It is located in Xiwenxing Village, Tuwo Township, 25 kilometers southwest of Qinshui County. The scenery here is beautiful, and the scenery is pleasant in all seasons. The row houses overlooking the south are green and green, and the north observation deck is tall and graceful. The east and west sides are surrounded on the left and right. It is called "living around the mountains". Here are mainly castle-style residential buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has close historical origins with Liu Zongyuan, a great writer and statesman of the Tang Dynasty. There are two existing door plaques of "Hedong Shize" and "Sima Di" in the Liu family's residence, as well as the "Liu family is from Hedong Shize...the ancestor of the late Tang Dynasty, Yongzhou Sima" in the "Liu Family Genealogy", and the inscription on the Guandi Temple in the village " Records such as "Emperor Guan is from the same hometown as me" and "Remembering my ancestors and remembering my hometown" can prove that the Liu family residence is the residence of Liu Zongyuan's descendants.
As a model of castle-style manor architecture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the entire building is roughly divided into three parts. These include the Liu Family Ancestral Hall, Guandi Temple, Confucian Temple, Holy Temple, Primary School, Paper and Silk Building in the Waifu District; Wenchang Pavilion, School Field, and Ship Archway in the Central District; and the small stage, River View Pavilion, and Fumen Tower in the fully enclosed Neifu District. There are dozens of cultural landscapes. In addition, there are more than 18 ancient streets and alleys of the Ming and Qing Dynasties that are well preserved to this day, about 1.5 kilometers long.
The Liu family residences are influenced by their scholarly family background, and the creativity and cultural content of the courtyard buildings have reached a very high level. Not only are the themes diverse and the compositions meticulous, but they are also eye-opening in terms of their use of traditional auspicious patterns as metaphors and harmonious expression techniques. For example, lotus and cinnamon branches are used to express "continuous birth of a noble son", three copper coins are strung on a rope to express "three yuan in a row", five bats spread their wings around the word "Shou" to express "five blessings and longevity", etc. Similar patterns are only "Xing Inviting Heaven" There are more than 30 kinds of "pet" gate towers.
The existing calligraphy and paintings in Liu's residence are also unique. In addition to more than 40 inscriptions and handwritings of celebrities such as Zhu Xi, Wen Zhengming, Wang Yangming, and Zheng Guanluo, there is also a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty known as "Wu Dai Dangfeng" Wu Daozi's ink-painted stele, whose "Ten Philosophers of Saints" is based on the scene where Confucius tells the story of Yao and Shun to his ten disciples, is a unique work, especially rare in the north.
In addition, Liu's residence also contains family ancestral mottos, biographies of celebrities from generation to generation, etc. It is worth mentioning that there are records at that time that Liu Yuchun visited Shanshun Wangping with the official minister Wang Guangguang and the cabinet scholar Tian Yi'an.
Read the history and make clear the history, and understand the past and the present. As a cultural wonder of the Ming and Qing dynasties that combines the charm of the north and the south, the Liu Family House is not only a valuable historical material for studying local folk customs, but also has high reference value in terms of architecture, inscriptions, calligraphy, ethics and morals.
The ancestor of the Liu family residence is the same clan as Liu Zongyuan of Jiezhou, Hedong in the Tang Dynasty. During the Yongzhen period at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan participated in Wang Shuwen's political reform and was demoted. His clan members fled in all directions to avoid being implicated, and one branch of the clan lived in seclusion here. Through the Song and Yuan dynasties, people of the Liu clan in Hedong lived in the Lishan area. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Chen, a Gong from Jiangzhou in Hedong, and his wife Yang settled in Qinshui and built Xiwenxing Village, about 600 years ago. The Liu family's residence truly records the history of social development from "officials and businessmen" in the Ming Dynasty to "business and officials" in the Qing Dynasty, and reveals the mystery of the Liu family's century-old scholarly family in Hedong.