This is Xiao Yu’s travel diary, stop and go, and watch Huizhou with me.
The previous travel note shared with you our travel notes in Xichong Village, Wuyuan.
Xichong Village is a pristine millennium ancient village. It is said that Xi Shi, one of China’s four great beauties, died here. Today, the village still retains many cultural relics related to Xi Shi.
In addition to Xishi, Xichong Village’s beautiful pastoral scenery, well-preserved ancient Hui-style houses, and original folk customs also left a deep impression on us.
PS. For more information about Xichong, you can read my last travel note:At the junction of Jiangxi, Anhui, and Zhejiang, there is an ancient village in secret, where the beauty Xi Shi lives forever
In front of the Yu’s ancestral hall, I met the old man Yu Dakai, a master of Xichong lantern craftsmanship
When we first arrived in Xichong Village, we found a tall and magnificent Yu’s Ancestral Hall at the entrance of the village. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Yu clan in Xichong was a prominent family in Huizhou, with strong clan power and strict patriarchal clan system. Within a few days of traveling in Wuyuan, this can be regarded as the most magnificent, most complete, and most exquisitely carved ancestral ancestral building I have ever seen. Now it is also a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Originally, we came to this pristine village by accident. We didn’t expect that such exquisite ancient buildings were still hidden. At that time, we felt that this trip was a great value!
PS. Regarding the specific content of Yu’s Ancestral Hall, you can read my last travel note:There is a water jail in the ancient village of Huizhou, which punishes the woman who has come out of the wall, and she feels terrible even when she comes close
When visiting the Yu’s ancestral hall, we saw many lanterns hung in the ancestral hall, which was very beautiful. It happened that two villagers were walking out carrying lanterns. We ran over to talk and knew that this was a unique handicraft in Xichong Village, called Xichong lanterns!
In the Yu’s ancestral hall, we also found that the Xichong lantern has won the gold medal of the National Folk Lantern Competition.
After walking out of the ancestral hall, we discovered that the trail leading to the village was covered with lanterns on both sides. Each of these lanterns has a different shape, including square, rhombus, parallelogram, hexagon, rice-shaped, pagoda, and so on.
There is a seven-story six-sided pagoda-shaped lantern that is really beautiful, with poems and paintings written on each side, which is very elegant. The carvings on the tower are all hollow. The most amazing thing is that there is a revolving lantern inside, but unfortunately the photos did not show the feeling of revolving lanterns.
After walking around the village, we walked out of the village again and came to the pond at the entrance of the village. There is a wooden plank road in the pond at the entrance of the village. The plank road is also full of colorful lights. We met Master Yu who we met just outside the ancestral hall.
Master Yu’s full name is Yu Dakai, who was born in 1946 and is 75 years old this year. But he is so spirited, he really can’t tell his actual age at all! It can only be said that the beauty Xi Shi chooses to be this place of death, and the landscape is too supportive.
Master Yu told us a lot about the history of Xichong lanterns. The traditional handmade craftsmanship of Xichong lanterns has been around for more than 500 years, but for 50 to 60 years, no one has made them again. In the past few years, the village has re-convened the elderly in the village to dig out and sort out the craftsmanship of making lanterns, and this has reappeared in people’s vision.
Xichong lanterns are made of bamboo stents, and all the steps are handmade. The lanterns have different shapes and different patterns, but they are all composed of objects related to Huizhou elements, such as archways, pavilions, seven-story towers, horse head walls, fish tanks, vases, and so on.
Old man Yu Dakai tells us the history of Xichong lanterns
Master Yu told us that there will be a lantern festival in the village at night, which is more beautiful. Unfortunately, our decision to come to Xichong Village was made temporarily. We didn’t arrange our accommodation in advance. I was afraid that we would not be able to call the car back to the county seat later, so we had to leave early.
If you have the opportunity to travel to Wuyuan, you might as well stay in this quiet ancient village for one night to see the ancient buildings, feel the pastoral style, and chat with the unsophisticated locals, maybe you can catch up with the Xichong Lantern Festival!
Finally, I will talk about some useful travel information, friends who want to come can refer to:
Coordinates: Xichong Village is located in Sikou Town, Wuyuan County, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Wuyuan County and about 2 to 3 kilometers away from the scenic area of Sixi Yan Village.
Tickets: Free
Transportation: There is no direct shuttle bus. You can take a country bus from the county north station to Sikou Town, and then call a Didi or a farm tricycle.
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