Tianchi Village

Tianchi Village

Longyou Hengshan Tianchi village is located in the north of Longyou County, at the foot of Tianchi mountain in Hengshan Town, 30 kilometers away from the eternal mystery Longyou grottoes. It is the second batch of Folk Culture Tourism Villages in Zhejiang Province and the first batch of key historical and cultural villages in Zhejiang Province.

The original ecological natural landscape, such as Tianchi, Shihou, shitongchui, Nantianmen, and the cultural landscape, such as Chaling ancient road and the tomb of the prince, are distributed among the mountains. Four reservoirs, such as Yanglong reservoir, are scattered among them like four bright pearls. The buildings of Ming and Qing dynasties can be seen everywhere. Wang's ancestral hall "sanhuai hall", Yang's ancestral hall "guanxi aristocratic family" and other ancient buildings of Ming Dynasty are well preserved. They belong to the state-level cultural relics protection units. There are also intangible cultural heritage such as straw dragon, ancient opera troupe and other historical and cultural resources handed down till now. Tianchi village is known as "Ten Mile lotus fragrance, selenium rich health" reputation, white lotus is its traditional industry, planting history of more than 800 years.

administrative division

Tianchi village is located at the foot of Tianchi mountain, the highest peak in the north of Longyou County, at the junction of Lanxi and Jiande. It is the fortress of Hangzhou, Jinhua and Quzhou. It used to be called "Huiyuan city". The entrance of the village is a thousand year old Jiyuan river. It was formed by the merger of four administrative villages, namely Yangjia village, Xinzhai village, Xiadian village and rumen village. After the merger, it took the name of mountain and had four main surnames: Wang, Yang, Lu and Xu. The total area of the village was 15.4 square kilometers, of which the area of mountain forest was more than 2300 mu. At the end of 2007, there were 863 households with a total population of 2617.

investment environment

Here green mountains, fresh air, mountain springs murmur, beautiful scenery, simple customs, is a little-known paradise. The diet is mainly characterized by high mountain vegetables, wild vegetables and deep mountain game. Alpine vegetables mainly include tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, green vegetables, beans, etc.; wild vegetables mainly include wild bitter vegetables, wild ferns, Chinese toon sprouts and malantou; there are many kinds of wild animals in Tianchi mountain, especially rabbits, wild boars and pheasants.

In 2005, Zhejiang Geological Survey Institute found that Tianchi village is located in selenium rich area, which is rich in selenium, and the content of Available Selenium is relatively high, and the selenium content of lotus seeds is 2.27 times higher than the selenium rich standard

It tastes pink and glutinous, and melts in the mouth. It is twice as expensive as the ordinary lotus seeds on the market. The supply still exceeds the demand. Now it has built a provincial white lotus planting demonstration base.

Historical buildings

According to the census of cultural relics, there are 85 ancient architectural relics in Tianchi village, including 2 national cultural relics protection units and several provincial and county-level cultural relics protection units.

1、 Wang's ancestral hall [sanhuai hall] (national key cultural relics protection unit)

Ming Dynasty

Time of publication: March 2013

Huiyuan Wang family is a descendant of Wang Gong. In order to avoid the war, Wang Feng, the first ancestor of Huiyuan, moved from Xiaoshan to Longyou Huiyuan in the first year of Ruiping in Song Dynasty. There are three ancestral halls, Shangting, Zhongting and XiaTing. The three ancestral halls have the same generation and are also called "Shangzhong xiahuai". Among them, xiasanhuai is well preserved.

Sanhuai Hall (lower sanhuai) is located in the north and faces south. The overall layout consists of five entrances, a stage and a wing room. The plane is in a "t" shape. The width of the first four entrances is 14.30 meters, the width of the fifth entrances is 29.80 meters, the depth is 50 meters, and the total area is 1500 square meters. As soon as you enter the hall, there is a pool. On both sides of the couplets, it says, "look at the head of he Qingde on the steps, and the lotus root in front of the court is called Renrui.". The three steps are paved with purple sand stone, which means "Purple air comes from the East", and the drum stone is green and white

. There is flagpole stone in front of the door, with five wide faces, five purlin beams and three columns, and a rolling shed in front and a ceiling behind. The stage is set in the second entrance, with three wide faces, eleven purlin beams, five beams in the open space, and four columns for the first two steps and the last three steps. Both sides of the second and third entrance patio are corridors. Three into, the beam frame is nine purlin, five beams in the open room, four columns in front and back steps, and the corridor top in front of the house is connected with the main roof to form a double roof. The roof with three and four entrances is also connected; the columns with three and four entrances are shuttle shaped. Four into, beam frame and three into the same, and five into the courtyard on both sides of the wing room for two eaves. Five into two-tier eaves, beams and columns are mostly made of Toona, camphor, natural pest control, hall does not see flying insects, spiders.. No matter how dry the weather is, the two pools in the hall will not bottom out. On the ceiling of the inner hall, the clay holding swallow occupies the stable place of the apricot beam. The color paintings of that year are still clear, and the patterns of Phoenix and lotus can be distinguished

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Sanhuaitang architecture, columns, beams and other components of the times, exquisite wood carving. About 400 years ago, the internal structure of the building is intact, and the overall shape is well preserved. It is an important ancestral hall building of Ming Dynasty in Zhejiang Province.

2、 Yang's ancestral hall [Guanxi family] (national key cultural relics protection unit)

Ming Dynasty

Time of publication: March 2013

According to Yang's genealogy, Yang Bin, the first ancestor of the Song Dynasty, moved from Fujian to Meiling, where he later saw beautiful scenery and moved here.

Guanxi aristocratic family, facing south from north, has two entrances and a stage. The two entrances are three bays, with a width of 12 meters and a depth of 24 meters, covering an area of 228 square meters. As soon as you enter the hall, there is a gate tower in front of you, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain. The Dougong is one Dou six Sheng, and there is a movable stage in the Ming Dynasty. Both sides of the first and second entrances are corridors. Two into the main hall, the beam frame is nine purlin, five beams in the open room, four columns in front and back steps, and middle columns in the secondary room. The beam frames are all made of brick, which are hidden from the wall. There is a stone tablet embedded on the east side of the main hall, recording the building experience, age and surrounding environment construction.

Guanxi family, the gatehouse production technology is exquisite, majestic and spectacular. Different from the traditional architectural frame structure, the walls around the hall are load-bearing walls, the "carved beams and painted buildings" on the walls are all brick carvings, and even the brackets are also brick carvings, which are purely used for decoration. It is a major feature of the Ming Dynasty architecture in Longyou County, and it is also a Ming Dynasty ancestral hall architecture with obvious local characteristics in Zhejiang Province.

cultural landscape

Tianchi village, with beautiful scenery and outstanding people, is rich in folk culture. There are many intangible cultural heritage projects, such as Longyou Hengshan straw dragon and Longyou Wuju, which are listed in the intangible cultural heritage protection list of Zhejiang Province, luanqia and Shiba zhuanlang, which are listed in the intangible cultural heritage protection list of cities and counties, and many traditional skills, traditional diet and folk songs.

1、 Straw Dragon (provincial intangible cultural heritage protection list)

Straw dragon has a long history, since the first move there has been a dragon dance tradition. It is said that in July of one year, all things dried up and there was no harvest. One day, Wang Feng, the ancestor of Wang Feng, suddenly dreamed that a dragon would come from the sky. To solve the drought, he told Wang Feng that only when the moon was full on August 15 could he welcome the rain and save the people. So Wang Feng led his people to make the grass dragon day and night according to the shape of the Dragon they saw in their dreams. They danced the dragon lantern when the moon was full in the Mid Autumn Festival. After the full moon, it rained heavily and the people were saved. In memory of the Dragon giving water and praying for good weather in the new year, on the 15th of August every year, the Chinese people dance dragons to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival, and tie pigs, cattle, sheep and other sacrifices into lamps to thank the dragon for his kindness. After liberation, due to the destruction of the four old, the grass dragon activities were stopped. In 2004, with the support of county and town cultural authorities, according to the original characteristics and customs of grass dragon, grass dragon activities were resumed.

Erhuiyuan Wu Opera

At the beginning of the Republic of China, Huiyuan Prince troupe was founded. In 1984, xinzhaiwu opera troupe was restored in the commune culture station. Later, due to market and other factors, local and foreign fans took over the troupe one after another.

3、 Tianchi mountain

With an altitude of 560 meters, Tianchi mountain is the highest peak in BEIXIANG township of Longyou County, adjacent to hangtou Town, shouchang town and daciyan town of Jiande City, and facing the national famous scenic spot of Jiangnan Xuankong Temple (daciyan).

The mountains are full of strange peaks and rocks. The scenery is beautiful. The natural landscape images of the mountain, such as the dog watching the moon, stone water tank and stone coffin, must be true. In particular, there is a natural pool of more than 60 square meters on the top of the mountain. The water in the pool is as clear as a mirror. You can see the bottom of the pool. The water dog (giant salamander) and the stone chicken (stone frog) play in the pool freely. No matter whether it is dry all year round in spring, summer, autumn and winter, Tianchi mountain is also named after the pool.

Tianchi mountain not only has beautiful scenery, but also has many folk legends. There is only one way up the mountain, narrow and steep. It can be said that one person can block the pass, but there is a flat land of more than ten acres on the top of the mountain. It is said that the Yellow nest uprising trained soldiers and horses here. At the beginning of sunrise, there was always a heavenly horse flying away. Every Qingming Festival, on the night when the wind was clear and the moon was high, a white horse came down from the sky to eat a thousand year old tea tree on the top of the mountain A horse is a yellow nest mount. It has wings and can fly through the clouds. After Yang Wanli's tour in Ming Dynasty, he left a poem "hidden green dragon in the fog", which says, "hidden green dragon on Tianchi mountain is the first peak on the Tiantai Mountain. When he was young, he prayed for Huize, sang the breeze in liangxiao, laid out the silver waves on the craggy zedoary stones, towered the blue sky, and waited to see the meeting of clouds and thunder, and the rain moistened things to celebrate agriculture, rural areas and farmers.

4、 Chaling ancient road

Chaling ancient road is located between Tianchi mountain and Chaling, with an altitude of 302 meters. It is the passage from Xinzhai to Wanling village in Jiande county. From dafengtouwu natural village to Xinzhai natural village, the ancient road in this section is well preserved. The uphill and downhill of the hills are paved with local gravel and stones, which are solid and firm. There are aprons on both sides of the ancient road, which are completely connected and hardly damaged.

5、 Lotus corridor

The history of planting lotus in Tianchi village has been more than 800 years, and the love of lotus has reached the acme. Lotus cultivation has become a common practice in the village. Lotus appreciation road and lotus observation platform have been set up in the largest lotus pond at the entrance of the village. From June to August every year, one after another lotus buds compete

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