Daimei Village

Daiwei Village

synonym

Daimei village generally refers to Daiwei village

Daiwei village is an administrative village in Dongyuan Town, Longhai City, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province. It is located in the west of Dongyuan town and the downstream of Nanxi River. It is adjacent to Dongyuan village in the East, Nanxi village in the west, Fenglin Village in the South and chaxie village in the north. The total area of the village is 5.2 square kilometers, with 867 households and 3268 people. Among them, Daiwei society is the settlement of the Chen family, which was founded by the eighth descendant of Chen Junhui, the 25th grandson of Chen Yuanguang, the holy king of Kaizhang.

Evolution of administrative districts

Daiwei village was the capital of Longxi County in Qing Dynasty. After the establishment of Haicheng County, it was under the jurisdiction of Haicheng county. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, it belonged to Baojia of Donglu department. In the 29th year of the Republic of China, it belonged to peinei Township, the first district of Haicheng county. Daiwei village was divided into houkebao and diweibao; in the 36th year, it belonged to Eshan township. At the beginning of new China, Daiwei township was under the jurisdiction of the Fifth District. In 1954, it was divided into Houke cooperative and Daiwei cooperative. In July 1956, it was changed to Chengguan District. In 1958, it was changed to Dongyuan township. It was merged with Guotian, Xinlin and Fenglin to form xinlinying. In 1959, it was removed from xinlinying and established Diwei brigade, which was subordinate to Fugong commune of Haicheng county. In 1960, it was changed to Fugong commune of Longhai County, in 1961 to Dongyuan commune, in 1984 to Daiwei village of Dongyuan Township, and in 1992 to Daiwei village of Dongyuan town. It governs 12 communes including Daiwei, Anwei, dingzhan, Xiazhan, qiancuo, Houcuo, cuozai, zhengcuo, liubi, guogang, Houke and Henghe.

Origin and development of surnames

Daiwei and Anwei are the places where the surnames of Chen live. Their origins come from the seventh descendants of Chen Junhui, the 25th grandson of Kaizhang Shengwang Guang (the ancestor of Chen family in Zhenmei). Chen Shijin and Chen Shangyu established Diwei society and Anwei society respectively.

Qiancuo, Houcuo, cuozai, liubi, Houke and Henghe are the settlements of the Gan family. Their origins come from the descendants of Gan Xianyou, the ancestor of Lutian in Dongyuan, the first place in Henan Province.

Dingzhan and Xiazhan are the settlements of the surname Zhan, which originated from the foundation of Zhan Chunren, a descendant of the surname Zhan in Anxi County.

Zheng CuO and guogang are the settlements of the Zheng family. Their origin comes from Zheng Kejia Kaiji, the descendant of Zheng's ancestor in Shanmei village, Baishui Town, Longhai City.

Economic situation

The village is dominated by agriculture, supplemented by fishery. The agricultural cultivated land covers an area of more than 1900 mu, mainly planting rice, vegetables, etc. the species of fishery culture include Penaeus vannamei, fish, etc. there are 24 shops in the village and 156 mobile businesses. The average annual income of the villagers is 8700 yuan.

Electricity supply is popularized in the whole village, with 99% of TV and 95% of telephone. There are 800 mobile phones, most of which use electricity, liquefied gas or coal as cooking fuel, and 100% of farmers drink tap water.

In 2005, a rural cement road was built, 5 meters wide and 4.8 kilometers long, with an investment of more than 1.7 million yuan. There is a primary school in the village with six classes, 306 students, 12 teachers, 2 medical institutions and 2 staff

Famous specialty

Fenguo (also known as mungbean fruit) is a traditional snack in Dongyuan town. It is very popular in Zhangma area and has become a delicacy for the banquet. Powdered fruit is made of pure mung bean, which is ground into pulp by adding water, filtered to remove the residue, precipitated and turned into mung bean powder. Then, mung bean powder and pure sugar are taken out and steamed with water.

Gucuo group

The ancient houses are built near the water. The layout is axisymmetric arrangement, multi-level deepening, and organic connection between front and back. The roofs are mostly hard mountain shaped curve swallow tail ridge, red tile roof, stone wall, and the decoration technology is extremely exquisite. The application of wood carving, brick carving, clay sculpture in beams, arches, window patterns and other components is amazing. Even though the lacquer painting and gilding on the beams have worn away with the passage of time, the exquisite structure and decoration of the ancient house can still reveal the family background of Fujia in Daiwei village at that time. The local villagers said that there was a popular saying in this area before, "Daiwei house, no Daiwei house, Daiwei house, no Daiwei house". It means that even if you are as rich as Daiwei, you don't have the same house as Daiwei. If you have the same house as Daiwei, you are not as rich as Daiwei.

Between rows of neat and uniform ancient houses, the side door faces the side door, and the middle is only more than one meter wide. When all the side doors are opened, a shortcut from the head of the village to the end of the village is formed. The old people said that in rainy days, if you run all over the village without an umbrella, you won't get wet. This is the shortcut. In front of the old house, there is a big city more than ten meters wide, where ordinary farming and large-scale activities are held. In one of the two old houses, there is still an empty flagpole in front of the city. The local villagers told me that there were four flagpoles here in the past, which were left over by their ancestors in history. It shows that there are many talented people here, because only those who have obtained official titles and go out to be officials can set up this flagpole. Unfortunately, the flagpole was destroyed and abandoned during the cultural revolution.

Surrounded by water, a 30 meter wide waterway winds around the village. A large area of ancient houses, symmetrically arranged and multi-level deep, forms a red village on the water. This is the ancient house group of Daiwei village, Dongyuan Town, Longhai City. The ancient houses built in the Ming Dynasty have been reported by CCTV and attracted the attention of all sides. Moreover, experts who want to apply for the world heritage of Minnan red brick architectural culture have recently turned their attention to this place. However, such an important cultural heritage is facing serious harm. In February, villagers set up a Council to protect the ancient houses.

Charming rainy day without umbrella to run all over the village will not be wet

Daiwei village is surrounded by Jilong mountain, Damao mountain and Edan mountain. The layout of ancient houses has the characteristics of axisymmetric arrangement, multi-level depth, organic connection between front and back, left and right, etc. the roofs are mostly hard mountain shaped curve swallow tail ridge, red tile roofs, stone walls, and the decoration technology is extremely exquisite. The use of wood carving, brick carving and clay sculpture in beams, arches, window patterns and other components is amazing.

Between rows of neat and uniform ancient houses, the side door faces the side door, and the middle is only more than one meter wide. When the side doors are all opened, a shortcut from the head of the village to the end of the village is formed. As long as you knock on the side door, you can go through the house all the way. In rainy days, if you run all over the village without an umbrella, you won't get wet. This is the shortcut.

According to the introduction, Daiwei village is the largest and most complete ancient residential building group in Longhai City. It can be said that it is a miniature of the architectural decoration in Southern Fujian. Its cultural connotation is very rich. It is an important example to study the evolution of architectural style and the development history of villages in Southern Fujian.

present situation

Many ancient houses are built in disorder and lack of maintenance

There are about 240 ancient houses in Daiwei village, but there are only 40 left from the Ming Dynasty. The area of each ancient house is about 100 square meters. In order to expand the living area, the villagers built chicken houses, toilets and other buildings around the ancient house, which is extremely incompatible with the original style of the ancient house.

Since CCTV reported the news of the ancient house in Daiwei village, the villagers of Daiwei village spontaneously set up a Council to strengthen the coordination and management of the ancient house.

"After the establishment of the Council, we issued a notice to the villagers, asking them to demolish the chicken houses, toilets and other buildings built around the ancient houses." Chen lianshun, vice president of the Council, told the reporter that after the villagers got the notice, they all cooperated in the spontaneous demolition.

In an interview with the guide reporter, I saw Chen Yongquan who was removing the cover. "I just demolished them myself when I was free today. This is also for the sake of these ancient houses, so we all support them." Chen Yongquan said.

Chen lianshun told the newspaper that in addition to more than 40 ancient houses left over from the Ming Dynasty, all the later ancient houses were built according to the style left over from the Ming Dynasty. "These ancient houses have been around for some years. Some of them are roof tiles, and more than a dozen of them have collapsed directly."

Difficulties, lack of funds and weak protection

"We hope that the ancient houses can apply for the protection of cultural relics, and the government departments can pay attention to the protection of the ancient houses. A lot of money is needed for the repair of ancient houses and the renovation of collapsed ancient houses. " Speaking of these, Chen lianshun seems a little helpless.

"Before, we wanted to go to Xiamen. We could take a boat here and go directly to Xiamen wharf. Goods from other places can also be landed here and moved directly to their homes. " Chen lianshun pointed to the watercourse along the village and said, "but now, the silt in the watercourse is too deep. The watercourse that used to be able to run big boats is only more than one meter deep. Whenever there is heavy rain, the water in the channel will overflow to the bank and submerge into the ancient house, which is also a fatal blow to the ancient house! "

Chen lianshun said that at present, what the village can do is to ask the villagers to demolish the buildings around the ancient houses by themselves. In addition, the villagers spontaneously raised some money to simply repair the ancient house. "If you can fix it a little, just fix it a little! We also hope to attract the attention of government departments through the media and various forces, and increase the protection of ancient houses! "

The town government should introduce funds to develop tourism

Chen, director of the government office of Dongyuan Town, told the newspaper that the town government has strengthened the protection of the ancient houses, forbidding villagers to build their own houses around them. Through increasing publicity, the villagers' awareness of cultural relics protection has been enhanced. "The first is to carry out the environmental sanitation renovation around the ancient houses, demolish the simple buildings built around the ancient houses, and restore the original appearance of the ancient houses."

"Because the town government's funds are limited, the next step is to raise funds by introducing funds, and increase the restoration of damaged ancient houses and the dredging of watercourses." Director Chen said, "with the help of Dongyuan town's" provincial agricultural demonstration "

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