Gaoyingli Valley house

Gu house was built in the 1840s, that is, in the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. Originally owned by Chen Yingshi, the house was sold to the Gu family (Gu Chaohao's grandfather) in the 1850s. Gu Chaohao, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous mathematician, spent his youth here. Influenced by his brother Gu Chaoying, Gu Chaohao is an active member of Wenzhou Middle School's "may reading club". In addition to reading progress books, they also held meetings in the wild or in the mountains for many times. The south wing of the valley house was also one of the places for their revolutionary activities. It covers an area of 844 square meters and a construction area of 650 square meters. It is a seven room two entrance courtyard style residence, which is composed of hall, box building, main hall and back shack. The plane layout is neat and symmetrical.

Gaoyingli Valley house

No. 11 gaoyingli, Lucheng, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, was built in the 1840s, covering an area of 778.4 square meters and a building area of 654.9 square meters. It is a seven Bay quadrangle house, which is composed of main hall, two rooms and hall. The abutment faces east, slightly concave. The courtyard is divided into seven small courtyards with deep and stuffy atmosphere. In the house, the well, the fence, the flowers and plants, and the strange stones are well arranged; the beams, columns, and wall lines are simple and elegant

brief introduction

Guzhai is the fourth batch of cultural relics protection units announced by our city. It was originally located in gaoyingli of the urban area. As one of the typical residential buildings in our city, it embodies the distinctive local style of Wenzhou. In 2004, due to the reconstruction of the old city, it was relocated to the Bailuzhou Park at the intersection of Jinxiu Road, Wenruitang River and Feixia South Road in Lucheng District. The project was successfully completed in July 2007, basically restoring the historical pattern. Due to the change of function, today's Valley house can't reflect the whole picture of that year. The author records the introduction of the descendants of the valley house, so as to preserve a trace of the historical memory of that year.

Gaoyingli, an ordinary Lane in Lucheng District, starts from the front of the county in the South and ends at the back of the county in the north. It is 122 meters long and 5.8 meters wide. It is located at the foot of Huagai mountain with high terrain. There is a folk saying that "water overflows the city's gate teeth and high profit falls on the toes". It is really a good place to build a house. In Qing Dynasty, the place name gaoyingtou was changed to its present name after liberation. The alley is simple and quiet. Before the reconstruction in 2004, there were many deep and quiet residential courtyards along the alley, among which the best preserved one was the valley house located in the middle of the alley.

origin

Gu house was built in the 1840s, that is, in the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. Originally owned by Chen Yingshi, the house was sold to the Gu family (Gu Chaohao's grandfather) in the 1850s. Gu Chaohao, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous mathematician, spent his youth here. Influenced by his brother Gu Chaoying, Gu Chaohao is an active member of Wenzhou Middle School's "may reading club". In addition to reading progress books, they also held meetings in the wild or in the mountains for many times. The south wing of the valley house was also one of the places for their revolutionary activities.

mechanism

It covers an area of 844 square meters and a construction area of 650 square meters. It is a seven room two entrance courtyard style residence, which is composed of hall, box building, main hall and back shack. The plane layout is neat and symmetrical. The whole courtyard is adjacent to gaoyingli in the East. Along the road, the courtyard wall is more than 3 meters high. It is built with small green bricks and clear water. The top is made with brick frame like line feet. It is simple and generous. The frame is stacked with exquisite hollow brick carvings, which is in contrast with the simple wall. The front of the hall is equipped with a platform door, which is slightly inward, and the courtyard walls on both sides are in the shape of eight characters, which is a common practice of Wenzhou platform door, and also in line with the traditional culture of "introverted" and "hidden". The platform door is equipped with three steps, and the left and right arc vertical bands are carved with granite. The shape is simple and smooth. On the door is a granite lintel, finely carved mixed owl thread feet, and the upper exquisite brick bucket arch set off each other. Although the platform door is made of brick, its form faithfully imitates the wooden structure. On the lintel, there is a brick flat beam. The upper bucket arch is built four times. The front part comes out of the hemp leaf head, and the upper part is the overhanging brick. The top layer is made of brick rafters, and the sitting bucket horizontally bears the center beam.

Inside is the hall, which is made of distracted columns and made into a su style Yuanyang hall, which is divided into two parts: the front and the back. There is a screen door between the central pillars, on which the original "zhongshudi" plaque is on one side. The entrance hall is set with doors and windows on one side of the inner courtyard. The window pattern is carved with Ruyi rolled grass and Kui dragon pattern, which is beautiful and lifelike.

Across the hall is the central patio. There are eight patios in the valley house, which is the largest one. The patio is covered with granite slabs, each of which is 1 meter square. It is fine and smooth, and there are no weeds between the joints. It shows the high level of craftsmanship of that year. There is a stone corridor in the middle of the patio, slightly higher than the patio on both sides, leading to the main hall. The top of the corridor strip stone is processed into a micro arch shape, which is not easy to accumulate water after rain. The master also separated two small spaces with low walls in front of the wing room. With the surrounding powder walls and tiles, the courtyard was more empty and quiet. A well is cleverly arranged behind the leaky window of the low wall. It is small and exquisite, and the water quality is clean.

In those days, the courtyard was luxuriant in vegetation, with a water tank at each corner to store rainwater dripping from the eaves to prevent fire. Large pots of brick camellia, orchid, peony, white and pink hydrangea, peony, Magnolia, etc. are blooming all the year round. There are movable cloth sheds in the patio, which can cover the hot sun for flowers and trees in summer.

The wing rooms on both sides of the patio are Louju, the ground floor is for living, and the upstairs is the study. The setting sun, golden sunlight through the flower window, in the mottled wood cast warm shadow, people can not help but sigh years like this.

The main hall is a seven room three mountain suspended building with strict layout division, and the living, activities and living functions do not interfere with each other. In the Ming Dynasty, there is a long table in front of the screen door. There are vases, three stars and a picture of longevity hanging on the left and right. There are eight immortals tables in front of the table and two rows of chairs, tables and tea tables on both sides. The second room is the owner's living room, and the back of the tip room is the kitchen. The small patio in front of the tip has a deep artistic conception of the garden. The wall facing the doors and windows has a gray sculpture with the word "Fu". There are several clusters of stalagmites in the flower bed and bamboo leaves in the breeze. In the patio covered with moss, sitting in front of the stone bench table can make people temporarily forget the troubles of the world.

The backyard of the valley house is small. According to Gu's descendants, herbs were mainly planted in the hospital in those years. In addition, mulberry and Bauhinia were also planted in the flower beds, and potted orchids were placed on the stone benches next to them. Originally, there were mounds of soil and rockery behind the courtyard, and loquat, mulberry and orange were planted on the mountain. The other three rooms are granary, firewood warehouse and even shed, where farm tools such as windmill, mill and mortar are placed, reflecting the rich flavor of farmhouse.

This year, the house was built in the Bailuzhou Park, basically restoring its original appearance in history, which is also regarded as preserving a rare historical and cultural heritage for Wenzhou. But the sky of the valley house is no longer the original one. Standing in the patio, we can no longer see the green trees of Huagai mountain, which inevitably makes us feel a little lost.

Address: Feixia South Road, Lucheng District, Wenzhou City

Longitude: 120.667434

Latitude: 27.998456

Opening hours: all day

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