Kengbei Village

Kengbei Village

Kengbei village is located in the southeast of Zhongxin Town, Zengcheng District, about 4km away from the town government. Covering an area of 8.4 square kilometers, the village is the place where Xifu River and Jinkeng river flow through. Therefore, it is located on the back of Xifu River and Jinkeng river. It is also rumored that some villagers have found treasures such as gold and silver in Jinkeng River, so it is named kengbei village. The village has a history of more than 400 years. The existing Guangshan highway G324 passes through.

Population nationality

Most of the villagers have the surnames of Mao, Cui, Tang, Lin, Liang, Su and Guo. Among them, the surname Mao was a neighboring village who moved to settle here. The surname Cui is said to be the descendant of Cui Yuzhi, Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Cui Yuzhi's grandfather and his family moved from Heyuan Yihe to yitianzhuang, the mica capital of Zengcheng at that time. The ancestor of the Tang family lived in Longtang village, Jiulong Town, Huangpu District since Ming Dynasty. Liangtian village, whose ancestral home is Lianan village in Fuhe District of Zhongxin town in Zengcheng, was relocated to kengbei because of the construction of Lianan reservoir in 1958. According to statistics, in late 2016, the village had 2762 registered residence population. The villagers are all Han nationality, belonging to Guangfu ethnic group, using Cantonese dialect.

social undertakings

Due to its proximity to town Polders and convenient transportation, the village not only carries out traditional agriculture such as rice, vegetables, litchi, longan planting and "three birds" breeding, but also transfers land to introduce enterprises to the village for production. Now its business involves hardware, plastics, manufacturing, etc.

History and culture

There are well preserved ancient villages in kengbei village, which was listed as a historical and cultural reserve in Guangzhou in 2000. The ancient village group covers an area of 18300 square meters, with moon pond, breast wall and Sun Valley field in front of the village, and Fengshui forest in houlongshan behind the village. The village houses are arranged in a rectangular chessboard shape, 152.43 meters wide from north to south, 120.37 meters deep from east to west, 5 rows horizontally and 10 columns vertically. They are composed of ancestral halls, official halls, turrets and 43 residential buildings. The shape, structure, scale and interior decoration of the residential buildings are the same. The roof is Woer gable and dragon boat ridge. Among them, Mao Zhirong's residence was built in the Qing Dynasty and has been maintained for many times. It is a three room two corridor building with a total width of 10.49 meters and a total depth of 10.26 meters. It covers an area of 107.63 square meters. Maoye Fumin house was built in Qing Dynasty. It has been repaired many times. It is located in the southwest and faces the northeast. It has a layout of three rooms and two corridors, with a total width of 10.49 meters and a total depth of 10.26 meters. It covers an area of 107.63 square meters.

The existing ancestral temples include Mao Xianru temple, shigu MaoGong temple and Cui Taishi temple. Mao Xianru ancestral temple is built by the villagers of four nearby Mao villages. It is located in the former site of kengbei primary school. It was first built in 1804, and was repaired in 1995. It was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Zengcheng City in 2010. The ancestral hall covers an area of 943.5 square meters, with five rooms and three entrances (the left and right are lined ancestral halls), with a total width of 22.2 meters and a total depth of 42.5 meters. The architectural style is hard hilltop, five flower fire sealing gable, gray plastic Bogu ridge, Lu gray tube tile, tile dripping and blue brick stone foot, red Step brick paving. The whole ancestral hall is lined with rooms with attics and wooden horizontal purlins. Every year on the second day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, villagers surnamed Mao come to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. On the fourth day of the first month of each year, the elders over 60 years old of Mao family come to the temple to worship the "spring society". Shigu MaoGong temple was built in the Qing Dynasty and maintained in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. It was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Zengcheng City in 2010. The temple now covers an area of 330.17 square meters, sitting in the southwest and facing the northeast, with three rooms and three entrances, with a total width of 10.98 meters and a total depth of 30.07 meters. Hard mountain top, Woer seal volcanic wall, grey plastic ridge, vertical ridge, berm and back warping, Lu ash silo tile, drip trimming, green brick and stone foot, red terrace brick paving. Every year on the seventh day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the villagers of Mao family all pay homage to the temple. Cui Taishi temple is a temple dedicated to Cui Yuzhi, a famous Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. It was built in an unknown time. It was rebuilt in 1996 and 2015. It was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Guangzhou in 2002.

There is a turret in the village, which was built in the Qing Dynasty. It was originally five stories high, about 20 meters. In the late 1950s, it was demolished and left with two floors, now about 9 meters high. The plane is square, 16 meters long, covering an area of 256 square meters. Hard mountain top, herringbone seal volcanic wall, gray plastic ridge, Lu gray tube tile, green brick stone foot, green brick paving. The turret is a mixed structure of brick, wood and stone, which can be used to guard against bandits and thieves. It can also store food and grass, and can accommodate the villagers and livestock in the village when in danger.

Kengbei gatehouse, built in the Qing Dynasty, is the main gateway for the villagers in ancient kengbei village to get in and out of the village. The building is located in the southwest and faces northeast, with a width of 4.18 meters and a depth of 2.9 meters, covering an area of 12.12 square meters. There are seven purlins in total, and the front wall is an empty corridor. The facade wall is made of polished blue brick, granite skirt, and the lintel is painted with ink. There are also granite stone door clips. There are mullions installed on the door opening, but the existing mullion holes. The lower part of Longtou is inlaid with granite.

Kengbei square well, located in the vertical Lane between the official hall and the study, was excavated in the Qing Dynasty and chiseled with a whole granite. The side of the wellhead is 0.86m long, the inner diameter is 0.54M, and the height is 0.16m. The inner wall is built with green bricks. The well platform is paved with long strip granite, with drainage ditch around, without siltation, neat and clean. The well water is clear, sweet and cool, and can still be drunk.

dominating figure

Cui Yuzhi (1158-1239), whose name is Zhengzhi, is named jupo, and has a posthumous title of Qingxian. In the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1193), he was a Jinshi. He has successively served as tidian prison in Guangnan West Road, Minister of the Ministry of industry, pacifier in Chengdu, pacifier in Huainan East Road, and pacifier in Sichuan. He had political voice in his resistance to Jin and Fu. He was indifferent to fame, and declined gifts from all parties. Poetry, literature and CI have made great achievements, known as the "ancestor of Cantonese Ci".

Address: kengbei village, Zengcheng, Guangzhou

Longitude: 113.653044

Latitude: 23.275084

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