Zhenlong Ancient College

Zhenlong Ancient College

Zhenlong Ancient College

Zhenlong town is located in Xinyi City, where there are rare ancient buildings in Lingnan area and a number of well preserved ancient libraries with distinctive features.

brief introduction

Zhenlong was built in 621 ad. from then on to 1952, it was the seat of Xinyi county. In the 430 years from Zhenguan of Tang Dynasty to Xining of Song Dynasty, it was also the capital of douzhou. Although its glorious period has passed, now it is just a village -- Bafang village, Longzhen Town, Xinyi town. However, it has left a heavy historical and cultural heritage, and has become a good place to attract tourists from home and abroad.

As the capital of a county for more than 1300 years, Zhenlong has left a group of rare ancient buildings in China, including 13 academies, 7 ancestral halls and so on. This Qifeng academy has a history of 300 years. It used to be a place for scholars to test. In the 15th year of the Republic of China, the front building of the Academy, where the party headquarters of chengxinyi county was located, was expanded into a Western-style building, so the Academy became a building combining Chinese and Western styles.

Civilization gate

Wenmingmen was built in 1813, the 18th year of Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. It is named wenmingmen because of the meaning of "building a pavilion on Qingyun Road, offering a show of civilization". After the formation of secular, all official duties and civil weddings and celebrations through this door, and funerals and other things to avoid this door. The gate of civilization was originally a temple building. During the period of the Republic of China, there were also earthen cannons on the city gate, which sounded the time at noon every day. The gate of civilization as seen now was rebuilt in 1947. The architectural style is palace style, with red walls and green tiles.

institution of higher learning

Xuegong, also known as Confucius Temple, as the name suggests, no matter what it is called, we all know that this is a place for learning. The Academy was built in 1535, the 14th year of Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty. The Dacheng hall, Dacheng gate and Lingxing gate are still preserved. On the wall outside the gate of Lingxing, there is still a stele on which the words "officials dismount here" can be discerned. This is to show respect for Confucius. This academy, also known as "Dahong mansion", has a bloody story. After the Taiping rebellion broke out in 1851, the uprising army led by Chen Jingang, a Sanshui man, occupied Xinyi County, which is now Zhenlong. Chen Jingang made himself the king of Nanxing in Dahong Kingdom, and his capital was Xinyi. He changed this academy into a royal palace. Later, ZHENG Jin, the marshal under Chen Jinguan, decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he set up a Hongmen banquet in the Marshal's mansion, where he advised Chen Jinguan to accept the recruitment of the Qing Dynasty. Chen refused to scold Zheng. So Zheng ordered the Ministry to chop Chen to death in the palace. This story is written on the wall of the school. ZHENG Jin later became the commander-in-chief of the navy in the Qing Dynasty. At the age of 60, he was given a word "Shou" by Empress Dowager Cixi and a cabbage carved with emerald.

Mr. Li Tingshu

Li Tingshu was built in memory of Li Tingshu, the magistrate of Xinyi county. Li Tingshu was appointed magistrate of Xinyi County in 1702, the 41st year of Kangxi. He was honest and clean, and had only a few silver dollars on his body after his death. At that time when "a magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver" was popular among corrupt officials, his integrity was really commendable. Xinyi people were very grateful for him. They not only spontaneously raised money to transport his body back to his hometown in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, but also donated money to build this Li Tingshu CI in the next year. This ancestral hall is also called "San Dou Mi ancestral hall". It is said that one morning, an old farmer picked up San Dou MI and sold it on the terrace. On the way, he heard that Li Tingshu, the county magistrate, had died of illness. He left the rice Dan by the side of the road and rushed to Zhenlong to mourn for Li Da Qingguan. He came back at dusk. When he saw that San Dou MI was still there, it can be seen that society at that time had nothing left. Now, the ancestral hall is dilapidated due to its disrepair, but the honest image of LiZhi county will always be respected by future generations.

Green house

Qinge big house has a history of nearly 200 years. Qinge house has the distinctive Southern architectural style of the Qing Dynasty. The most distinctive is its "gold and silver" wall. The so-called "gold wrapped in silver" means that the green brick on the outer wall is wrapped with the mud brick inside. This green brick is good in material selection and unique in firing. Its quality is naturally eroded by thousands of years of wind and rain without losing its hair. In today's era, this brick can no longer be fired, so it is called "gold". The mud brick in the bag is selected from the wet mud in the field, put the buffalo to step on and stir it repeatedly, fill it in the big wooden frame, scrape it flat, remove the wooden frame, and make the mud brick which is two feet long and one foot wide and a half feet thick. After it is dried and hardened in the field, it is used to build the wall. Although the adobe was not shoveled into the brick kiln, it was just as hard and was called "silver" here. Such "gold" and such "silver" can be called a perfect combination, as firm as a rock.

Address: Zhenlong Town, Xinyi City, Guangdong Province

Longitude: 110.88726162392

Latitude: 22.215294144619

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