Guobi Village

Guobi Village

Guobi village is 50 kilometers away from Qinshui County in the West and 40 kilometers away from Jincheng in the East. It is one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural villages in Shanxi Province. It is located in the West Bank of Qinhe River and belongs to Jiafeng town. In ancient times, it used to be one of the ferries of the Qinhe river. Because it is back to the mountain and near the river, the villagers built a high dam by the river. From afar, it looks like a wall, so it's called Guobi. Guobi village has a history of more than one thousand years. It has rich historical and cultural heritage and remains of residential buildings. In addition to Han's jinshidi, there are also ancient architectural communities in sanhuaili and qingxiangli. Guobi village is built according to the mountain situation, with the back of the mountain and the front of the river. Because of the development of water transportation and the prosperity of economy, people at that time had the saying of "Jin Guo Bi Yin Dou Zhuang". Guobi village, now divided into two villages, Guobi South and Guobi north, has a history of thousands of years, the village has rich historical and cultural heritage and residential buildings.

Sanhuaili is the ancestral home of the Wangs. Its symbol is the stone arch Pavilion of "sanhuaili" on the street. There are two storeys of street houses on each side of the pavilion. On the south side of the street, there is a door, in front of which there is a colonnade, on which there are four pillars, five meters high. On the north side of the street, there is also a door facing the street, but there is no colonnade in front of the door.

Inside the pavilion is a corridor, about 5 meters wide and hundreds of meters long. On the north and south sides of the corridor Pavilion, there are two flower hanging gatehouses built symmetrically. On the north side of the gate tower is a three-story Dougong with the words "respect heaven and fear people" on the door and the word "Jinshi Di" on the top. On the west side of the gate is the "Dunhu courtyard". The two-story west room in the courtyard is equipped with a corridor. The railings on the corridor are carved into bamboo knots, and the middle is connected with a fence, which shows the elegant moral integrity of the owner.

In contrast to the Jinshi of "respecting heaven and fearing people", the Huaide residence of "cultivating and reading heirs". Into which, there is a 10 meter long, north-south direction of the small alley. On the east side of the hutong is yingshuang courtyard built in 1856, and on the west side is Qingxin garden. The two characters of "Leshan" are written on the hanging flower gate tower, and the four characters of "shilvkao detailed" are written on the lower door bucket, which reflects the rigorous academic style of the master. Unfortunately, because there is no exact research, we can not know who is the owner of this Jinshi.

Jinshi Section

Qingxiangli is also called Wangge cave, because its west side is close to the wall built in 1635, so it is also called Zhaishang. There is a slope made of sand and stone in wanggedong. On the north side of the bottom of the slope, there are two courtyards named "Dazhong Di" and "Yi'an yuan". There are three houses in the south, North and east of Dazhong No.1, while the west house has already collapsed. The South and North houses are two floors. A partition door is set in the middle of the second floor. The corridor outside is one meter long, and a wooden ladder is set on the east side of the corridor for people to go up and down. In the west of Dazhong No.1 is Yi'an courtyard, and there is a brick Kirin screen wall outside the courtyard. Turning westward from the screen wall, there is another house with a tall lintel. On the door of the house, there is the word "RI Xuan San de". The site outside the gate is flat and connected to the sandstone slope to the south.

Through the sand slope, you can get to the platform in front of qingxiangli village. The platform is nine stories high, more than 20 meters long and 15 meters wide. Through the wide sand platform, westward into the "qingxiangli" gate. On the five steps, it is a small platform for people to have a rest. On the other five steps, you can see the arches about 1.6 meters high on the north and south sides. There are two wells in the door, more than ten feet deep. The wells in the south gate have been abandoned, while the wells in the north gate still supply drinking water to the villagers. Another 16 steps to the top of the village. A corridor connects the two courtyards at the north and south ends. On the east side of the corridor, there are rows of houses. Although they have been damaged, judging from their remains, this row of houses is two-story, probably for the village guards to rest. On the west side is the rammed earth wall of Ming Dynasty.

The courtyard at the north end of qingxiangli is not big. A complete courtyard is still preserved below it. The hanging corridor in the courtyard is still the same, and the style of Ming Dynasty still exists.

These simple and elegant ancient buildings are the crystallization of the collective wisdom of Qinhe people. They not only belong to Guobi, but also belong to Jincheng, Shanxi and even the world. To protect it is to protect the continuous context of our nation.

Address: Jincheng, Shanxi

Longitude: 112.980354

Latitude: 35.447552