Daling Village

It's a natural village suitable for hiking. It's not fully developed. There are many signboards to show the way, and the scenery is very good

Daling Village

Daling village, an administrative village under the jurisdiction of Shilou Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is a traditional Chinese village. It is located in the northwest of Shilou Town, covering an area of 3.5736 square kilometers.

Daling village is a water village with a history of more than 800 years in Guangfu of the Pearl River Estuary. It is the representative of the traditional settlement of "18 villages of Gangwei community" in Panyu during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The village form is well preserved and has high historical and cultural value. Daling village is a typical transitional settlement of "mountain, water, village and field" in the south of the five ridges, with the ancient street as the main axis and pangshengli lane as the secondary axis. The main ancient street is parallel to the Yudai River, and the secondary axis is perpendicular to the Yudai River. Daling village retains a large number of traditional street features. The ancient dwellings with different architectural forms, such as Wenta, ancestral hall, courtyard and oyster shell house, are typical representatives of historical buildings in the Pearl River Delta.

On December 17, 2012, Daling village was announced as the first batch of Chinese traditional villages by the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, the Ministry of culture and the Ministry of finance.

Village history

History of village construction

Daling village is located in a remote area with few historical records. The genealogy preserved in the ancestral hall is an important folk material to study the formation history of Daling village. There are two versions of its history

According to Chen's genealogy, baochanggong, the ancestor of Chen in Daling village, was originally from Gujingxiang, Liuxi Township, Taihe County, Jiangxi Province. In 1023, Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, he was sent to Nanxiong County, Guangdong Province as an imperial edict, and later as a magistrate of the Jin Dynasty. In 1131, he moved from Zhuji Lane in Nanxiong to kaicun village in Pushan village.

In addition, according to Xu's genealogy, Daling village was mainly originally from the Xu family of Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. Xu's daughter was in Shixing County, Guangdong Province. Later, she was granted the title of Queen. Once the queen returned home to visit her relatives, and the eunuch framed her brother's rebellion. Therefore, she was forced to flee from Zhuji lane, Nanxiong, Guangdong Province to pushankai village in 1119, the first year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Historical evolution

Daling village was built in the Song Dynasty and was formed by the immigration of population.

In 1897, Chisong Xianshi (Huang Daxian) and lieshengqun Zhen gave Daling village the name of "Pushan" by means of "fuluan", so it is also called "Pushan village".

In 1949, after the founding of the people's Republic of China, it belongs to the East District of Yunan, Panyu county.

In May 1950, it belongs to Gangwei Township, the Second District of Panyu county.

In 1953, it belonged to Yuexi Township, three districts of Panyu county (renamed "Shilou district" in the autumn of 1955).

In April 1957, it belongs to Mingjing township of Panyu county.

In January 1958, it belongs to Shilou Township, Panyu county.

In September 1958, it belonged to Shilou regiment of Panyu people's commune; in December of the same year, it belonged to Shilou grassroots commune of Fanshun county.

In June 1959, it belonged to Shilou commune of Panyu county.

In 1984, it belonged to Shilou District of Panyu county (city, district).

In 1987, it belongs to Daling administrative village (community) of Shilou town (township / street).

geographical environment

Location context

Daling village is located in the northwest of Shilou Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province,

 

The village area is 3.5736 square kilometers.

 

topographic features

Daling mountain is the largest hilly area with three peaks, forming a Bijia mountain.

 

hydrology

Daling village water system mainly includes dalingyong, lijiangyong and pond, basically maintaining the original water system pattern.

 

Village pattern

Site selection concept

Daling village is close to Pushan in the north, dalingyong and lijiangyong in the West and south, and there are vast fields in the north. The natural environment elements and artificial elements form a good fit. From the layout principle of Chinese traditional village location, the combination of natural environment elements forms the ideal Fengshui environment background for village construction.

The original sandstone mountain in the southeast of Shangcun has been destroyed. The farmland River in the west of the village used to be a great lake. "The lake is vast, the vast expanse is flat, and the waterfront is auspicious", which is in line with the theory of settlement geomantic omen. This kind of living environment, built on mountains and surrounded by green water, forms a semi closed space through the natural environment, which is in line with the traditional geomantic concept of "mountains and rivers as blood". From the perspective of natural environment, it is surrounded by mountains, the terrain is like a basin, and combined with water system and sunshine to form a good ecological microclimate. Therefore, the overall pattern of relying on mountains and rivers is the embodiment of harmonious coexistence with the surrounding environment and close integration with nature.

According to the traditional geomantic pattern, the main natural environmental factors of its scattered location can be summarized as follows:

Backer (Bodhisattva mountain) - there is a dense Fengshui forest on it. Although the "Lailong" is not far-reaching enough, it meanders to Lianhua Mountain on the left. The discontinuous part of the mountain peak is filled with dense forest.

Shuikou (intersection of dalingyong and lijiangyong) - in the southwest, there is a pagoda, which is also a Shuikou pagoda. It is planted with big trees, which effectively makes up for the void of no mountain protection in the southwest of the village and strengthens the pivotal role of the narrow part of Shuikou. This tower also belongs to Wenta, also known as "Wenchang Pavilion" and "Dakui Pavilion tower".

Chaoshan (the mountain on the west side of the village area) - the bijiaxing mountain is Chaoshan across dalingyong and Yutang group. Chaoshan becomes the opposite view of the road out of the village.

Dalingyong (Yudai River) - in line with the Fengshui concept of "rivers and streams are surrounded by golden belts".

 

spatial distribution

"Lijiang yongtou, Banyue ancient village" is the overall pattern characteristics of Daling village. Daling village is built by the water as a whole, and the village dwellings are arranged orderly between the foot of Pu mountain and dalingyong, basically in the shape of a half moon in the north-south direction, which looks like a fish, and flows around the Yudai River between the villages.

Daling village has 6 ancient streets and 45 ancient alleys. The village takes an ancient street as the main axis and is surrounded by a lane. It is connected with the village water system everywhere and is closely consistent with the natural environment. The secondary alleys are set vertically with the above main streets, forming a "fishbone" two-level Traffic Street pattern of "main street small lane", forming a "keel" street pattern.

The ancient streets of Daling village include Anhe street, Xirong street, Shengping street, Zhongxing Street, Wenming street, Liuyuan Avenue, etc. Orthogonal to the main street are many lanes. Generally speaking, if both ends of the street are straight through, it is called lane; if the end of the lane leads to the main street and the end of the lane is blocked, it is similar to the "dead end" in the north, and becomes "lane". The name of lane in Daling village is very readable, forming a special "Lane culture". The well preserved Lingnan style building complex in Daling village is about 9000 square meters.

Daling market (Wenta Street) is also an important part of Daling village, which reflects the evolution and development of the original commercial facilities of ancient trees.

From the first year of the Republic of China (1912) to the Anti Japanese War, there were more than 30 commercial shops in Daling village. Such as No.1 tea house, Shihuo shop, dashipu shop, tofu shop, pork shop, Jiumi shop, barber shop, qiaofang shop, knitting shop, medicine shop, Xiangpu shop, sprout shop, bamboo ware shop, cigarette shop, paijiu shop, etc. Now there are many small shops and markets in Daling market, which are convenient for residents' daily life. The residential buildings are closely arranged, and the streets and alleys are distributed vertically and horizontally. Together with Longjin bridge, dakuige tower, banyan tree and quay, it forms a comprehensive view of Lingnan water town.

 

Wisdom of building a village

Longjin bridge is located on the Yudai River in front of Xianzong temple in the west of the village. It is the oldest stone arch bridge in Panyu. Built in the reign of Kangxi, it is a two hole arch bridge with one pier made of red gravel. There are rare water dividing ridges on both sides of the pier, which can not only prevent the collision of ships, but also reduce the impact of water on the bridge.

Oyster shell wall: in the fishing villages and rural areas around the estuary of the Pearl River Delta, oyster culture was popular in the past and oyster shell resources were abundant. Oyster shell can be fired bright ash to make the bonding material of brick and tile, and can be used as the masonry material of wall, which is the witness of ancient ecological architecture. In front of the tomb, a large number of oyster shell walls are still preserved in Daling village.

 

Economic society

population

Daling village is a village inhabited by Han people.

 

According to the official website of the February 2020 Digital Museum of traditional Chinese villages, there are 2468 registered residence population in Daling village, China, with a permanent population of 4150.

 

Economics

The main industries of Daling village are farming and fish pond breeding.

 

According to the official website of Digital Museum of traditional Chinese villages in February 2020, the collective annual income of Daling village is 5.65 million yuan, and the average annual income of villagers is 12976 yuan.

 

Main attractions

History and culture

Traditional folk customs

Dragon Boat activities in Duanwujie mountain

On the day of the activity, every Dragon Boat Club in Daling village will gather dragon boats to visit the Yudai River. Other dragon boats will go to the ancestral halls of Daling village to explore wine and express congratulations. Dragon boat, locally known as "radius", dialect refers to oar, representing the dragon boat. According to the customs of Panyu, the surrounding villages organize dragon boat races spontaneously for about a week. Each village takes turns to play the east every day. Please go to Daling village

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