Fenglin Village

Fenglin Village

Fenglin Village is named for its south front mountain covered with maple trees. Located on the East Bank of the middle reaches of Nanxi River, 40 kilometers away from the county seat, it is known as the famous town of Dong'ou with a large number of literati and developed culture. The village was originally inhabited by Ke, Su, Lai and mu. Fenglin is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces water on one side. According to feng shui theory, the layout of the village belongs to the "crescent with stars" grid. Folk houses are built in crescent shape according to the natural terrain. There are 60 ancient wells and ponds in the village, which is called "stars".

Regional profile

The building plan of the village is crescent shaped. On the north side of the village, after the golden hook shaped Shixi River was introduced into the "Kuixing pond" in the east of the village, it is divided into three parallel channels running through the whole village from the East. There are three streets, all east-west. There are ten tunnels, all of which are north-south. A cobblestone wall is built around the residence, with 12 gates as the entrances and exits, forming a clan natural village. There are 7 reservoirs in the village, which are distributed on the two ditches in the middle and south of the village. There are 7 small reservoirs under the Pu Ting Street ridge, which are arranged in a line.

There are a large number of Ming and Qing and Republic of China buildings in the village, accounting for 50% of the total area of the existing residential buildings. The types of buildings include dwellings, ancestral temples, temples, pavilions, memorial buildings, ancient bridges, ancient wells, etc. The plane of the single building has the shape of one line, H-shape, colloquial shape and Japanese shape, with obvious central axis. The layout of these buildings is reasonable, the structure is strict and exquisite, and they have high artistic value and scientific research value. In 2000, it was listed as the second batch of historical and cultural reserves in Zhejiang Province.

geographical position

Fenglin Village

It is located in the southern mountainous area of Longyou County. Chengcun has a long history and is named after the ancient maple trees. 27.5 kilometers away from the county seat, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was the descendant of Xu Yuanzhen, the summer governor of Hanjiang River, who lived here with beautiful scenery. Under the jurisdiction of rat ridge, Fenglin, xiabeidui, Liujia, Guantang, Wuguishan, yanqiangang, zhujiawu, gaosuntang, desk, QingKeng, linggangtou, yaojialing, taoshuwu, Fengwu, motoushan 16 villages, Fenglin as the village committee resident. It belongs to Xikou town. In 1992, there were 361 households and 1130 people in the village. Among them, there are 342 she people, accounting for 30.27% of the total population, and 112 immigrants from Xin'anjiang. Most of the villagers have the surnames of Guan, Weng, Huang and LAN.

Development of Fenglin Village

Fenglin Village, located in the afterblood of Xianxia mountain, has been supported by the villagers for generations. Before 1949, most villagers lived on a few acres of thin land and firewood. After 1949, the villagers' life has been greatly improved, but after the "great leap forward" and "Cultural Revolution", most of the mountain forests have been destroyed. The villagers guard cold water ridge fields and barren mountains with a per capita area of less than 0.8 mu. In 1976, the dividend value of each working day was only 0.18 yuan. Many villagers "depend on the rebate for their food, and rely on loans for their money.".

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of the policy of reform and opening up, the village Party branch led the villagers to grasp the production of grain and forest on one hand and the development of village run enterprises on the other, and embarked on the road of becoming rich. In 1981, Fenglin Village took the lead in implementing the farmland contract responsibility system in Xikou town. Then, the village established a subsidy fund system, with an annual investment of more than 3000 yuan to buy fertilizers and pesticides at a bargain price and supply them to farmers at a low price. At the same time, the village often invites technicians from the county and township to carry out agricultural and forestry technology training, so as to improve the level of farmers' scientific farming and silviculture. In 1984, the total output of grain reached 560000 kg, which changed from relying on grain returned for sale to selling more than 50000 kg of commodity grain to the state.

According to the characteristics of more people and less arable land, the village Party branch emancipated its mind and was the first to encourage villagers to contract mountain forests across villages in Longyou County. Since 1981, villagers have contracted 1694 mu of barren mountains in Dajie Township, Muchen Township, Lingshan Township, state-owned forest farm and Xikou village, and the actual forest area of the whole village has reached 4454 mu. In order to strengthen the management of mountain forests, the village spends 10000 yuan every year to establish a mountain forest management organization, implement the responsibility system of mountain forest management, and ensure the cultivation of barren mountains into forests. In 1992, the forestry income reached 300000 yuan, and the per capita income was more than 370 yuan. In 1984, LAN Yulong, a villager, took the initiative to contract 37 mu of barren hills in Dafan village of Muchen She nationality township, planting 3700 seedlings of Chinese fir; in 1985, he contracted 40 mu of barren hills in Muchen She nationality township, planting 6000 seedlings of pine; and interplanting Phyllostachys pubescens and tung oil trees.

At the same time of vigorously developing agriculture and forestry production, Fenglin Village uses its natural resources to develop village run enterprises. In 1981, a hydropower station and a grain processing plant were built. From 1983 to 1990, a tea factory, a wine factory, a bamboo shoot factory, a wooden clothing clip factory and a vegetable and fruit canning factory were successively established. Now the tea factory and the vegetable and fruit cannery have become the backbone enterprises in the village. In 1992, the output value of the tea factory was 180000 yuan, and that of the bamboo shoot factory was 3600000 yuan. Baijiu spring snail, Shaoxing West Lake liquor, Fangshan tea, Biluochun tea are sold in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou city. Canned pickled bamboo shoots, pickled cucumber and so on are exported to Japan and Southeast Asian countries. Fenglin industry and trade company, established in the second half of 1992, has 7 village run enterprises with fixed assets of 1.45 million yuan and more than 200 employees. At present, 40% of the village's labor force works in factories. In 1992, the total industrial output value was 4.14 million yuan, accounting for 77.4% of the total industrial and agricultural output value, and the profit was 313400 yuan. The per capita income of the villagers is 1002 yuan. Compared with 1981, the total output value of industry and agriculture has increased by 45 times, and the per capita income has increased by 11 times.

With the development of economy, the traffic in the mountain village which has always been blocked has been improved. The third class highway to Xikou has been built to connect with the Longyou Lishui highway. The investment is nearly 100000 yuan. One stone arch bridge and two cement slab bridges have been built to improve the road facilities among the natural villages. In addition, 50000 yuan was invested to rectify the low-voltage power lines and broadcasting lines connecting 16 natural villages. In 1992, another 50000 yuan was invested to add two transformers to meet the needs of production and living of the whole village. More than 110000 yuan was invested to improve the drinking water conditions, and 50000 yuan was spent to build three water retaining dams and 1500 meters of water diversion channels to meet the needs of farmland irrigation. Nine automatic telephones have been installed with an investment of 50000 yuan, which is convenient for contacting industrial and commercial business and transmitting information. 42 new buildings have been built in the village, color TV sets and refrigerators have been set up in farmers' homes, and many villagers use liquefied petroleum gas and electric rice cookers in their kitchens.

Welfare services in the village are also gradually developing. The elderly, the families with five guarantees, the families of Liejun and the families in need are entitled to the "Five Guarantees" or certain economic subsidies, and the insurance premium of 90000 yuan per year is paid to the villagers' life insurance, real estate insurance and enterprise property insurance. The Association for the elderly and the youth club have been established, and more than 1000 books have been purchased. There are table tennis, badminton, fitness circle and other recreational supplies, as well as basketball and volleyball courts. Several collective organizations for villagers to travel abroad enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers.

Residents of Fenglin Village

Fenglin Village has Han population, she population, indigenous villagers and Xin'anjiang immigrants from Qingxi, Chun'an. The Han and she nationalities, the indigenous villagers and the immigrants live in harmony and build Fenglin Village together.

Mouseling is a she village moved from Lishui and Yunhe counties. Before 1949, most of the villagers lived in the mountains and lived in poverty. Their life improved after 1949. The United Front Work Department of the county allocates 3500-4500 yuan annually to support the construction of rat ridge. The village invested 20000 yuan to build a mechanized Road, a concrete bridge, electric lights and cable broadcasting, which greatly improved the traffic and communication conditions of she villagers. In 1987, she villagers were specially organized to visit citrus production in Shiliang and Kandi of Quxian county. After returning to the village, two she villagers were sent to participate in the small fruit cultivation and management technology training class. The village Party branch vigorously supported them in capital, seedling and technology to develop citrus production. In 1982, more than 6000 kg of oranges were harvested. In 1992, the village invested more than 10000 yuan to build three pools here to provide tap water for the she villagers. They are also included in the key recruitment targets of village run enterprises, and she villagers account for 13. In 1992, the per capita income of she villagers was more than 1000 yuan, 20 times higher than that in 1979.

The kindness, kindness and hospitality of the she villagers have great influence on the whole village. "The door is the guest." they treat themselves very harshly and generously for fear of being careless. When guests come to the door, they must give snacks or gifts when they leave. No one will go back empty handed. In case of difficulties, try to help each other. In 1990, Zhang Yaozhong, a villager, accidentally fell off the wall for a man-made house. He was seriously injured and couldn't go down to work for more than a year. Many she villagers came to help Zhang Yaozhong with housework and field work. On the 15th of January, 1993, when families were reuniting for the Lantern Festival, a fire broke out at the foot of Niujiao mountain. More than 30 villagers threw down their rice bowls and went to the mountain to put out the fire. Among them, 21 were she villagers. They took part in the construction of bridges and roads in the village. They worked hard and didn't care about the reward. Zhong Zhanghong, a she doctor in the village medical room, has been on call for decades to relieve the pain of the villagers.

Evolution of Architecture

Fenglin Village is close to mountains and water, with beautiful scenery and quiet environment. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Longyou scholars Yu Rixin and Wang Zhixi built Fenglin academy here, and invited Xi'an scholar Fang Yingxiang to give lectures here. In the third year of Daoguang reign of Qing Dynasty (1823), pan Jinlei and pan Xu set up Zhenxi bookstore in xiabeidui, hired Sui Gong Yan Bingzhong to teach, and left two volumes of Zhenxi Bookstore class poems. It is still in the site today

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