How many people know about Bailu Village, an ancient Hakka cultural tourism village in Ganzhou, Jiangxi?

Bailu Village is located in the north of Gan County, 63 kilometers away from Ganzhou City. Bailu had already formed an inhabited village as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it has become increasingly prosperous since then. Bailu Village currently has 560 households and a population of more than 2,500 people. 99% of the residents have the surname Zhong and are Hakka residents passed down from generation to generation. The village is half-moon shaped with an area of ??0.2 square kilometers. Among the 60,000 square meters of ancient buildings in the village, there are more than 140 Hakka houses that are more than a century old. The antique blue brick and black tile building complex was mostly built in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The ancestral hall of Bailu is about 10 meters high. It is made of black tiles and blue bricks. The hall is decorated with carved beams and painted pillars, jade pillars and flowered windows, and patios of various sizes are well arranged; the main hall and side halls complement each other, and the housing and miscellaneous rooms are in good order. At the entrance of the ancestral halls of officials and officials, there are round "dragon holding stones" and long "flagpole stones" lined with words and patterns on them to express the master's fame and official title. Between ancestral halls and on the walls or roofs of alleyways and intersections that are not good for "feng shui", a stone tablet of "Taishan Shigandang" decorated with animal heads or a small stone lion with teeth and claws often hangs high to "suppress demons and drive away evil spirits."

There are two types of ancestral halls in Bailu Village: most of them are "residential-sacrificial" ancestral halls that gather several families with close relatives and worship the ancestral shrines of these families; the other is a specialized ancestral hall. It is used to worship the ancient ancestral shrine, and for the adult children and grandchildren of the ancestor who have unfortunately passed away to be buried here, put into the coffin, and hold the "ancestor farewell" ceremony. This is a "special worship type" ancestral hall.

Behind an ancestral temple, there is a vivid character, a tortuous and bizarre story.

"Drink Leicha", "beat Huang Yuan rice and sweet fruit", "chop fish shreds", "burn taro balls", and give patients "singing surprises at night", "welcoming lanterns", " Bailu Village has all kinds of Hakka folk customs in southern Jiangxi, such as "racing for sedan chairs" and "burning tile towers". The "Wang Taifu Temple", "Xiuhua Building", "Ai Lu" and other residential buildings are unique here. They have recorded the rise and fall of Bailu Village for thousands of years.

Today, Egret, a shining pearl nurtured by ancient culture and Hakka culture, stands out. Its distinctive Hakka residential architecture and unique folk customs attract domestic and foreign experts and scholars to come here to inspect and collect customs. It has become a good place for Hakka folks, businessmen and scholars at home and abroad to trace their roots, inquire about their ancestors, and have leisure and entertainment.