Antiques from the most beautiful countryside

From the village at the foot of the mountain, drive all the way to the mountain. The mountain road is winding and winding. Driving on the hills of Lingnan, my hometown lies ahead.

Guanshan village, an ordinary mountain village in southern Fujian. This is "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in Nan 'an, Quanzhou" and "the most beautiful leisure village in China". It has a history of over 800 years.

Rolling down the window, a breeze blew on my face, smelling the mixed fragrance of flowers and trees. Looking at the familiar scenery in front of me, I haven't returned to my hometown for the New Year for three years.

About 40 minutes, I don't know how many turns, and the car arrived at the door of my hometown. This typical ancient red brick building in southern Fujian is the home of my hometown.

Baidu Encyclopedia introduces ancient buildings in southern Fujian in this way.

I remember when I was a child, my father said to me, "Our house was built the year you were born."

"At that time, the roads in the village were dirt roads with only one lane, and even some places had no roads. There is no other mechanical equipment, and all materials have to be transported from the foot of the mountain to the village by hand. "

"At that time, the economic situation was not good, and I could only earn a little money every year to invest in the construction of my hometown house. It took nine years to build this house. "

Now that I am almost 40 years old, I can better understand the scene my father described to me at that time.

Young I didn't know how to insist on doing one thing at that time, and I didn't know what home meant to us.

This house carrying more than 30 people in our family also records the joys and sorrows of our family.

This is a dusty history and a bittersweet memory of a generation.

When I close my eyes, I can still think of my grandfather sitting in a bamboo chair in the lobby, drinking tea and watching his grandchildren chase and play in the yard.

Looking at the boundless sky at night, the stars shine. The cicada's voice has been calling.

The crow will wake you up in the morning, and the mountain village is often foggy, just like a fairyland.

The structure of ancient buildings is basically shown in the following figure.

Folks generally call this kind of antique three-room Zhang and five-room Zhang, which can be divided into five types according to the depth: one entry, two entries, three entries, four entries and five entries.

Among them, the binary large space is three to five bays, and three or more bays are called three to five bays. Our home is a typical one-fifth room.

These striking Chinese characters can be seen everywhere on the plaque on the lintel of ancient CuO: Golden Shield School, Qinghe School, Longxi School, Military City, Jiangxia School, Golden Shield Hall and so on.

They not only show that Minnan residents are mainly immigrants from the Central Plains, but also emphasize the form of ancestral home, which is also the inheritance of Central Plains culture and clan culture.

The Li family is divided into two branches, namely, Longxi Yan School and Yan School. The plaque on our lintel is Longxiyan School.

People in the village will be divided into several generations, such as "Cheng" and "Rui" ...

Usually some people are younger than you, but you even call him grandpa. Friends from other places will also be yelled at by us.

During the Spring Festival, Minnan people who do business all over the country will take their families back to their hometown for the Spring Festival and visit relatives and friends.

The left-behind villages on weekdays have also become lively.

During this period, every household in the village had the most frequent activities, such as getting married, offering sacrifices, making money to go home, building new houses and moving.

Relatives and friends from every village will come to participate in every activity, and we will constantly strengthen the feelings of the clan through the exchange and interaction of this banquet.

In the typical rural life mode of China feudal society, there must be three elements: family, family education and sacrifice.

The ancient buildings in southern Fujian ingeniously combine the trinity life style of folk houses, family education system and ancestral temple, and think about how to breed families and live in harmony with far-reaching wisdom.

It can be said that Gucuo is a collection of China families and a microcosm of China culture.