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The ancient village of group mountain travels Red River of China

The ancient village of group mountain travels Red River of China

Write: Bolton [2011-05-23]

The ancient village of group mountain travels  Red River of China

Ticket

10 yuan

Traffic

After reaching Kunming, can take the long-distance bus to build water, 220 kilometers of whole journey, ticket price of car is 30 yuan, need the drive for 6~8 hours. Get, build steam station take 4 bus No. (1 yuan) ,Get under Huanglong temple, then take the motorcycle (1 yuan) Get to the group mountain.

Introduce

Walk 13 km to the west from building water county town, cross the paddy field, stone way and muddy and ruthed lane, reach the remote and quiet old village of the southern regions of the Yunan Province -Ancient town of group mountain. The group mountain is in May of this year Israel Keep the style and features of the 19th century in the characteristic original ecological village completely With having The most exquisite ancient local-style dwelling houses group of Yunnan Deep for inside information and outstanding for imposing manner,evaluate strictly whether select by 2006 world building legacy protection catalogues commemorative through expert panel.

This is the second commemorative building legacy of the world of the protection catalogue selected after building the small stream of Chuansha in 2002 of Yunnan Province. In the period of being big and military, an immigrant of the Han nationality called Zhang Fu went to Yunnan to build water and engage in trade Ming Dynasty, considered repeatedly to compare, determine to horbor on the group mountain finally.

He uses one hundred bear family precepts To educate descendants, through several generations hard struggle, the Zhang s has become the big clan of influencial family of the group mountain gradually. There are more than 250 households, more than 900 villagers in the village at present. House Zhang garden most famous buildings under village, with build the garden of town, county of water, enjoy equal popularity.

Peasant families lived in the garden now are mostly descendants of the Zhang s, although is no longer big former household, houses have been all already shabby, but that kind of natural,graceful and poised and rich and powerful breath of filling the air in the institute everywhere, can still let people feel brilliance in the past of garden and a whiff of dense historical lingering musical sound vividly.

The mountain local-style dwelling houses of the groups are mostly adopted Screen wall facing the gate of a house one, workshop three , courtyard of inning five , gallop along on horseback the intersection of corner and floor Building form made up naturally. The wood carving of each building decoration, stone carving, tile carving and paint-coated calligraphy and painting are made meticulously, simply and in great numbers and properly, it is not the superb artistic work not to have one to reject door, one dose of fans, roof beam column, corridor, eave,etc.

. Especially the wood carving screen door and carving pattern of one dose of fans window are rich and colorful. The door was had Carp s Longmen , the Eight Immortals joins the longevity , meet five happy things Wait for the pattern of wood carving, no matter carve, or painting is praised again and again by people all without exception, can be rated as a special skill in this world.