Architectural style, layout characteristics and local folk customs of Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province

Wuyuan [2] is the same as other counties in ancient Huizhou in terms of cultural customs, housing construction, diet and daily life, and is an integral part of Huizhou culture.

The formation of Huizhou culture is mainly due to immigrants. These immigrants come from refugees who moved to Huizhou to escape the war, and also include people who are officials in Wuyuan people's homes or love the mountains and rivers here. With the influx of immigrants and natural growth, during the last 200 years from the late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, the local population increased greatly, and Huizhou, with more mountains and less fields, could not meet people's living needs. Therefore, after the Southern Song Dynasty, Huizhou people gradually went out to do business and gradually developed into a famous business gang-Huizhou merchants. Huizhou merchants take part of their commercial profits as the capital for their continued operation, and take the other part back to Huizhou to buy land and build houses, attach importance to education, and train their children to study and be officials. With a solid economic foundation, various cultural elements have developed better than other regions, thus making Huizhou culture prosperous and brilliant. Huizhou has a large number of material and cultural remains, and many ancient villages and ancient buildings are well preserved, which has become an intuitive specimen of China's ancient culture. It is not only a tourist and economic resource, but also allows people to appreciate the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation. Huizhou culture is centered on the ancient Huizhou with one government and six counties in history, and with the help of the economic strength of Huizhou merchants, in the form of commercial immigration, it expands and radiates to the unique cultural accumulation and cultural phenomena in other regions. Tea has always been the main cash crop in Wuyuan, and its green tea enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad, formerly known as "Qi Wu Hong Lv". Qi Hong refers to the black tea produced in Qimen and its surrounding areas, and Wulong is the green tea of Wuyuan, both of which are under the jurisdiction of ancient Huizhou.

Wuyuan produces inkstone, which is named Weilong inkstone; In fact, She Yan, one of the four famous inkstones in China, is mainly made of Weilong Mountain in Wuyuan, just like Weilong inkstone in Wuyuan, while Shexian, the origin of She Yan, is the state capital of ancient Huizhou and its predecessor, Zhou She.

Huizhou merchants in Wuyuan, like those in other counties in Huizhou, are also part of the Xin 'an business gang.

Many villages have started to collect tickets. But after all, this area is a place with extraordinary cultural heritage and rich humanistic atmosphere. Villagers generally have a kind of elegance passed down from generation to generation and will not be aggressive. In spring and autumn, the ancient villages with peach blossoms, rape blossoms or red leaves are full of artistic conception. Suitable for living and feeling. However, it is recommended not to go on holidays. The tour group will make a fuss about those old houses, so that you can't feel "Huizhou without dreams", nostalgic sadness, and "home" decorated with flowers and red leaves in the spring and autumn.

Wuyuan has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, with simple folk customs and the "three noes" etiquette of not competing for seats, food and first place; Honesty is the best way to treat people; Talk to people, books often come, and respect others for humility; Enter the private school library and respect the teacher as the father.

Call elders by seniority, and call each other brothers or first names among peers. Address the owner as the boss and the boss's wife (mother), and address the employees and craftsmen as the main people. Address a learned man as a gentleman. Tell the old lady to go public. In the neighborhood, some people call a father or a family by their children's names. People in this county have always lived in groups. When people of the same clan meet, they are called by words instead. Although old, old, but still call each other brothers, peers by their real names. Married women address male elders or peers according to their children, such as brother-in-law calling uncle, brother-in-law calling aunt, and brother-in-law calling aunt; Call your parents-in-law; Address husbands, uncles, couples and grandparents as uncles, uncles, aunts, grandfathers and grandmothers. Outside relatives, other men's names are taboo. The old man is called a man and jane doe, and the middle-aged man is called an uncle, an aunt, an uncle and an aunt. Parents teach their children how to address them from an early age.

In the old society, ancestor worship, God worship, New Year greetings, birthdays, wedding ceremonies, junior visits to elders, and junior visits to superiors are all memorial ceremonies. When the peers meet, the man bows with his fist, and the woman bends down to say "blessing".

Visitors should be invited to sit down, serve tea and offer cigarettes. Guests at home should not fill tea, but wine. There is a saying that "light tea is full of wine" or "seven points of tea and eight points of wine". Rural hospitality is more enthusiastic, mostly with poached eggs or noodles cooked with eggs. Children are not allowed to sit down and take food when guests are eating. Tea and meals for guests must be served with both hands. Guests must stay when they leave, send them out when they say goodbye, say hello, "Walk slowly" and "Come and play when you are free", and acquaintances from other places in Lu Yu should be called home for dinner.