Because of a photo, this oil painting mountain village painted with stone became famous overnight.

The rain connected in series into thin lines, and the children ran home laughing. The umbrellas in their hands are in harmony with the colorful ancient houses, and the weeds with bright green light washed by rain are also unexpectedly harmonious, as if this picture happened in front of your eyes, not in the photo.

Oil painting-rural photography: Zhang

This is a photo that won the grand prize of the National Photography Competition in 2003. This is a photo of Zhang Cun taken by Zhang, a famous local photographer in Quangang. Because of this photo, this small mountain village in a corner became famous overnight, and countless Chinese and foreign experts in painting and photography flocked to it, making this little-known village a hot sketch shrine and photography paradise in an instant.

Zhangjiao Village is located in Quangang District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, with a history of more than 500 years. Different from the common buildings in southern Fujian, a major feature here is the colorful stone houses.

It is scattered on a low slope, and the "stones" connected end to end are like a beautiful oil painting scroll, which seems to be outside the world from a distance.

People who live here work at sunrise and rest at sunset. What they are most worried about is having three meals a day, staying away from the noisy crowd and relaxing their hearts.

There is a 700-year-old camphor tree in the village, which has witnessed the ups and downs in the village and made this small village have a home. It is said that people can overlook the whole village from the tree, hence the name of Zhangjiao Village.

Walking into this group of stone houses, a heavy sense of history is paved, and the iron-red stones and eggs on the walls seem to tell the vicissitudes of the past.

Most of the painted stone houses here don't pay attention to the layout, and the sizes of stones are different. They use local materials, follow the trend on the mountain, and overlap up and down, inadvertently forming today's gorgeous oil paintings.

From the details, these stone houses all have a feature-few and small windows, but not deliberately for beauty, but for theft prevention. In order to facilitate ventilation and lighting, an open-air roadway and a narrow patio are left in the front room and back room of the same house.

Walking through the cobblestone alley, the walls on both sides are within reach, and the cracks on the stone wall are covered with green moss spots, which makes the space of the alley look gloomy and quiet. The old vines wrapped around the stone wall add a vicissitudes to the stone house, and every brick and tile here is full of traces of time.

As Luo Liren, former chairman of Quanzhou Artists Association, once commented on Zhangjiao Village:

"When we walked into the village, we were shocked: ancient buildings are so harmonious with the environment and nature! These ancient houses were carefully built by local materials and skilled craftsmen. They are simply a very interesting work of art and the crystallization of the wisdom of working people. The ancient residence in Zhangjiao is rugged, simple, vivid and rich, which has left a deep impression on people. The building is not only rough, but also perfect, and the layout of the village is also very clever. Walking into the village is like walking into history, and the feeling of vicissitudes and the historical imprint left on the stone left a deep impression on people. That kind of simplicity, vicissitudes and rich colors, I think that kind of feeling can't be expressed with a brush.

Self-driving strategy:

Take Shenhai Expressway, get off at Yiban Exit, enter National Highway 324, then turn to Chaoyang Highway and walk along the mountain road for more than ten kilometers.