Guangdong Nanhai is a place with a long history and a thick culture, its longevity and thickness are not just records in the historical materials, but deeply rooted in every village on that land, these days Yufan has continuously introduced to everyone the Songtang Village of 5 Jinshi and 20 lifters, the Baixi Village tou Village with more than 10 people from 2 Jinshi, and the Boat Village that has walked out of Huang Feihong, which belongs to Xiqiao Town, Hainan District, Foshan City, and is located under Xiqiao Mountain, one of the four famous mountains in Guangdong. This article continues to introduce you to an ancient village under xiqiao mountain - Jian Village.
Jian Village is also an ancient village, with more than 800 years of documentary history, and Songtang Village, Baixi Village head village, have preserved a large number of wok ear old houses, the village has a stream and river, with distinct Lingnan water town characteristics.
Jian Village backed by Xiqiao Mountain, in front of Tingyin Lake, adjacent to the upcoming Opening of the South China Sea Songcheng, east of Qiao Gao Highway, north of Qiao Dan Highway, is the hometown of Mr. Chen Qiyuan, the forerunner of China's modern national industry, and The talented daughter of Guangdong Xian Yuqing, it is the third batch of historical and cultural villages in Guangdong Province, and it is also one of the beautiful civilization demonstration villages built by Xiqiao Town.
Jian Village is not large, covers an area of only 2.1 square kilometers, the household registration population is only more than 2,000 people, is the only one village and one community rural collective asset management system in Xiqiao Town, the land and property in the village are coordinated into the village unified operation. There are currently seven surnames in the village, namely Chen, Xian, Li, Lin, Guo, Mo and Feng.
Jian Village has seven surnames, but it does not include the Jane surname, so where does the name of this Jane Village come from? According to legend, in the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty Song Dynasty's Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Kuo Jiading (1208 AD), in Changfeng, Huainan, Anhui Province, there was a man named Jian Qiao ren, who was following his uncle Wang Liu, the inspector of Henan Province, on an errand at that time. Later, Wang Liu was killed by Wang Xun, a traitor of the dynasty, and Jian Qiaoren was also implicated in prison, and two years later he was rescued by relatives and friends, and in the third year of Jiading, he took two nephews Jian Qing and Jian Ming and a total of eight people from his family, fled south to Guangdong, and then asked Bu and settled in Nanhai Jiangpusi (Xiqiao), since then, Jian Qiao Ren and Jian Qing and Jian Ming's two nephews have opened a village in Jian Village, and they have made a living from farming, and Jian Village has also been named.
As for the fact that Jian Village was originally named after Jian, why there is no family with the surname Jian now, because the Jian family moved here from other places, just as they originally moved to this place, the descendants of Jian Qiao Ren settled in Jian Village for eight generations, and all moved to Foshan in the second year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1663 AD). Nowadays, although Jian Village has experienced countless twists and turns, it always shows the scene of the outstanding spirit, the blessings of the people, the shade and the descendants.
The largest surname in Jian Village is now Chen, there are many Chen ancestral halls in the village, its ancestor is Chen Guangxian, in the 23rd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1390 AD), from Longxi Town, Jian'ou County, Jianyang City, Fujian Province, moved to Jian Village, Chen clan has been passed down to the twenty-sixth generation since the ancestor Chen Guangxian.
The most famous person in Jian Village is Chen Qiyuan, a patriotic overseas Chinese in modern China, a famous national entrepreneur, a sericulture scholar, and a philanthropist. He founded China's first machine reeling factory operated by national capital- Jichanglong Reeling Factory, and is one of the founders of China's modern national industry. During his lifetime, he wrote a lot of works, such as "Silkworm Spectrum", "Chen Qiyuan Arithmetic", "Tracing the Origin of Rational Qi" and so on.
The famous feng shui master on horseback once said: "The terrain of Jian Village is comforting, it is the vein of the bat pan, there is a T-shaped watermark in the village, it must belong to the famous village clan, and it will be out of the future." From the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, Jiancun Hongfa had the material of the country's pillars, in addition to the "industrial pioneer" Chen Qiyuan, Chen Zhujun, Xian Yuqing, Chen Jinyuan, Xian Bingxi and other literati and patriots appeared in an endless stream.
Facts have proved that from the Qing Dynasty to the present, there are 2 people in JianCun who have been admitted to the Jinshi, 15 people who have been admitted to the examination, 15 people who have studied abroad from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China, 30 people who have studied in the military academy in the Republic of China, 3 doctoral students and 8 master's students after the 80s. From ancient times to the present, the literati of Jian Village have emerged from generations and achieved a legend of one side.
Jian Village still preserves dozens of ancient buildings, of which the Beidi Ancient Temple hidden in the residences can be described as a treasure in the village, was founded in 1277 AD, more than 700 years ago, in addition to the reconstruction of the Chen Ancestral Hall in 1837, built in 1854, built in 1854, Nanzhuang Xian Gong Ancestral Hall and the village's most magnificent Qiting Chen Gong Ancestral Hall are more than 100 years old buildings, stone carving, brick carving, wood carving, gray sculpture are very exquisite, the Lingnan area of the architectural art is displayed vividly.
In addition to the Northern Emperor Temple and the ancestral halls of major surnames, there are many century-old houses in Jian Village, all of which are traditional wok-ear houses, many of which were built by Chen Qiyuan in the eighth year of Qing Guangxu (1882), the granite rock wall foot is as high as a meter high, and two of them are also installed with seamless steel plates imported from Germany, which can be used to prevent enemy aircraft from dropping bombs, and can prevent bandits, quite a bit of the function of opening a flat tower, but living is more comfortable than the tower.