Anzhenburg

Anzhenbao, commonly known as "chiguancheng", is located in Huainan township of Yong'an City, 110 kilometers away from the urban area. In May 2001, it was named as the national key cultural relics protection unit. It is a rare large-scale residential building in Fujian Province. It is one of the most intact ancient rammed stone buildings in Fujian Province. Anzhenbao was built in 1885 and completed in 14 years. It covers an area of about 10000 square meters, with a construction area of 6000 square meters. It has more than 320 rooms, 18 main halls and lower halls, 12 kitchens and 5 wells, which can serve more than 1000 people. Chi zhanrui, the owner of anzhen castle, was a local Gongsheng and rich man in the late Qing Dynasty. In view of the rise of banditry in the late Qing Dynasty, he spent more than ten thousand money to build this earthen castle. Anzhen castle is a building of dragon house style, with a simple and solemn appearance. It is a courtyard style residence with corridor style earthen building and hall as the center. It faces east in the west, with a square front and a semicircular back. It is built according to the mountain, and gradually increases. From a distance, it has distinct layers and extraordinary momentum. As soon as you enter anzhen castle, you can see an open-air training area that can accommodate thousands of people. Looking up, you can see that it is a large main gate with a height of more than 10 meters, which is made of huge stones. On the top of the gate, there are three big words "anzhen Castle", and a couplet written on both sides: "be content to prepare for a rainy day, Zhenguan is quiet and quiet." The front and back of the main door are double, with two six or seven inch thick wooden doors in the front and a big iron door in the back. The wonderful thing is that there are two irrigation holes on the top of the main gate. When there is a fire in front of the gate, water can be poured down from the upper floor of the castle, and the fire can be put out. It makes people feel as if it is stable as Mount Tai.

Anzhenburg

Anzhenbao, also known as "chiguancheng", is located in Yangtou village, Huainan Town, 110 kilometers away from the urban area of Yong'an City, Fujian Province. It was built in 1885 by Chi zhanrui, a local squire, and took 14 years to complete. The fort covers an area of about 10000 square meters, with a construction area of 5800 square meters. It is a rare large residential building in Fujian Province. According to the official video released by anzhen fort, Yang tou village, which is found in the search for the title, Luo Zhewen, the head of the ancient architectural expert group of the State Administration of cultural heritage, once wrote the inscription, calling anzhen fort "the treasure of the country". Huang Hanmin, Ceng Weian, Zhen Bao, President of the Fujian Architectural Design Institute, inscribed "the cream of the essence of Fujian Tu Bao building". Professor Chen Zhihua of Tsinghua University, in his monograph "Xihua folk houses and anzhenbao", defined anzhenbao in Yangtou village, Huainan Town, Yong'an City, Fujian Province as "the most well preserved large-scale wooden building in China".

Anzhenbao, head of the ancient architecture expert group of the State Administration of cultural relics, was inscribed by Luo Zhewen, calling anzhenbao a "national treasure".

Sit West and face east

Anzhen Castle sits in the West and faces east. The front part is square, and the back part is semicircular. It is built close to the mountain and gradually rises. From a distance, it has distinct layers and extraordinary momentum. There is an open-air training ground in front of the fort that can hold thousands of people. On both sides of the front of the fort, there are turrets protruding 5 meters, which are used to expand the angle of defense and to pinch the enemy attacking the main entrance.

The main gate is an arched gate with a height of more than 70 meters, which is made of huge stones. There are three characters "anzhenbao" on it, and a couplet written on both sides: "be content to be prepared for a rainy day, Zhenguan is quiet and quiet." The front and back of the main gate are two wooden doors six or seven inches thick, and the back is a big iron door. There are two irrigation holes on the top of the main door to prevent fire attack. The buildings in the fort are divided into two parts, symmetrical left and right.

Layout structure

Through the combination of bucket and beam lifting structure, with the terrain gradually rising, overlooking the roof layer upon layer, scattered. The wooden structure of the castle is divided into upper and lower floors, with inner corridors on each floor. There are 350 rooms in the castle, including hall, hall, bedroom, study, grain depot, kitchen, toilet, well and sewer, which can accommodate more than 1000 people. There are 180 shooting holes and 90 viewing windows on the four walls of the inner wall. The castle is ornate in decoration. The frescoes of birds and animals, peonies, peacocks and wintersweet welcome spring, and the relief figures of stories such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, journey to the West and Water Margin on the eaves are vivid and of high artistic value.

Anzhenpu, Fujian Province, is a courtyard style residence with gallery style earth building and hall as the center, covering an area of 10000 square meters. There are 18 main halls and lower halls, more than 360 large and small rooms, 12 kitchens and 5 water wells, which can provide food and accommodation for more than 1000 people.

cultural heritage

Anzhenpu is one of the best preserved ancient rammed earth buildings in Fujian Province. In 1991, it was listed as the second batch of key cultural relics protection units in Fujian Province; in June 2001, it was upgraded to the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

An unsolved mystery

There is a phenomenon in anzhen castle that people can't understand: after more than 100 years of construction, every corner of the castle has never formed a spider web. Mysteriously, there are two murals in the castle, which were painted when the castle was built. One is "a thousand spiders sweep away", in which a fairy boy is sweeping away the falling spiders with a broom; the other is "ten thousand bats attract", in which the fairy boy waves banana leaves to put bats into a huge gourd.

Looking carefully, we can hardly see any spider in the castle, but spider webs can be seen everywhere in the ancillary buildings just tens of meters away from the castle. Every summer and autumn evening, there are a large group of bats flying to the castle to live. Of course, the reason why there are no spiders in anzhenburg can't be as simple as the murals. With the help of the teacher, Luo Chunhe and other students from Yong'an No.1 middle school explored the real reasons for the lack of spiders and mosquitoes in anzhenbao through searching information, investigation and interview, field investigation and hands-on experiments.

After nearly one academic year's research, it is finally concluded that the direct reason for the lack of spiders and mosquitoes in anzhen castle is the existence of a large number of bats; the basic reason for the lack of spiders and mosquitoes in anzhen castle is the uninhabited and unlighted environment in the castle.

Therefore, Luo Chun and his classmates won the first prize of the 18th Fujian Province Youth Science and technology innovation competition.

historical significance

Anzhenpu is one of the best preserved ancient rammed earth buildings in Fujian Province. It was listed as a provincial cultural relic protection unit in 1991. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, bandits swarmed and built anzhen fort to protect family property and protect the local people. The outer wall of the fort is built with block stone, which is 4 meters thick and unbreakable. The gate is double, very thick, and riveted with iron plate. The top of the gate is equipped with water injection hole, which can irrigate water to resist fire attack. The two corners of the front of the earthen Fort protrude into the turret, which is conducive to the defense of the main door and the two side doors.

There are 96 observation windows and 198 shooting holes on the outer wall of the gallery. The earthen fort is defensive. If there is no attack, the defense will be silent

Anzhenbao was built in 1885 and completed in 1899, with a construction area of about 6000 square meters. The wall of anzhen castle is thick and the house is deep. The outer wall is built with thick stone and rammed with soil. There are 198 shooting holes and 96 windows on the four walls of the wall, which can be aimed at all directions.

In front of the fort, turrets are built on both sides, which can be used to attack the enemy from the front. There is a drain hole on the top of the arched gate in the middle, which can prevent fire attack. The front part of the plane is square and the back part is semicircular. With the rise and fall of the terrain and the 1200 square meter playground in front of the gate, the whole anzhen castle is like a huge ship sailing on the blue sea.

Beam frame

Open the heavy riveted iron gate of anzhen castle, and you can climb up the stairs. The front and back courtyard of anzhen castle is divided into two floors. The wooden building structure is mainly of bucket structure, supplemented by beam structure. On the central axis, there are layers of halls arranged symmetrically. Each of them has its own characteristics. It not only has the overall aesthetic feeling, but also has the change of layout format. There are 18 halls, 12 kitchens, five wells and 368 rooms for more than 1000 people. In addition, there are special storehouses, barns and wineries for storing valuables in the castle. The floor, side walls and door openings are covered with soil and other fire-proof measures. Inside the fort, the pillars are high and the beams are big, which is magnificent. Stroll among them, you will feel the ingenuity of architecture, the beauty of decoration, the elegance of atmosphere. As if in the palace of architectural art.

Well preserved

Brush away the dust of history, you can see under the eaves, brackets, doors, windows, sparrows, and column foundations, all kinds of finely carved decorations can be seen everywhere: gorgeous and exquisite nanmu reliefs, vivid and eye-catching mural paintings, and all kinds of clay sculptures are also lifelike. The themes are mostly from Opera stories or classical novels.

There are more than 50 masterpieces of painted murals in good condition, such as Mudan Zhengyan, carp spitting water, wintersweet greeting spring, etc. There are many couplets in the castle. For example, the first column of the main hall contains "an Congjing, later sincerity, self-cultivation as the foundation, Zhen Zhe's good work, virtue and material should be carried to heaven", which enlightens people to cultivate their self-cultivation. The calligraphy in the castle is powerful and dazzling. We can't help but feel some regret that anzhenpu is located in a remote place with mountains and has not yet been fully and systematically developed.

Address: Yangtou village, Huainan Township, Yong'an City, Fujian Province

Longitude: 117.765906

Latitude: 25.985775

Ticket information: 30 yuan

Opening hours: 8:30-17:30

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