Where is the introduction to Green Pond Village?

Green Pool Village is a village formed by immigrants. There is a pool at the entrance of the village, which looks like a dragon and is surrounded by green trees. The water in the pool is rippling with blue waves, and the water flow never stops. The common surname in the village is Wang. It is said that one of them is the descendant of Wang Decai, and the other moved from Xingtai. Introduction to Green Pool Village

Location:

It is located in Chaiguan Township, Shahe City, Xingtai, southern Hebei Province, 50 kilometers away from Shahe City.

The village belongs to the Taihang Mountains and is surrounded by mountains on three sides. The surrounding roadways are crisscrossed with ravines, dense vegetation, and the climate is cool in summer.

The village was built during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the buildings in the village are of the green tile roof type and the red stone slab roof type.

It is the most well-preserved and the most typical traditional ancient village in the South Taihang Mountains.

Lvchi Village was included in the fourth batch of Chinese traditional villages in 2016, the fourth batch of historical and cultural villages in Hebei Province in 2017, and the seventh batch of Chinese historical and cultural villages in 2019 . Distribution of attractions

More than 80 buildings are from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. These buildings are well preserved and have unique architectural styles. Most courtyard houses are connected to multiple courtyards and are mostly two-story. Five parcels of three traditional courtyards (i.e. five main rooms, three rooms in the east and west), the exterior walls are mostly assembled with red stones, assembled brick waistlines, the courtyard walls are mostly laid with black bricks, the bricks are all lying, white ash, Doors, windows and rooms are wooden frame structures, and the window lattice is modeled more squarely or ten thousand words into the body.

Gatehouse

The village gate houses are intact and have different styles. The house style of the gate is with the eaves, which tends to be ceramic tiles, and the lintels are rich in painted designs. There is a "sea", "fish" "Kill" and "Liu Bei Crossing the River", "The Romance of the West Chamber" and other characters, the lintel carvings are lifelike, the three stars of fortune, wealth and longevity, bamboo, lotus, magpie, phoenix, songbird, etc., various shapes, doors The unique shapes are diverse, the two common ones are rectangular and drum, with characters or flowers or dramas depicted on the sides.

Fan screen door

The houses in the courtyard village street are equipped with wooden "screen doors", with columns on both sides and drum-shaped stone piers under the columns, which are locally called "pier tops" Flowers, birds, insects, fish, poems and songs are carved on the stones on the screen door and columns. The screen door is only opened at weddings and funerals to allow the bride's sedan chair or birthday party to pass through.

Most houses have three, five, or seven stone steps in front of them. Customs stipulate that the stone steps must be odd. Among them, Wang Qinggong’s door stone steps are divided into upper and lower units, and each unit has seven stone steps. . The streets in the village are paved with flagstones or stones.

The landscape in the village also includes ancient attics, ancient theaters, Bodhisattva temples, street pavilions, stone arch bridges, ancient wells, ancient locust trees, etc.

Ancient cultural relics

The Wang family genealogy and a large number of house deeds, land deeds, documents and Qing Dynasty porcelain have been preserved from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. There are old couplets everywhere in the village. The door panel is painted with black paint on a red background, expressing the villagers' spiritual pursuit and showing the village's cultural connotation and calligraphy background. The representative root carver in the village is Wang Zhenmin. He uses the roots of wild shrubs as raw materials to make birds, animals, people, and dragons in various shapes. Wang Youshan, the inheritor of musical instrument making in the village, uses local poplar wood to make erhu and banhu, and enjoys a high reputation. The village has inherited the custom of "Guest", harvest celebrations and "February, finally dry wood station pancakes", millet, fishing-oriented villagers like to cook a variety of soups, mung beans, big stone grinding millet, pan-fried pancakes, wild vegetables _ slang, Storage, such as tofu, folk crafts such as paper-cutting, old coarse cloth shoes, soil, such as embroidery, Jing still have inheritance.