Dang's Manor

Dang's Manor

Suide Dangshi Manor

synonym

Dang manor generally refers to Suide Dang manor

Suide Dangshi manor is located in hejiashi village, baijiajian Township, Suide County, Shaanxi Province. It is the only complete Qing Dynasty building preserved in Suide County. The villa is a typical large family house in Northern Shaanxi. Cave buildings are scattered on the hillside. Each courtyard is relatively independent but connected with each other. Each courtyard has its own edge gate, courtyard wall, corridor and stone picking. The front of the courtyard has stone kilns, left and right wing rooms, inverted horse sheds and grinding facilities. There are exquisite stone carvings, brick carvings and wood carvings on the gate, inner and outer screen walls, wing rooms, doors and windows. The function of the whole villa is complete, with temples on the mountain and wells in the ditch, forming its own system. According to the villagers, there is also a grand stone archway in front of the village, which was unfortunately destroyed during the cultural revolution. Among the numerous traditional Chinese residential buildings, Suide Dangshi manor is known as "impression of Northern Shaanxi". With its large scale, magnificent momentum, delicate decoration and ingenious conception, it exudes the spirit, temperament and charm of the traditional culture of the Loess Plateau.

Manor history

Located in hejiashi village, baijiajian Township, Suide County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, the Dang's manor of Suide was built in 1814. It took nearly 100 years to complete with the gradual improvement of the Dang's six generations. Zhuangyuan mountain is surrounded by water. The building complex covers an area of more than 100 mu. It is a typical representative of cave buildings in Northern Shaanxi. In 2008, it was announced by Shaanxi Provincial People's government as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. In 2013, it was announced as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units (ancient architecture, from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China).

It is located in hejiashi village, baijiajian Township, Suide County. From the late Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, the Dang family built 72 courtyards here, with caves as the main building. Because it belongs to the Dang family, the 72 courtyards are interconnected and become the Dang manor. The manor was built in 1814, Qing and Jiaqing years by Yang generation of the fifth generation, and gradually improved by six generations. It took nearly 100 years to complete. They are large in scale and grand in momentum; they are built according to the situation of the mountain and stacked with buildings; they are exquisite in carving and elegant in decoration; the brick carving, wood carving and stone carving of the whole building group are unique, elegant and exquisite, beautiful and exquisite, with high artistic value. Looking at the whole garden, the layout is rigorous, the design is exquisite, the architecture is exquisite, the bricks and tiles are running in, the exquisite workmanship is fine, the bucket arch cornice, the colored decoration gold, the brick and stone wood carving, the craft is exquisite.

The beginning of the party's surname as a rich man was from Dang Jinchuan. Since he fled from Shanxi and settled here, he has had 12 generations, about 200 years of history. However, Dang Tiangang lived in poverty and soon after he got married, he went to Dingbian to sell yellow steamed buns to make a living. One night, he dreamt that an old man told him that his family had a son, and that the family wanted to make a fortune and let him go back early. Tian Gang was homesick and believed in this omen. The next day, he packed up, finished his business and left for home. Just in time, the old man said that he was from Qingshuigou, Suide. He had some silver to take back and left his family's address and name. However, as soon as Tian returned to Suide and visited everywhere, he couldn't find the man the old man said, so he took the silver back to his home. After returning home, his wife did give birth to a son. She thought to herself that the old man in the dream and the old man who brought money to him were the God of wealth to help her. So she offered money to the God of wealth at home and bought land everywhere. She worked hard to become a landlord. Tian Gang had a son named Sheng Rong, and Sheng Rong had three sons named Ying Yang, Dian Yang and duiyang. After that, the party's rich owners were divided into three branches. The population and wealth were booming, and they owned thousands of acres of land and a large number of livestock. With the prosperity of the population, one by one quadrangle gradually built, I do not know what age formed today's scale, this is also the heyday of the party family.

Years silent, but nothing can escape its baptism. The former prosperity of Dang's manor has turned into a mottled one, full of desolation and depression

"The village is a courtyard, and the courtyard is a mountain village." That's what they say about Dang's manor. Dang's manor is located in hejiashi village, baijiajian Township, Suide County, 20 kilometers northeast of Suide County. The manor was built by the fifth generation of "Yang" from the fourth generation of Dang Shengrong (1814, Jiaqing year of Qing Dynasty), and gradually improved by the sixth generation of people. It took nearly 100 years to complete. The total building area of this cave Castle style residence is more than 100 mu.

A family spends so much time and money to build its own home. I hope that the people will be prosperous for generations. According to the common people, during the heyday of the Dang family, the Yuanbao of deronghua (the shop name of Dang family) could be placed from Donghe Jiashi to the yamen gate of the county magistrate. Today, the descendants of the Dang family who stay here are no longer Zhong mingdingshi, but live the ordinary life of the farmers in Northern Shaanxi.

It's the best choice of living environment in the farming age. Dang's manor is hidden in an open gully in the folds of mountains on the East Bank of Wuding River. A small stream murmurs along the foot of the manor. When the ancestors of Dang family didn't make a fortune, they could face the stream. The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.

According to the villagers, what kind of wise choice should the first ancestors of the manor have to make, so that the future generations will gradually become the climate. When Dang Shengrong, the fourth generation of Dang family, became a landlord, he first built a new kiln beside the old kiln of the first generation of Dang family. A smaller kiln Chengdan and Chengyang were added between the two kiln legs. These three kilns dedicated to the ancestors, and specially built a ostentatious gate. On the plaque was inscribed "peace is happiness" in the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804).

Dang's manor is centered on the primitive interface kiln of yishizu. It is expanded from all directions around. More than ten courtyard are independent and connected with each other, forming a huge building complex with cave as the main body. This huge complex occupies three gentle hills and two shallow gullies.

Only when you enter the city gate through the stone corridor can you reach Dangshi manor. Dang's manor was once built with gates, city wall stacks, and secret passages leading to the back of the mountain, with complete fire and anti-theft functions. Today's seemingly dilapidated manor, in which the history of the hustle and bustle. It is said that one of the two archways damaged during the Cultural Revolution was approved by the Qing emperor, while the awe inspiring momentum of the gate of the military examination Dang Yingyang house made later generations sigh.

Dang's manor has 14 courtyards, 126 stone cave holes, 17 gates, 4 wing rooms, 1 warehouse, 1 mill house, 1 stable and 1 thatched cottage, covering an area of more than 100 mu. It is the first landowner's manor in Suide County since the Qing Dynasty.

Entering the courtyard, although the prosperity is scattered, the high walls are deep and vicissitudes, the eaves are overlapped with green tiles, and the winding path is deep and quiet. The caves are arranged in an orderly way. The stone carvings, wood carvings and window lintels in the courtyard are simple and elegant. They are peaceful and comfortable. As the line of sight pushes away, one high wall appears gradually. The breeze blows, but the sparrows on the ancient trees in the courtyard chirp clearly and gently, hiding the movement of life.

It is said that the wood carvings and flowers inlaid on the panes, the panes themselves, the brick carvings on the gate and the screen wall, and the couplets on the plaques are all exquisite. But after being eroded by the wind and rain, the shapes are a little fuzzy, but the traces of exquisite carving can still be seen. The stone lions and pillars in front of each courtyard of the manor, as well as the words inscribed on the internal plaque, all have certain artistic value. At the same time, they also witness the glory of the manor owner and the prosperity and wealth of the family power.

As the only well preserved Qing Dynasty building in Suide, on September 16, 2008, the Dang's manor in Suide was declared as a provincial key cultural relic protection unit by Shaanxi Provincial People's government. The manor gradually stripped off its original function and the good wishes of its ancestors, and was no longer the only spiritual and soul residence of the Dang clan.

From the manor, every step is a story. The happiness, laughter and bitterness of the Dang people are recorded here. Of course, there are family advantages and disadvantages, but the manor no longer has its former scenery. The glory of generations is just a good wish for life. Engraved on the wall to look forward to the auspicious "peace all the year round", "auspicious dragon and phoenix", the happy implication of "magpie ascends the plum" and "six contract spring", those were the owner's ideal, pursuit, expectation, hope and sustenance, but now they are no longer the same in the erosion of the years, no one can stop the depression and desolation of the manor.

When the prosperity dissipates, the world can only look at the river of the years, blocking the past, unable to swim, can only look back and create a new scene.

Put on the Pearl

Out of suidecheng, along the Wuding Henan line 30 miles is pujiajian. From pujiajian to the East, along a small river, you can go up 10 miles to donghejiashi village. Dang's manor is located on the hillside of Chaoyang in the village. Dang's manor is a huge building complex, occupying three slow hills and two shallow gullies. The hills in the middle are like the head of a Phoenix, and the hills on both sides are like the wings of a Phoenix. Two small mountain gullies echoing each other are like moon bay.

Dang's manor is backed by mountains, facing streams, surrounded by mountains and water, and surrounded by a geomantic treasure land. The host thought that this hot local people and, Ding Wang, wise, gather wealth. After the party's descendants got rich, they built a cave Castle style residential manor.

The first ancestor of Dang family was poor and looked down upon by others. From then on, he worked hard and became a rich man in the hands of the fourth generation of Dang Sheng Rong. He began to build civil engineering in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty

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