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Author: WandererLead: “Phoenix out of the south wall of the ancient city, known as the number of Shu Jia Tang. ” Huang Shu Jia Tang in Fenghuang County, Hopewell Township, located in the juncture of Hunan, Guizhou and Chongqing, because location is more inconvenient, even if the destination is in Phoenix this neighbor is still little disturbing visitors. If at the ancient city of Phoenix for a bit there, a little disappointed with the commercial, it is better to Shu Jia Tang Probe into it, really is like this ancient village on the …
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It is said that the real name should Shu Jia Tang said shelf together, blending scholarly family, meaning a rich collection of books. Back in the late Tang Yuan village was inhabited this village for generations, “Young family tree” in the records, the third son of Northern Rokuro Yang Yang Yangs Rethinking (also known as Yang Huaiyu, Yang Wenhui) had taken it for granted put down Southern insurgents, passing here, see the situation and strategic importance, the highest in the hub of stone rich and beautiful scenery, so he ordered the camp here. Jia Tang Shu stationed themselves from a military fortress.

Shu Jia Tang fort built on mountains, mountain building barracks, the Peak, Tuen build a chain to form a castle. Castle divided into upper, middle, and lower Village, the Village was no pillar between the marks, but it looks quite patchwork, entirely different. Repair the existing main Zhaiqiang began in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty when the scale of the formation of today, the ancient castle built by the magnificent surroundings of the ancient walled, slightly rounded, total length of 1,500 meters, 6.8 meters high. Zhaiqiang divided into upper and lining the top of two parts, the upper 2 meters wide and 1.2 meters wide and the inner layer, each 3 meters away from the mouth of a lookout for people to walk or patrol Village purposes. Uneven size of the whole wall of stone with lime mortar into the rice, the most important stone about 750 kg in weight, stone-based firm, fine sewing closely, after hundreds of years of wind and rain erosion, is still strong as ever.

Shu Jia Tang forts east, west, south mountain streams surrounded on three sides Jieyou early years, when the water to solve drought problems, dig outside the village also has 48 reservoirs, the reservoir water fish usually planted lotus, as stopping the enemy offensive during the war natural barrier, play a role in the moat. In the fortress of the east, west, north, all with solid bluestone building has three Gate, behind the main castle buildings which have also echoed the support of two small fort. To the existing East Gate of the largest most complete, the door into two, construction of buildings on the entire unmanning guarded day and night. Winding fortress wall are large bluestone with sticky rice mortar of lime into the most important stone of 750 kg. Bluestone used very hard and firm, though hundreds of years of wind and rain, although the ruins of the ancient castle, black, but the existing remains of ancient walls solid.

Jia Tang Shu impregnable fort, its construction planning is also very reasonable, with bluestone paved roadway patchwork in which distributed, mostly for Ding type direction, was the interval circulation, style, intervals, and on another at a section similar, rather, “Labyrinth” in the form of connectivity to the upper, middle, Xiazhai, it seems if someone scored Baonei, unable to figure out the way forward will be trapped by layers of Run out of. Now walk in the deep stone roadway, listening to the issue of foot stone bam bam-back sound, I really have a special finish and feel.

Jia Tang Shu original villagers are named Yang, Yang experienced now the only remains the most common surname in the village. Shihmen village has more than a dozen existing mansion, are relatively grand bluestone door. Shihmen the blue block of stone with the construction of multi-engraved plaque on the “Propriety and strict teacher,” “Hacken Germany to support”, “model repair strict”, “clean house sound”, “Fu Lu magnanimous” and other similar inscription, from the its profound meaning and Christine Yang family can see the entire font profound cultural heritage of future generations.

Different buildings within the compound has a different style, more decorative courtyard of the grand main building, decorated with “Look at this,” “Magpie Deng Mei,” “grandfather fishing” and other allegorical allusions to the carved window frames and partition board, not only the spacious main room interior bright, colorful style of furniture configuration is also generous. It is said that most houses built in the Ming Dynasty bluestone pedestal, and above the Ming and Qing Dynasty wooden traditional Tujia both generations. Courtyard, the corner at the lost and the current Yang family descendants practicing Stone Lock, subtle martial arts is still showing respect for ancestral clan Yang style.

In such a dilapidated castle, there are things like the value is not non– a well-preserved carved wooden windows. Wooden windows was a square, has some fading. Firmly set within a square with a circle. Round up and down about four points, respectively, within the carved lotus flower, the upper face carved with two dragons, the lower end of the tail with two long, central is a person. I heard there was a business to spend hundreds of thousands of Guangdong, to the acquisition of this window, he was Shu Jia Tang who declined. (Really worthy of a descendant of Yangs, the poor are poor so ambitious.) The window is now not in the safe, and no layers of locked, but still a family as the windows. Thus, security here is also very good, seems to be returning to the night to find the kind of sense does not close the doors.