Eastern Route for local culture and history
exploration
Qiankou Old Houses
All the houses were relocated here from the nearby
villages for the purpose to give a better protection.
Pay attention to the houses’ styles as they used
to be owned respectively by a common farmer, or
a merchant, or some high-ranking official. High
white walls without windows are main characteristics
of the local houses as only female members stayed
at home and the males went to the outside world
to be engaged in trade to earn the bread for the
whole family, who always had a great concern for
family, especially his wife and kids so the household
walls were always built high to prevent strangers'
prying inside the courtyard.
Tang Yue Memorial Archway Complex
Shexian County is regarded as "a town of
archways". In the Ming and Qing Dynasties,
there were more than 200 memorial archways dotted
all over the whole territory, now only 80 of which
remain well. Among the preserved ones, Tang Yue
Arch Complex is most significant and completely
well-preserved. At the entrance of the Tang Yue
Village stand the seven magnificent stone memorial
archways---three built in the Ming dynasty and
four in the Qing Dynasty, in the successive order
of loyalty, filial piety, women's chastity and
charity. Each arch was built in relation with
a moving story and vividly reveals in one way
or another moral value of the old time. The seven
arches are of great magnificent and classic elegance
with both cultural and artistic values. By the
side of the seven archways stand two ancient clan
halls---one for men, called as Dun Ben Tang, which
means the hall of honesty, and another for women
called as Ching Yi Tang, which means the hall
of fine examples. Both halls provide vivid statues
for the tourists to understand the life and work
style of the local merchants' families in the
patriarchal-feudal system evolved in Huizhou Area.
In addition, the construction of a women's hall
at the mid 19th century was a rare symbol of women's
victory over feudal routine "women were not
allowed to enter the clan hall".
Tangmo Village
Old houses, traditional clan halls with the history
more than 1000 years are the major characteristics
of the Tangmo village . Just see what the real
living looks like for the locals as the villagers
lived here generation after generation for more
than 1000 years.
Yuliang Commercial Alley
The old dam with the history of more than 500
years and it used to be the starting point for
the local economy development: the industrial
products were carried here by boats from the lower
reach of the river and local products, such as
timber, tea, bamboo products were carried down
the stream to major cities in Easter China, such
as Hangzhou and Shanghai. The whole neighborhood
evolved around this trade for more 500 years.
All the houses along the alley used to be warehouses
of the cargoes, or just trade shops. See the local
people life style still looks like last century.
Huashan Cave
More than 3000 years old. The archeologists suggested
that the King of Vie Kingdom (now called Hangzhou)
ordered his followers to train green soldiers
in the cave for the purpose to revenge the conquer
by Wu Kingdom ( now called Suzhou) 20 years ago.
The major proof of the conclusion is the straps
on the roof which were carved by bronze tools
instead of iron tools. Besides, there were not
any legends about this cave by the locals as no
one knows who dug the caves and where the chiseled
rocks were placed.
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