Ancient town tourism in Shawan Ancient Town

The tourist area of ??Shawan Ancient Town covers an area of ??more than 2,300 acres, of which the core tourist area covers an area of ??about 265 acres.

A number of Ming and Qing ancient buildings with historical and cultural value, such as Liugeng Hall and Jufu Tower, have been restored, the style of 4 ancient buildings in Qingshuijing area has been restored, and 39 ancient streets and lanes have been initially completed. The 5.2-kilometer long pipeline was buried underground, the first phase of rainwater and sewage diversion was renovated, the facades of some streets and lanes were renovated, and the green landscape was upgraded.

On New Year’s Day 2012, the first phase of the project focusing on Liugeng Hall and Qingshuijing Square will be officially opened to the public as scheduled, and two first phase tourist routes will be launched, selecting Liugeng Hall, Yanqing Hall, Ten representative buildings including Sanmin Hall were put on display to display Shawan's folk customs, ancestral culture, architectural art, and deeds of important figures. At the same time, supporting facilities such as family hotels, parking lots, and bus lines are also fully equipped.

Ten exhibition halls with distinctive themes have been built in the core area, including Shawan Ancestral Hall Cultural Exhibition Hall (Liu Geng Hall), Academician He Binglin Memorial Hall, Guangdong Music Memorial Hall (Sanmin Hall), etc., showing the magnificence of Shawan. The ancestral hall culture, clan culture, architectural culture, farming culture, folk literature and art, etc., fully demonstrate the style and rich historical and cultural heritage of Shawan Ancient Town.

The ancient town tourism also launched a humanized experience of eating, living, playing and having fun. The four iconic antique buildings on Anning West Street, the Grand Teahouse, Guannan Tower, Jinlong Tower and Qingluo Guild Hall, have become Shawan's specialty teahouses and restaurants, as well as family hotels, a specialty souvenir street, and a leisure bar street.

The population living in the core area of ??Guzhen Street is about 10,000, of which about 60% are aborigines. This is also a major feature of the cultural environment of Shawan Ancient Town.

Tourism in Shawan Ancient Town is different from natural scenery, man-made scenery, and simply eating, drinking and having fun. It is a concentrated display of the splendid history and culture of Shawan Town and a brand-new experience of folk culture. It integrates the appreciation of ancient buildings, the acquisition of historical and cultural knowledge, the experience of local customs, and leisure and entertainment, comprehensively presenting the unique charm of Lingnan culture and opening a new chapter in Panyu tourism.

The Shawan Ancient Town charges 55 yuan starting from New Year's Day 2013

From New Year's Day 2013, the Shawan Ancient Town Scenic Area will implement enclosure management. By then, non-Shawan Town registered tourists entering the scenic area, even if they do not visit paid venues such as Liugeng Hall, must spend money to purchase a 55 yuan ticket before they can wander around the streets and alleys of the ancient town. As soon as the news came out, it was immediately questioned by many parties. Many residents believed that the implementation of enclosed tolls in Shawan Ancient Town would not only bring inconvenience to the lives of local villagers, but also worry about the backlash of "driving away tourists". 1． Family hotel: Continuing the experience of the ancient town

2. Preserve characteristic shops and bring prosperous scenic spots

In the ancient town blocks, there are 26 shops with the characteristics of "living in upper floors and lower bunks" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, retaining and developing "Dangdang Wonton Store", "Zhuzhu Photo Studio" and "New In addition to traditional specialty shops such as "New Barber Shop" and "Daily Queen", Daxiangyong Road will be turned into a specialty souvenir street, Anning Middle Road and Guangyu Road will be turned into a food street, and Anning West Street will be turned into a casual bar street. He Shaoxia's former residence

He Shaoxia's former residence is located at No. 7 Huiyan Lane, Chepi Street, Shawan Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City. It was built in the Qing Dynasty. It is a two-story blue brick building with a hard top. The ground floor has three rooms and two corridors with blue bricks and stone feet. It has a construction area of ??about 105 square meters, a width of 10.2 meters and a depth of 10.3 meters. The wall base and threshold are made of granite stone. The stone door There is a brick carving on the forehead. The former residence is now inhabited by his descendants and is well preserved. He Shaoxia's nephew Zhu Weisen lives in it.

He Shaoxia (1894-1942), whose name is Zhenqu and whose courtesy name is Gandiao, was born in Shawanbei Village. Born in a scholarly family, he was influenced by Cantonese opera since childhood. He is honest and has a rigorous academic style.

In September 2005, He Shaoxia's former residence was announced as a registered and protected cultural relic unit in Guangzhou.

Guzhen Study

Guzhen Study restores the ancient "Bu Bu Zhai" culture and is located in "Jinshili" Lane, the original residence of He Zihai, a Jinshi in the early Ming Dynasty. It is a traditional "three rooms and two corridors" building in Shawan in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The study mainly teaches elementary school knowledge and Confucianism, and is also an important part of the imperial examination education system in feudal society. The ancient town study recreates the private school scene and the residence of the husband in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, which shows from one side the tradition of attaching great importance to education in Shawan.

Chinese Sacred Wood Furniture Museum

The Chinese Sacred Wood Furniture Museum is located in Youqi Hall, No. 6 Chepi Street. The Chinese sacred tree is also called "gloomy wood", and Shu people call it "ebony". It enjoys the reputation of "plant mummy". In ancient times, dignitaries and literati regarded Chinese sacred wood furniture and works of art as family heirlooms and as objects to ward off evil spirits. There is a widely circulated folk proverb that "a box of jewels is not as good as a box of ebony". The exquisite furniture and works of art displayed in the museum are all made of Chinese sacred wood and are extremely precious.

Chichang Hall--Water Margin Story Hall

Chichang Hall--Water Margin Story Porcelain Plate Hall" is located in Chichang Hall, No. 8 Chepi Street, and displays a complete set of National gift porcelain - "Water Margin Story Porcelain Plate". In 1951, with Jingdezhen Jianguo Porcelain Company as the main body, elites from the porcelain industry in Liling, Tangshan, Chaozhou and other places were invited to participate in the design and manufacture of the Water Margin Story Porcelain Plate. Only three of them were fired. set.

At that time, one set was presented to Stalin, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, by Chairman Mao Zedong, the leader of the party and the country, and was collected in the "State Museum of the Soviet Union"; one set was still requested by others after being preserved for many years and was scattered in various collections; the remaining one was The set was purchased by an entrepreneur for a huge sum of money in 1983 and now allows tourists to see its true face.

This complete set of porcelain plate works based on the typical stories of the 108 Water Margin generals is unique in China. The vivid and vivid characters are exquisitely painted on 108 porcelain plates by porcelain masters. Together with the "Seven Rhythm Poetry Preface" plate and the ""Practice for Heaven" Postscript" plate, the total set is 110 pieces. Now they are arranged and displayed in the order of "Thirty-six Heavenly Gang Stars" and "Seventy-two Earthly Evil Stars". They are like a majestic porcelain painting scroll, which fully demonstrates the traditional characteristics of the Chinese nation and the superb level of ceramic craftsmanship.

Farming Life Museum

Built in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it is a traditional small family residence in Shawan with "one side and one side". The museum shows the residential scenes of farmers in Shawan in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It displays various traditional farming tools in Shawan and reproduces the life atmosphere of Shawan's modern farming society.

Qingshuijing

Qingshuijing is located in Shawan Business Center and the southwest end of Anning Middle Street. It is a landmark structure in Shawan. No matter how much the surrounding environment changes, even the old Shawan people who "left home when they were young and are still old" can clearly see the situation in the southeast, northwest and northwest as long as they stand in this place.

In 1959, before the village road was built in Shawan, the north side of Qingshuijing was adjacent to Anning Middle Street, across the street from Guannan Tea House with a second floor, and across the street to the southeast was the Shopping Mall. Xianyu's grocery store is directly south of Daxiangyong Road, to the west is a porridge and noodle shop with a canal surface covered with stone slabs, and directly to the west is the famous "Milk Dang" milk dessert shop.

The Qingshui Well is a north-south well, about 3 meters wide, 4 meters long and 1.5 meters deep. It is surrounded by vertical, flat bottom and no cover stones. There are well rails in the east, south and north, all made of white granite. A rectangular public well made of masonry.

Huiyan He Gong Temple

Huiyan He Gong Temple is the ancestral hall dedicated to He Huiyan, the 22nd generation of He family’s Liugentang, and his descendants. The temple faces south with its back facing north and its head facing south. The facade is 10.3 meters wide and 6.1 meters deep, with granite feet and three stone steps. The front door is a rare "passing gate". There are exquisite gray sculptures and murals under the eaves of the first door.

Huiyan Temple is a small two-entry temple. Across the "Tanghu Gate", there is a brown screen door in front of it with exquisite carvings and window lattice, which is very simple and elegant. There are wooden pavilions in the ear rooms on both sides of the head door. There are windows on the north side of the room, and the sunlight shines through the carved wooden windows, creating a warm atmosphere. There are green glazed porcelain railings between the upper and lower window walls. The patio of the ancestral hall is 4.4 meters deep and is paved with granite. There are high walls on both sides. There is a small door on the west wall to connect to the alley. There is a hexagonal door on the east wall to connect to the small patio of the study. On the door, there is a running script inscribed with "De Less". "Jiaqu" stone forehead, beautiful fonts, decorated with relief patterns. The study also has two entrances, front and back, with a small patio in the middle, and the front door has a self-built door facing the street. There is also a specially built well in the small patio. The wellhead is made of granite. The six characters "Shengquan Dimai Dragon God" are engraved on the foot of the wall beside the well. The wall beside the well is decorated with exquisite stained glass windows. There is a small wooden building in the back and a balcony in front of the building.

The back bedroom is 7.95 meters deep. There are 3 stone steps in front that connect to the patio. There are fine brick-carved windows on both sides of the front wall. There is a black screen door in the middle. The carvings on the door are larger than the screen door on the front door. More refined. There are windows on the door, and the window grilles are inlaid with white flakes made of ground shells, which are both light-transmitting and decorative. There are gorgeously carved flower panels under the eaves, which are carved with four-season flowers, fruits, auspicious patterns, etc. It is covered with gold foil, and a large wood-carved open-carved bird is embedded on both sides of the door for decoration. There are no columns in the hall. The tile roof is supported by two large gold-shaped beams in the east and west. The beams are simple and undecorated. The worship facilities in the hall are no longer there. live.

On the east side of the main building of Huiyan Temple, there is a second-level exquisite study room with a width of 3.6 meters and a depth as deep as the temple. To the east is "Dayi Lane", and the residents in the alley to the west of the temple are all descendants of the temple. The lane is also named after "Huiyan".

He's Ancestral Hall

He's Ancestral Hall, also known as "Hou Ben Tang", is located in Shawan Town, Panyu District. It was first built in the first year of Deyou in the Southern Song Dynasty (1275). Later, several buildings were destroyed. The current scale was expanded during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The Shawan He Clan Ancestral Hall, also known as the Shawan Liugeng Hall, is the ancestral hall of the Shawan He Clan. The great ancestral hall of the clan. The word "Liu Geng" is taken from "Yin Deyuan is planted by the ancestors, and the heart is left to be cultivated by the descendants", which means building a temple to benefit future generations.

Why is the He family's ancestral hall surnamed Houbentang? It is located in the eighth square of Shabian Village in the Shuiteng Management Area of ??Lecong Town. According to the "Complete Volume of He Family History" published in the early Republic of China: "... Looking at the old records now, it can be seen that the predecessors also spent a lot of money to manage it. There is no way to know when it was first built, but the reconstruction began in the 49th year of Kangxi." (1710) Based on the existing architectural form of the temple, the materials used for the components, and the decorative craftsmanship, such as the lotus bracket arch on the head door, the carved stone pillars, and the sandstone Chinese slab decorations, etc., they are all relics of the late Ming Dynasty. According to this, the temple should be built no later than the late Ming Dynasty, and its back seat and two corridors were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty.

Houbentang is wide and has three buildings in depth. There is a back building outside the main building, which was the former kitchen of the hall. At the end of Tongzhi, it was renovated into a hall and a kitchen for small gatherings. The head gate is in the shape of a mountain top, with lotus flowers supporting the brackets. The four pillars and the bottom beams on both sides are made of sharpened stone. The beams are carved with auspicious animals, flowers and other patterns. The outer walls of the two warehouses of the head gate are decorated with Chinese panels, decorated with dragons, horses, unicorns, etc. The relief of auspicious animals, with rough lines, simple and vivid, is one of the better existing ancient temples in our county. It is now the site of Shabian Primary School.

In May 1991, Houbentang was announced as a county-level cultural relic protection unit.

Liu Geng Hall

Liu Geng Hall is located on the "Lujiang Road" in Beicun. It is the ancestral temple of the He family in Shawan. It was built from the Yuan Dynasty to the year of Yuan Yihai (1275). It has experienced disasters and been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over hundreds of years. The current appearance was built in the 39th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1700). According to the relevant specifications of the Ming Dynasty official temple, it took 17 years to expand.

The terrain of the whole temple is high in the north and low in the south. The main building covers an area of ??3334.25 square meters. It is in the shape of five doors and five columns. It has the head gate, bell and drum tower, instrument gate, east and west verandas, worship hall, back bedroom and Lining the temple and other parts. Each building is laid out according to the functions required by ancient patriarchal rituals, arranged along the central axis and symmetrically spread out on both sides. It is magnificent and spacious. Its architectural layout, structure and elegant decoration show the superb ancient architectural art. It reflects the best site selection and seating orientation in ancient Feng Shui theory.

In 1983, Mr. Xia Nai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the founder of modern Chinese archeology, who was known as the "Academician of the Seven Countries", evaluated Liugeng Hall as "the Palace of Comprehensive Art of Lingnan Ancient Architecture" after visiting it. .