Daliantang Ancient Village, Fuchuan, Guangxi.

According to the genealogy records of Chen and Zhong in Daliantang Village, Chen, Zhong and Xu first moved from Guangdong to Liantang Township in He County during the Zong Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty (1450-1457), and then moved from Liantang Township in He County to Daliantang in Fuchuan. Liantang Cave was opened for the first time. According to Chen's genealogy records, Chen's ancestor Fu Bagong first moved to Liantang Cave, and his descendants have lived in Daliantang for 24 generations, more than 400 years. The local Chinese dialect spoken by the villagers is Wuzhou dialect. The buildings in the whole village are all blue brick houses with a regular layout. The houses are generally three bays, with the main room in the middle and the two rooms on the left and right divided into four bays. The main door does not face the main hall. A wall is built in front of the hall, and a small room is built on the right side under the wall as a kitchen, forming a small patio. The door opens from the right. The threshold and the left and right door sides are repaired with stone strips. A fir square is used above the door. There are wedge heads protruding from the left and right sides. The two hexagrams Qian and Kun are engraved on them. There are wind and fire walls built on the left and right ends of the house, and a fierce god's face is carved on the top of the wall. The surnames in the village are very particular about clan affiliation. Chen, Pan, Zhong, Mo, Xu and other surnames all have ancestral halls or ancestral gate towers, among which the Chen surname gate tower is the largest. The three characters "Yimen Chen" are written on the gatehouse surnamed Chen, and a bluestone strip of about 2 meters is inlaid on the left and right sides, which reads "The wealth of the Yingchuan land has been passed down forever; the outstanding people of Liantang and the heavenly treasures have been passed down for generations." There is also a couplet on the left and right side of the gatehouse with the surname Zhong: "The ancestor of Hu Manchu, Jiangzhou, has great merits and virtues throughout the world; the Eight Gongs and Dijunchi are famous and famous." Before 1949, each surname had a clan leader, and there were certain clan rules and property, and There are ancestral halls, gate towers, etc. built. However, although the old ancestral hall of the Chen family has been preserved to this day, the tablets in it are no longer preserved. From the inscriptions beside the door, we know that the priesthood was built in the second year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1737). Ancestral halls of other surnames were destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution" when the "Four Olds" were being "destroyed". The second batch of traditional Chinese villages.