China Adventure: Fuan Historical Streets

Downstairs village, a river located in Fuan City Ningde handle column Ocean Park south of town, a mysterious village. 32 regular shape of big houses, the earliest was built Jiaqing thirteen years, the big wide shape spectacular, unique architectural features.

Chen Zhihua, an architecture professor at Tsinghua University, twice in this research, and the book "downstairs village", praised it as "the most ancient houses in Fujian characteristics." In January 2008, the village has even been downstairs Fujian Provincial People's Government as the third installment of historical and cultural village.

But recently, villagers in the downstairs about our ancestors left these "wealth", the marvel. As the wind and sun, inadequate protection, the village of ancient houses have been damaged to varying degrees; some beautiful wood carvings, screens have been stolen to sell; even more distressed the individual rooms of the old one's actually turned into a pig of the village. Thirty buildings in a large house, now preserved only more than twenty buildings, ancient houses group precarious.

Downstairs into the village, as the country turned a simple leisurely picture, the patchwork of seclusion in the mountains between the big house. Stone along the road about two meters wide shuttle, so is the yellow walls of rammed earth. Place in them, feeling a kind of strong sense of the historical vicissitudes.
According to village elders introduced Jiaqing years, Liu Liu Xiangrong ancestors of the first buildings built in the village mansion, known as "Yang the house." Then his descendants in the neighboring position, gradually built a shape similar to the big house. Concentrated in large houses in three villages in the middle of the lateral trunk. From Jiaqing Xianfeng three years to thirteen years, a total of thirty traditional residential buildings going up in this big house, even into spectacular residential group.For more information, please shift to Travel Agency china