Fenghuang Ancient Village

At the foot of Fenghuang mountain, Fuyong street, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, there is an ancient village with a history of more than 700 years, where descendants of Wen Tianxiang, a national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, gather. Here, there are more than 60 well preserved residential buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which have important material value and historical and cultural value. This village is Fenghuang ancient village. This ancient building complex is a rare one in South China and the best preserved one in Shenzhen.

Fenghuang Ancient Village

Fenghuang ancient village was originally called "Lingxia village",

Located at the foot of Fenghuang mountain, Fuyong street, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, it is an ancient village with a history of more than 700 years, covering an area of 52000 square meters and a total construction area of 43000 square meters.

The ancient private schools and study rooms in Fenghuang ancient village are still well preserved. It is one of the most well preserved ancient buildings in southern China with the largest number of ancient buildings in Shenzhen. There are 69 Ming and Qing dwellings, 5 private school libraries, 12 ancestral halls, 12 ancient wells, 12 ancient trees, 6 main roadways and 35 secondary roadways in Fenghuang ancient village, which have important material value and historical and cultural value.

In 2009, Fenghuang ancient village was designated as an immovable cultural relic in Bao'an District.

In 2016, it was listed as one of the six key ancient villages in Shenzhen purple line planning.

In 2017, it was selected as one of the "ten scenes of Bao'an".

Historical evolution

According to the judgment of archaeological experts, from the late Neolithic period 5000-6000 years ago to the Bronze Age 3000-4000 years ago, human beings lived and multiplied in Fenghuang ancient village.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Fenghuang ancient village had formed a fixed small village,

In the Song Dynasty, there were five small villages in Fenghuang ancient village, which were called Lingxia village at that time.

In the first year of Deyou (1275) in the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the army of the Yuan Dynasty moved southward. Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured. The Wen family broke up and fled to the barren areas along the coast of Bao'an. Wen Bi, Wen Tianxiang's younger brother, and his family first lived in heziyuan, near the coast in the west of Songgang. Wen Yinglin, Wen Tianxiang's grandson, moved to Lingxia (Fenghuang) with his second son and some of his family members during the Dade period of the Yuan Dynasty to establish a village and breed.

In August 2000, the Shenzhen cultural relics survey team and the Luoyang archaeological team of Henan Province excavated and found a large number of ancient grinding stone tools, stonework wheels, a large number of sand containing pottery pieces and various grain shaped pottery pieces beside Fenghuang ancient village.

Architectural features

After the wenyinglin people moved to Fenghuang village, they unified the layout and style of houses, planned and built houses of Guangfu style in southern China, and formed a large-scale ancient Fenghuang village with many buildings.

There are woodcut animal and plant patterns in the buildings of Fenghuang ancient village. Whether it is a luxury house or a general residence, there are mascot like sculpture patterns on the top of the gate. There are three-dimensional sculpture patterns or murals from the upper part of the external wall to the lower part of the eaves, and most of the wooden eaves have woodcut patterns of people's stories or flowers and trees. In addition, the laneway of Fenghuang ancient village is quite unique, and the path paved with bluestone slabs runs through the whole village. In order to adapt to the hot climate in southern China, the height to width ratio of laneways in Fenghuang village is usually between 1.5:1 and 2:1, which makes most laneways in the shadow of buildings all day, and the dominant wind direction in summer forms cold laneways. Because of the "comb type layout", passers-by can only see rows of gables and village doors in the roadway, and can't see through the houses at a glance.

Cultural relics

overview

Fenghuang ancient village is one of the ancient villages with the largest number, largest area and best preserved ancient buildings in Shenzhen. Fenghuang ancient village has 69 intact ancient residential buildings, 12 ancient ancestral halls, 5 ancient libraries and private schools.

Fenghuang ancient village has more than 2000 groups of gray sculpture figures, animal and plant patterns, more than 3600 groups of wood characters, animal and plant patterns, more than 500 groups of stone characters, animal and plant patterns, more than 1000 groups of murals, and 17 stone inscriptions with Yang characters. On the top of the inner wall of the front hall of Maoshan public school, there is a huge Ming Dynasty style painted figure story painting "Eight Immortals", which is the only intact Ming and Qing Dynasty mural in Shenzhen.

Main attractions

Cultural relic value

Fenghuang ancient village carries the patriotism spirit of "who has never died since ancient times, leaving his heart to shine on history", condenses the original traditional culture, carries the national memory, condenses nostalgia, and becomes a precious spiritual home.

As one of the carriers of Lingnan culture, Fenghuang ancient village integrates natural landscape, moral tradition, folk customs, architectural aesthetics and national spirit. It has profound cultural heritage and important historical, cultural, architectural, artistic and tourism values.

Fenghuang ancient village has precious cultural value. Its architectural pattern, decorative features and natural environment are the epitome of different traditional art factions, simultaneous interpreting the diversity of traditional cultural heritage. Fenghuang village is a rare treasure house of comprehensive ancient architectural culture and art in Shenzhen and even Guangdong Province.

History and culture

historical figure

Fenghuang ancient village is the ancestral home and residence of Wen Tianxiang's descendants and clan. In the Southern Song Dynasty, when the yuan army went south, Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured. On the way to escort him, he wrote down the eternal masterpiece of "who has never died since ancient times? Let's take the heart to shine on history". After the defeat of the song army, the Wen family fled to the desolate coastal area in the southwest of Bao'an. Wenbi, Wen Tianxiang's younger brother, and his descendants moved to Lingxia (now Fenghuang community) to settle down, set up a village, and propagated their offspring. After several generations of hard management, they formed the rudiment of Fenghuang ancient village.

Cultural Activity

To commemorate and praise Wen Tianxiang's loyalty and courage, the Wen family in Shenzhen hold a grand sacrifice ceremony every year to pass on Wen Tianxiang's loyalty to the country and love for his family from generation to generation.

In 2014, Fenghuang ancient village, as the branch venue of Shenzhen cultural fair, held relevant activities for two consecutive years, and received more than 200000 tourists in total, becoming a resort for citizens to express their love for the past.

protective measures

In November 2001, representatives of the descendants of "seven rooms" (including the Wen elders in Bao'an and Dongguan, the Wen clan association in Hong Kong, and Wen clan living abroad) reached a consensus to raise funds to repair the ancestral hall. In addition to maintaining the function of the ancestral hall, the repaired ancestral hall was also turned into "Wen Tianxiang Memorial Hall". In the square in front of the ancestral hall, a tall statue of Wen Tianxiang is set up. On both sides of the gate, a couplet of "song Tingzhu stone, the fragrance of the Confucian Temple" is set up. This couplet is engraved in gold on the two stone pillars in front of the main hall, which is the eternal masterpiece of Wen Tianxiang's crossing the ocean. On the left and right sides of the walls, one side is inlaid with "Zhengqi song" engraved with granite, and the other side is inlaid with the origin and development of Wen's "Qifang".

In 2009, Fenghuang ancient village was designated as an immovable cultural relic in Bao'an District.

In 2014, Baoan District government launched the first phase of the protective development project of Fenghuang ancient village, invested 78 million yuan to repair 150 ancient buildings, completed the construction of ancient village roadway and municipal pipe network, and successfully promoted the "Fenghuang creation and research base" of China Academy of arts to settle in Fenghuang Ancient Village.

In 2014, the Chinese Academy of Arts signed a contract with Baoan District government to establish a phoenix creation and research base in Fenghuang ancient village.

In 2016, Fenghuang ancient village was listed as one of the six key ancient villages in Shenzhen purple line planning.

Visit information

geographical position

Address: Fenghuang ancient village is located at the foot of Fenghuang mountain, Fuyong street, Bao'an District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province.

 

Opening Hours

All day: Monday to Sunday, free admission.

traffic

Shenzhen public transport

Take No.107, No.234, no.m236, no.367 to Fenghuangshan terminal,

Take bus No.301, and the station is called "Fenghuang intersection station".

Self driving

Guangzhou Shenzhen Expressway and national highway 107 pass through the west of Fenghuang, and airport lotus Expressway passes through the southeast of Fenghuang. The mountain entrance is 5 kilometers away from Shenzhen International Airport, and is less than 1 hour's drive away from Guangzhou, Dongguan, Huizhou, Longgang, Shenzhen SAR and Hong Kong.

There are two main roads into Shenzhen Fenghuangshan forest park. One is Fenghuang Avenue (Fenghuang village - Shanmen archway), the other is Baifeng Road (baishixia - Fenghuang Village).

Address: 172 Fenghuangshan Avenue, Shenzhen

Longitude: 113.8376441

Latitude: 22.6896688

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

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