Thousands of years ago, a fisherman entered an isolated village under the influence of karma and saw the unique customs there. Since then, Xanadu has become an elusive existence in many people's hearts. In fact, deep in the mountains of Beijing, there are thousands of ancient villages similar to the Peach Blossom Garden. In this ancient village, all the houses are quadrangles, but none of them are inhabited. This ancient village with thousands of years of history is only 86 kilometers away from Beijing. What's the mystery of this ancient village?
A thousand-year-old village with a long history
Beijing, a famous ancient capital in the history of China, was the capital of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Because of this, there are many cultural relics in Beijing, such as the Forbidden City, Yuanmingyuan, Beihai and so on. However, perhaps few people know that there are many cultural relics around Beijing. Yangjiayu village is one of them.
Nowadays, Yangjiayu village is a very strange village for people, and perhaps many people have never heard of it. In fact, the distance between Yangjiayu Village and Beijing is not far. It is even in Beijing, only 86 kilometers away from Beijing.
According to records, Yangjiayu village appeared as early as the Liao Dynasty, which appeared in the Song Dynasty, nearly 1000 years ago, so Yangjiayu village can also be called a thousand-year-old village.
Walking in Yangjiayu Village, people can feel its long history and rich culture from every corner of the village. The buildings in Yangjiayu Village are basically quadrangles. These quadrangles are also very old. To some extent, they are old cultural relics.
Besides quadrangles, there are many ancient temples in Yangjiayu village. In ancient times, due to the constraints of a series of conditions, people were often powerless to some things and phenomena existing in nature, such as locust plague and drought, so people often chose to build temples to worship insect gods and dragon kings.
It's just that many temples have gradually run down and disappeared in the erosion of years, the blow of war and man-made destruction. However, in Yangjiayu village, people can still see these temples dedicated to the dragon king and the insect god.
Since the birth of Yangjiayu village, almost all the surrounding capitals are the capitals of dynasties. Because of this geographical advantage, their thoughts and so on follow the general trend of the country. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial examination system has become the only way for ordinary people to cross classes, so Yangjiayu village has also keenly captured this point and established the tradition of farming and reading.
Because of this, even though the villagers in Yangjiayu Village are basically farmers, they have a very strong reading atmosphere. This strong reading atmosphere, after hundreds of years of precipitation, has become a unique culture in Yangjiayu Village.
It used to be a holy place to avoid disaster.
Yangjiayu village is now called "Xanadu". The reason why people call Yangjiayu Village this way is mainly because the origin of Yangjiayu Village is very similar to Peach Blossom Garden.
In ancient China, the main reason for the formation of villages was the gathering of people. For example, after a family prospers, people from a family naturally form a village. This is why many villages are named after surnames.
But Yangjiayu Village is not naturally formed. 1000 years ago, the place where Yangjiayu lived was ruled by Liao State. However, at that time, there were many tribes and ethnic minorities in Liao country, and Manchu who founded Jin and Mongolian who founded Yuan Dynasty lived here. So in Liao country, wars often occur. In order to avoid the war, the ancestors of Yangjiayu Village found a very secluded place to live. Because the surname "Yang" is the most popular among refugees, this village is called "Yangjiayu Village".
Facts have proved that the eyes of the ancestors of Yangjiayu Village were really vicious. Because Yangjiayu village was not only unaffected by the war in that year, but also not really damaged in the following thousands of years.
Last century, Japan occupied Beijing. After the occupation, countless cultural relics and historic sites in Beijing were looted and destroyed. However, Yangjiayu village has not suffered any damage. According to the memories of the old people in those days, the Japanese have occupied the village only a few tens of miles away from Yangjiayu Village, but they have never entered Yangjiayu Village. From this point of view, the geographical location of Yangjiayu Village is really remote.
Decline gradually
In the past 1000 years, Yangjiayu Village provided a place for the villagers to settle down. From the numerous buildings and genealogy of Yangjiayu Village, it is not difficult to imagine the prosperity of Yangjiayu Village. Only today, many quadrangles in Yangjiayu Village have gradually become uninhabited empty courtyards.
Why did the once prosperous village become an empty village today? After all, it's Xiao He's success, my failure. At the beginning, the ancestors of Yangjiayu Village took a fancy to Yangjiayu Village's remote geographical location, which most people can't find here.
This advantage saved Yangjiayu village from the disaster of hundreds of years of war, but today, with the deepening of reform and opening up, young people in Yangjiayu village have been unable to achieve better development in Yangjiayu village, so they have left Yangjiayu village for more developed Beijing. Over time, the remote Yangjiayu village gradually became an empty village. Hundreds of precious quadrangles in the village are idle.
Rebirth due to tourism
Although Yangjiayu Village has gradually declined in recent decades, most of the houses in the village are vacant. However, the unique cultural heritage of Yangjiayu Village cannot be underestimated. Yangjiayu village is like a pearl covered with gray, waiting for the discovery of people of insight. In fact, there are indeed some people with vision who have seen the special value of Yangjiayu Village.
Today, after decades of development in China, people's lives are getting better and better, so people's spiritual needs are gradually increasing after they have enough to eat and wear, so traveling has become the choice of many people. Most people will choose places with beautiful scenery or a long history when traveling. Yangjiayu village has thus re-entered people's field of vision.
Later, a businessman valued Yangjiayu Village, so he invested in Yangjiayu Village and vigorously declared the history and ancient buildings of Yangjiayu Village. When so many people came here, Yangjiayu Village was reborn and reappeared the prosperity of that year.
Yangjiayu Village is a rare ancient village in China, which has a history of thousands of years but still preserves its original appearance. Perhaps the ancestors of Yangjiayu village didn't think that the village they discovered had actually protected their descendants for thousands of years. Although Yangjiayu Village once declined in recent decades, I believe Yangjiayu Village will prosper again with its profound cultural and historical background.