Dongyuan Village Committee is located in the northeast of Liuli Township, adjacent to Dongyuan Village and Chenfangji Township. There are 10 villagers' groups in the whole village, with 1600 people, including 40 people in party member, including 4 women, with an area of 2,543 mu of cultivated land and 29 18 mu of mountainous area. Most of them are surnamed Zeng, descendants of their cousin Hong, and direct descendants of Zeng Shen, who is regarded as a "saint". The ancient village is located in the hilly area, where mountains and rivers crisscross, and there is a peaceful countryside outside the village. Behind the village, there are dense bamboo forests, gurgling streams in the east of the village, and a river in the north of the village crosses it, with beautiful scenery. There are various traditional buildings 174 buildings in Zengjia ancient village in Ming and Qing dynasties, and the settlement form is clear and complete. It is a well-preserved historical and cultural village with buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties include temples, ancestral halls, academies, workshops, gatehouses, houses, ancient wells, gutang and other buildings. Its gatehouses are relatively complete, and most of them have clear construction dates. The technical quality of buildings in Zengjia ancient village is generally high in spatial combination techniques, decorative arts, masonry structures, etc., especially in stone and brick, and its superb technical level is rare in many original ecological villages in the south. The upper and lower hall-style residential buildings in ancient villages are common in Fuhe River Basin in central Jiangxi, which is a typical type of residential buildings in this area. Many residential buildings have ancient inscriptions, most of which were written by famous artists. Exquisite calligraphy, from writing to calligraphy, shows high cultural taste, showing the profound cultural heritage of Dongyuan. Dongyuan Zengjia ancient village has a long history and beautiful environment. 20 12 was announced by Jiangxi provincial people's government as the fourth batch of famous historical and cultural villages in our province in February.
Second, the advantages of ancient villages
First of all, the formation of the village has a strong historical background.
According to the genealogy of Zeng in Dongyuan, the 42nd Sun Hongli was transferred to Nanfeng and buried in Nanfeng Dongyuan after his death. Hongli Palace 13 Sun Zengzi actually moved from Moqiao Village to Dongyang Academy. Dongyuan village was named in memory of Zeng, the ancestor of Nanfeng who was buried in Nanfeng East Garden.
Second, the development of villages has unique human characteristics.
The village is also called "Professor Village". Since the Republic of China, * * has more than 20 senior intellectuals, including professors, doctors, senior engineers and chief physicians, and two of them enjoy special allowances from the State Council.
Third, the planning and layout of the village is unique: the location of the ancient village is 5 kilometers east of Liuli Township in Jinxi County, and it is the junction of Liuli and Chenfangji Township, 29 kilometers away from the county seat. The site is located in hilly areas, with mountains and rivers, flat and fertile villages outside the village, dense bamboo forests behind the village, gurgling streams in the east of the village and beautiful scenery in the north of the village. The ancient village faces south, along the roadway, from high to low according to the terrain. In the south, a path extends from Shixiantang in the east gate to the new archway in the west of the village, about 500 meters long and 4 meters wide. Balanced with it is the main stone street in the south of the village, which is the main trunk line in the village. There is a drainage stream on the street. Strangely, it was built into a boat shape at that time, with one big and one small, and the boat was connected into a winding stream. Its meaning has not been solved. The depth of the village is about 200 meters, and nine bluestone alleys radially run through the southern main stone street from the north gate and the west gate, making the whole village open in a folding fan shape.
Fourth, the internal spatial pattern is very complete, and the village system is perfect and scientific.
The ancient village building is mainly composed of an Dongyuan street, also known as the straight street, which branches into six alleys of more than 90 meters in the northwest. There are interconnected and winding alleys, and nine ancient residential settlements are composed of alleys paved with bluestone slabs and pebbles. Houses in each settlement group are connected, so even if it rains, feet will not get wet. Every alley has an open or dark drainage ditch; Along the roadway, ancient buildings are arranged in an orderly manner from north to south according to the terrain. Even if it rains cats and dogs, there is no water on the ground. Even in the rainy season, the house will not be moldy. Scientific improvement of village system. Most of the roofs are hard hilltops, and the high horsehead wall, different forms of wind-fire wall and village pond have played a good role in fire fighting, forming a complete fire fighting system; Every household has an open or dark drainage ditch along the roadway, from which water flows into the pond and then from the pond to the outside of the village, forming a complete drainage and moisture-proof system; The main gatehouse and fence are the first line of defense, the pond is the second line of defense, the drainage ditch is the third line of defense, the stone wall skirt is the fourth line of defense, and the mountain gate constitutes a complete defense system.
Fifth, there are a large number of ancient buildings in the village, covering a large area and well preserved.
There are 74 Ming and Qing buildings in the village, including 5 Ming-style buildings, 4 ancient wells, ancient trees 10, ancient bridges 1 seat, 2 ancient stone carvings and 2 old stone slabs138m. Among them, there are three provincial cultural relics protection units: Fuling Huying Ancient Temple, Zhong Yi Shidi Guanting and Xiuqi Nanfeng Mansion. Buildings with important archaeological value include: Longguang Faxiang Gate Tower (Qing Dynasty), Yangdehanhui Gate Tower (Qing Dynasty), Xing Xuan Polar Gate Tower (Qing Dynasty), Nanfeng Shidi Gate Tower (Qing Dynasty), Longping Jiujiamen Gate Tower (Qing Dynasty), Ancient Road (Ming Dynasty) and so on. The two-story "Guanting" building in the village is the most exquisite, with four halls. There is a house, a living room, an embroidered building, a garden and a fish pond. The words "Dafudi", "Jinfengdi", "Three Provinces" and "Ai Qingxuan" engraved on the lintel in four fonts, such as running script, official script and cursive script, have high appreciation value. At present, the interior of the building has collapsed, leaving only the lintel outside. The owner of the house also built an identical building in Nanjing that year, and now it is well protected and listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Jiangsu. The Tseng ancestral hall in the west of the village is a four-story building, covering an area of 800 square meters. Two rows of eight wooden pillars in the middle of the Second Hall are 2m in circumference, and their stone piers are 3m in circumference and 0.7m in thickness, each weighing about 400 to 500 years. In the courtyard of the next room, two 300-year-old osmanthus trees face each other and flourish, and the upper ends have been merged into one.
Near Dongyuan Village, there are tourist attractions such as Dongyuan Zengjia Village, Xiangshan Park in Jinxi County, Gong's Ancestral Hall, the former site of Jinxi Campaign, Heyuan Taishan East Peak Canyon, etc. There are specialties here, such as Jinxi Gardenia, Jinxi Honey Pear, Jinxi Tangerine, Jinxi Grape and Jinxi Wan Hu Oil Noodles.