The ancient village of Sheming and Qing Dynasty, located in Chashan Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 800 years. The existing ancient buildings in the village are mainly those in Ming and Qing dynasties, covering an area of 1 1 000 square meters, which is one of the well-preserved ancient buildings in Ming and Qing dynasties in China.
There are 30 ancestral halls and more than 250 ancient houses in the ancient village, which constitute a cultural landscape with strong Pearl River Delta characteristics. A large number of stone carvings, brick carvings, wood carvings, gray carvings and pottery building components have been preserved, which has high artistic value.
Nangu Village has successively won the titles of famous Chinese historical and cultural village, national key cultural relics protection unit, China landscape village and Guangdong most beautiful village. On July 28th, 2008, Nanshe Village was selected as the first batch of national rural tourism key villages.
Attractions; Ancient Wall: Built in October of the 17th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1644). The wall is made of rammed earth or red stone, with a total length of 302.5 feet. There are 265,438+0 wooden houses, each with its own name and couplets.
After the completion of the fence, it has resisted the siege of Li Wanrong and others in the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648) and Liu Jin and others in the tenth year of Kangxi (167 1). There are several sections of the fence, leaving only one or two woodhouses.
Xie Da Ancestral Hall: The layout of three bays and three courtyards, the frame structure of suspended beam bucket and mixed beam, the fork hand carved with grass patterns between purlins and supporting feet, the ceramic sculpture of the roof, the gray sculpture of the roof, and the wood carving of cornices are exquisite.
The ancestral halls in Dongguan rarely use sloping roofs. There are incense burners and inscriptions used to build Zhao Jian in the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1555).
Centennial Weng Temple: quadrangle layout, three bays and three entrances, hard gabled roof, built in Ming Dynasty. There is an inscription in the 23rd year of Wanli (1595), which records that the residence of Xie Yanqing, a centenarian, was changed to a temple. The existing altar pedestal and the red stone carving on the stone tablet have the Ming Dynasty style.
Baisuifang: It was built in the 20th to 26th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1592- 1598). At that time, Xie Yanjuan and her wife in Nanshe Village were both 100 years old. Dongguan county magistrate Li reported the matter to the court, and the court was allowed to build a shrine. The temple was named "Baisuifang", so the front of Baisuifang is like a memorial arch.
The existing three-bay, two-story courtyard layout, the first entry is the three-story archway on the third floor, with the roof facing the mountain, the stone arch under the eaves, the red stone carving on the Sumitomo screen wall and the wood carving on the second-floor beam frame, which are exquisite. The combination and layout of Baisuifang Temple can be described as ingenious. 1993 is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Dongguan.
Xie Jia Temple: The 42nd ugly scholar in the Chinese Department of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and later went out of the main hall to quell the rebellion in Xinjiang. After meritorious service, he served as the company commander and returned to Guangdong as the magistrate of Guangdong and Guangxi.
In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (190 1), a temple was built in memory of Xie, a brave and skillful company commander. The building has a courtyard layout, with two entrances and two exits, a hard gable roof and a mixed beam frame structure, which is suspended by beams.
Jinliang's woodcarving, stone carving and ridged pottery sculptures are exquisite, and the sculptures of gray people and animals who just entered the ridge are lifelike. The word "Before the Ancestral Temple" was written by Tao Xuan, a famous calligrapher in Qing Dynasty, and it has high artistic value. 1993 was listed as a cultural relic protection unit.