Zoumatang ancient village

Zoumatang, a thousand year old village, is located in Maoshan, Yinzhou District, south of Ningbo. It is known as "the ancient county of Siming, the land of literature, the victory of rivers and mountains, the Rao of land and water". In the village, there are many ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, simple customs and numerous cultural relics. In the past dynasties, there were 76 Jinshi, known as "the first village of Jinshi in China". Zoumatang now has a total population of more than 1500 people, all surnamed Chen. According to historical records, it was first built in the Duangong period of the Northern Song Dynasty (988 A.D.), when the Chen family moved from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province to live here for more than a thousand years. At that time, Chen Jin, a Jinshi of Changzhou, was appointed as the magistrate of Mingzhou. After his death, he was buried in Maoshan. His son guarded the mausoleum for his father and settled down in zoumatang with his family. Therefore, he became the ancestor of zoumatang people today and has been handed down for 38 generations. The genealogy of the Chen family, which is stored in Tianyige, Ningbo today, clearly and detailedly records the thousand year changes of the family. The whole village is surrounded by water, with waterways extending in all directions. There is a pond in the village, the "fan fan" is the center where waterways converge, and there is a thousand year old tree beside it. There are still eight Ming Dynasty buildings in the village, especially in the Qing Dynasty. The other three buildings with Western traces in the period of the Republic of China are also very typical. The carving art of stone windows is amazing. There are 76 ancient buildings in each period in the village, each with its own characteristics. What's more, the village has not been fully developed, so there is no need for any tickets at present. The most valuable thing is the simplicity of the local people. We can understand the local customs and historical culture through the communication with the villagers. Zhejiang University has listed it as a research base of ancient Chinese history. It's 30 minutes' drive from downtown. The whole village is surrounded by water, with waterways extending in all directions. There is a pond in the village, the "fan fan" is the center where waterways converge, and there is a thousand year old tree beside it. There are 76 ancient buildings in each period in the village, each with its own characteristics. What's more, the village has not been fully developed, so there is no need for any tickets at present. The most valuable thing is the simplicity of the local people. We can understand the local customs and historical culture through the communication with the villagers. Transportation: take a bus from the railway station to Xingning bridge, and take a minibus to Maoshan at the bottom of the cave. It's about 25 minutes' drive, and the fare is 3.5 yuan. Then take a motor tricycle (2-3 people, 5 yuan / car), and it's about 5 minutes to zoumatang.

Zoumatang ancient village

Zoumatang ancient village, a thousand year old village, is located in Maoshan, Yinzhou District, south of Ningbo. It is known as "the ancient county of Siming, the land of literature, the victory of rivers and mountains, the Rao of land and water".

Brief introduction of zoumatang ancient village

In the village, there are many ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, simple customs and numerous cultural relics. In the past dynasties, there were 76 Jinshi, known as "the first village of Jinshi in China". Zoumatang now has a total population of more than 1500 people, all surnamed Chen. According to historical records, it was first built in the Duangong period of the Northern Song Dynasty (988 A.D.), when the Chen family moved from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province to live here for more than a thousand years.

Ancient history of zoumatang

Zoumatang, a thousand year old village, is located in Maoshan, Yinzhou District, south of Ningbo. It is known as "the ancient county of Siming, the land of literature, the victory of rivers and mountains, the Rao of land and water". At that time, Chen Jin, a Jinshi of Changzhou, was appointed as the magistrate of Mingzhou. After his death, he was buried in Maoshan. His son guarded the mausoleum for his father and settled down in zoumatang with his family. Therefore, he became the ancestor of zoumatang people today and has been handed down for 38 generations. The genealogy of the Chen family, which is stored in Tianyige, Ningbo today, clearly and detailedly records the thousand year changes of the family. The whole village is surrounded by water, with waterways extending in all directions. There is a pond in the village, the "fan fan" is the center where waterways converge, and there is a thousand year old tree beside it. There are still eight Ming Dynasty buildings in the village, especially in the Qing Dynasty. The other three buildings with Western traces in the period of the Republic of China are also very typical. The carving art of stone windows is amazing. Zhejiang University has listed it as a research base of ancient Chinese history. It's 30 minutes' drive from downtown. There are 76 ancient buildings in each period in the village, each with its own characteristics. What's more, the village has not been fully developed, so there is no need for any tickets at present. The most valuable thing is the simplicity of the local people. We can understand the local customs and historical culture through the communication with the villagers.

Transportation: 632-1 Maoshan direct. Time: 7:15 8:15 9:15 10:45 12:15 13:45 15:15 16:15

Tips: when you enter the village, you can first go to the lotus pool at the entrance of the village to enjoy the lotus. On the left side of the pool is a beautiful horse head wall. There is a path beside the wall, from which you can start to visit the whole village. You can even walk all over the village without an umbrella in the rain, because there are cornices in front of the ancient houses to avoid the wind and rain. During the period, you can have lunch at the restaurant at the entrance of the village. The price is reasonable. After dinner, you can take a lunch break in the shop, and then go back to the village at dusk to enjoy the ancient village in the sunset. This is the best time for photography. When you are satisfied, you can take a motor tricycle back to Maoshan, and take a car back to Ningbo from Maoshan (usually you have a car back to Ningbo very late). The whole journey will not exceed 50 yuan / person.

Zoumatang village, Yinzhou, was named "charming town" among the first 18 charming towns in China, which was promoted to the world during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

The cold window breaks the horse pool

Zoumatang, a thousand year old village, has been in mind for a long time. It is said that there are many Ming and Qing ancient buildings, simple customs, and many cultural relics in the village. According to records, since the Northern Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been 76 Jinshi and 161 local officials in the Chen family, which is known as "the first village of Jinshi in China". For anyone who loves reading, it naturally has a unique attraction - not to mention me who loves to travel mountains and rivers and explore the ancient world besides reading. I hope to find the spirit and motivation of Jinshi there.

Zoumatang village is located in Maoshan Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo. It is located in Yinnan plain, near Dongjiang River, a tributary of Fenghua river. It is only 20 kilometers away from the urban area. One morning during the May Day festival, my wife and I took a minibus from Xingning bridge to Maoshan for more than half an hour, and then took a tricycle for a few minutes to zoumatang village.

Zoumatang village is surrounded by Hucun River, which grows into a square pattern and connects with the outside world through Pingqiao. Passing through the new memorial archway of "the first Jinshi village in China" standing on the side of the village road, you can walk not far to the Zilai bridge on the southeast side of zoumatang village. Zilai bridge has taken the meaning of "Ziqi comes from the East" for quite a few years. Under the bridge, there are a lot of carved stones and stones, which are speechless about its long past. However, the bridge deck is also a modern concrete pavement, just like an ancient man who only wore a poor suit. Looking from the bridge to the village, I don't see any excellent old houses. But in front of me, there are many rough concrete roads and some less luxurious and ordinary rural houses built in recent years. Since ancient times, the old houses have been replaced by the new ones. But at this time, I don't think that the old houses are dwarfed by a large number of new ones. On the contrary, I think that around the old houses which are simple and heavy, the new ones are really ugly and rough, with little aesthetic feeling, which makes the whole village like a plain peasant woman, but they are accidentally coated with inferior lipstick. Maybe it's because it hasn't been developed yet, maybe it's because of the vicissitudes of time. In my mind, the ancient village under the first impression has created some gaps.

Entering the village from zilaiqiao with a touch of disappointment, the first thing you can see is the stone tablet listed by Zhejiang University as the research base of ancient Chinese history, surrounded by thatch and garbage. It shows that there is a lot of historical precipitation here, but it seems to have been forgotten. It's not far from zilaiqiao along the South Street to the old street. The old street is not long. It's about 20 or 30 meters long. It's a two-story wooden building along the street. You can see that it used to be a commercial place. However, different from other ancient town commercial streets with the status of regional historical business center, they were small in scale and without any time-honored brands. It is estimated that they were just for the daily needs of the village at that time. On the wooden wallboard of the old street, some quotations of Chairman Mao during the cultural revolution can still be seen. This makes me feel that there will be a lot of old relics in the village. At the same time, it also shows the stagnation and backwardness of the development with other suburban villages. It's a bit incredible. This will be in Ningbo, which is changing with each passing day. To the east of the old street is the "Yizhong hall". There are a lot of chatting villagers at the gate, and two stone drums carved in the Ming Dynasty have become leisure seats. Therefore, I guess this is the so-called "Lei Gu Qiang men". The courtyard is very messy, with a lot of farm utensils and sundries. The plaque on the hall is old but simple. But I don't know whether the context here has been broken, or there are no scholar and old gentleman in the village now. The calligraphy of the 76 Jinshi list hanging in front of the hall is very rough, which can't be complimented. The village of Jinshi shouldn't have no old people who have a good command of calligraphy! I don't know if it's a long time since I've been visited by tourists, or if it's still common. The villagers' curiosity and exploration to me is just a simple answer of "nothing to see". On the north side of the front street of yizhongtang, there is a little water channel. A sister-in-law is washing clothes and washing vegetables. The area of the water channel is not large, but there is an ancient stele that "the public forbids" the sewage to enter the pool, which is worth pondering. I can't help thinking of "the quality is clean, come and go, don't teach the sewage to sink into the ditch." How can we protect the environment? In places where there is no "flowing water", only protection can keep one side of water clean, otherwise it will be futile to "dig and fill, fill and dig again".

Walking out of the "Yizhong hall" and continuing westward, you will arrive at the new Chen ancestral hall, which is located in the southwest corner of the village and faces the river. The ancestral hall is opposite

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