Dongguanzhai

Dongguanzhai

Dongguanzhai is located in Dongshan village, northeast of Yidu Town, Fuqing City. Dongguanzhai is 1km away from Dongshan village, which is located in the middle of the mountain across the stream in the east of the village. Dongguanzhai was built in 1736, the first year of Qianlong reign of Qing Dynasty. It was built by the local he family. Dongguanzhai is built from east to west according to the height of the mountain. It rises layer by layer. The plane is rectangular, 55 meters wide and 76 meters deep. Dongguanzhai wall base and the lower half of the wall are built with rock, about 10 meters high, firm wall, extraordinary style. On the stone wall of dongguanzhai, a wall was built with windows and small holes. The orifice is narrow outwards and wide inwards, which is used by households to observe the movement outside the village, or to provide sharp weapons and shooting. In front of dongguanzhai, there is a vast area of shipucheng, in which there is a terrace. From the south to the north, it goes up 15 steps, and turns to the east to enter the gate.

Dongguanzhai structure

Once in

Inside the gate of dongguanzhai is the first double-storey building, leaning against the wall, facing the hall from west to East. The structure is of bucket type, with through pillars (only one pillar is used in the upper and lower levels), and the top of the slope. The front slope is facing the eaves, and the back slope covers the village wall. The main ridge is the tail of the swan. There are five rooms upstairs and downstairs. Downstairs for a moment for the village gate passage, the front porch is connected to the front courtyard, also connected to the left and right other courtyard. A corridor is set up behind the building and the gate of the wall of Dongguan village, which is nearly 2 meters wide. It surrounds the whole village along the wall and is equipped with a lookout (shooting) hole on the wall to defend against foreign thieves. In front of the building is a stone paved courtyard. Stone steps are set in the center of the courtyard and in the left and right corridors for climbing the hall. The hall, the gatehouse, and the left and right corridors constitute the first well, which forms a unit community, which is closed and connected with the left and right front and back.

Two enters

Erjin is the central point of dongguanzhai. The gate wall is close to the front hall and the back well. In the middle of the gate wall, there are stone steps of grade 3, and the rain cover of turtle Pavilion. Under the eaves of the doors and walls are painted and pasted walls. The main hall is 6 columns and 5 bays, with a corridor in the front and a hall in the back. There are doors at both ends of the corridor in front of the hall to connect the left and right courtyard. And pass south, North Village Gate (side gate). There is a high wall behind the hall to block the third entrance to the back yard. In front of Erjing hall, there are left and right pavilions and corridors. In addition to the housing of elders, Erjing hall is also a place for wedding and funeral celebrations in Dongguan village and the center of concentrated activities in Dongguan village.

Houlouyuan

The back courtyard is located behind the hall of the second well. It is a double-layer building with a courtyard from east to west. The structure is the same as that of the front gate building. It has five bays, a bucket like structure and a double slope top. In front of dongguanzhai building, there are also double decker buildings, which are connected with the main building. There is a small courtyard in the building. The front corridor downstairs communicates with the left and right courtyard. There are also corridors and lookout (shooting) holes between the back corridor and the wall of Dongguan village.

Outside the central axis

The other courtyard outside the central axis is relatively simple. Along the wall of dongguanzhaizhai, it turns to the building under the gable of the central axis. The central axis and the passageway between other hospitals are covered by rain. There are 99 halls and buildings in Dongguan village. In addition to the west gate in the front, there are also gates on both sides (South and North). The gate of the village is a stone pivot wooden door, which is made of Chongyang wood. There is a water injection hole on the top of the door to inject water and protect the door against fire. There is still a spring well in the village, which supplies water all the year round, and there is an inexhaustible drought.

summary

The whole building of dongguanzhai is well regulated, orderly, solid and practical, which is not only convenient for life, but also convenient for fire prevention and bandit prevention. There is an inscription of Ouyang Xiu on Xieshan, one kilometer to the west of dongguanzhai. It is said that Ouyang Xiu, a famous writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, was attracted to this place because of a marriage legend, and wrote six characters of "Sansheng stone" and "yizhaotai" on two huge stones.

The history of dongguanzhai

The village is located in the east to the West. It is built according to the situation of the mountain. There are three entrances to the hall and a courtyard behind the hall. In addition to one hall and four compartments, there are three affiliated hospitals on the left and right. Anyone who walks through 99 rooms on the third floor and the second floor of the village is likely to fall to the ground. In fact, the whole village is 76 meters deep, 55 meters wide, covers an area of 4180 square meters, and has a construction area of six or seven thousand square meters.

After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the appearance of dongguanzhai is almost the same as before. The foundation stone of the wall under the sewer is intact. The patio paved with many stone strips does not collapse or deform. More important is the military significance of this village. The external walls of the village, including the base and the lower part of the wall, are all built with granite stones. The thickness of the stone wall is about 2 meters, and the height depends on the terrain, with a maximum of 78 meters. The upper part of the wall is a earth wall, about 3 meters high. There are 79 lookouts and shooting holes on the walls around the village. On the stone wall around the village and inside the wall, there is a 2-meter-wide sentry Gallery around the village. The doors of the three villages in the west, the South and the north are all framed with huge stones, and the Chongyang wooden door is about 30 cm thick. Once the fire outside the gate is fierce, people in the village can use the water hole above the door frame to pour water to put out the fire. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, this village was as solid as gold. It is said that the robbers besieged the village for 63 days in the early years, and finally went away. In 1935, more than 80 guerrillas were trapped in luohanli revolutionary base. The KMT provincial security regiment surrounded the village with a company and seized the mountain behind the village. It kept firing into the village, but finally retreated.

Address: Tianzhu Mountain Scenic Area, Qianshan County, Anqing City

Longitude: 116.4719619751

Latitude: 30.715250015259

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