Here, Pot-Ear Walls Reign Supreme, Ming Dynasty People Are Beloved, And Zhu Yuanzhang Might 'Wake Up in Amusement'
Travel is a cleansing of the soul, carrying a backpack on the road, having seen many people, heard many stories, seen travel scenery, listening to the wind, watching the rain, looking at the sky, stepping on snow, allowing the soul to truly relax in the journey. During the journey, all the flowing time, what is seen, what is heard, what is thought, will all become the most beautiful flash in our ordinary life. To seek the secluded realm, tourism doesn’t matter the destination, but cares about the people and things in the journey and those beautiful memories and scenery. This trip, record the upper Yu village located in Longshan Town, Fanggang County.
Now it has a history of more than 720 years, the upper Yu ancient village is actually what charm, just history, makes people amazed. It was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was listed as ‘Most Beautiful Rural Demonstration Point in Guangdong’ in 2006, and also listed as one of the first batch of ancient villages in Guangdong in 2008... If it’s about its charm, it’s about the village’s ‘ear-shaped’ architecture, which is unique. Furthermore, the village has 108 ancient houses in a grove of orange trees, with a layout of front pond and back mountain, containing the meaning of warding off wind and collecting water.
It was not in vain that Seek the secluded realm endured hardship and came to Upper Yu village with friends. It’s a little awkward to say that because it was the first time to come, he couldn’t find the road, asked local people, local people also rarely knew about it, asked for a long time before finding the road into the village. It’s interesting that local people would disdainfully say ‘go to see dilapidated houses and listen to people make stories’. It was a completely bewildered state, and now it’s understandable. It’s a semi-abandoned village, not many people, and hasn’t been completely developed into a tourist destination. People don’t lack money, and don’t want to be broken by foreign tourists. Furthermore, there are not many people living in the ancient village, only a few elderly people and children who have aged, the former can’t go back, the latter is a place that can’t return.
Walking through it, these old houses, old lanes, old wells, old trees... these carved door frames and paintings, brick and tile roofs, crumbling walls, and thatched roofs all quietly show its former glory, and silently tell the history. Even if it has become mottled and worn after 700 years of wind and rain today, it still cannot hide its unique craftsmanship between houses. Going to the ancient well with more than a hundred years of history, holding a handful of well water, and enjoying its freshness and sweetness.
It is said that their ancestor was a grandson of Zu Xi, there were 17 households at that time, and it has continued to this day. Everyone knows which house they are descendants of. Walking here, the blue-tiled roofs, pressure bricks, upright ridges, and flower glass windows reveal a unique craftsmanship, and almost every house has carvings and decorations, and the ‘ear-shaped wall’ design, which resembles a cooking pot’s handle, is full of unique artistic beauty.
Seek the secluded realm likes old things, perhaps there is a certain obsession in his heart, or perhaps that nostalgic emotion... He has visited countless ancient towns and villages. He even hopes that he can travel all over China’s ancient sites in his lifetime and feel the human warmth preserved in today’s civilized society. After living in the city for a long time, people’s souls crave tranquility. Ancient and antique ancient towns and villages have become everyone’s ideal home.
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