Reflections on the pursuit of Xie Castle

Reflections on the pursuit of Xie Castle

In recent years, the Forbidden City, Yu Xiang Castle, Foundation City and other castles have become the most valuable tourist business cards in Jincheng. The elaborate production and performance of large-scale live sitcoms such as "Back to Xiang Fu" and "Castle, Castle" have made the profound castle culture known and spread by more and more people.

Yesterday (February, 2022.12), I visited Xie Castle in Dongbaling Village, Zezhou County on the recommendation of a friend. Dongbaling Village is about 30 kilometers away from the urban area, and it takes about 45 minutes by car by Hill Line. The winter snow on the mountain along the way is elegant and holy, especially enchanting. The traffic is scarce, and the photos taken by the camera are far less layered and open than those seen by the human eye. But walking out of the urban jungle and getting close to nature has an unparalleled sense of closeness and impulsiveness.

Arriving at the navigation destination, I didn't see the magnificent castle like the Imperial City Xiangfu or Xiangyu Castle. At noon on the twelfth day of the first month, there were few people on the streets in the countryside. Further on, I suddenly saw a full-page introduction of Xie Castle on the wall. This must be the center of the castle.

Brief introduction of castle

The origin of Xie Castle can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 820-782 BC), about 3000 years ago. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a man named Shen Bo in Zhou Xuanwang. His uncle Yuan was a vassal of the ancient Xie State. According to the inheritance from generation to generation and the textual research of existing historical materials, Xieshi Castle in Dongbaling Village is a summer resort built by Shenbo with its strong economic strength and decades-long three-dimensional defense network system. Xie Castle uses the ancient geomantic omen theory (that is, geomantic omen, commonly known as geomantic omen, is a mysterious art with a long history) for site selection, adapts to local conditions and changes with the situation, and integrates the defense concept into all levels of the building, so that the underground, the house and the roof form a complete castle defense system in a trinity. The ancient culture left by Xie Castle is the cultural remains of the Zhou Emperor and the cultural system of the vassal Wang Shenbo. After the Chu State destroyed Xie Guo in 688 BC, Shenbo Group took the country as its surname and became an authentic Xie family.

? Xie's castle has 22 ancient courtyards, 5 chessboard courtyards, 8 quadrangles, 4 triad courtyards and 5 irregular courtyards built on the ground. In the east of the village, there are large and small temples. There are 9 gates, 8 hutongs and 8 T-shaped streets in the castle, which are connected with four main streets, including East Street, West Street, Shang Jie Street and Xia Jie Street. Xie's Castle has a connecting passage 18 connecting 22 courtyards, with a building area of about15000m2, a tunnel and drainage system of about 500m long and a total area of over 30000m2, all of which are two-story buildings with brick or stone structures. More than 840 households are unblocked from top to bottom, with households connected and hospitals connected.

Castle pursuit

Walking into the village center to explore the old castle, it seems that there is no imprint of the old castle in the orderly courtyard buildings of rural schools. Looking deeper, I suddenly saw a design explanation board of a dilapidated Feng Shui Museum.

Walking south along the direction of Fengshui Pavilion, I saw a sign hanging on the wall, which was introduced as Foreign Affairs Hospital in turn, and the door plaque: South soil is the guarantee. Originated from The Book of Songs. Using the original sentence in the Book of Songs as a door plaque has also become a special culture to inherit and praise Xie Shenbo. Middle Gate plaque: Hou Kun carried things from the Book of Changes. It means carrying everything with breadth and density, nourishing everything and benefiting everything. Next to the Chamber of Commerce: Keqin Kebang. It means that when dealing with state affairs, generations should do their best, work hard and build a harmonious family with high morality and self-discipline.

The "Chamber" in front of us is a place to discuss state affairs. Once in the third hospital. The magnificent screen wall in front of the main hall is nowhere to be found, but the solemnity of this ancient building can still be felt.

Then there is the Bagua Courtyard, which is the 1 1 Courtyard of Baling, an immovable cultural relic cave in Zezhou County. The door plaque is: Chen Liushi. Chen Liu is the birthplace of Xie Jia, and now Chen Liu is in Kaifeng. Chen Liutang is the earliest surnamed tang of Xie family. This plaque tells the world that the Xie family in Dongbaling Village is the authentic Shenbo ethnic group. There are two Tai Chi pictures of the head of the North House of Baguayuan introduced on the door plaque. There is a Tianma in the northwest corner, and a cow looks at the moon in the southwest corner of the ponytail trunk. Cows are the land, and the land is Kun. Inner courtyard door plaque: Southland is a style, and it also comes from the Book of Songs, which is elegant and lofty. This means that people in the castle should follow the example of southern China and build Xieshi Castle into a summer resort at the southern end of Taihang Mountain.

All the sculptures in the yard are yin and yang. Unfortunately, there is no textual research on the refutation of hospital spots.

After careful tasting, all the imported sculptures and Tai Chi pictures are rooted in the Taoist culture of the Chinese nation. The family rules on the plaque are also a model of Confucian culture. ?

Walking along the street again, a neat courtyard comes into view again. In the yard, a narrow sky penetrated. Looking closer, it is a dripping alley with two rows of houses, but there is a hole less than two feet in the alley. Looking up at the cornice line of the two eaves and the corrugated line where the dog's teeth intersect, it shows the architectural aesthetic art of the ancient buildings in China. In addition, what makes me sigh is the visual impact and psychological induction brought to me by the use of different materials on the adjacent two walls of the North and South Houses. Blue bricks in the south and blue stones in the north are like a couple's guardian and confession, especially the texture left by the carving of blue bricks, a bright moon and a pile of beehives. Each bluestone brick is like a mural, splicing the story of this castle.

Legend has it that there are echo wall, echo pavilion, echo lane, empty slate street and so on. In the castle and around the village. When it encounters noise, the volume doubles. Under the action of echo walls everywhere, echoes can be transmitted to each other, and the function of spreading sound can be felt everywhere in every street, forming an architectural system with information transmission function in ancient buildings. Some people feel that it is difficult to divide the sounds of nature, and who can divide the bells? This is really a beautiful architectural masterpiece.

But such a legend can't be verified now.

Castle revival

In the cradle of China's 5,000-year history of civilization, there is a saying: China saw Beijing in 1,000 years, China saw Shaanxi in 3,000 years, and China saw Shanxi in 5,000 years. The cultural accumulation of Xie Castle for 3,000 years is an excellent window to look back on history. Many famous people commented that it is the epitome of the ancient Xie Guo site, the carrier of China's Confucianism and Taoism culture, and the "living fossil" of Yanhuang's cultural history. It's a pity that people are now empty, losing the breath of their old life and falling apart in the stormy weather. Walking into Xie's old castle, I deeply felt the decline of ancient villages, and I was full of expectations for the restoration and revitalization of the castle.

On July 17, 2008, Mr. Feng Jicai wrote an inscription for Xie Castle: "Retaining China Heritage". On April 5, 20 12, he came in person and wrote an inscription calling: "I heard the voice of the ancient village. The giant tree has fallen, who will live? Help, who should I call? "

Xie's castle bears the civilization of ancient villages and also contains the core of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. The purpose of studying it is to interpret the ancient cultural symbols hidden in the folk houses, touch the context of national culture, and feel the profound cultural charm of the Chinese nation while bringing people aesthetic feeling.

When the horn of rejuvenating the countryside blows, this is a new topic entrusted to us by the times. While revitalizing the economy, we should explore and develop the restoration and reconstruction of culture. Of course, this project needs manpower, material resources, financial resources and time, and it also needs us to draw the most stereoscopic and diverse picture of the new era on the basis of the original heavy history and culture.

Go into the homeland, excavate the history, reshape the culture and revitalize the countryside. May every piece of land in the motherland be planted with wings to realize the dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

Written on February 3, 2002/kloc-0.

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