From the urban area of Zhongxian County, through the Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway at the Baishi Toll Station, along the Baishichang Town into Sanhuichang Town, and then through nearly 17 kilometers of rural roads, you will come to Luoling Village in Sanhui Town (picture from Baidu Map screenshot).
At the end of the country road, you can see a seemingly ordinary farm yard hidden in the green mountains and water. According to the nearby villagers, this is the former residence of the famous local Luo Guangwen Luo Guangbin. Behind the courtyard and on the left and right sides are a continuous mountain bag, which the locals call the "Five Horse Return Trough" from the perspective of feng shui.
After passing a stone road of about 100 meters, enter the former residence courtyard dam, which is a courtyard dam paved with stone slabs and is the most complete part of the entire former residence.
From the well-preserved and well-designed drainage facilities along the edge of the courtyard dam, it is speculated that the entire courtyard should have been more elaborate when it was built.
Standing in the middle of the courtyard dam and looking ahead, in the near distance is a pond (paddy field), outside the pond is a convenient road, in the distance is a dense forest, the view is wide.
There are stone steps about 80 centimeters high on the left, middle and right sides of the dam, and there are five stone ladders on each side for pedestrians to go up and down.
The stone ladders on the front are slightly wider, and the stone ladders on both sides are slightly narrower. Stone steps and stone ladders have been severely weathered, witnessing the vicissitudes of time.
On the stone steps on the left stands a heavily weathered stone pillar foundation, on which the wooden pillar has disappeared. According to legend, there were many wooden pillars and wooden plaques carved with dragons and phoenixes in the former residence, which have now been destroyed or scattered among the people.
On the right stone step, a pillar base carved with a circular pattern is built under the earthen brick wall, and the surface is heavily weathered.
On the stone wall on the left hangs a wooden plaque numbered 500233-0984 "Former Residence of Luo Guangwen Luo Guangbin, an immovable cultural relic of Zhongxian Architectural Class".
The house on the right has been turned into a farm vegetable field, leaving only a few moss-covered ruins of the ruins, holding on to its former glory.
In the grass behind the house stands a large stone block, scraping the surface of the moss to reveal a beautifully carved pattern.
By chance, a very irregular stone was found in the dirt of the vegetable field, and the soil on the surface was washed off with water, and it turned out to be a stone lion sculpture
Behind the house there is a well that is more squarely built with stone, which is covered with strips of stone, leaving only a narrow wellhead.
The well water is crystal clear and is the main source of drinking water for nearby villagers. According to the villagers, even during the drought years, the well never seems to have dried up.
According to the 72-year-old Luo Youquan (Luo Guangwen, Luo Guangbin's nephew), there were originally many primitive megalithic landscapes near the former residence, such as the Nine Dragons, Lion Stone, Yantai Stone, etc., but unfortunately they have been artificially destroyed, and only a few traces are left.
The compound is where Lieutenant General Luo Guangwen of the Nationalist Army and anti-Japanese general Luo Guangwen and Luo Guangbin, author of the famous novel "Red Rock", lived in their childhood. The picture shows the restoration of the Luo family compound (picture from the network).
At present, the local town government has opened the main traffic road to the Hongyan Community (Luojia Compound), and is working on the restoration of the former residence and building it as a rural tourist attraction. The picture shows the renderings of the restoration of Luo Guangwen's former residence of Luo Guangbin (picture from the mobile phone station in Zhong County).