Tianbao ancient village

Tianbao ancient village

Tianbao ancient village is located in the north of Yifeng County, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, 23 kilometers away from the county seat. It is located in part of Xinlian village and Xinhui village of Tianbao township. It is planned to be collectively known as Tianbao ancient village,

Covering an area of 2.5 square kilometers, Daguang Expressway and Changtong expressway have interchange exits in Tianbao.

Tianbao ancient village follows the trend of natural landscape and extends from east to West in the form of boat. It is characterized by green brick and gray tile horse head wall, which belongs to the architectural style of Gan school,

The building scale reaches 800000 square meters.

Tianbao ancient village now has more than 170 Ming and Qing houses, 7375 meters of ancient stone road, 43 ancient lanes, a 1490 meter long ancient city wall, and 36 ancient wells all over the village. Since the founding of Tianbao Liu's family, Tianbao ancient village has 22 Jinshi and 25 Royal plaques.

In 2008, Tianbao ancient village was rated as a famous historical and cultural village in China by the Ministry of construction and the State Administration of cultural relics.

Development history

Before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, according to the idea of Jiuzhou in Yugong, Tianbao belonged to Yangzhou. During the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the land first belonged to Yue and then to Chu. Qin Shihuang unified China into 36 counties, belonging to Jiujiang county.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms and the eastern Wu Dynasty (220), Yifeng county was set up here. In the Tang Dynasty, four counties were set up for 245 years, so it was called "ancient Yifeng county".

In the first year of emperor Guangzong of Song Dynasty (1190), Liu Chun, the ancestor of MoZhuang, was appointed as the inspector of daguling, so his family lived here and began to build houses after breeding.

Since the early 1990s, Tianbao ancient village has entered the road of protection and tourism development.

In 2004, the Council of Liu's ancestral hall in Tianbao ancient village was established.

In 2005, Tianbao ancient village protection leading group was established.

In 2009, Tianbao ancient village management committee was established.

In 2011, Tianbao ancient village protection and development leading group was established.

In September 2012, Tianbao ancient village was jointly listed by the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of land and resources, the Ministry of environmental protection, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, the Ministry of culture, the State Forestry Administration and the State Administration of cultural relics as one of the 209 national historical and cultural villages and natural heritage protection facilities construction planning project reserves in China.

Architectural pattern

Tianbao ancient village is a natural boat shaped landform. In the southeast, there is a moat that flows from east to west and bends mountains around the city. In the west, there is tengjiang river. In the north, there is the ruins of the ancient city wall. The ancient city has three streets and six markets, six gates, thirteen Dizhai, 48 lanes and 48 wells, surrounded by eight internal and external scenes.

The Ming and Qing architecture of Tianbao ancient village is divided into ten categories: ancestral temple, pavilion, Huajin hall, Guanyin hall, official hall, folk house, stele square, pagoda, Anguan temple, etc. The planning layout emphasizes the geomantic concept of "building houses according to mountains, building forests by water" and "facing south from the north"; the architectural style is advanced several times, with high and low, high in front and low in back, side hall, large space and rigorous layout; the folk customs are carried by "Book gate" and "farming and reading culture".

Cultural relics

overview

There are 170 ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties preserved in Tianbao ancient village, of which 22 are mainly protected. The total length of ancient stone road is 7375 meters, 43 ancient lanes, 23 ancient gate buildings, 36 ancient wells, 9 ancient bridges, 25 ancient plaques, 23 historical slogans, 46 millennium old trees, one ancient city wall, 1490 meters long, and one moat, 1631.60 meters long.

Main buildings

Liu's ancestral hall

Liu's ancestral hall was first built in 1494, the seventh year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty. The former Liu's ancestral hall is more than 100 meters long and 30 meters wide, with 36 stone pillars and 24 patios. The structure of the ancestral hall is five buildings and one bedroom, with left and right ancestral halls and carved dragons and painted phoenixes. In Qing Dynasty, Zhu Shi, the Supreme Master and the great Bachelor of culture hall, personally presented a gold plaque of "mingzong of Jiang Province". The ancestral hall was destroyed six times. It was finally rebuilt in 1941, and then rebuilt into a granary in 1962. During the cultural revolution, it was burned again, leaving only the gatehouse.

Zhaogong Temple

Zhaogong temple was first built in the 12th year of Wanli (1585),

 

It is also known as the four seasons temple, and the name of Zhao Gong is Ji Zhao. He is the sixth generation xuansun of Liu Shi, the ancestor of MoZhuang. Ji Zhao has four brothers, Ji Ming, Ji Zhao, Ji Hua and Ji Rong. They all have the word Ji in their names, so the ancestral hall is also called the four seasons temple. Gongci has three buildings, one bedroom, one back floor, two arches and one Pavilion. The whole building is magnificent, with a total construction area of more than 1000 square meters. It is the most complete ancestral hall existing in Tianbao, and is known as "the masterpiece of Jiangnan residential architecture".

 

Jinshi Section

Jinshidi was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736-1795). It was originally named puting Weng temple and was built by Liu Yingjun. In 1844, Liu Gongchen, the grandson of Liu Yingjun, changed Jinshi to Jinshi di. Jinshi belongs to brick and wood structure, two into a bedroom, six fans, five rooms and a corridor.

 

Brothers and volunteers

Brothers, founded in the first year of Daoguang (1821). Emperor Daoguang heard that the brothers Liu Yingbao and Liu Fen were filial and righteous, and they did a lot of good deeds. Seven generations and five generations were in the same hall, and Wang Tingzhen, Minister of the Ministry of rites and Minister of military aircraft, was ordered to perform a performance in honor of "brothers". Now only the gate tower and the plaque, inscriptions and seals on the gate tower are still visible.

Bacon vocational school

Bacon vocational school, founded in 1919, is the first modern vocational school in Jiangxi Province.

 

In the early years of bacon vocational school, Liu Tianqu (the father of Liu ShiShun), a scholar studying in Japan, was employed as the headmaster, and Liu Jida (the Commissioner of Ganzhou administrative office in 1938) as the dean. There were more than 10 vocational teachers.

Cultural relic value

The related cultural relics of Tianbao ancient dwellings have the research value of history and craft aesthetics; the book gate has the research value of sociology and folklore, and the ten thousand character pattern on the column has the research value of Buddha teaching; the sculptures of ancient dwellings, such as wall carving, door carving, stone carving and hollow wood carving, have the research value of carving art; the plaque inscription of ancient dwellings has the research value of calligraphy art.

 

Development and construction

Infrastructure

In 2008, Tianbao ancient village tourism development and construction project was launched. The construction contents include: repairing 22 ancient houses, imitating 2 ancient city gates, imitating 1 ancient hotel, imitating 4 stone archways, renovating 6 kilometers of stone road, and diverting water into the ancient village. The project investment is 30.8 million yuan.

 

In August 2014, Tianbao ancient village protection facilities construction project was included in the 2014 central budget investment plan of national cultural and natural heritage protection facilities construction, and the central budget funds of 4.99 million yuan were obtained, mainly used for the construction of village footpaths, water supply pipelines, drainage channels, power supply lines, telecommunication lines, etc., the purchase of sanitation and fire-fighting facilities, new garbage transfer stations, public toilets, etc Etc;

 

It successfully applied for the first batch of Chinese traditional villages and received 3 million yuan of assistance.

 

In 2015, bacon vocational school received a maintenance fund of 600000 yuan. The gate tower of Liu's ancestral hall, Jinshi fifth fangweng ancestral hall, Zhaogong ancestral hall and Langguan fifth ancient village buildings applied for provincial insurance, and Jinshi fifth obtained a restoration fund of 2 million yuan;

 

In December, Yifeng county invested 11 million yuan to repair Tianbao ancient village.

 

In 2016, Yifeng county invested 1.6 million yuan to maintain Jinshi No.

 

On April 12, 2017, Tianbao Township started the overall relocation and collection of ancient villages. The scope of collection is: the ancient village extends to the belt water of Xinlian village in the East, old Qiaofeng company in the west, Tianbao middle road in the South and luanlinshan in the north, covering an area of about 775 mu.

 

Honorary recognition

In 2007, Tianbao ancient village was rated as "famous historical and cultural village in Jiangxi Province" and "famous village with unique Chinese characteristics", becoming "top ten rural tourism spots in Yichun City".

 

In 2008, Tianbao ancient village was awarded the title of "famous historical and cultural village in China" by the Ministry of housing and urban rural development and the State Administration of cultural relics, and was awarded the title of "famous village with excellent architectural culture in China" and "beautiful environment Township in Jiangxi Province", becoming the "rural tourism demonstration site in Jiangxi Province".

 

 

In 2010, Tianbao township was awarded the title of "national beautiful environment township" by the Ministry of environmental protection of the people's Republic of China, and Tianbao ancient village was invited to participate in the first national small town Expo, which was incorporated into the small town exhibition area of China Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo.

 

 

On September 18, 2012, Tianbao ancient village of Yifeng County won the plaque of "national ecological and cultural village" from the Fifth China ecological and cultural Summit Forum;

 

In December, Tianbao ancient village was listed 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.

 

In 2013, Tianbao ancient village was selected as "the first batch of traditional villages in China".

 

Cultural Activity

Human history

Tianbao ancient village is a place where historical celebrities and imperial examiners come forth in large numbers. Liu Bingzhong, the chief designer of Yuandadu in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty, and Liu Bowen, the Minister of Ming Dynasty, all lived in Tianbao. Historical celebrities such as Yue Fei and Lin Zexu all loved Tianbao ancient village and left precious ink treasures. In the history of the ancient village

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