Donghuping Folk Culture Village

Donghuping Folk Culture Village

Donghuping folk culture village is located in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, covering an area of 290000 square meters. It is located on the side of national highway 323, 55 kilometers away from Shaoguan City in the West and 3 kilometers away from Shixing County in the East. There is no lake in donghuping, but some big, ancient and strange buildings and endless magic stories.

Village profile

Donghuping folk culture village was built in the Qing Dynasty, including nine buildings and eighteen halls of Zeng's ancestral hall, Yongcheng hall Wailou, secret treasure map and Zeng's Bank. These buildings have unique structure, strong construction, vigorous and simple, dignified and thick, reflecting the rich Hakka culture and economic prosperity at that time. In the folk village, the ancestral hall of Zeng Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty is carved with beams and painted buildings. The plaque is resplendent and decorated with the statues of the five ancestors of Zeng family, which reproduces the solemn and solemn scene of the ancestral hall in the patriarchal society.

In donghuping folk culture village, there are thousands of exquisite stones for tourists to watch. In the Qing Dynasty, there are a series of wedding activities, such as marriage talk, eight characters, blind date, betrothal, weeping, sending, leaving, robbing, worshiping, bridal chamber making, wedding banquet, etc., which make you feel the ancient marriage customs.

Village attractions

Zeng's ancestral hall

Zeng's ancestral hall is located in the east of the main entrance of the scenic spot. It was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of nearly 200 years. The overall layout is a pond, a gate flat, a courtyard style building with three entrances in front, middle and back and a cross courtyard in the left and right. It is 26.2 meters wide in the north and south, 79.3 meters deep in the East and West, and covers an area of 2133.33 square meters. The pond in front of the gate is intended to accumulate wealth with water, which is actually used for fire prevention and is an important guarantee for the safety of the ancestral temple.

18 halls, building 9

The so-called nine buildings and eighteen halls, that is, a total of nine buildings, two halls in each building, a total of 18 halls. The nine 18 buildings, covering an area of 20000 square meters, are divided into daily living area in the south, life defense area in the north, culture and education area in the East and livestock breeding area in the West. There are more than 450 large and small rooms in the whole complex. It is said that it took more than 40 years to build such a scale. The architectural design is comprehensive, unique construction, fine workmanship, exquisite decoration and quality.

Three red flags

This historical site is preserved on the walls around the former site of the rural public canteen in donghuping during the Great Leap Forward period and the people's commune period, which is a true reflection of the Great Leap Forward period in 1958. On the walls around are all kinds of charts and comics drawn in that year, including: production schedule, three guarantees table of agricultural production management, work plan of "knowing early in a year, striving for a goal", member evaluation platform, five kinds of molecular supervision platform, cash income and expenditure statement of collective canteen, physical income and expenditure statement of canteen, food distribution statement of canteen, as well as the table set up for free meals in that year The window where the food is served, etc. It has been more than 40 years since we witnessed these relics, which makes the people who came from that year recall the spirit of "leap forward" and the pompous atmosphere at that time. They feel deeply and sigh with regret. The younger generation has received a vivid education of contemporary history. This historical site, after more than 40 years of ups and downs, can still be well preserved, which is rare in the country. It is a historical witness site, which provides a good place for people to study Chinese contemporary history and party history, and has a certain preservation value and visiting research value.

Yongcheng hall Wailou

Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang in the Qing Dynasty, inscribed a stone plaque of "Yongcheng Baobao" on this building, so the building is called "Yongcheng hall". The Wai Building was built in 1895. The whole building is of brick, stone and wood structure. It is rectangular and has turrets at the four corners. It is a combination of blockhouse and residence. The four floors have a unified corridor, extending in all directions. The building is now open for tourists to visit and specially set up "Hakka folk cultural relics exhibition hall". The contents of the hall are very rich, including marriage and childbirth customs, farming customs, clothing art, small items of life and so on.

Stone of fame

This kind of stone pillar is set up by the people who have gained fame and fame, and is intended to show off their family status. The official stone in xiayaobei village, donghuping, is engraved with the words "Gao confers on the government official, the military and civilian government, Zeng Lvhe and Jili", "the sixth year of Guangxu, the year of Gengchen, the year of Shiyue, looking at the second day of Gudan". Because it used to hold a flagpole, also known as flagpole stone, it is also like a ship's mast, also known as "mast stone". All the people in the clan who have "paid tribute to be an official", that is, those who have been admitted to a scholar's degree or above, or who have been granted official titles, are funded by the "public funds" of the clan to ask the masons to build the official stones, and choose the auspicious day to erect them, commonly known as "qimast". Gongmingshi has the meaning of inspiring future generations to work hard and show off the outstanding local people. It is also an important symbol of Shixing Hakkas' inheritance of the Central Plains tradition and advocating culture.

Joan of arc archway

Located in front of the entrance of the main entrance, these archways are left over from ancient times, symbolizing the traditional requirements for women's morality, integrity and chastity.

Transportation guide

independent travel

1. Shaoguan bus station to take Shaoguan to Shixing line bus, and then get off at donghuping, ticket price is 15 yuan - 20 yuan.

Self driving

1. From the beginning of Shaoguan:

Route: Hongqi Road - Mojiang South Road - Mojiang North Road - Beimen road - Chengbei road - Yong'an Avenue - National Highway 323 - main entrance of the scenic spot

Time required: 10 minutes

2. From Guangzhou:

Route: S15 Guangzhou branch line of Shenhai Expressway - xiashaoguan exit - Beijing Zhuhai Expressway - xiashaoguan exit - Shaogan Expressway - xiashixing exit - Chengbei road - Yong'an Avenue - National Highway 323 - main entrance of the scenic spot

Time required: 3 hours and 15 minutes

Address: donghuping Hakka Folk Culture Village (beside National Highway 323)

Longitude: 114.031786

Latitude: 24.973194

Tel: 0751-3162688