The main buildings of Wang manor

Wangzhuang is famous now because it has deep pockets. Its manor building is also very magnificent, standing out from the crowd in remote villages, which is very conspicuous. In various courtyards, mainly buildings in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

1, octagonal building:

Built in 1930, it is located in the north courtyard of the manor. Its main function is to defend against bandits. It is divided into two layers, with a defensive wall at the top. Later, it was demolished by Japanese soldiers. This door faces several main streets in the street. So the building is octagonal and easy to resist. The octagonal building has a north-south length of15.5m, a south wall width of 5.85m and a north wall width of 2.95438+0m. The building has four right angles, four obtuse angles and two inner right angles. The foundation of this building is 3 meters high. The gate is majestic and tall, with two wooden doors and two sets of strings. In order to sit at the northeast gate facing west and east. It has strong anti-theft and anti-theft functions. There is also a brick staircase on the north wall of the octagonal building. From an aesthetic point of view, there are five windows on the second floor facing west, one on the south wall and the other facing east. There is a window in the northeast and a window in the southeast. There is a round window directly above the gate. About a foot under each window, there are gun holes. The roof has a perfect waterproof project. Octagonal buildings are always more than 7 meters high. Made of stone, blue brick, ash and wood. All special-shaped bricks are fired directly. When building, all the blue bricks are polished by craftsmen with clear water and then put on the wall. Jointing with pure lime paste. The seam is only three millimeters. Make the walls smooth and clean. Except that the south wall is 2 feet thick, everything else is 1.4 feet. It is made by mixing cizhou slag and white ash. Bagou There is a downspout at the bottom of the third floor, which leads to the downspout on the wall, flows into the ditch on the second floor and then flows to the ground. On the wall of the third floor, there are nearly three square brick patterns of 1.5 square meters. According to the interviewee, the design building of Bajiaolou is Wang Enshu, who graduated from imperial academy, imperial academy, worked as the head of the public security regiment in Cixian County and sold guns. Therefore, it is more reasonable to design national defense projects. According to the calculation of time and age, it is unreasonable to say that Wang Xinquan is more reasonable, which needs to be verified.

2. Big ticket door:

The ticket gate was originally built more than ten meters north of the Bajiaolou. The building is connected with the octagonal building, which is the gate of the street. There are two floors on the ticket, and there are windows and holes in all directions, also called turrets. Standing upstairs, you can see the situation in all directions and be ready for battle at any time. When the light is turned on at night, the door is closed and people from other villages are forbidden to enter. This building was built by Wang Defu, a craftsman in this village. He is a famous craftsman in Fiona Fang. Wang Yue, the son of the landlord Wang Enshu, is tall and strong, so all the bricks used for building are thrown by Wang Yue alone.

When building a building, all the bricks and wood, including the octagonal building, are made from local materials, and the trees in their own fields are burned in their own brick kilns, taking the soil from their own fields.

3. Yuanbao Cave (Treasury):

There is a remote courtyard downstairs on the southeast side of the manor building, and there are four brick holes in the west, facing east. Arranged in a row with three rooms in the north and three rooms in the south, with independent doors. The hole is 3 meters high and 8 meters deep. There are shrines at the bottom of all four caves. It turns out that Wang Manor is a warehouse for storing gold ingots and jewels. When Wang's manor was in full bloom, he used dung baskets to carry ingots in and out.

4. Nine buildings:

Jiujianlou is the tallest main building in the nine-door courtyard of Wang Manor. For the upper and lower floors, there is a bunker-style defensive wall above the original roof. Demolition during the Cultural Revolution. At present, there is only one row of single bunkers on the premises of the South Escort Agency, which is very complete. The overall building structure of Jiujian Building is intact, and the stairs are spacious wooden stairs with a height of about 10 meter. The windows and courtyards of the building all retain brick and wood carving patterns such as benevolence, frugality and pomegranate. The building is a brick-wood structure with a flat roof.

5. Five buildings:

The fifth floor is the North Yard, opposite to the ninth floor, but slightly in front. The architectural style is the same as the nine buildings, and the front is connected with the living room, study and guest room courtyard of Wang Manor.

6. Cross the road:

Street building is located in the middle of the fork road in the middle of Wang manor, which is a bunker-style defense building. The coupon is 3.5 meters high and the total height is 8 meters. There are gun holes on three sides. In case of intruders, you can flexibly master the defense of the three crossings, which means that the so-called building can lock three eyes with one gun. This bunker is well preserved.

7, square turret:

The quadrangular turret is located on the south side of Wang Manor, which is mainly used to defend bandits from the south of Zhaizhai. A watchtower was set up on the roof. Leave two loopholes upstairs to resist shooting. The turret is a two-story building with a circular brick window facing north. Brick and wood structure, about 8 meters high and 3.5 meters wide.

8. Accessories:

All courtyards of Wang Manor are closely connected, consisting of multiple quadrangles, with the same architectural style. In addition to the whole building, there are many other affiliated courtyards, such as corral, rolling shed, sheepfold, long house, straw shed and grocery warehouse. Basically well preserved.