Shuangfeng Village

Shuangfeng Village

Shuangfengzhai is located in Shitang village, Shitang Town, 19 kilometers west of Renhua county, Guangdong Province. It is only 23 kilometers away from the famous Danxia Mountain in Guangdong Province. The provincial road runs through the whole town, so the traffic is very convenient.

Historical evolution

The village was built by the squire Li Deren in 1899 to prevent bandits from looting. It took 16 years to complete and has a history of more than 100 years. Including the moat, it covers a total area of 11300 square meters. Shuangfeng Village, formerly known as Shitang village, was renamed "Shuangfeng Village" after taking the meaning of "Shuangfeng security" from the plaque on the lintel in front of the gate. It collapsed before 1949 and was rebuilt after the founding of the people's Republic of China.

Shuangfengzhai structure

Shuangfeng Village, with a square shape and made of lime and green brick, is a rare giant fort.

The moat is 13.7 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. The surrounding moat covers an area of 4878 square meters. There is a suspension bridge on the river. The suspension bridge is divided into two sections with a pier in the middle. (it was changed into a cement bridge in 1976). After the suspension bridge, the castle is deeply locked by two gates. The first two gates are made of completely sealed camphor wood, 5 inches (15 cm) thick, and the top of the gate has four characters of "double peak protection". The structure of the second door is the same as that of the gate, with three characters of "security door" on the top.

The combination of attack, defense and defense in the ancient castle is closely linked, with a main building (also known as the middle building) and four turrets as the main axis. There are lookouts between the East and west walls, which are connected by walls. The main building is a five storey building, 15.3 meters high. The four turrets are 13 meters shorter than the main building. The four sides of the wall are connected by a horse gallery. The gallery is divided into two floors. The bottom floor is 3.15 meters wide, which can be used as a household. It is said that it can accommodate thousands of people. The upper floor is 1.2 meters wide, connecting the five turrets including the main building, which is on duty to help. Every 3.9 meters in the corridor, there are 55 small gun holes. The gun holes are high and can eliminate enemies from different directions from different angles.

The shape of shuangfengzhai castle is slightly rectangular, and the area of the castle is about the size of a football field. The walls of Shuangfeng Village are extremely strong. Despite the vicissitudes of a century, no brick has fallen off automatically. All the walls are made of limestone and green brick, together with glutinous rice paste, yellow sugar, lime paste and tung oil. The strength of the walls is no less than that of Nanjing Zhonghua Gate Wall, which is said to be made of glutinous rice paste and green brick. When we look out from the gun hole of the city wall corridor, we can see that the front is flat, and any target is in the eye. As we walk along, we often find that some green bricks are burned with the words of "Fei Jin 30000", "Li Zixing Shigong", "Li Deren, etc. Although the written records of these bricks are immortal for a hundred years, they later became red fortresses and the greatest battles in peasant riots, which were unexpected by the big landlords and the rich.

Shuangfeng Village in the war

After the April 12 incident in 1927, the Kuomintang reactionaries carried out bloody suppression on the Communists. After the failure of Nanchang Uprising, Zhu De led the rest of the uprising army to Dongtang, Renhua. That night, he organized a peasant uprising and arrested 33 local tyrants and evil gentry. Comrade Zhu De gave the guns and ammunition seized from local tyrants to the farmers' Association, which strengthened the strength of the peasant self-defense army and started a prairie fire in Shitang. On January 6, 1928, Zhu De led his troops to march to Lechang county. As a result, the reactionary armed forces retaliated against our peasant association with a hundred times of madness. Under the leadership of Renhua county committee of the Communist Party of China, Shitang peasant association transported hundreds of thousands of Jin of grain and coal into the fort, relying on the three wells in the fort, preparing to fight against the enemy for a long time. In the middle of March 1928, the seventh division of the Kuomintang surrounded Shuangfeng Village with two regiments. Under the command of Li Zaiqi, the commander of the peasant self-defense army, more than 700 soldiers and civilians in the village carried out the battle of defending Shuangfeng Village, which shocked northern Guangdong. They smashed the enemy's plans of artillery attack, fire attack and tunnel digging. In November, the enemy sent out three planes for reconnaissance bombing, and tried to cut off the water source in the village. On November 12, the soldiers and civilians of the village broke through the encirclement in three ways in secret tunnel. The fighting lasted more than nine months, and more than 400 people, including Huang Meilin, were killed. Among them, more than 20 families died, showing the heroic spirit of revolution, which was regarded as "the greatest battle in the peasant uprising in Guangdong" by the Guangdong provincial Party committee at that time.

During the period of the great revolution, Shitang peasant association led by the Communist Party of China once worked in it. After 1927, the Shitang peasant association led the army and the people to retreat to Shuangfeng Village to resist the suppression of the Kuomintang rightists at that time, which lasted for nine months. Shuangfeng Village is the base of patriotism education.

Contemporary Shuangfeng Village

In 1978, the people's Government of Guangdong Province listed shuangfengzhai as one of the key protection units in Guangdong Province. On May 25, 2006, shuangfengzhai was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Nearby attractions

Danxia Mountain: also known as Danxia Mountain. The park is mainly divided into Danxia scenic area, Shaoshi scenic area, bazhai scenic area, xianrenji scenic area and Jinjiang Gallery tourist area. It has developed the Presbyterian peak tourist area, yangyuanshi tourist area and Xianglong Lake tourist area of Danxia scenic area. Jinjiang gallery and bazhai scenic area are mainly natural landscape sightseeing, integrating science popularization, rock climbing, investigation, exploration, leisure and vacation

Shuikou Tower: Shaoguan Danxia Mountain is well known, but Renhua Shuikou tower is rarely known. The famous Pisa tower is inclined to more than 5 degrees, and Shuikou tower is inclined to more than 3 degrees. According to local experts' field research, this seven story pavilion type hollow brick ancient tower, with a height of 18.6 meters, may be built due to the instability of foundation and the destruction of human activities around for hundreds of years The top of Chenggu pagoda gradually inclines towards the ground and has deviated from the central axis by 0.8 meters. Shuikou tower is not far from Shuangfeng Village. It takes about four or five minutes to drive.

Another beauty of Shuikou tower is rape flower. Around March every year, when large tracts of rape flowers are in full bloom and the golden ocean is spread to the horizon, the blue sky, the green mountains and the golden yellow flowers blend with each other, forming a strong visual impact with the old leaning tower, which is also an important reason why Shitang has become one of the most beautiful ancient villages.

Travel Tips

1. Danxiashan to Shitang village shuangfengzhai about 26 kilometers, less than an hour's drive, good road condition. Shitang village is full of rural scenery, especially suitable for spring blooming season. There are farmhouses near the village to solve the problem of eating. It's better to stay near Danxia Mountain or go back to Shaoguan City.

2. Shaoguan is a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, which is affected by the monsoon all the year round. There is plenty of light, plenty of rainfall and a pleasant climate. The annual average temperature is 18-21 ℃

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