Go straight along Genting Changgu Street and you will find Genting Zhai. Yunding Village was built in the early Ming Dynasty. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Mengsi, the ancestor of Yunding Village, immigrated to Sichuan with his family from Macheng, Hubei. It is said that when they arrived at Genting Mountain, the basket with clothes accidentally rolled down the mountain, so Guo Mengsi decided to reclaim the land where the baggage rolled down. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the wealthy Guo people piled stones on the city wall and built a family bungalow integrating defense, residence and commerce. Zeng Shaorong, who lives in Yundingzhai, is over 70 years old this year. When he was a child, he came to Genting Village with his father.
The wall of Yunding Village is 7.5 meters high, and the six gates are located in the southeast and northwest of the village. Every gate is guarded by Zhai Ding day and night. There is a Ministry of War in the village, and one person has more than 100 people. Entering the village along this gate, you can clearly feel the meticulous planning of the Guo family when building the village. Zeng Shaorong said that when I was a child, I often listened to old people telling storytelling on the roof.
There are 54 original manors in Genting Village, most of which are quadrangles with "one front and two compartments". These brick and wood buildings are full of tall and distinctive architectural features in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. By the middle of Qing dynasty, the social and economic status of manor owners was manifested through their different external architectural forms. For the daily maintenance of each manor, there are many carpenters and bricklayers in the village all the year round.
The base address of Zhulinwu is a well-preserved courtyard in the last few farmhouses. There are more than 20 rooms in the yard. There are nine patios above the courtyard to meet the rain. The four halls and the flower hall echo the Jiutian Well respectively, expressing the owner's long-term spiritual longing for the family. Now there is only a hatchback in the foundation of Zhulinwu. Although some sculptures have long since disappeared, you can still feel the prosperity and atmosphere here.
By the middle of Qing Dynasty, the prosperity of Yunding Village reached its peak. At this time, the cottage collects more than 97,000 tons of land rent every year. It is said that the grain, oil and coal stored in the village are enough to maintain the life of all the people in the village for many years. In the past many years, the extremely wealthy Genting village was not controlled by the government. All officials working in Longchang should take the initiative to visit Genting Village. It is said that through this window, you can see the grand occasion of groups of tenants going up the mountain to pay rent.
At the end of Qing Dynasty, Guo people built Genting Field at the foot of Genting Mountain. Genting Yard consists of three T-shaped streets, with hundreds of shops, which soon formed a commercial form with the characteristics of Genting Village. There are blacksmiths, teahouses and pharmacies here, and all walks of life came into being. With the market, there is also a Paoge organization that controls the whole market. Paoge organization is in the hands of Guo clan, and the workers in the village must get permission from Paoge organization.
After Genting Field is completed, it is stipulated that the 3rd, 6th and 9th of each month of the lunar calendar will be the rush day. Locals call it ghost market, also called "ghost market". After midnight, neighbors in the distant countryside took torches to participate in the activities, and all transactions were conducted before dawn. This custom has continued to this day. On the day of the activity, Fu got up early to open the door. Now the day of the activity has been changed. The second day, the fourth day and the eighth day of each month are the days to participate in activities in Genting, and Fu's wife also came here early.
In the past many years, Genting Palace, built in the late Qing Dynasty, burned incense day after day in the noise of Genting Field. It is said that Guo people generally believe in Buddhism, and there are many Buddhist temples outside the village. In these temples, Guo people realized their different spiritual demands.
During the Daoxian period of the Qing Dynasty, the rich Genting shanzhai began to decline.
Most of the people who live here today are old people and children, and many young people have left their huts and gone out into the world. The people who stayed together for many years made the communication between neighbors full of primitive harmony and warmth.
The ancient way of life in Yundingzhai has been passed down from generation to generation.
The noise and prosperity here have long gone, and the ancient hut has today's tranquility and peace because of the persistence of people living here.