress, mulberry and elm trees are all leafy and unusual.
On a hill north of the village, there is a thousand-year-old cypress tree with a flat canopy, branches and lush leaves, like a huge Ganoderma lucidum, proudly displayed, known by the locals as "Ganoderma lucidum". This place was also the former site of the Five Dao Temple.
In the courtyard of the Lingquan Temple ruins, there is an ancient locust tree and two ginkgo trees, one of which is a hermaphrodite tree, which bears golden fruits every year. When we went, the ginkgo biloba was already in full bloom, so we could find another autumn to see. Tall old trees can be seen everywhere in the village.
Lingshui Village is a living ancient village, the villagers live as usual in the village, walking in the alley, in a short time will meet the villagers, the grandmother also greeted you warmly. Pushing open a hidden wooden door, I saw that the courtyard was full of grain and vegetables, and the puppy suddenly barked wildly, frightening me to jump out.
But Lingshui Village is indeed old enough. Walking on the slate streets of Lingshui Village, looking at the foundations of the bluestone walls, the green brick gatehouses, the deep alleys, the mottled bricks, the stumps of the temple... It's like stepping into an ancient time. The thousand-year-old branches rustled, as if the students of Lingshui Village were reciting the Four Books and Five Classics and the Tang poems and Song Ci. A mountain village far away in the depths of the mountains in western Beijing, because of its deep historical accumulation, is so elegant.