Langtou Ancient Village's Langtou Characteristics

The ancient buildings in the village are magnificent, and they are prominent ancient villages in the west corner of Huadu District. The buildings in Langtou Village are all facing south, and the layout is relatively regular. The village buildings are well-preserved, neatly arranged and large-scale, covering an area of more than 60,000 square meters. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were nearly 200 well-preserved blue brick buildings, including nearly 30 ancestral halls, reading rooms and academies, 3 gun towers and gatehouses, and the rest were mostly residential buildings. Most houses today are still occupied. Ancestral halls and study rooms are the main buildings in the village. Most of them were built in the Qing Dynasty, and some of them were built in the Ming Dynasty. Generally, there are three rooms with three entrances or three rooms with two entrances. The volcanic wall is sealed with herringbone or cymbals, and the Bo Gu Ridge or Dragon Boat polio model. Stone carving, brick carving, wood carving and gray mold are better, among which Youlangong Temple and Gushu Room are the best. Single buildings are separated by lanes with the width of 1. 1 m ~ 3.3 m, and there are more than 20 existing buildings in Gu Xiang. The name of the alley is engraved on the stone forehead of the alley gate building. Langxi has Li Yongfu, Li Yishan, Ren Shouli, Tainingli, Fu Xianli, Li Xihua and Zhuo Yuli. Langzhongshe includes Shen Huali, Xing Renli, Anjuli and Li Jinguang. Langdong Society includes Shanqing Lane, Li Xinyuan, Dunrenli, Ye Tang Lane, Li Guangdi, Sanyuanli and Jimolou Lane. There are Shengping Ren Rui Arch and Qingyun Bridge in the east of Langtou Village.

The ancestral halls in the village mainly include Huang ancestral hall and ancestral hall. Most of them were built in Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi years of Qing Dynasty, and were first built in Ming Dynasty. There are many lifelike and elegant stone carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings and gray sculptures in the ancestral hall, and murals with the theme of ancient life are painted on the inner wall of the ancestral hall. The villagers in Rantou Village have now moved to the new village. These ancestral halls are mostly used as firewood houses, and dried radishes are dried on high-profile platforms. Only on holidays will these ancient buildings come back to life.

The most famous ancestral temple is Youlan Palace Temple, because there is a very rare pavilion in the temple. Above the plaque of Youlan Temple, there is a mural with four cabbages in it. Don't underestimate these four cabbages, but the idea is very profound: the ancestors believed that even moderate meals should be provided for children to learn. Sure enough, this family is "seven sons and five students, father and son are two rural sages". For this reason, the emperor produced two couplets to drive the whole village to learn. There are two treasures in the east of Langtou Village, Qingyun Bridge and Cotton Tree. Qingyun Bridge was built in 1507, with a span of 4m and a depth of 1 1 m.. In the past, the water here was very clear, and villagers often rowed and swam under the bridge. Old Huang Man Xianbiao still remembers that Sinuhong sang Cantonese opera in Langtou Village when he was a child. There used to be a folk song in Huadu, which mentioned "Langtou Bridge and Chatang Temple", in which "Langtou Bridge" refers to Qingyun Bridge in Langtou Village.

Not far from Qingyun Bridge, there is a tall kapok tree with a history of five or six hundred years. It is the oldest kapok tree in Guangzhou. In a sense, this kapok tree has become a symbol of Langtou Village. Rantou village finally saw one. This chastity archway is about 3 meters high and is made of granite. The words "Shengping Ren Rui" are engraved on the front door, which means "Peace and prosperity, high life". The horizontal forehead is engraved with "Jidong Jiri (1792)", and the next paragraph is engraved with "Building a workshop at the age of 103". On the top of the stone forehead, the words "imperial edict" are also engraved. According to the villagers, this archway was built for Mrs. Cui Shi, the daughter-in-law of the 11th ancestor Huang of Rantou Village (the fifth generation of Rantou Village). Her husband died of illness at the age of 30, when Mrs Cui Shi was only 24. She died at the age of 103 and never remarried for 79 years. Emperor Qianlong ordered a monument to commemorate her.