Huang's courtyard

Huangjia courtyard, located in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province, is located in Wujing village, 2km northwest of Songyang county. As soon as you enter the village, you can see a group of horse head walls with high and low levels standing up and imposing. This is the unique Hall of wood carving art Songyang Huangjia courtyard.

After nearly a hundred years of painstaking efforts, the Huang family became a local family. In Tongzhi years, they began to build two buildings in the backyard, namely "meilanxuan" and "zhujuxuan". During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, a "Wufu technology building" was built in the central court, and a luxurious "Baishou hall" was built in the front yard with an investment of 55000 yuan in the seventh year of the Republic of China.

The "longevity hall" in the front yard is commonly known as "seven rooms". It has three rooms in seven, with a width of 27.6 meters and a depth of 33.8 meters. Being in the "longevity hall" is like wandering in the art corridor. In the hall, there are carved beams and painted buildings with exquisite craftsmanship, all of which take the word "Shou" as the theme. The 200 seal characters "Shou" written by Niujiao and quedi are the same.

The main part of the backyard is Mei Lan Zhu Ju hall. The carvings on the forehead and column base all revolve around this theme, especially the carvings on the window lattice. Between the panes are inlaid patterns of bats, butterflies, fish, pomegranates, birds, deer, bees and monkeys, which are as small as fingertips. There are also a group of sculptures on the scene of labor, such as woodcutters cutting firewood, farmers hoeing and fishermen fishing.

Huang's courtyard

Huang's courtyard is a kind of residential building with the style of Qing Dynasty. Wujing village is located in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province, 2km to the northwest. Once you enter the village, you can see a group of high and low horse head walls standing up and imposing. This is a unique Hall of wood carving art. Its exquisite carving skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the outstanding talents and artistic creativity of the ancient working people.

Creating history

A house is a history. The history of Huangjia compound in Songyang can be traced back to the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Songgu plain has always been the granary of southern Zhejiang. Rich land will always produce some rich side of the big family. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the richest man in Songyang should be Huang Zhonghe. Huang Zhonghe, who has a rich family, wants to set up some businesses for his family. So the ancestral hall and Wuji building were built in Wujing village, WangSong Township, two kilometers away from the county seat. Wuji building is also known as five.

Huang Zhonghe not only built the former life of Huang family compound, but also cultivated his son Huang shaogui, who was praised by later generations. Huang shaogui, a successful scholar, served as a teacher in Yanzhou Prefecture and a teacher in Chun'an County. In the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Chuzhou suffered from severe disasters, and hungry people were everywhere. Huang Xun opened the warehouse and sold rice to help the hungry people through the famine. This good deed has always been praised. At that time, it was praised by Chuzhou government and awarded the "Zezhou rensu" gold plaque, which added a halo to the famous Huang family. Perhaps Huang shaogui, in order to make the Huang family have greater industrial development in his own hands, expanded into two "Mei Lan Zhu Ju Xuan" with exquisite structure and exquisite carving in the backyard, which is also called "San Jian". When the new building was completed, the glittering "Ze Zhou Ren Su" gold plaque was hanging in the middle hall. For a moment, there was an endless stream of admirers, and the Huang family was even more famous.

Huang QiuGuang, the son of Huang shaogui, is also a good hand in his family. He keeps his family well-off. In 1918, he invested 55000 yuan to build a luxurious "longevity hall" in the front yard, which is the main body of Huang's courtyard.

architectural composition

The "longevity hall" in the front yard is commonly known as "seven rooms". It has three rooms in seven, with a width of 27.6 meters and a depth of 33.8 meters. Being in the "longevity hall" is like wandering in the art corridor. In the hall, there are carved beams and painted buildings with exquisite craftsmanship, all of which take the word "Shou" as the theme. The 200 seal characters "Shou" written by Niujiao and quedi are the same.

The main part of the backyard is Mei Lan Zhu Ju hall. The carvings on the forehead and column base all revolve around this theme, especially the carvings on the window lattice. Between the panes are inlaid patterns of bats, butterflies, fish, pomegranates, birds, deer, bees and monkeys, which are as small as fingertips. There are also a group of sculptures on the scene of labor, such as woodcutters cutting firewood, farmers hoeing and fishermen fishing. These pictures full of rich life interest make the woodcarving art of Huang's courtyard full of humanity, give people unique moral lessons and artistic enjoyment, and fully show the wisdom and exquisite skills of the ancient working people.

Founded in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty and completed in 1920, it was built by Huang Zhong, the richest man in Songyang, and his grandparents and grandchildren. Facing south from north, it is divided into three parts: front yard, middle yard and back yard. The front courtyard includes the gate tower, longevity hall, attached house and garden; the middle courtyard includes the martial arts building, corridor (destroyed), ancestral temple, attached house and East and west gate buildings; the back courtyard includes zhujuxuan, meilanxuan, gate tower, attached house and kitchen. Each hospital is independent of each other and connected by side doors. It covers a total area of 6460 square meters and a total construction area of 3798 square meters. Bai Shou hall, Wu Ji Lou, Zhu Juxuan, Mei Lanxuan and so on are the essence of the whole group of buildings. The structure of the beam frame is mostly mixed with lifting beams and slots, with exquisite material and fine workmanship. It has some traditional local characteristics. The wood carving is extremely exquisite, and the carving is rich in content and contains many kinds of meanings. The quantity and quality are rare in Lishui. The roof of the hard hilltop is made of small green tiles, and the building is surrounded by tall gables.

Cultural connotation

Huangjia courtyard is one of the large-scale traditional residential buildings in Southwest Zhejiang, with reasonable layout, exquisite architectural conception, exquisite wood carving technology, rich cultural connotation of carving content, and basically complete preservation status. It is an important example to study the architectural pattern types and architectural carving culture in Southwest Zhejiang.

Tour post

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30 yuan transportation:

Huang's courtyard is not far from the county. You can walk or drive an electric car to it.

Address: Songyang County, Lishui City (3.4 km north)

Longitude: 119.473063

Latitude: 28.478525

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