Yunnan, like Guizhou, is a place where ethnic minorities live. Deep in the mountains of Yunnan, there are many quiet and peaceful villagers. The editor recommends a village with beautiful scenery called Tuanshan Village. Just 14 kilometers outside Jianshui County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan. The mountain village is in the mountains, surrounded by mountains and rivers. Daily life is accompanied by the smoke, rice fields and rivers.
A few hundred meters along the uneven stone post road that was trampled by caravans and caravans from the Zhangjia Ancestral Hall in Tuanshan to Dongzhaimen Suocui Building, you cross the stone arch where women in the past looked forward to your return. "Wangfu Bridge", we came to a small station on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway with French architectural style.
Tuanshan people are not willing to let go of the opportunity to relive the glory of nostalgia, so they still like to take slow trains when going out. Because their fathers took the train here a hundred years ago to transport old tin to Haiphong, Vietnam, and then shipped it to Hong Kong to make a fortune
Tuanshan is a rare and well-preserved place, but it is It is an excellent example of a neglected Yunnan village protected by traditional village walls. It is located in Yunnan, southwest China.
When you enter the village, you will see the Tuanshan old village standing calmly and solemnly among the inverted arches of the newly built houses. A bluestone road leads directly to the east gate of the old village. Next to the east gate are two bluestone roads on the left and right surrounding the village.
Stepping on the stone slabs and entering the east gate, the bluestone alley that greets us is like a time tunnel, taking us 600 years ago.
Although Tuanshan became a mining center at the end of the 14th century, most of Tuanshan’s well-preserved houses, porches, temples, ancestral halls and village walls were built in the 19th and 20th centuries. At this time, the village's prosperity benefited from the expansion of trade in Southeast Asia and the completion of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders occupied the coastal areas and Annam (i.e. Vietnam) in French Indochina, and Hong Kong soon fell. Tuanshan was unable to exchange large amounts of tin for foreign exchange, and soon declined. After liberation, the land and mines were state-owned, and Tuanshan never recovered.
Enter Nanzhai Gate, stroll along the winding stone road to visit other people’s houses, and see the ancient and original earth Zhangfang of the Yi people, the earthen Zhangfang with tile eaves that is a combination of Han and Yi, and more typical Central Plains Han style The traditional architectural style of the house shuttles between the first courtyard, the second courtyard, the third courtyard and the traditional architectural courtyards of "four in five patios", "three squares and one screen wall", and "horse racing corner building".
There are wooden lattice windows that cost a lot of money; there are intricate carvings of wood, stone and stone bricks.
Take care of the carved lattice doors, windows and stone carvings; taste the dazzling paintings, calligraphy, couplets and poems. Then you can immediately understand why Tuanshan is also known as "Yunnan's Loulan Ancient City", "comparable to Huizhou" and is included in the "World Cultural Heritage" directory.
Although the Tuanshan residences may be a little too luxurious by the standards of ordinary people's homes, after all, they preserve the fine works of traditional Chinese architectural style and are of considerable value.
Especially when Tuanshan people become rich, they also portray Chinese traditional culture, ethics and moral standards in their houses, and it is even more valuable to pass them on to future generations.
The glory of mining and doing business and traveling around has long been a thing of the past. Nowadays, in addition to gathering in groups during the Qingming Festival according to the old calendar and holding grand ancestor worship activities in strict accordance with ancient precepts, Tuanshan people just talk about the past endlessly and enjoy the good times that will never come back.
They are unable to face reality and move on from their loss because their biological clock is always stuck in the past. Tuanshan people are not stingy about letting outsiders share their past luxury and wealth, so that they can get rid of today's embarrassment and predicament.
Do you like this small village in Yunnan?