The origin of Baozhuang Village in Linqu County

Baozhuang Administrative Village is located in the Taihang Mountains 30 kilometers northwest of the county, and has jurisdiction over three natural villages: Baozhuang, Fanzhai and Xiaobaozhuang. There are pear trees, persimmon trees, walnut trees, and pepper trees on the ditch slopes. The main economic crops are mung beans, sesame, peanuts, etc. The village is built on Beishan Mountain and is distributed in strips from east to west. A small stream in front of the village passes around the village from west to east. It is surrounded by green mountains. It is green in summer and covered with snow in winter. There is a small reservoir in front of the village, with rippling blue waves all year round. In summer, it is a water park for young people. During the rainy season, the reservoir water overflows the dam and forms a spectacular waterfall.

Baozhuang is an ancient village. People have been living here since the Sui and Tang Dynasties at the latest. Because a family named Bao settled here in ancient times, it was named Baojiazhuang, which was later shortened to Baozhuang. The current residents date from the mid-Qing Dynasty, when two brothers named Jia Dong and Jia Zhen, ancestors of the Jia family, moved from Dongtou Village in the old district of Hebi to Fanzhai. Due to the gradual increase in population, they settled in Baozhuang and Baozhuang, one mile west of Fanzhai. Xiaobaozhuang built a village and purchased land, and built a new residence. In this way, the family was divided into three natural villages, east and west. Most of the villagers have the surname Jia, and others include Feng, Li, Qin, Wang, Zhu, Yan, etc.

Ancient folk houses

After the ancestors surnamed Jia moved to Fanzhai, they first built two courtyards with two entrances, one south and one north, in the south of the village. The south courtyard faces north. , the north courtyard faces south, and there is only one south house with five rooms left in the south courtyard. The walls are made of stone on top and brick on the hard mountain ridge. The rafters are topped by bricks. The top of the main door is made of wooden lintels and swastika windows. The east and west sides are The doors and windows on the side are all made of finely forged stone lintels above and below. There are stones at each of the four corners to prevent the walls from cracking. Because the house is built on the mountain, there are several steps in front of the door, with horse platforms on both sides. Before the Cultural Revolution, There used to be a large five-spine and six-six beasts on the roof, indicating that there had been scholars here. The north courtyard has been basically preserved, but it has also been damaged. The street gate and the inverted south house were built later. The two gates of the courtyard have basically been preserved. The courtyard gate is a gate tower building, built on a three-step staircase. The top of the gate tower has heavy beams and ridges, covered with cloth tiles, and two square wooden columns and stone carvings on the inside. The pillar base and eaves are covered with wood carvings and flower patterns. To this day, the residents here still call the descendants of Jia Dong who live in the south courtyard Nanmenli, and the descendants of Jia Zhen who live in the north courtyard call them Beimenli.

There are more than 20 ancient dwellings and more than 50 houses in the village, 6 of which are relatively intact. Most of the buildings are stone on top and brick on top, with tiles and ridges, and a few are all stone walls and flat. Top, the more representative ones are the old houses of Jia Hairong, Jia Chenglin and Jia Shuangxi.

The old house of Jia Hairong's family was built in the fifth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. It has five rooms and one floor, with a depth of 5 meters. Demolished, the gate was later rebuilt.

Jia Shuangxi’s old home was built in the early years of the Republic of China. It is a three-heyuan courtyard facing south. The south house has five rooms and two floors. The four characters "Yuxiu Juude" are engraved on the front door of the main room. When the "Four Olds" were abolished in the 1970s, the font was destroyed and the handwriting was no longer clear and difficult to read. The characters were decorated with animals and flowers carved around them. There are stone seal characters "Wan, Shou" on the foreheads on both sides. There are brick carvings of grapes above the horse door. There are brick carvings of flowers and plants at the corners of the walls. The east wing has three rooms and two floors with a flat roof. There are brick carvings of sika deer, auspicious birds and auspicious grasses on the wall tops.

Jia Chenglin’s old house is a courtyard. The building’s age is not indicated. According to the architectural style, it should be built in the late Qing Dynasty. The entire courtyard is made of uniform stones. The south house and the main house are five rooms and two floors. , the main room is a tile-roofed house, the south room has a flat roof, the east and west wing rooms are three rooms and two floors, with a mountainous and clear water ridge. The front door of the main room is carved with rich peony flowers. There are side doors between the east and west rooms on the second floor, which can be connected with the east and west wing rooms. The second floors are interconnected.

Qingquan Ancient Tree

There is an ancient spring 500 meters south of Baozhuang Village. The spring water is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is sweet and refreshing. It flows continuously all year round. It is truly pollution-free and Pure natural mineral water has the functions of health care and longevity. Most of the people who have lived here for a long time live a long life. Jia Heping's mother is over 100 years old this year and is still in good health.

There is a Chinese soapberry tree at the west end of the village. It is more than 10 meters tall and has a diameter at breast height of about 0.7 meters. It is more than 100 years old and should have been planted by the ancestors named Jia when they moved here. It still grows luxuriantly and bears abundant fruits. Under the shade, it is a good place for people to relax and enjoy the cool air.

On the ridge in the southwest corner of the village, there is an ancient cypress with a height of more than 10 meters and a circumference of two meters. According to the appraisal of relevant departments, the tree is more than 1,000 years old and was planted during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

When you walk under the tree and take a closer look, you will find that there is no soil at all where the cypress tree grows. Instead, it grows completely in the gaps between the rocks. It is not difficult to see that when the cypress tree was young, it grew in a space that was not even wide. Among the small stone cracks, more than 1,000 years have passed, and the small sapling has opened the small stone crack by more than 50 centimeters, and it has grown from a small sapling into a towering tree. People will not only ask, how can such a big tree grow in such a place where there is neither soil nor moisture? There is only one answer, and that is that the cypress tree, with its tenacious vitality, has penetrated its root system deeply into the bottom of the ditch below through the cracks in the rocks, and by absorbing the water from the ditch, it has grown into a towering tree year after year. Big tree. At the same time, it also fully reflects the traditional virtues of the villagers living here who love and protect trees.

When silkworms grow old, they grow cocoons, and when trees grow old, they grow immortals. This may express people's awe for ancient trees. It is people's awe that allows some ancient trees to survive to this day. While sighing at the strangeness of Gubai, a villager told us this past story: In the past, an old man from another village took a teenage child to Baozhuang to visit relatives, who lived near Gubai. The child went to play under the cypress tree when he had nothing to do. As a result, while playing with fire, he accidentally ignited a pile of weeds under the cypress tree and burned several cypress branches. When the child's parents found out, they quarreled with him. From then on After that, the child fell ill and could not be saved no matter how much treatment he received. He passed away a few months later.

Surrounding landscape

In addition to ancient springs and ancient trees, Baozhuang Village is surrounded by many natural and cultural landscapes, such as the Lion Cave, the west of the village, the ancient village wall in the south of the village, the ventilating building, the Rong Cave, and the Bodhisattva Temple, Liulin Reservoir, etc.

The Bodhisattva Temple is located in Yanlinggou, two kilometers southwest of Baozhuang Village. It was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It has three temples, facing south and facing north. It is a beamless conch-top building. It is currently the most complete preserved one in Qi County. Ancient temple.

The local people call the karst cave Nandong, also known as Maolian Cave. It is located on the mountainside more than 1,000 meters south of the temple. There are large caves inside the cave and small caves. The caves are connected, one layer after another, and the layers are interconnected. .

There are two peaks in the south and west of the village, locally called Xiaozhai and Dazhai. Xiaozhai is about 200 meters high, and Dazhai is more than 300 meters high. In ancient times, there were walls built on the tops of the villages. It is more than 4 feet thick, and there are still ruins of the village wall. According to legend, it was a war relic left by Yue Fei when he fought against the Jin soldiers in the western mountainous area after the fall of the Central Plains in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

According to legend, there is a stone basin on the top of Dazhai. There is a pair of toads living in the basin. Their skin is golden, so they are called golden toads. The toad is a rare treasure. He saw that if the golden toad is not removed, the stronghold will continue to grow. If this continues, dragons will rise. So the southern barbarians used magic to collect the golden toad. From then on, the stronghold stopped growing taller.

Baihuyan Temple

There is a temple built on the hillside of Baihu Mountain, one kilometer southeast of the village. Because the cliff on the south side of the temple is gray-white, it is set off and outlined by green vegetation. When viewed from a distance, it looks like a white tiger standing on the mountainside, hence the name White Tiger Rock Temple. And because there are three naturally formed stone wells in front of the temple, the water in the wells is crystal clear, and the ancients praised them as holy wells. Therefore, Baihuyan Temple is also called Shengjing Temple.

In the second year of Xuantong in Daqing (1910), the "Reconstruction of the Stele of Baihuyan Temple" said: "Half of the so-called prosperous scenery in today's world lies in the mountains, and the reason why the mountains are called prosperous must be Guizhushui is the northwest corner of Qiyi, about 50 miles away from the city. It is also called Baihuyan. It is 100 meters high in Wudi. There are three stone wells on the top of it. They are all created by nature and not artificial. Yi said: There is marsh on the mountain. "It is said that Shengjing Temple was named after this."

It is impossible to verify when Baihuyan Temple was first built. Most of the existing stone tablets are left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and most of the records are recorded. The Baihuyan Temple was rebuilt or repaired, including the "Inscription on the Reconstruction of the Sanshengtang" in the Xinwei Year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1631), and the "Inscription on the Reconstruction of the Baihuyan Temple" in the 33rd year of Qianlong (1768). In the first year of Qianlong's reign (1736), the "Inscription of the Founding of Jialan Palace" was written by Qi Shoupei, a famous scholar in Huai'an Prefecture in Jiangnan at that time. With great reverence, he enthusiastically praised Guan Yu's lifelong loyalty and courage.

The original main buildings of Baihuyan Temple include the east and west main halls, the west hall is the Sansheng Hall, the east hall is the Jialan Hall, and the north and south side rooms are used by temple owners and pilgrims. There is a tickling tree in the southwest corner of the courtyard, which is about 100 years old. When the weather is calm, if you gently scratch the trunk with your hand, the treetop will shake. Countless tourists have tried it time and time again.

The "Tickle Tree" is the crape myrtle tree. There is a proverb that "the crape myrtle blooms and blooms all day long, and the trunk and treetops will sway when you lightly scratch the trunk." Therefore, the crape myrtle tree is also called the crape myrtle tree. The tree has beautiful appearance, bright flowers, and the function of absorbing harmful substances in the air. It is a precious environmental protection plant.

Opposite the temple, there was originally a theater building. Because it was built on the edge of a steep cliff, it felt like the theater building was in the air. The roof of the theater is held up by several stone pillars, two of which are carved with a couplet:

Containing praise and blame, distinguishing between good and evil, and seeing right and wrong for a thousand years;

Contains the control of chaos, knowledge of the rise and fall, and the Spring and Autumn Period.

The words and sentences used in the couplets all come from the fine sentences in the "Three Character Classic", which fully describe the form and function of the drama. Reading and appreciating it will leave you with endless aftertaste.

Not far from the temple gate, there is a natural well, about an arm wide and only two meters deep. The water in the well is clear and sweet, as clear as a mirror. If you lean over and look at it, the reflection will be dim. The sight of it makes one's mind wander, and a sip will cure diseases and keep you fit. What's even more interesting is that although the altitude here is as high as 300 meters and there have been severe droughts for many years, the well water never dries up. In summer, no matter how heavy the rain falls, the well water does not overflow. It is not called a holy well for nothing.