Bao Zhuang is an ancient village. At the latest in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people lived here. In ancient times, a man named Bao lived here, so it was named Baojiazhuang, which was later called Baojiazhuang. The current residents are in the middle of Qing Dynasty. After their ancestors Jia Dong and Jia Zhen moved to Fanzhai from Dongtou Village in Hebi Old District, due to the gradual increase of population, they built fields and established new homes in Bao Zhuang and Xiaobaozhuang, one mile west of Fanzhai. In this way, the family was divided into three natural villages. Most of the villagers are surnamed Jia, while others are Feng, Li, Qin, Wang, Zhu and Yan.
Ancient dwellings
After Jia Zu moved to Fan Zhai, he first built two courtyards, one south and one north, one south facing north and the other north facing south. Now there is only one five-room south house in the south yard. The wall is made of brick, and the rafters are made of brick. The top of the main entrance consists of wooden lintels and Nazi crosses. The doors and windows on the east and west sides are made of forged and chiseled fine stone lintels. The north courtyard is basically preserved, but it is also damaged. Street gate and inverted south courtyard were built later. The gate, the second gate, was basically preserved. The gate is a gatehouse building built on three steps. The roof of the gate is made of heavy beams and tiles, with two square wooden columns on the inside, and stone pillars and woodcarving flower patterns under the eaves. Residents here still refer to the descendants of Jia Dong in the south courtyard as Nanmenli, and Jia Zhen in the north courtyard as Beimenli.
There are more than 20 ancient dwellings and more than 50 houses in the village, 6 of which are well preserved. Most buildings are made of stone and brick, and a few are all flat-topped with stone walls. The representative ones are Jia Hairong, Jia and Jia Shuangxi's former residences.
Jia Hairong's old house was built in Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty for 5 years, with five rooms on one floor and a depth of 5 meters. It is located on a hard mountain, facing south. The stone carving in Qianmen is "farming and reading". The east and west wing rooms have been demolished and rebuilt behind the gate.
Jia Shuangxi nursing home was built in the early years of the Republic of China. It's a three-in-one courtyard with five rooms and two floors facing south. The front door is engraved with four characters "Yu Xiu Juede". Because the font was destroyed during the demolition of the "Four Old" in the 1970s, the handwriting was illegible and illegible, and animal flowers were engraved around the characters. There are stone carvings of "Wan and Shou" on the foreheads of the doors on both sides, brick carvings of grapes above the horse door and brick carvings of flowers and plants in the corner. The east wing is three rooms with two flat roofs and brick carved sika deer, auspicious birds and Swiss grass in the corner.
Jia's old house is a quadrangle. There is no indication of the age of the building. According to the architectural style, it should be built in the late Qing Dynasty. The whole quadrangle is made of all kinds of stones. The south house and the main house are five rooms with two floors, the hall is tiled, the south house is flat-topped, and the east and west wing rooms are three rooms with two floors. There are hard mountains and clear waters, and the front door is carved with rich peony flowers. There is a side door on the second floor, which can communicate with the east and west wing rooms on the second floor.
Qingquangushu
500 meters south of Bao Zhuang Village, there is a Gu Quan. Spring water is warm in winter and cool in summer. Sweet and refreshing, it keeps flowing all year round. It is pure natural mineral water without pollution. Spring water has the functions of health care and longevity. Most people who have lived here for a long time live a long life. Jia Heping's mother is over 0/00 years old this year, and her body is still relatively strong.
There is a chestnut tree in the west of the village, with a height of more than 10, a DBH of about 0.7 m and an age of more than 100. This should have been planted when Jia Jiazu moved here. It is still flourishing and fruitful. Under the shade of trees, it is a good place for people to relax and enjoy the cool.
On the ridge in the southwest corner of the village, there is a Cooper with a height of more than 10 and a circumference of two meters. Appraised by relevant departments, the tree was planted in Sui and Tang Dynasties with the age of 1000 years. When you walk under the tree and take a closer look, you will find that there is no soil at all, but it grows completely in the cracks of rocks. It is not difficult to see that cypress grows in a small gap with a width of no more than one inch when it is young. 1000 years have passed, and the sapling has just spread a gap of more than 50 centimeters, and it has grown from a sapling to a towering tree. People will not only ask, how can such a big tree grow in such a place with neither soil nor water? There is only one answer, that is, cypress, with its tenacious vitality, has deeply rooted its roots into the bottom of the ditch below through the cracks in the rocks, and has grown into a towering tree year after year by absorbing the water in the river ditch. At the same time, it fully embodies the traditional virtues of the villagers who live here to care for trees.
Silkworms give birth to cocoons and trees give birth to immortals, which may express people's awe of ancient trees. It is with this awe that some ancient trees have been preserved to this day. When a villager lamented Cooper's strangeness, he told us a story: Once upon a time, an old man from a foreign village took a teenage child to visit relatives in Bao Zhuang, and his relatives lived near Cooper. If the child is free, go and play under the cypress tree. As a result, when he was playing with fire, he accidentally ignited a pile of weeds under cypress trees and burned several cypress trees. When his parents found out, they quarreled with him. After that, the child's parents had a meal.
Surrounding landscape
In addition to the ancient trees in Gu Quan, there are many natural and cultural landscapes around Bao Zhuang Village, such as Lion Cave, Village West, Village South Ancient Village Wall, Ventilation Building, Rongdong, Bodhisattva Temple and Liulin Reservoir.
Bodhisattva Temple is located in Yanling Valley, two kilometers southwest of Bao Zhuang Village. It was built in the Yuan Dynasty. There are three temples facing south and north. This is a building without beams and conch roofs. It is the most intact ancient temple in Qixian County.
The locals in the cave are called Nandong, also called Maolian Cave. On the mountainside more than 0/000 meters away from Miaonan/Kloc-,the big holes in the cave are covered by small holes, which are connected with each other, layer by layer.
There are two peaks in the south and west of the village, which are called Xiaozhai and Dazhai locally. Xiaozhai is about 200 meters high and Dazhai is more than 300 meters high. In ancient times, there was a wall at the top of the village, and the thickness of the wall was more than 4 feet. There is a fence now. According to legend, it is a war site left by Yue Fei when he fought against nomadic people in the western mountainous area after the fall of the Central Plains at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
According to legend, there is a stone basin on the top of Dazhai, where a pair of golden-skinned toads live. Therefore, they are called golden toads. In drought, they turn to stone, but when it rains, they live. One day, Nanman passed by and found that this golden toad was a rare treasure. He saw that if the golden toad was not removed, the village would grow and there would be Longxing. So Nanman offered a spell and put it in his bag. Since then, Dazhai has never grown taller.
Yan Baihu Temple
There is a temple on the waist of Baihu Mountain, one kilometer southeast of the village. Because the cliff on the south side of the temple is gray, standing under the background and outline of green vegetation in the distance, it looks like a white tiger, rising from the mountainside, hence the name Yan Baihu Temple. Because there are three natural stone wells in front of the temple, the well water is crystal clear and the ancients praised it as a holy well. Therefore, Yan Baihu Temple is also called the Holy Well.
In the second year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (19 10), the inscription on the restoration of Yan Baihu Temple said: "The so-called magnificent scenery in this life lies in the mountains. The reason why the mountains are so prosperous is that they will return to the water, that is, the northwest corner of Qiyi, which is more than 50 miles away from the city, also known as Yan Baihu, with three stone wells on the top.
When the Yan Baihu Temple was established, there is no textual research. Most of the existing stone tablets are left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and most of the records are about rebuilding or restoring Yan Baihu Temple, including the monument of Sanshengtang in Xinwei year of Chongzhen in Daming (163 1) and the monument of Yan Baihu Temple in Qianlong thirty-three years (1768). During the Qianlong period (1736), the Inscription on Building a Temple in THE TEMPLE OF JIALAN was written by Qi Shoupei, a famous person in Huai 'an Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River at that time. With great reverence, he warmly praised Guan Yu's loyalty to the liver and righteousness.
At first, the main buildings of Yan Baihu Temple were the East Temple and the West Temple, the West Temple was the Three Temples, the East Temple was the Galapagos Temple, and the guardians of the north and south were occupied by the temple owners and pilgrims. There is a tickling tree in the southwest corner of the courtyard, which is about 100. When it is calm, gently scratching the trunk with your hands will make the treetops shake and attract countless tourists. Come and try it every time. "Scratching trees" is crape myrtle. There is a proverb called "Ziwei bloom for a hundred days, gently scratching the trunk to move the treetops", so Ziwei is also called Hundred Days Red. The tree is graceful and colorful, and has the function of absorbing harmful substances in the air. It is a precious environmental protection plant.
Opposite the temple, there used to be a theater. Because it is built on the edge of a steep cliff, it gives people the feeling that the theater is in the air. The roof of the theater is supported by several stone pillars, two of which are engraved with a couplet:
Combination of praise and criticism, regardless of good and evil, right and wrong for a thousand years;
It contains chaotic rules, ups and downs, and a spring and autumn period.
The words and expressions used in the couplets are all from the fine sentences in The Amethyst, which are full of expressive force of dramatic form and function, and the reading is memorable.
Not far from the temple, there is a natural well, about a hug wide, only two meters deep. The well water is clear and sweet, as clear as a mirror. Looking down, the reflection is dense. It's fascinating to see it, and a sip will get rid of the disease and strengthen the body. More interestingly, although the altitude here is as high as 300 meters, the well water never dries up, and no matter how heavy it rains in summer, the well water does not overflow. Calling it a sacred well is not just a hollow name.