Dingnan Folk Tales--Miao's Ancestor and Shuixi Huangwuwei

Jiangxi
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Huang's Huangwuwei in Shuixi Village, Laocheng Town, was proposed by Miao's ancestor to be built in the sixth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1827), with a history of 186 years. The enclosed house faces west and east, with a front width of about 42 meters, a depth of 30 meters, and an area of 1,260 square meters. The plane architectural composition is in the shape of the Chinese character "眀". It is a Hakka enclosed house with two entrances, three halls, four wells, and four turrets, and a loess-rammed hanging mountain top in the Pearl River Basin. According to the oral account of the local Huang elders: In the sixth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1827), Huang's ancestor in Shuixi Village, Laocheng Town married Miao from Binguang Village, Tianjiu Town (hereinafter referred to as Miao's ancestor). After Miao's ancestor married, she saw that her husband's family had many houses but few houses, and the living environment was poor. Because Shuixi Village, Laocheng Town is located in a remote mountainous area at the junction of Jiangxi and Guangdong, mountain bandits often invaded the village, and she was very anxious. She was thinking that she must solve the housing problem in the shortest time. So she took the opportunity to visit her parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival and drew a simple blueprint based on the appearance of the old house in Binguang Village, Tianjiu Town, her parents' home. When she returned to her husband's home, she calculated the savings of her husband's family and her own private money. She discussed with her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law and decided to build a house and a enclosure. She built the Shuixi Huangwu enclosure according to the local conditions and her ability. Three years after the enclosure was built, due to insufficient funds for the project, she invited her cousins from the same clan to contribute funds to complete it together. Because the Feng Shui environment here is responsible for the prosperous pattern of the population, after the enclosure was built, the daughter-in-law in the enclosure gave birth to twins year after year, and the family population increased in a short period of time, and the phenomenon of human-pointed houses appeared. Therefore, she gathered a lot of funds in a short period of time and built another water enclosure across the river. However, it was blocked by the influence of the local Xu family's Feng Shui ancestral land at that time. She had to continue to build the dragon throne house with four artillery platforms on the basis of the built water enclosure to solve the problem of too many people and too few houses at that time. Over the past 200 years, the area has been prosperous in both population and wealth. More than 600 descendants of the Huang family have moved out of this area. In history, there have been several scholars, military scholars, department-level cadres and millionaires. Through the unremitting efforts and struggles of their descendants, the Xu family was finally defeated and forced to move to another place. Today, nearly 20 descendants of the Huang family in this area have built houses and multiplied in the county. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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