Tiger shaped enclosure

Tiger shaped enclosure

"Tiger shaped enclosure" is located in fangwupai, Chebu village, Lishi Town, Dingnan County, southern Jiangxi Province. It is a county-level cultural relic protection unit. It was built in 1786 and has a history of more than 200 years.

The enclosure is square in shape, 40 meters wide in front and 33 meters deep in depth. It sits in the northwest and faces southeast, with its back against the tiger shaped green mountains. The building is shaped like a tiger with its head held high and its gate shaped like a tiger's head. Therefore, it is named "tiger shaped enclosure". Tiger shaped enclosure is a classic case of Fengshui drinking form theory in Hakka enclosure construction, and it is also one of the outstanding representatives of Gannan enclosure.

Huxingwei, Dingnan County

"Tiger shaped enclosure" is located in fangwupai, Chebu village, Lishi Town, Dingnan County, southern Jiangxi Province. It was built in 1786 and has a history of more than 200 years. The enclosure is square in shape, 40 meters wide in front and 33 meters deep in depth. It sits in the northwest and faces southeast, with its back against the tiger shaped green mountains. The building is shaped like a tiger with its head held high and its gate shaped like a tiger's head. Therefore, it is named "tiger shaped enclosure". According to reports, in order to protect themselves and their families, Hakkas who came to Dingnan at that time designed and built a square Castle integrating defense and practical life. The four corners of the enclosed house are three story watchtowers. The outer houses around the house are built with river stones, Ma Tiao stones and green bricks to the top. The outer windows on the first floor are built with Ma Tiao stones, and above the second floor are equipped with turrets, gun holes and other defense facilities. Nowadays, the unique "tiger shaped enclosure" in Gannan has attracted many tourists from home and abroad, and has become a living fossil to study the formation and development of Hakka culture.

The enclosed house is built in a typical small mountain basin, surrounded by sand mountains, showing the pattern of wind and water accumulation. Sitting in the direction of northwest to Southeast, surrounded by Tiger shaped mountains, picturesque Bijia mountain in front of the sky, clear streams in front of the door, and 100 mu of fertile farmland around, the enclosed house presents a picture of rich landscape and pastoral.

From the perspective of geomantic omen, the designer of the enclosed house observes the terrain and thinks that the green dragon is holding its head high and the back mountain is like a crouching tiger. Therefore, the Fangjia enclosed house is designed as a tiger shaped enclosed house. The gate of the enclosure is tiger mouth, and two round windows are added on the side to indicate tiger eyes. The turrets on both sides of the enclosure are tiger claws, and there is only one turret behind the enclosure, which is the tail of the tiger. The whole tiger shaped enclosure is built to form a tiger whole, and the tiger head of the tiger shaped mountain behind the enclosure is located. The tiger shaped enclosure and the green hill behind it are also connected into a tiger shape, which can be described as unique. Maybe tiger shaped mountain inspired the inspiration, maybe tiger shape can be considered as the God of the town. The power of the tiger is inviolable. The tiger is also a cultural symbol, colorful, dynamic and magical. It is also the king of all animals, and has become a god worshipped by people. The owner of that year chose such a shape, which is still the only one. According to the research of experts, this kind of tiger shaped enclosure is rare in Jiangxi Province and has precious cultural value.

Due to the limitation of geographical environment, the orientation of tiger shaped enclosure can only be arranged according to houlongshan. But in this way, the landscape of the distant mountain facing the central axis of the enclosed house is not very perfect. Therefore, when building the gate, the designers of the enclosed house set the axis of the gate and the heavy line of the external wall directly opposite the main peak of Bijia mountain, and added the lintel of "RI can Ting Hui" to embellish it, forming a perfect landscape effect. Perhaps because the tiger image is too majestic, it is suspected that the owner of the enclosed house paid more attention to martial arts than literature. Several years later, in accordance with the concept of "literary style" of Feng Shui, he built an additional courtyard door, facing the East. On the one hand, it takes the meaning of "Chang Lin Guang Yao" on the lintel, and on the other hand, it makes the axis of the courtyard gate face the highest peak in the distant vision, expecting the prosperity of humanity.

The tiger shaped enclosure of fangwupai is a little famous scholar, and it also adds its cultural color. Fang Qidao was born in Dingnan, Jiangxi Province in 1893 and studied in Jiangxi Army primary school, Hubei Wuchang army preparatory school and Baoding army officer school. He was expelled from the school for reading progressive newspapers and graduated from the law department of Jiangxi provincial law and politics school. In his early years, he worked as a reporter of Dajiang daily and later as the manager of Zhongyong daily. He lived at Liu Hezhen's home, No.47, maojiayuan, Nanchang. He met and engaged Liu Hezhen, the hero of Lu Xun's "in memory of Liu Hezhen", the martyr of the March 18th Massacre, and subsidized him to go to university, which produced a love story with no ending. Liu Hezhen, named Suyu, was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. Studied in the Department of foreign languages, Beijing Women's normal university. On March 18, 1926, she organized female normal university students to participate in the protest assembly and demonstration of Beijing people against Japanese imperialist invasion of China. She was killed by Duan Qirui's reactionary government. She was only 22 years old when she was killed. When Liu Hezhen died, Fang Qidao mourned: "life is not the same bed, death is the same acupoint, Lao Yanxi flies apart, six years of engagement into a dream; in addition to the national thief, outside the resistance power, the battlefield has a common agreement, the White House splashes blood to cry for the yellow spring." This is a glimpse of his extraordinary generation.

Hakkas live together. It is said that at the most time, hundreds of people can live in huxingwei, which shows that the number of people in Fangjia was prosperous. There was a couplet in front of the enclosed house: "the tiger dominates the dragon, facing the beautiful mountains and rivers; only when there are both form and spirit, can the hero show his true colors." It can be seen that the tiger's downhill style also shows the beauty of Bijia mountain.

According to the genealogy of Fang's Liuxiu, written by Fang wupai, Chebu village, Dingnan County, Fang's family moved from Shanghang County, Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, to Qianzhou in 1366, and "Buju Xinfeng geese crow, Weigui Fuzheng, transferred to Hengjiang Chebu, which belongs to Longnan county (before the establishment of Dingnan County in 1569, it belongs to Longnan County, called hengjiangbao)", and multiplied more than 1000 people in Dingkou. For the development of the future generations, the design of the house owner's enclosure is completely similar to that of the fierce tiger out of the mountain. There is a psychological self-protection factor to prevent the invasion of foreign local ruffians. Of course, it is a typical case with great cultural significance left to the Hakka architecture in Gannan.

Situation school

The Chinese call our geomantic omen in Ganzhou of Jiangxi "the situation school". This is because Yang Gong, the great master of geomantic omen, believes that the earth has auspicious atmosphere, the earth rises with it, and the work of transforming the form is outside. In terms of form and method, there are "dragon method" of discussing dragon, which stresses beautiful image and reasonable pattern; there are "sand method", which means "drink shape" by referring to the image of Sand Mountain, such as Huagai, Baogai, Yutai, Jinzhang, Baoding, Baoyi, Wenyin, Wenfeng, Wenbi, Bijia, Santai, Yudou, Jinping, Fenghuang, Yuji, Shuangan, etc. In addition, in terms of its pattern, there are four important beasts such as "Qinglong, Baihu, Zhuque, Xuanwu" or Siling Sand Mountain, case mountain (noble, luma, Jinping, etc.), Shuikou mountain (lion, elephant, etc.), Chaoshan mountain (Zuofu, Youbi, etc.). The specific form of the natural environment has become an important basis for feng shui masters to distinguish between good and bad luck. Through "observing the situation and drinking the shape" -- intuitively comparing the mountain to some kind of animal, we can infer the decline and prosperity of good and bad luck, and then go after good and avoid bad luck. The ancient way of drinking form has a long history, and it is also an important means for warlocks and feng shui masters.

Fengshui of drinking form school is to compare the image of mountains and rivers, then drink form according to the shape, and then operate Fengshui according to the shape. This kind of cultural phenomenon can be found everywhere in China. The old city, also located in Dingnan, Jiangxi Province, was the county government of Ming Dynasty. Because it was located at the junction of Jiangxi Province and Guangdong Province, after the completion of the city, because the Hakka refugees often attacked the government, a bridge was built on the river in front of the city (it was bombed during the Anti Japanese War and rebuilt after the founding of the people's Republic of China, now known as DINGHE bridge). A seven storey stone tower, named Xun tower, was erected on the mountain on the other side of the bridge Mr. Shui thinks that if the bridge is a rope and the tower is a column, and the city is tied to the column with a rope, it will not flow to Guangdong. This shows that the ancient drinking style of Fengshui had an impact on urban planning. However, a good feng shui master is not only satisfied with the appearance of drinking form and taking image, but also does deep-seated Li Qi operation. This is where feng shui master's Kung Fu lies - both form and reason.

Address: fangwupai, Chebu village, Lishi Town, Dingnan County, Ganzhou City

Longitude: 115.050487

Latitude: 24.846961

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