Huang Lian Valley Village, Boshan: The ancient meaning of ancient cypress flowing in the mountains for thousands of years.

Text/Photo Reporter Wang Xiaoming Bing Wang Zhao Bowen

Huanglianyu Village is located in Shimen Scenic Area, a town in Boshan area, at the junction of Zhangqiu, Laiwu, Zichuan and Boshan. It is surrounded by mountains in the south, north and east, and faces Longmen Tianchi in the lower reaches of Qingyang River in the west. The whole village covers an area of 1.7 square kilometers, covering an area of 500 mu and a forest area of 2,500 mu, 150 households. The average elevation of the village is 60438+050.

On July 15, the reporter and his party came to Huanglianyu Village. Occasionally, villagers come and go on the faint path between villages. Although the weather is hot, the mountain village under the green hills is quiet and peaceful. In the eyes of Sun Xiulian, a 56-year-old villager, 72 buildings, long workshops, stables and dyeing wells in Dadingzhai are quite representative places in the village, and the village has also left a piece of history and legend.

Kanda Huanglian gave the village a name, dyeing house, ancient well, telling the story of fish and water.

"Huanglian Jade", at first glance, is related to "bitterness", but it is not.

Huanglianyu is located at the northwest of Boshan City18km. According to the villagers, Huang Lian Yushan is densely forested and wooded. In earlier years, this village was named Huanglianyu. Because the word "Melia" is too complicated to write, it gradually evolved into Huanglian jade. According to the data, the name of Huanglianyu Village can be found in Mountain Temple Monument in the 12th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty and Zichuan County Records in the 41st year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. It can be inferred that before the first year of Chenghua, people lived in Huanglianyu. Walking in the village, looking up, many trees stand upright and huge, and they also tell the ancient history of the village.

In addition to Melia azedarach, the ancient well is also a major feature of the village. It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the severe drought, villagers made great efforts to dig wells for disaster relief. At present, there are 6 ancient wells in this village. Except for 1, the other 5 wells are still in normal use. It is precisely because of its rich resources that during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the special well water of the Eighth Route Army Military Uniforms Factory was mixed with the juice of Melia azedarach, and the khaki uniforms were dyed by a unique process. The well used is also called "dyeing workshop well".

Nowadays, it is difficult to tell the traces of the military clothing processing factory in those days, but the "Dyeing Workshop Well" is still intact, the cover of the wellhead has been uncovered, the well wall is long, and the well water is calm, which seems to tell the story of the military and civilians in those days.

The two districts * * * built "Friendship Street", and the Millennium Cooper guarded the mountain village.

Huanglianyu Village is surrounded by the beautiful Jiuding Lotus Mountain. Villagers' houses are distributed in the valley, built on the mountain and strewn at random. The house in the village is divided into two floors, the upper floor is for people to live in, and the lower floor is for raising livestock or storing grain and grass. Most of the walls are made of finely carved and beautifully textured bluestone. The roof is inclined, and the eaves are flat and inclined. Are made of high-quality flat stone. On the eaves of many houses, you can also see exquisite flower and bird carving marks.

Walking along the stone road from the dyehouse well, an ancient cypress in the village stands out. According to reports, this cypress tree is over 1000 years old, with a diameter of more than 3 meters and a height of more than 20 meters. Under the tree is the mountain temple in the village and a stone tablet named "Friendship Street". Li, 67, said that this stone tablet was repaired in Zhangdian and Boshan when the village was building roads. To commemorate this event, this road was named "Friendship Street".

Under the big cypress tree is the location of the village "official residence". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the old official residence was the place where officials and family leaders worked and discussed. On the wall on the west side of the official residence, two stones embedded in the wall record the functions and uses of the house when the official residence is restored, and the information such as the person who provided the foundation. One was signed in the first year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, and the other was in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China.

On the east side of Cooper, there is a famous "Dragon Workshop" in the village along the road. It is not difficult to see from the gate that the scale of Longfang at that time was grand. After entering, although it has been in disrepair for a long time, most houses have only the main features. According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng family in Huang Lian Valley was an official family and employed a large number of craftsmen and farmers. In order to facilitate control and management, a residence, namely a long workshop, was built for it. Stone carvings can be seen everywhere in the building, including 36 workshops and 3 sheds, covering an area of 6.5438+0.5 million square meters. Among them, long-term workers live in workshops and short-term workers live in sheds, which shows that there is a strict management system.