Many people know Wuyuan because of rape flowers, and when they come to Wuyuan, they will be pleasantly surprised to find that it is a very special place, and there are so many scenic spots above 4A in a small county. I told the locals about this idea, and the other person laughed and said, "This is the life that the countryside should have!" Those Huipai buildings are the houses we live in, the scenery for outsiders, and the daily life for locals. In this way, it makes sense that the longest-term scenery is not far away, but that daily life is a freehand poem.
A person who understands life can often only create a life aesthetic that makes himself happy, and a village or a county town is committed to passing on the classic architecture, cultural customs, exquisite craftsmanship, and exquisite food inheritance left by the ancestors, which may affect the perception of life of millions of people. Wuyuan in autumn does not have canola flowers, but it is by no means disappointing. In Sixi Village, look at the ancient buildings of the Huipai School, look at the autumn on the ridge, live in a homestay with style, taste local food, and in all aspects you can feel people's inheritance of history and culture, and what has been preserved is the idyllic freehand life that you and I yearn for.
Read life from Huipai architecture
Wuyuan belongs to Shangrao, Jiangxi, and once belonged to Huizhou, Anhui in history, and the unique Huipai architecture is especially worthy of careful viewing and perusal. One side of the water and soil nurtures one person, and the other side of the building also shapes and reflects the living habits of one party. Come to Sixi Village, cross the 600-year-old Tongji Bridge at the mouth of the village, there are groups of Huipai ancient buildings and houses, narrow alleys, high walls, people are a little confused. From the perspective of historical age and cluster scale, Sixi is an ancient architectural village worth visiting in Wuyuan, and film and television dramas such as the 1987 version of "Liaozhai" and the 2004 "Qinghua" starring Zhao Yazhi and Sichengaova have been filmed here.
In the fifth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1199 AD), the Yu family built a village here, because it is located next to Qingxi, so it is named "Sixi" with the meaning of "fish (Yu) water dependence", which has a history of more than 800 years. During the Qing Dynasty, Sixi reached its peak, and there were up to thousands of households in the village. Those old houses with a history of nearly 200 years are full of years and have read the vicissitudes, and now they are still presenting a vivid and vivid picture of life.
Water-milled green bricks, stone warehouse door fangs, pink wall Dewa, cornice horn horse head wall are the symbols of Huipai architecture. The building itself also reflects the ancient people's attention to etiquette, dignity, customs, living habits and many other aspects. The drum stone in front of the door reflects the distinction between the elders in ancient times, and when the elders enter the door, the juniors should stand behind the drum stones. After entering the door is a patio, and a Taiping cylinder filled with water is placed in the middle, which is both a metaphor for making money and is also used for fire prevention. In ancient times, in order to prevent theft and fire, the walls were very high, the windows were small, so small that the human body could not cross, and as small as a bed of water-soaked quilts could block the windows and prevent the fire from spreading to the home.
Huipai architecture pays attention to artistic aesthetics, especially brick carving, wood carving and stone carving. Walk through the three-foot alley with the feeling of "a line of heaven" to the Zhenyuan Hall built in 1812, which is a large mansion in Sixi, where the exquisite brick carvings of butterflies, bats, unicorns and carps all have beautiful meanings. The Baishou Flower Hall, which was originally the Welcome Guest House of Seongshido, has exquisite wood carvings. A total of 99 different fonts of "Shou" characters are carved on the doors and windows, and the 100th "Shou" character is the ancient mansion itself, and aerial photography can find that the baseline of its house is a huge "Shou" character. These exquisite techniques are all presented to reflect the wisdom of the ancient working people.
Slow time under the Flower Field Creek
Most of the residents of Yan Village next door to Sixi Village have moved away, and the idle old houses have been converted into homestays, while the villagers of Sixi Village are more fond of their homeland, guarding the foundation and living in the old houses left by their ancestors. As a result, not many outsiders come here to make a living, and if they come here, they will integrate into local life because they like it. There are only three homestays in Sixi Village, huatianxi is one of them, it does not disturb the lives of the villagers, but it has become one of the most popular places in the village.
The owner of Huatianxi Homestay is a designer who came to Sixi a few years ago and fell in love with the quiet life here and chose to stay. An old house in the village, dilapidated to the point of being left with only empty shells, had the power of time in his eyes. He said that the houses grown on the earth are all vital, so he used 500 days to build the old house into a homestay according to his understanding of the life he longed for, so with Huatianxi, the old house not only retained the original basic pattern and simple style, but also rejuvenated under the transformation.
The old mansion combines the three characteristics of Huipai houses, rammed earth houses and stone houses, and is simple and modern aesthetics, with colorful wall paintings, a roof garden with a wide view, and a courtyard with flowing water. The stream flowing down the mountain in the courtyard is home to blue fish and grass carp, which is the traditional way of breeding fish in wuyuan's cold water pond. 147 old objects that had been searched around the property were placed throughout the property, like a living exhibition. The carved beams of the Huipai old house were made into tables, and the stone grinding plate of grinding soy milk also appeared in the room, and it was originally transformed into a wash basin.
There is a large field in front of Huatian Creek, where the owner of the homestay sprinkles rapeseed seeds here in autumn, and a sea of flowers in spring. Rice is sown in the spring and rice can be harvested in the autumn. He said that people who have eaten rice all their lives have grown rice for the first time, which is a very magical feeling. The weather is getting cooler, the homestay eats a small hot pot, the heat steaming has warmth, with the sweet and soft sticky rice steamed with the freshly shelled rice in the field in front of the door, tourists will also have a sense of solidity into the life of Sixi.
Huangling sunbathing in autumn, the beauty of the harvest
Huangling is an ancient village with a history of more than 500 years between the Wuyuan Shi'er Mountains, surrounded by mountains, black and white Huipai houses built on the mountain, high and low in turn, which is a moving picture in itself. Autumn comes to Wuyuan, the most unmissable thing is the autumn on huangling, feel the joy of farming harvest.
Wuyuan has a lot of rain in the first half of the year, and it is often a good weather in the autumn. In the primitive farming years, when there was a surplus of crops, the ancestors used sunlight to dry the crops for storage. In a mountainous area like Huangling, where there is no three-foot flat area, and there is no large area of flat land to dry crops, the wise working people will put drying trays on the roof of each household, and dry peppers, imperial chrysanthemums, peanuts, pumpkins and other crops.
Huangling's tanning workshop is the best place to enjoy the autumn sun, go upstairs, look around, piece by piece drying of various crops, the scene is spectacular and beautiful. They come in a variety of colors, and the harvest fruit dots the Ridge and is beautiful throughout the autumn. I can't help but marvel at the simple fruits of labor is so moving scenery.
Of course, coming to Huangling is not just to see the autumn, this is the most heavyweight scenic spot in the whole Wuyuan. You can learn about traditional emblem carving, marriage customs, and living utensils in the Folklore Exhibition Hall, walk into the real Qing Dynasty old mansion in Wuguitang, see the flowers and flowing water in Huaxi Water Street, find food and shops in Tianjie, send a postcard at the post station, and feel nature more deeply in the glass trestle, zipline, and slide rafting.
Steamed vegetables and paste vegetables, wuyuan flavor of the soul
Wuyuan belonged to Huizhou, Anhui in ancient times, and naturally huipai cuisine is indispensable, Huizhou old tofu, wax flavor stewed thunder shoots, pork knuckle stewed brine egg, gravy stewed thousand buns are all old Huizhou cuisine characterized by stewing. Wuyuan now belongs to Shangrao, Jiangxi, and has the characteristics of Jiangxi spicy, ordinary dishes, mostly indispensable peppers. Come to think of it, the autumn sun that you saw on the Huangling Ridge, the peppers everywhere, must be prepared for this year's cooking to put peppers!
For Wuyuan, the real characteristics of Wuyuan are steamed vegetables and paste dishes. Wuyuan locals say that Wuyuan cuisine "no meat, no steaming, no vegetarian no paste", is about meat dishes like steaming, vegetarian dishes like to hook, so that the soup has a paste. Huangling Tianjie Restaurant has authentic steamed vegetables and paste dishes. Like steamed fish and steamed pork, people prefer the soft and continuous taste. Wuyuan paste tofu, tofu is cut into small cubes, thick sauce to make the texture of the old tofu more layers of smooth taste. Served with Jiangwan's characteristic black rice and fuku soup made with diced mushrooms, bamboo shoots and minced meat, the rustic taste is evocative.
Wuyuan has five treasures, respectively, red, white, black, green, yellow five colors, red refers to the poached red carp, ordinary people love steaming, sprinkled with green onions to remove fishy and fragrant, is the most common practice. Of course, there are also people who like a rich taste, and braised braised is very flavorful. The red carp, which is as fat as a purse, is both delicious and delicious, and has a beautiful meaning. Snacks are also steamed, Wuyuanzi cake is the representative, glutinous rice mixed with egg liquid, steamed and sliced, egg aroma and rice flavor blended.
In Wuyuan in autumn, the warm sun accompanied by a light breeze is the most refreshing, approaching those old houses, local customs, food... Those cultures and customs that are being inherited, and feel the freehand rural life, are the best scenery in Wuyuan.