
When it comes to Guangdong net red architecture, many friends may think of Guangzhou's small wild waist, or Zhuhai's grand theater, or Shenzhen's universiade center, in fact, these are stained with the aura of the big city, if on the early Internet red architecture in Guangdong, non-Hakka enclosures are nothing more, especially some beautifully designed enclosures, not only unique in appearance, but also full of design, unforgettable to watch, such as the former residence of the Asian ball king Li Huitang that this article is going to introduce to you.
Before introducing this former residence, let's first understand the owner of a former residence - Asian football king Li Huitang, is the world's active in the world football superstar, played 1860 goals in the regular ball game in his life, with Brazil's ball king Pele, Germany's Gad müller and so on, was recognized as the first person in Chinese football at that time, by the domestic and foreign media and fans affectionately known as "Asian ball king".
His former residence, located in Laolou Village, Hengpi Town, Wuhua County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, was built by his father Li Haoru in the eighteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (that is, 1892), which has a history of 130 years, and the most interesting thing is that from the air, the layout of the whole building is like a smiling face, nose, eyes, mouth, all clearly visible (as shown above).
Li Huitang's former residence, also known as Lianqing Lou or Lianqingwei, according to local staff, the entire building covers an area of about 4400 square meters, with a construction area of about 3590 square meters, a total of 106 large and small houses, not only belongs to the typical large households, but also has been well preserved.
The former residence of Li Huitang, the king of the ball, is a common walled village building in the Hakka area, with a layout of five rooms in width and three deep courtyards, with a horizontal house on the left and right, a four-story turret in the four corners, a wall behind it, and a valley flat, a wall, a left and right turning bucket gate and a half-moon shaped pool in front of the door.
The rightmost gallery of Li Huitang's former residence is the room where he lived when he was a child, there is a dog hole at the entrance, it is said that it was the "goal" that he practiced shooting when he was a child, it is said that he lived here after returning to Wuhua from Hong Kong when he was a child, there was no stadium in his hometown at that time, but this dog hole in front of the door was used to practice in the hole, the football kick was broken, and he used the grapefruit on the grapefruit tree at home as a ball to kick, not only practiced the accuracy of the shot, but also practiced a pair of iron legs, it is said that in the game, he once shot the opposing goalkeeper stunned, And the feat of shooting the net through is incredible.
The staff told us that Lianqing Building is a typical Hakka "four-point gold" style building, and its biggest feature is that there is a watchtower-style turret in each of the four corners of the house. The upper, middle and lower hall cornices of the turret are all octagonal plum stone columns, and the eaves columns at the bottom of the left and right horizontal houses are cobblestone columns and the second floor is a log column.
The first floor of the building's door frames, sills, door breaks, external windows, inner windows, hall pillars, hall pillars, pillar foundations, corner corners, eaves, etc. are made of granite, and the shed beams, wooden columns, railings, roof beams, trusses, etc. on the second floor are painted red. The main entrance, side door and zhuandou gate are all inscribed with calligraphy, and the upper, middle, lower halls and the screen beams and frames placed in the left and right horizontal houses are engraved with gold and wood carvings such as lions, phoenixes, fish, flowers and plants, character stories, etc., which are very exquisite, comparable to the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall in Guangzhou and the ancestral temple in Foshan.
The main entrance, side door, and zhuandou gate of LianqingLou are all inscribed in letters, and the couplet of "Lianli KunpengZhi, Qingtian Dragon and Tiger Wei" is written outside the main door, which is the Tibetan character union of the name of lianqinglou, and the door of its left small door is inlaid with a wooden plaque of "Family Heirloom Mirror", and the door link is "Four Attics Light is as good as achievements, Kyushu people Zhenhui Hall Style", the upper link hides the name of the fifth father of the ball, and the lower link hides the name of the ball king himself. The small door on the right is embedded with a wooden plaque of "Pai Yan Song Feng", and the door league "A generation of ball king Biao history, thousands of healthy will shake the dragon Wei", showing the glory of the former ball king Fengcai and Wuhua as the hometown of Chinese football.
Li Huitang's former residence (Lianqing Building) is now a Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit in Guangdong (according to Yufan, it is only a matter of time before it becomes a national key cultural relics protection unit), strolling among them, not only can appreciate the superb Hakka architectural art, but also can understand the legendary story of the King of The Ball, although the current China is enough to make the Chinese people sad, but if there can be a few more Li Huitang, Chinese football will be able to rush out of Asia, become one of the world's great powers, and even hold up the Hercules Cup, not necessarily, To know that Li Huitang has scored 1860 goals in his life, no one has been able to break the world record he has maintained, more than 500 more than Pele's 1283 goals, C Ronaldo, Messi is even more difficult to look at his back, its greatness can be seen, just like his former home, a smiley face, as if smiling at the world football, asking the world who is fighting with it?