The simple and beautiful earth buildings of Yangchan

Yangchan Village has a long history, it is a mountain village built against the mountain, with houses mainly composed of earth buildings. The earth building complex is the biggest feature of Yangchan Village, one after another, row upon row, densely packed, one building after another, built according to the mountain, with various forms, reasonable layout, orderly and distinctive, reflecting the integration of man and nature, with strong characteristics of mountain residential architecture, forming a magical, simple, spectacular, beautiful picture scroll. The earth buildings are all based on bluestone foundations, and then the earth buildings are built. Between the earth buildings, there are stone slabs or stone slab steps or bluestone paved ground, which has a kind of rustic beauty, reflecting the unique beauty of painting, artistic conception, grandeur, and momentum. Yangchan Earth Building is located in Shendu Town, southern Anhui mountain area. Yangchan, located in the mountains of southern Anhui, is a small mountain village built against the mountain. Due to the high terrain and inconvenient transportation, for hundreds of years, the mountain people have used local materials, paved roads and bridges with surrounding bluestones, and lived in nests made of red soil and wood. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, drink mountain springs when thirsty, eat grains when hungry, and their descendants continue. Over the years, a simple and spectacular earth building complex has been formed. The well-preserved Yangchan Earth Building has profound historical and cultural significance for the current study of China's ancient architecture. Yangchan Village is an ancient village with a long history, inhabited by the Zheng family. The Zheng family moved from Shexian in the Song Dynasty to Dingtan, and then moved to Yangchan, descendants of Zheng Banzhou and Zheng Nenggong. It is said that Zheng Gong went hunting to Yangchan, followed the hunting dog to lie in the mountain hollow of Yangchan and did not want to return. Zheng Gong saw that it was surrounded by mountains, with clear mountain springs and towering ancient trees. After several inspections, he thought it was a geomantic treasure land and decided to move to Yangchan. Yangchan Village is a mountain village built against the mountain, with houses mainly composed of earth buildings. The earth building complex is the biggest feature of Yangchan Village, one after another, row upon row, densely packed, one building after another. All are based on bluestone foundations, and then the earth buildings are built. Between the earth buildings, there are stone slabs or stone slab steps or bluestone paved ground. Whether it is each individual earth building or the entire village's earth building complex, it has a kind of rustic beauty, reflecting the unique beauty of painting, artistic conception, grandeur, and momentum. The earth building complex is built according to the mountain, with various forms, reasonable layout, orderly and distinctive, reflecting the integration of man and nature, with strong characteristics of mountain residential architecture, forming a magical, simple, spectacular, beautiful picture scroll. The Huizhou Yangchan Earth Building complex is another masterpiece of Huizhou architecture, the crystallization of the wisdom of Huizhou mountain people, a strange mix of backward productivity and high civilization, and the palace of oriental earth building culture and art.