In Dongguan, the manufacturing capital, there are many ancient building resources hidden. Located in Chaolang Village, Chashan Town, niuguo ancient village has a history of 800 years. In the village, more than 80 ancient houses, book houses, ancestral halls, more buildings, watchtowers, ancient temples, ancient wells, lanes, walls and other ancient buildings are well protected, and there is a slope of nearly 20,000 square meters of ancient trees, with 45 ancient trees aged between 100 and 800 years, which is a cultural and beautiful cultural tourism business card of Chashan.
In recent years, niuguo ancient village has not only attracted tourists from all over the country to visit and tour, but also become a "treasure land" sought by artists such as painting and photography, Hong Kong and Macao entrepreneurs and professional teams for the protection and revitalization of ancient villages. Professional painters Huang Yu and Deng Fen are among the representatives.
Niu GuoYi Art Museum
"It's a great place to put your 'mind'"
Huang Yu and Deng Fen are natives of Dazhou, Sichuan, and are professional painters. They came to chashan niuguo ancient village in a wind gathering activity organized by Dongguan Ogilvy Crafts Co., Ltd. The charm of Lingnan ancient villages, the original ancient trees, legends, stories... They were impressed.
In 2019, they stopped roaming the world and took root in the cattle crossing.
"We have been to Sichuan, Xinjiang, Shenzhen and many other parts of the country, felt the quiet beauty of the mountains and rivers of the motherland, the wildness of the desert, and also experienced the hustle and bustle of the city. The reason why we stopped in Niu guoyao is that the environment here is quaint and 'aura', and the other aspect is the strong support of the Chashan Town Committee, the relevant departments of the town government, and the Chaolang Village Committee for our artists and entrepreneurs. Dunfen said.
Dunfen Studio
With the listing of the Niu Guoyi Art Museum, Huang Yu and Deng Fen had their own studios in the ancient village. The area is not large, but it does not lose the "quiet" and "elegant" of the literati.
"It's a great place to put the 'mind'. Ancient buildings such as ancestral halls, genglou, watchtowers, and lanes are dominated by Lingnan culture, and I can still find many traces of Confucian culture here. Cow overscore has given me more cultural confidence. Huang Yu said.
Looking forward to the "growth" of people and ancient villages
As an original oil painter, Huang Yu has a certain degree of popularity and influence in the industry. His works "Well and Frog", "A Thousand Miles Alone", "Sky Gap", "Door Road", etc., have been exhibited in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Urumqi, Paris Louvre and other places.
Huang Yu
Works by Huang Yu
Nowadays, Huang Yu has created a number of works with the theme and background of ancient village gatehouses and ancient tree groups. "I hope that the cattle will pass on with the painting, and the painting will pass with the cattle, and the painting will be a win-win situation!" Huang Yu sighed.
Deng Fen, who loves to paint flowers, painted oil paintings such as plum blossoms, camellias, and magnolias here, and also put his paintings on top of T-shirts and other fashions, and made cultural creations. "We hope that through various platforms and channels, more artists will understand here, come here, and build a cultural and artistic village here." Deng Fen said.
Dunfen
With the acceleration of the pace of building the excellent traditional culture practice place in the Greater Bay Area, the characteristic cultural tourism town and the creation of the Guangdong Province Global Tourism Demonstration Zone, Niu Guoyi not only attracts more and more tourists to come to watch and play, but also entrepreneurs build tea shops here, which adds new vitality to the ancient village.
Cattle over
"Lead a line, build a platform, and more people will move closer to here in the future." Mai Huitang, a member of the chaolang village committee, said so.
In July 2021, Dongguan Chashan Town Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation letter of intent with Shenzhen Cultural Investment (Shenzhen) Development Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Fusion (Shenzhen) Industrial Development Co., Ltd., intending to rely on the rich cultural and tourism resources of Niuguo ancient village to jointly build the "Dongguan Tea Mountain Ancient Construction Cultural Park", and plans to set up an ancient asset management, display, exchange and trading center in the Greater Bay Area, and introduce projects such as homestays and brand catering. In the near future, the cattle will have a new look.
[Reporter] Yau Xiangming
【Author】 Qiu Mingming
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client