#讲好中国文化#
Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is cool, and the family will go to the Kang Million Manor, which is classified as a rich party and the first of the domestic estates. This is an excellent example of our Yushang spiritual home, located in Gongyi Kangdian Town, more than 70 kilometers west of Zhengzhou, located at the intersection of Song, Zhu, River and Luoming Mountains and Waters, is a water and land transportation fortress of Jinguo, prosperous people, developed water transportation, is "chasing deer in the Central Plains", seizing the world's strategic place. According to the cultural site selection concept of "the unity of heaven and man, the teacher of nature", the manor "builds buildings on the street, builds caves by cliffs, sets up wharves near rivers, and builds walls according to dangers." A large-scale feudal landlord manor integrating peasants, officials and merchants was built with its own system, complete functions, strict layout, and strict hierarchy.
According to historical records, the eight-nation coalition army invaded Beijing, burned the Old Summer Palace, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an, passing through Gongyi on the way back, Kang Hong, the treasurer of the Kang family, generously donated one million taels of silver to relieve Cixi's difficulties, and the Empress Dowager sighed that there was still a million houses in this ravine, and since then it has had the title of "Kang million", and the Kang family's manor has become the Kang million manor. Covering an area of more than 240 acres, there are 33 courtyards, 53 buildings, more than 1,300 houses and 73 caves. It is a typical two-way courtyard courtyard in western Yu.
Kangjia Manor consists of 19 building complexes, including the main residential area, the South Courtyard, the Zhanfang District, the Longwo District, the Sigou District, the Zhanggou District, the East and West Fulu Hall, the ancestral hall area, the Jixian Zhuang, the Jingu Village, the garden area, the workshop area, the shipyard, the timber yard, the brick and tile yard, the good fruit garden, the breeding area, the palace, the mausoleum area, and the stone archway, brick stele square, the housekeeper's courtyard, the Guanyin Hall, the Guandi Temple and other ancillary buildings, forming a huge manor building complex. It is far larger than Liu Wencai in Sichuan, Mou in Shandong, and more than 10 times larger than the famous Jin merchant manor Qiao family compound, building the Kang family's first business empire in the country.
Its garden design is also very unique, all kinds of brick carvings, wood carvings, stone carvings and other gorgeous and elegant, beautiful shape. Its magnificent and solemn architectural complex style integrates a strong atmosphere of agriculture, government and commerce, forming the characteristics of the Central Plains manor with the cultural atmosphere of Heluo, the defense characteristics of the walled fort and the characteristics of feudal rites and religions.
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It is said that in the seventh year of the Ming Hongwu, the reclamation plan implemented by Zhu Yuanzhang drove tens of millions of people in Shanxi to migrate to other villages, of which Kang Shouxin moved his family east to Gongyi to engage in restaurant business, becoming the first generation of reclamation people who opened up the territory of the Kang family. However, more than a hundred years later, the sixth generation of the descendant, Kang Shaojing, truly established the Kang Million family, which flourished across 12 generations of the Yushang Empire. From the beginning of wealth in the Ming Dynasty, prosperity in the Qing Dynasty, to the decline in the Republic of China, breaking the curse of the saying "rich but not three", it has lasted for more than 400 years.
The Kang million family has gone through several generations of hard work, "in the heyday, the boat traveled Luo, Huang, Yun, Jing, Wei and Yi six rivers. "Fujia, Yu, Lu, and Shaanxi provinces, the people have "head pillow Jingyang, Xi'an, foot on Linyi, Jinan; Horses run thousands of miles without eating other family's grass, and people travel thousands of miles to Kang family fields", and his family land reached more than 180,000 mu.
However, the Kang family "made a fortune by river transportation, became rich by land, and obtained officials by "contribution", and was repeatedly rewarded by the emperor, the highest official to the third grade. The Kang family is not like ordinary merchants who see profit and forgetfulness, and the Kang million family adheres to the ancestral precept of "leaving surplus", leaving room for the imperial court, the people and themselves, and is rich and does not forget the country and the people. In the past 400 years, they have built river embankments, built schools, burned contracts, and provided relief to disaster victims, all of which have won widespread praise from the world.
The two-hour tour not only made me admire the wealth of the Kang millions, but also admired the home-country feelings of the Kang family, which is an eternal model of the spiritual home of Yushang. This may be the wealth code that the Kang million family can prosper for 400 years.
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