| Jiang Tou Village |
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Jiang Tou Village is located in the north of Guilin and about 32 kms away from the downtown of Guilin. It is a very famous ancient village with a history of 600 years.
The buildings are built in Ming & Qing Dynasties,luckily survived and preserved very well.There are 158 families with a population of 680. The family name of all the villagers is Zhou, because their ancestor is DunYi Zhou, a famous philosopher of Northern song Dynasty (over 1000 years ago), whose essay ¡°on lotus¡ªloving¡± is so famous that nearly all the Chinese students can recite it. |
In front of the village, a beautiful river just like Jade-ribbon , encircle the village. Some beautiful hills oppsite the villages, such as brush¡ªrest hill, brush¡ªholder hill, the emperor's chop hill ,ect. Among the hills and the river are the vast fields. It is said that in the eyes of chinese,the vliiage is a crucial geomantic place. There once appeared so many famous scholars and officials. From Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to Qing Dynasty (1644-1910), 7 persons from this village passed through the National Imperial Examination and got gloriously got the Honour of ¡°Jinshi¡±, 25 students passed through the provincial Imperial Examinationand got gloriously got the Honour of ¡°Juren ¡°, 160 persons passed through the Shire Imperial Examination and got the scholar's degree of ¡®Xiucai ¡°, Among them, 8 persons got the position of ¡°ShuJishi¡±, which is equivalent with today ¡®s chief of National Academic House. |
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There are a variety of buildings, including residential house, water well, ancestral temple, alley, village gate, bridge, tomb and so on. The residential houses survived are in a large scale. Those fireproof walls, the wood carvings, the old court yards, the narrow pebble's lanes¡these will take you back to the old times, The ¡°Ailian¡±(which means lotus¡ªloving ) ancestral temple is a important building and also their public place in the village.. |
| There were once six rows of house ,but now only three rows survived, they are the big gate, Clan-rejuvenating gate and Wen Yuan Tower .The last two of the list are the main buildings of the temple, |
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Which are the place for the home schools and also for the ritual ceremonies. The scenery is so unforgetable that we just want to thank Lord. We wanna sing, wanna dance..."
These songs can only be learned from the nature. No musician teach them; no rules of voice make them perfectly sing. Their music talent is in the heart. They are songs of memory, of personal experience. They get rid of their burden from the shadow of the past, mount on the wings of yesterday..." |
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