Renhou Wengong Temple is located in Qunfeng Village, Bingcun Town, Meixian County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. The giant Hakka Dragon Farm "Renhou Wengong Temple" was built in the third year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (AD 1490), with a history of more than 500 years. She is the only Hakka Dragon House in the book Traditional Dwellings in China compiled by China Architecture Society. The long history of 500 years will surely leave an ancient and magical mark here! After 500 years of vicissitudes, can we not carve the footprints of our predecessors' entrepreneurship here? People from 2 1 century will definitely arouse your nostalgia and arouse your desire to explore! Because it has a long history, it is an ancient residence with Hakka characteristics.
Renhou Wengong Temple is a residential building integrating ancestral temple and residential buildings. She is grand in scale and magnificent in spirit. It is 87 meters long from north to south and 120 meters wide from east to west. The whole house has four rooms, three halls, eight horizontals and three volumes, just like a huge residential building. Nave is divided into upper, middle and lower halls. The upper hall is the highest and the middle hall is the largest. The central hall is 5.65 meters high, 9.3 meters wide and 7.37 meters deep. There are 390 rooms and nearly 100 miscellaneous rooms on both sides. This is extremely rare in residential buildings.
Imagine how ambitious a family needed to build such a magnificent room in a remote place at that time more than 400 years ago! How verve! Renhou Wengong Temple is a typical Hakka dragon enclosure. She is exquisitely structured, consisting of a hall, a horizontal house, an enclosed house, tires and a pond. Each part has a different function. The whole building has a central axis, which is symmetrical on both sides and gradually rises from front to back. The middle part is the purlin, where people worship their ancestors, celebrate and entertain guests. It's magnificent. Eight rows of horizontal houses are neat and symmetrical. The triple arc is like a long dragon, beautiful as a rainbow. Such a large and exquisite Hakka dragon enclosure has not only the inheritance of traditional houses in the Central Plains, but also the innovation under the new environment and conditions. From this point, we can also see the persistence of Hakkas in starting a new career and the ingenuity of harmonious combination of inheritance and innovation.
There is a tire between the hall and the paddock, which is the characteristic of Hakka dwellings. Planting cycads on the fetus is a unique tradition of the Wen people in Renhou Temple, because there is also a legend of our ancestors, and cycads are the life-saving trees of the Wen ancestors here! After more than 400 years of growth and reproduction, the circumference of each pier is more than 40 meters, and it takes 30 people to hold hands to surround it. That cycad tree is simple and vigorous, with lush foliage. Excuse me, where has anyone seen such an ancient and huge cycad with such tenacious vitality? Wen's family began to settle here from the eleventh ancestor, and now it has spread to the twenty-ninth century, and it has multiplied to more than 400 households in the eighteenth generation (excluding those who have settled outside).
With their wisdom and diligence, a tribe built a huge house. Hundreds of years of one-room life, reproduction and development to such an extent, only two points, is enough to show the Hakka profound cultural heritage and extraordinary ability to survive and develop! No wonder many experts, scholars and tourists from France, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and China are flocking! No wonder related reports, papers and monographs emerge one after another!