On the way back to Xiamen from Zhangpu Liuao Emerald Bay last weekend, before getting on the highway at Zhaojiapu, we stopped by Huxi Township to visit The Dragon Fort, which has been passed many times but has not entered, and is known as the living fossil of the ancient city of China. Compared with the "miniature version of Beijing" Zhao Jiabao, which is 3 kilometers away, this free visit to the Southern Fujian Shehan Gathering Place is not famous, but it is a national key cultural relics and monuments listed in the "Dictionary of Chinese Tourist Attractions". When you arrive at the castle, you will definitely be ignored by yourself before, it turns out that it is not only the north that has such an atmospheric and exquisite military castle.
After 6 minutes of turning into the northwest corner of the zhaojiapu intersection, we saw the east gate of Zhao'anbao, and the plaque on the door was inscribed with the word "Yingxi". Entering the city gate along the stone steps to climb the city wall, overlooking the panorama of the castle, the scene is really spectacular.
Yao'anBao is located in the inner city village of Huxi She, 34 kilometers away from the county seat. Together with Zhao Jiabao (Cheng) and Xincheng (Lanting Zhenfudi), collectively known as "Huxi Wuli Sanbao (City)", it is a rare and best-preserved Qing Dynasty typical Minnan folk residential ancient castle in the country. It was built in the 26th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1687) by Huang Zhizhen, who had served as an envoy to Guangxi, a political envoy to Hunan, and a secretary of the Taichang Temple, and lived in a group to resist the Kou plague, and has been 330 years so far.
Swallowtail Ridge Minnan Ancient House
The walls that have fallen into disrepair are still majestic and imposing, with a total length of more than 1,200 meters, a height of 6.7 meters, a width of 2.2 meters, all built with huge strips of stone masonry. At the top of the wall, a three-meter-high triad female wall was built on the outside, with 365 battlements (for the number of days in a year, which is repeated year after year, stretching for a long time) and several holes in the cannon hole.
The horse road on the city wall is curved and extended, which has the ancient meaning of "far away from the ancient road, and the green and barren city". The concrete rammed bays were full of cracks, some inclined inward, some covered with vines, but they stood tall.
Every 50 meters, 25 selected stone ladders are built to climb the inner wall.
At the corner of the city above, enemy towers were built 3 meters deep and 3 meters wide for observation and shooting.
Yao'anbao is the epitome and living fossil of the ancient Chinese city pool. There are still hundreds of descendants of the Huang clan living in the fort, and the 95 rows and 10 houses built in that year are basically well preserved. Between each row of houses, there are 8 meters wide stone streets for vertical and horizontal communication, so the buildings in the city are arranged in an orderly manner. Looking down on the castle walls, it resembles an ancient camp.
There are 4 gates in the city, with openings 4 meters wide and 4 meters deep. The east, west and south gates built a city gate, the south gate is the main gate, engraved "Yao'an"; the east gate is carved "Yingxi"; the west gate is carved "Yuxiu"; the north gate is carved "Spring Celebration", I heard that the local custom does not open the north gate, so the north gate has long been closed. The moats between the south gate and the west gate were once excavated 10 meters wide and 10 meters deep, but they have been abandoned for a long time, leaving only a few small waterholes.
Main entrance - South Gate
There are five pairs of flagpole stones standing in the square inside the south gate, and it seems that this Yao'anbao is really a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden and people are brilliant.
It is said that the area of Yao'an Fort is almost the same as that of Zhao Jia Bao, except that the plane of Yao An Bao is lock-shaped, and the plane of Zhao Jia Bao is square. From the perspective of architectural style, Yao'an Fort was built to imitate Zhao Jiabao, so the two forts are also known as sister forts.
Mottled roof walls with deep laneways
The west gate of Yao'anbao, the imitation ship-shaped design conveys the deeds of the city lord Huang Sexzhen platform
Half Moon Pond in the city
There are two Huang Clan Ancestral Halls with two entrances and three trees in Yao'an Fort, this large inscription is "Gongjia Temple", and the centennial stone stele displayed in the ancestral hall records the achievements of the city lord Huang Sexzhen. In front of the temple, there are 8 flagpoles each, and each has a fish pond.
A flagpole that symbolizes the name of merit
Huang Zhizhen, who built The Temple of Yao'an, played an important role in judging the hour and sizing up the situation, conforming to the trend, abandoning Zheng Guiqing, and giving advice and suggestions during the Historical Event of The Kangxi Dynasty. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng regime in Taiwan launched a political and military struggle on the southeast coast for three or four decades. After the national hero Zheng successfully recovered Taiwan, he died of illness only five months later, and was succeeded by his son Zheng Jing. In the later period of the Zheng regime, political affairs were corrupt, the struggle for power and profit, the exhaustion of financial resources, and the disorientation of the people's hearts, and there was no longer the strength to realize the reunification of the country. Because the Qing Dynasty unified the world, it has become a major trend. Huang Shizhen analyzed the political and military situation between the Qing Dynasty and Zheng, and resolutely broke away from the Zheng Army and returned to his hometown in Zhangzhou. Later, as a "platform strategist", Huang's great contribution to the reunification of Taiwan will forever be recorded in the annals of history. The Qing court awarded him military merit Zhengyipin. The Kangxi Emperor specially summoned him, favored python robes, palace forgings, consolation and preparation, and added officials to knighthood. He successively served as Shanxi's envoy, Guangxi's envoy, Hunan's envoy, and Dachangsi's secretary. When Huang Died in 1702, Kangxi wrote an inscription: "Qin Zhi Sacrifice Funeral".
Patio inside the ancestral hall
The houses in the city are well organized, the lanes are clear, the layout is orderly, and they are integrated.
Time has passed, and today's Yao'an fort is still so quiet, although it is not a popular attraction. People live according to the original rhythm. Suddenly, I had a selfish idea, hoping that it would not be disturbed too much by the outside world, and not let commercialization change its taste. Leaving Yao'anbao, we headed to Lantingzhen Province, one of the "Three Forts of Wuli in the West of the Lake", which is historically known as the "Three Masters of the Lan Clan".
The abandoned entrance hall of the Lanting Zhen Mansion
LantingZhenFudi, located in Dingtan Village Xincheng Natural Village, Huxi Township, Zhangpu County, is known as "Dingtan New Town" and "Courtyard City" because it was built on the Toptan of Huxi and surrounded by buildings like a city wall. It is a Fudi-style castle built by Lan Tingzhen, the admiral of fujian water division in the Qing Dynasty, at the end of the Kangxi Dynasty and completed in the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), and is also the former residence of Lan Yuanmei, the grandson of the Jiangnan Water Division, and a national key cultural relics protection unit.
The mansion complex is symmetrically distributed in a longitudinal and five-way manner, along the central axis, which is the entrance hall, the main hall, the back hall, the main building and the rear compartment. The left and right compartments are guardhouses, connected by a "water corridor", forming a pattern of large courtyards and small courtyards. The first fall is 7 bays, and the roof curve rises in a heavy ridge hard mountain style. The second falling roof is a hard ridge. The main hall is centered, with a screen at the back, and a cornice in the front, which is a voucher shed, and the main hall and the patio are open. The third is the back hall, which is a place of worship and sacrifice to the gods, the back hall is connected with the patio, and the two sides of the corridor and the back porch of the main hall are connected together, forming the largest indoor space in the whole house, reflecting the status as the center of the whole house. The fourth floor is a two-story tulou, called "Rijie Lou", and the plaque is the seal of "Rijie Lou" and "Jingpu", "Bamboo Bud Songmao", "Lanting Zhenyin" and other seals inscribed by Lan Tingzhen himself.
The construction of tulou in the fudi building is very rare in the minnan folk houses, and it is also the unique feature of the LantingZhen mansion. The wooden structure of the earthen building was burned in the 1940s and the outer wall of the main building of the main building is still intact.
Lan Tingzhen Fudi is a masterpiece of the official family mansion in southern Fujian, and is also a historical witness to the study of the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan and the history of the Lan family. The mansion is grand in scale, symmetrical in layout, ingenious in conception, and diverse in craftsmanship. Tulou was built in the mansion to form a courtyard city pattern, reflecting the highest level of architectural art in southern Fujian at that time.
It is worth mentioning that more than 300 years ago, the Lan family of Zhangpu successively appeared lan li, lan tingzhen, lan dingyuan, lan yuanmei, lan ri pet, lan yao, lan yao, lan li, lan ting zhen, lan yuan yuan, lan yuan yuan, lan li, lan yuan, lan li, lan ting zhen, lan yuan zhen lan li, lan ting
Leaving Fudi, we continued on our way, inquiring all the way to Bailin Village behind the mountain, where the neatly arranged Minnan Ancient Cuo group is still preserved. Because there is no packaging publicity, almost not many people know about this characteristic Minnanshan Village. We found a high-rise family, and the owner, after learning of our arrival, enthusiastically led us up to the top floor of the newly completed building to take this picture.
Bailin Village overlooks the Minnan Ancient House
Old houses and old buildings are the accumulation of history, forgetting the world's cangsang, wandering in the middle, can feel the cycle of wandering in life, let people have unlimited reverie.
Stone walls and red tiles are the biggest features of minnan houses. This kind of stone wall, red tile house can only be seen in the coastal area of southern Fujian, because there are many islands and reefs in the coastal area, and people used to use local materials to build houses with stone strips. In recent years, such houses have been rare in the current Xiamen city, and the former Quanzhou Capital has few left in a large number of demolition and reconstruction, only many places in Zhangzhou, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Xiamen, still retain the same as before. In particular, Zhangpu County has preserved a large number of ancient historical traces of the southern Fujian people. Only here can you feel what the real Hokkien taste is - that is, those familiar, unique ancient tastes. No wonder some people say that the most southern Fujian place in Fujian is Zhangzhou.