Minqin Rui'an Fort The "Qiao's compound" in the West River Corridor

Aerial photo of Rui'an Fort

Fortress-style buildings

Corner of the courtyard

Rui'an Fort, commonly known as "Wang Tuan Fort", is located 3.5 kilometers southwest of Minqin County, Santao Village, Sanlei Town, Minqin County.

A Rui'an Fort inauguration of the gift of spring and autumn penmanship

To Minqin travel, Rui'an Fort is a must-see attractions, because it is a masterpiece of the Hexi Corridor residential architecture quadrangle, this form of residence can be preserved has been a few, the most complete existing when the Rui'an Fort.

Rui'an Fort was built in 1938, is the former Kuomintang local security chief of Minqin County, a rich gentleman Wang Qingyun's private estate, covers an area of more than 5,000 square meters, the size of the courtyard 8, more than 140 high-ridged tiled rooms.

Its architectural layout is more chic, the gate in the center, the central axis symmetry, three courtyards are located in the central axis of the three gates iteratively and into the front of the backyard style. The first gate placed on the central axis of the outer wall of the former Zhuangbao, was arch-shaped, about 10.8 meters high, 9.2 meters wide, stone inlaid base, large city brick masonry, wooden door, outsourcing iron surface, dense Shi iron rivets. Inside and outside of the gate, the back of the eyebrow has a brick carving horizontal forehead, engraved with "Fort Ruian", engraved with "Fort Ruian inauguration of the gift".

Rui'an Fort inauguration of the gift is the local gentry, the cited Lu Dianyuan inscription, gift: "Du Gongbu cloud, and get a wide range of ten million rooms, sheltering the world's poor people are happy, the old compatriots Xing for Wyoming, the depth of feeling if the reveal, this Rui Ting to build a house, the same people to see the scale of the idea of proposing the name of Rui Ting, said Rui Ting in the role of security, a family of Rui and also for an area Rui and for a country Rui, so the name of the off, take the 'Rui'an'. The word 'Rui An' was given to him."

This text I read always feel a little spring and autumn style, the regiment seat Wang Qingyun estimated did not understand over, but rather used, but the people of Minqin directly called it "Wang Tuan Baozi", this is probably because the owner of the house is Zang Kejia poem, "riding on the head of the people as a blessing! ", so there is this playful name.

Rui'an Fort body sitting north to south, 92.25 meters long, 54.6 meters wide, covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters, there are more than 140 large and small buildings in the Fort, the overall layout of the implied "a product when the dynasty" "phoenix single wings" of the lecture The overall layout contains "a product when the dynasty", "Phoenix single spread wings", but also these landowners in the manor of the only one.

Rui'an Fort horizontal forecourt for the "one" word, the middle courtyard and the left and right backyard for the "Pin" word, the Fort gate, the north and south of the civil and military corner, before and after the inner courtyard is exactly "when" word, "Chao" word. "Chao" word building is more hidden, only "sun" "moon" small courtyard at a glance. North and south wall a high and a short, called "Phoenix single wings", meaning that the exhibition of beauty and not fly away.

A remote county in the pursuit of fame and fortune, so painstakingly, really makes people laugh.

B hidden murderous organs of the fortress

Entering the fortress door is the forecourt, along the central axis of the fortress door there is a long tunnel will be the forecourt and the center of the courtyard is divided into east and west. The forecourt is about 50 meters wide, about 26 meters deep, close to the fortress wall on both sides of the doorway to build more than 30 flat-roofed adobe houses. In the courtyard is shallow, about 50 meters wide, about 13 meters deep, by the two door east and west compartments and the left and right inverted sitting surrounded by a corridor type small courtyard.

The backyard is the main activity place of Wang Qingyun family. The center courtyard and the backyard are separated by the third gate on the central axis, keeping outsiders out of the gate.

The third gate is slightly smaller, the forehead engraved with the words "Luangmou Fudi", two ridges, the front is the top of the mountain, the back is the top of the box, the top of the box to do a patio, on both sides of the ear door into the backyard, the backyard by the construction of the central axis of the five scrollshed houses into the east and west of the two yards, in the middle of the hall will be the east and west of the two courtyards through the corridor surrounded by the rustic and elegant. It is surrounded by corridors, simple and elegant.

Between the ancestral hall and the Buddha Hall for a single corridor quadrilateral pavilion, named Double Happiness Building, commonly known as the embroidery building, probably the residence of the Wang family lady.

There is a wooden ladder in the embroidery building, and we climbed up to the third floor, which leads directly to the north of the fortress wall above the Palace. The Palace is located at the end of the central axis of the Fort Fort wall, three sides of the corridor around the single-eaved hermetically roofed half-pavilion, and the front of the Fort gatehouse echoed. From the Palace to see the full picture of Fort Ruian as far as the eye can see.

In addition to the gatehouse on the fortress wall, the Palace of the free, the fortress wall is also built in the cultural building, martial arts building, the Moon Pavilion, the watchtower, the patrol room, running road, women's wall and so on. Built in the southeast corner of the fort wall of the cultural building and the northeast corner of the martial arts building left and right echo.

The most interesting thing is that Rui'an Fort military defense function into a prominent position, the fort wall is 300 meters long, 12 meters high, 2.5 meters wide at the top, the bottom width of 7 meters, the wall is set up to run, the outer edge of the wall is set up to 2.2 meters high, 0.5 meters thick women's wall, the patrol room and the women's wall all over the shooting holes, is the main defense facilities, shooting holes are cleverly designed, two holes in a group, inside the big outside small, the middle of the gap, the enemy is very difficult to hit the inside people. The enemy is very difficult to hit the people inside.

And the northwest corner, the northeast corner of the lookout downstairs patrol room, upstairs sentry, military defense function is more practical, especially in the sentry part of the outside of the pick with smashing holes, encountered outside the attack, it is estimated that will be thrown from the smashing holes of masonry to stop the bandits to offend.

For the attackers, Ruian Fort is like a fortress densely covered with organs, hidden layers of danger and heavy killing opportunities. However, after all, it is located in the vast desert, all the people are poor you only rich, there is no peace to speak of!

C The epitome of life in the old days

Wang Qingyun hired a different architect, it is said that this person graduated from the Department of Architecture of Japan's Waseda University, his design concepts and vision of the natural non-common artisans can be compared.

The earth-rammed facade, the arch-shaped gate, the earth and wood structure of the house, the roof form alone has changed a lot of techniques, such as hiatus, hard mountain, rolled shed, flat roof, marigold roof, save the tip, let a person be dazzled. Minqin year's precipitation is about 200 millimeters, while evaporation is above 2000 millimeters, Rui'an Castle's fortress wall to suit the local conditions, the use of rammed earth wall method, the fortress wall bottom wide and narrow top, devolution of the upper collection, is the most common form of residential architecture in the Hexi Corridor.

Rui'an Fort tall closed walls in bringing a sense of security at the same time, but also brought a series of contradictions such as ventilation, lighting, psychological oppression. Therefore, the smart architects in this high wall design of Hui architecture unique "patio", as light, ventilation, ventilation, also implies a gathering of water for the wealth of feng shui.

Fort Ryan on the Hexi folk culture display, also attracted the eyes of tourists. Watching the wall hangings on the walls of each house in Fort Ryan, the house furnishings, as if the time back to more than 70 years ago.

It is understood that this is basically according to the past owner of the life scene to be restored, and its collection of folk collection, so that visitors can feel the old times of the local customs of Hexi. Rui'an Fort's living room with a long table, a large square table with tai shi chairs, wall cabinets standing, wall hanging a variety of paintings and calligraphy; and compartments into the eyes of the Hexi family common brick through the kang, kang paved with wool felt, embroidered blankets, kang table snuggly kang heart. The bed is squatted on the side of the kang, and the beds on the side of the kang are buckled at both ends, and the bedding is put in brightly colored satin bedding, and glass frames are hung on the wall, with patterns of birds and flowers and characters, and the window lattices are designed in a strange way, and the latticework is intertwined with the patterns, which is very much in the style of the common window of the southern big families.

The barracks, storehouse, display cabinets, mostly agricultural implements of daily life utensils, these old objects have long disappeared from our line of sight, to see so many physical objects in the Ryan Fort, to understand the epitome of the old life, so that people are addicted to.

Fort Rui'an the entire Zhuang Fort integration of military defense, living, touring and garden art as a whole, not only on the study of China's ancient architecture of residential reference, but also through the film and television works spread far and wide, the movie "Ranger Knife Biography" has been filmed in this scene, a large-scale documentary "Fort Rui'an find" gun "in the CCTV science and education channel broadcast, to the world to show the Minqin County, the only one of its kind in the world, the world is the only one of its kind. The world to show the only national cultural relics protection unit in Minqin County Fort Rui'an stormy 70 years of the rise and fall of change.