Nanshe ancient villages of Ming and Qing Dynasties

Nanshe ancient villages of Ming and Qing Dynasties

Nanshe ancient village in Ming and Qing Dynasties is located in Nanshe village, Chashan Town, Dongguan City. It is an important part of Nanshe village and a historical witness of Nanshe village in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Nanshe village is surrounded by trees and has a good geographical location. The village covers an area of 6.9 square kilometers and has a population of 3166. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were nine Jinshi, a big village in Chashan and even Dongguan.

Village Architecture

There are 22 ancestral halls and more than 200 ancient dwellings in the ancient villages of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Nanshe. According to the genealogy of Xie family in Nanshe, Xie Shangren, the son of Xie Xiliang, a native of Kuaiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) in the late Song Dynasty, moved to the South due to the war. After several setbacks, he settled in Nanshe in 1275, the first year of Deyou Yihai, Emperor Gong of Song Dynasty. After several hundred years of development in Ming and Qing Dynasties, an ancient village of 96000 square meters was formed.

The ancient villages of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Nanshe are bounded by village walls. The center of the village is a long pond in the middle, and the natural mountains are used on both sides. The layout of the tunnel is reasonable, and the security and defense facilities are complete.

artistic value

The cultural landscape of agricultural settlements with strong characteristics of the Pearl River Delta is composed of dwellings, ancestral halls, academies, shops, temples, ancient banyan, pavilions, village walls, ancient wells, roadways, archways, etc. the most valuable thing is that there are many undamaged buildings in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, which retain a large number of stone, brick, wood, gray plastic and ceramic building components, with high artistic value.

Xie's ancestral hall, baishuiweng's temple, baishuifang, Xie Yuqi's family temple, zizhengdi and so on are the best of Nanshe ancient buildings. The layout of ancient dwellings is mainly composed of jinzijian and mingzijian. In addition to Xie's ancestral hall, the ancestral hall is mainly composed of three entrances. The ancestral hall and family temple are mainly composed of two entrances and quadrangles. The architectural style of Guangfu is mainly influenced by Chaoshan, Wuyue and Western architectural culture. It is a rare example of ancient villages in the Pearl River Delta in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Representative building

(1) Ancient wall: it was first built in October of 1644, the 17th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty. The wall is built with rammed earth or red stone as the foundation and green brick as the firewood building. The total length of the wall is 302.5 Zhang. There are 21 firewood buildings with different names and couplets. After the wall was built, it successively resisted the siege of Li Wanrong and others in 1648 and Liu Jin in 1671. At present, several sections of the wall remain, and one or two of the buildings still exist.

(2) Xie's ancestral hall: the layout of three Bay and three entrance courtyard, the mixed beam frame structure of lifting beam and crossing bucket, the two entrance purlins are connected with the fork hand and supporting foot carved with rolled grass pattern, the first entrance roof ceramic, the second and third entrance roof grey plastic and the wood carving of cornice sealing board are exquisite. Xieshan roof is rarely used in ancestral halls in Dongguan. The existing censer used at the beginning of the construction and the stele built in 1555, the 34th year of Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

(3) Centenary Weng ancestral hall: three Bay three entrance courtyard layout, hard mountain roof, built in the Ming Dynasty, the existing Ming Wanli 23 years (1595) centenary Weng ancestral hall inscription, recorded in memory of centenary Xie Yanqing and changed his residence to ancestral hall. The existing red stone carvings on the base and pedestal of Shentai have the style of Ming Dynasty.

(4) Baishuifang: it was first built in the 20th to 26th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1592-1598). At that time, both Xie Yanjun and his wife in Nanshe village were over 100 years old at the same time. Li Wenkui, the magistrate of Dongguan County, reported to the court that the court was allowed to build the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall was named "baishuifang", so the facade of baishuifang was built like a memorial archway. The layout of the existing building is three Bay and two entrance courtyard. The first entrance is three archways on the third floor, Xieshan roof, Ruyi Dougong under the eaves, xumizuo red stone carvings on the screen wall and two entrance beam frame wood carvings. In 1993, it was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Dongguan City.

(5) Xie Yuqi's family temple: the 42nd Chinese Jinshi of Yichou branch in the fourth year of Tongye reign of the Qing Dynasty. Later, he went to Xinjiang with zuozhongtang to pacify the chaos. After making war achievements, he served as the chief soldier. After returning to Guangdong, he served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. In 1901, the family temple was built in memory of Xie Yuqi, who was a member of Wu Jinshi, an official and a chief soldier. The building is a courtyard with two courtyards, a hard Hill roof, and a mixed beam structure of lifting beam and crossing bucket. The gold and wood carvings, stone carvings and pottery sculptures on the ridge are exquisite. The first gray carvings of figures and animals on the ridge are vivid. The word "family temple in front of the gate" was written by Mr. Tao Xuan, a famous calligrapher in China at that time, which has high artistic value. In 1993, it was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Dongguan City.

(6) Zizhengdi: xieyuanjun academy, the 99th Chinese scholar in the second year of Guangxu reign (1876) of the Qing Dynasty, is the principal of the Ministry of rites. The courtyard is composed of three bays of green brick and stone, two entrances. The corridor passes through the middle of the patio, and two entrances into the Ming Dynasty. The wood carving is exquisite, and the animals on the wood carving are lifelike. It is a rare work of art. The door and window decoration has western style.

(7) Typical dwellings: most of the dwellings in Nanshe are in the layout of Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, with Xie Ruchen's house as a typical representative in the sixth year of Guangxu (1880). Compared with the ancestral hall, the layout of the building is simple and practical, but it is still decorated with gray sculpture, wood carving, stone carving and other artistic components.

Address: Nanshe village, Chashan town

Longitude: 113.902602

Latitude: 23.065564

Tel: 0769-86414308

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