Construction techniques of ancient dwellings in Heyang
Heyang Village in Jinyun, Lishui City, located in the Xiandu National Scenic Area of Jinyun County, was built in 932 AD and has a history of more than 1,000 years. It is a charming historical and cultural ancient village. Heyang Village still preserves more than 1,500 ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 15 ancient ancestral halls, 6 ancient temples, and a five-hole bridge from the Qing Dynasty. Walking into Heyang Village, you can see the "18-room" courtyards are scattered and orderly, with blue bricks and white walls, towering horse head walls, ancient murals and ancient poems everywhere; the interior is spacious and bright with painted buildings and carved beams. Heyang Village has a long history and profound cultural heritage. The ancestors of the Zhu family passed down the family tradition of farming and reading, attached importance to agriculture and business, and produced many talents and became rich. In the Yuan Dynasty, eight Jinshi were born, forming the "Yiyang Poetry School". The existing water system of one stream and two pits and the village layout of one street and five lanes were designed in the Yuan Dynasty. There are more than ten ancient ancestral halls and hundreds of old houses with a total of more than 1,500 rooms, most of which were built in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is a clan manor-style ancient residential building complex. The ancient Song Dynasty temple "Fuchang Temple" that combines three religions in the village, the "Eight Scholars Gate" of the Yuan Dynasty and the stone "Rare" bestowed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in front of the "Eight Scholars Gate". Ancient bridges, farm tools, furniture, murals, poems, plaques, carvings, and Heyang window paper-cuts, which are considered to be a unique Chinese folk art. As well as the relics of the peasant uprising army of successive dynasties and the quaint folk activities, they constitute a rare thousand-year-old cultural ancient village in the south of the Yangtze River.