Riverside Village

Riverside Village

Jiangpan village, Taihe County, Jiangxi Province is an ancient Luling cultural village and one of the ancient Ganshang villages in Jiangxi Province

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Jiangpan village is located in Yanxi town of Taihe County, 15 kilometers northeast of the county, 10 kilometers northeast of Taihe north exit of QUANNAN expressway. It was called Futan village in ancient times, but now it is also called Jiangbian village. Jiangpan ancient village began in Zhenzong years of the Northern Song Dynasty, after thousands of years, it is a thousand year old village.

Jiangpan village flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the reign of Daoguang and Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, Sun Ming, a rich businessman, appeared. He successively donated military salaries to serve the country, built guild halls and academies, built embankments and bridges and roads at Bailuzhou in Ji'an, and built Ji'an government examination school for three generations. His charitable deeds spread all over Beijing, Nanchang, Ji'an and Taihe, leaving a deep impression on the history of the government and the county.

Jiangpan ancient village attracts scholars, teachers and students from Jinggangshan University, Nanchang University and other provincial universities to conduct on-the-spot investigation and practice. Professor Wang Hanmin, a famous financial history expert and scholar from Shanghai University of Finance and economics, calls it "the first village of Jiangxi businessmen" and "the model of Confucian businessmen"

overview

Jiangpan village is close to Ganjiang River in the East. It lives near the water and is good at farming and business. He has successively started business in Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiujiang and other places, and has become a strong force in the "Jiangyou business group".

The village donated military salaries to serve the country, devoted itself to the imperial examinations and social charities, vigorously built guild halls, academies, embankments, bridges and roads of Ji'an Bailuzhou, and built Ji'an Prefecture for three generations.

At the same time, after becoming rich and developed in foreign business, he actively gave back to his hometown and successively established the Yigong Society (public welfare emergency fund), Yiji Society (public academy and Education Fund), Yitian Society (Public Land Fund) and Yicang Society (public welfare food Fund), becoming the "village of five righteousness".

In the history of the annals, there are many stories left, such as the record of sun's Yitian, the village examination bin Xinghui, the detailed document of the clause of asking Sun Ming to donate Yitian, the record of Nangong bin Xinghui and the notice of forbidding extortion in kaigu Dang.

Jiangpan ancient village has donated facilities such as Huilong bridge, Zaohe bridge, Shangyu Pavilion, Minglun hall, education department, Nanchang test hall and Chengjiang academy, donated students from Taihe County's Beijing and provincial examinations, and published "selected works of eight masters of Jin Yuanming".

The village built roads and embankments, built ancestral temples and houses, and built flood control embankments along the river bank. All the roads in the village were paved with bluestone slabs and pebbles, and more than 30 memorial archways were built around the village entrance. And ancestral hall, these houses are made of blue bricks, stone tiles, cornices and horse head walls. There are also Wuxian temple, Futan temple, Xilai temple, ancient stage and ancient mill house in the village. After liberation, there are cooperatives and riverside grain stations.

Major attractions and monuments

Floating pool

Guangxu Taihe County records: "Taihe County northeast along the river for 30 Li, there is a 12 Zhang wide, 10 Li long floating pool, waves.

”It is said that it is located on the "sandbank" upstream of the river. The river is open and the water flow is relatively slow. A shoal is formed on the Bank of Jiangpan village. The river is clear and sparkling, just like a deep pool floating, so it is called "floating pool". Therefore, Jiangpan village is also called "floating pool village".

Huashitan

Jiangpan village is surrounded by mountains and water, with green hills in the north as the screen. The mountains stretch westward from the Ganjiang River in the east to the West. At the foot of the mountains in the west, there are thousands of acres of good farmland. In the back of the village, terraced fields are opened up according to the shape. The village is adjacent to the Ganjiang River in the East. The vast river water comes from the southern sky and flows northward. It collides with the cliff of the river bank, arousing layers of eddies and forming a deep-water Huashi lake.

Yin Zhi, Minister of the Ministry of arms of the Ming Dynasty, visited huashitan inspection department many times and left a good memory of the beautiful scenery along the river. From this, he wrote poems to commemorate and describe the beautiful sceneries along the river, such as sandbank, floating pool and huashitan.

"Huashitan by the river" goes to the east of the county to surpass the house and patrols the two rivers. Salt sand pile Baizhu, flower stone dip Qingbo. The wind moves, the gold scales leap, and the stars fly by. Several times through the sleeping place, the festival and the fishing song

Kuixing tower

Located in the northeast corner of Ganjiang river behind the village, it is called "Kuixing tower", also known as "Zhuangyuan tower", "Xizi tower" and "Jiangpan Village tower".

The ancient stone pagoda is built of brick and stone, with five levels on six sides and a gourd top, with a height of 15 meters. It is the second tallest Pagoda in Taihe County. The body of the pagoda is inlaid with two big characters of "Xi Zi", which means to cherish the characters.

Beside the ancient pagoda, there is a single hole ancient stone bridge named "Huilong bridge" across the stream. Because when the Ganjiang River rises, the river flows back into the stream, which is like the whirl of a dragon, so the bridge is named. There is a hundred year old camphor tree by the bridge, which is called "bijiazhang", with 3-4 branches and luxuriant foliage. From a distance, the stone tower is like a rafter, slanting on the "pen holder".

The ancient stone pagoda is towering and beautiful. The stone plaque of "Wen Yun Kai Tian" is inlaid on the south side of the top layer. In the three windows on the fifth floor of the tower, there are characters of legendary stories, such as "rising in the sun", "Kuixing Dian Dou", "Tianguan blessing" and so on.

"Kuixing" is the general name of the top four stars in the Big Dipper, namely Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji and Tianquan. In the imperial examination, getting a high place is called "winning the first place" and "the first place", so the local people also call the Kuixing tower "number one scholar tower".

Nanwuqiao

There is a road into the village in the southeast in front of the village, and there is a three hole ancient stone bridge across the river, which is called "Nanwu bridge", also known as "Zhuangyuan bridge", "Longhu bridge" or "Hongqiao", which is a cultural relic under provincial protection.

Built by Jiangpan village, the bridge is 3.5 meters high, 38 meters long and 3.4 meters wide. It was built in the first year of Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty. It is made of red rice stone. The bridge deck is paved with rock strips. There are bluestone piers and railings on both sides. On the piers are engraved with "hongqiujiri building in the first year of Guangxu reign" and "amituo Buddha in the South".

Ganjiang River and Qushui

The Ganjiang River flows down the Ganjiang River from Taihe County to Jiangpan village through Yinxia River and Shihutang water control project.

[Qushui] there is a small river in front of Jiangpan village, called "Qushui" or "Qushui stream", which comes from "Qushui Liuqi". For example, the jade belt flows slowly from the front of the village, then flows northeast around the village and into the Ganjiang River, realizing the confluence of the rivers.

A thousand year old camphor

[welcome camphor] the camphor trees around the village entrance and in front of and behind the house are contiguous. The ancient camphors include umbrella camphor, welcome camphor, penholder camphor and LIANLI camphor ，

From the southeast, all the way into the village, to the meadow at the entrance of Qiaoshang village, there is a big camphor tree covered with clouds. This ancient camphor tree is more than 1200 years old. Its history is as long as that of the ancient village, and it is regarded as "village treasure". The diameter at breast height of the ancient camphor is more than 10 meters, and its crown can cover more than one mu of ground. It is known as "yingkezhang" and "Taihe ancient Zhangwang" for its warm welcome to guests

Academies and libraries

[academy] it is located on a big stone mountain commonly known as "reef back" on the east side of Ganjiang river behind the village, which is called "Futan academy".

[library] in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a famous library named Wentan building, which collected more than 20000 classic books and rare ancient books.

Among them is the anthology of eight great masters of Jin Yuanming, which is called Taihe sun's edition in the history of literature and books.

Ancient buildings and dwellings of Ganpai

A series of ancient dwellings with Gan style and ink painting style are unfolding in front of us. Green brick and tile, cornice and horse head wall, set off each other with green mountains and waters, both simple and remote.

Horse head wall, especially refers to the wall which is higher than the roof of two Gables, that is, the top part of the gable. Because the shape is similar to horse head, it is called "horse head wall". The horse head walls of Jiangpan village are scattered in height, usually in two or three folds. For larger dwellings with front and back halls, the number of stacks of horse head walls can be as many as five or six stacks, among which the five stacks is commonly known as "Five Mountains facing the sky".

[riverside villas] there are a large number of ancient people on the riverside, most of them in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are not only single family houses, but also courtyard style conjoined mansions composed of many buildings. The most prosperous and magnificent ones are located in the center of the village.

There are two ancient ponds in the center of the village, one big and one small, one square and one long strip. In front of the big square pond is the most famous villa in the village, Riverside villa. The name comes from the two big words "villa" on the external wall.

The "villa" has a wide gate, thick walls and high house. There used to be a wind and rain corridor in front of the door. A whole piece of red stone is paved outside the door. The gate pier and lintel are all made of blue stone. Above the lintel is a wooden phoenix. The brick wall is 37cm, nearly twice the thickness of ordinary brick wall.

The villa is divided into two halls, with kitchen beside. The whole villa is equivalent to the area of 3-4 ordinary houses. The front main hall is grand and spacious. It is paved with blue bricks and stone. There is a large ancient painting of gold and lacquer on the ceiling. The wooden grating around the hall and the upper grating are either hollow engraving or gold and lacquer calligraphy and painting. Both sides of the main hall are wing rooms, and the back hall is back hall, which is also equivalent to a single house, including patio, back main hall, wing room and courtyard.

The front of the rectangular pond is a row house, two rows in front and back, 3 buildings in each row, 6 buildings in total, forming a deep courtyard. In front of the door are broad red stone steps and red stone lintels. What's different is that the indoor stairs leading to the second floor are made of wooden pedals, and the wing rooms are made of hollow wooden floors. According to the Chinese geomantic omen, water is the main source of wealth, and the two big houses in front of the ponds in the center of the village were all built by the rich merchant.

Most of the riverside dwellings have the same structural regulation, with one main house and three main buildings