Zhoutian is one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural villages in Jiangxi Province.

Mao Zedong quoted the saying of the Xunwu Hakka in "Xunwu Investigation": "The glutinous rice from Xiangshan, the goods from Sanbiao, the house from Zhoutian, and the grain from Changshe." Zhoutian Village has since become well-known to the world, and Zhoutian's house here

It refers to the "Eighteen Big Houses in Zhoutian", and there are fifteen exquisite ancient houses that are still intact. Although it is not as grand as Liukeng in Le'an County, nor as beautiful as the Jiangwan in Wuyuan County, it is still intact in Zhoutian.

Tian's content is quite rich and colorful: it has dragon-carved and painted buildings, cornices and fire-sealing brick walls, as well as lintels, inscriptions, merit pillars, Fengshui ponds, relief murals, wood carvings, silicon carvings, and stone carvings with profound cultural content.

The craftsmanship is exquisite and lifelike, reflecting the exquisite skills and extraordinary wisdom of the Hakka ancestors. It is also dotted with natural landscapes such as strange rocks, beautiful peaks, and ancient trees. It is quiet and peaceful, a pastoral beauty of "small bridges and flowing water, people living in it".

The village has developed transportation, with five roads in and out of the village.

It reaches Xiwei in the east, Yuxi in the south, Tuanshan in the west, Chengjiang in the northwest, and Zuheng and Changqi in the north.

One village connects three provinces. Fenglingpai Village, Chagan Town, Pingyuan County, Guangdong, Longxi Village, Dongliu Township, Wuping County, Fujian, and Zhoutian are separated by a mountain. An ancient post road passing through the village connects the three villages in the three provinces.

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Today, the post road still exists, the post station still remains, and the story of the salt merchant is still legendary.

What we refer to today as Xunwu is the "thorough thoroughfare of the three provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong". In fact, it specifically refers to the ancient village of Zhoutian.

It is located in the heart of the Hakka area.

It has the most representative Hakka culture and Hakka ancient buildings; it also records the social, economic and cultural development process of the Hakka people in the "three provinces thoroughfare" of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Zhoutian, this ancient village with a history of more than 500 years, is a Hakka "salt and rice road". Carrying salt on shoulders and carrying rice on horseback, it connects the water transport terminal between Junmen Ridge and Xiaba, until Mao Zedong

When "Xunwu Investigation" was written, it was still as prosperous as before: "The bulk of rice and beans came from Shicheng and Ruijin, and the bulk of camellia oil came from Xingguo. They landed at Junmen Ridge, and traveled from Junmen Ridge to Guangdong every day.

There are about four to five hundred tons of rice, beans, and camellia oil from Xiaba. Most of the foreign goods transported from Xiaba to Junmenling are carried out by the porters in one load.

The ancient post road connecting three provinces brought Zhoutian prosperity for more than 500 years in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, cultivated a large number of wealthy Hakka businessmen, and also gave birth to the brilliant Hakka culture.

There is a saying that in ancient times, all the dignitaries who passed through Zhoutian would not dismount their horses and walk, because they judged from the magnificence of the buildings in the village that this must be an extraordinary place.

According to local Wang family genealogy records, the group of ancient houses in this area was first built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. After that, from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty, the descendants multiplied and built as many as 28 ancient houses. The latest one was built in the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, spanning 300 years.

for many years.

Among the many enclosed houses, the Tiantangwan enclosed house is the square enclosed house with the largest area and the highest architectural value.

It was built in the 19th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1814), covering an area of ??more than 10 acres. It is a masonry and civil structure. The house is designed with four entrances and four compartments, eight halls and twelve wells. There are 50 rooms in total, with reasonable structure and shape.

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Each of the enclosed houses is built on the mountain. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, it is still majestic and majestic. They have different styles from design and construction to interior decoration, and they are all the same, which fully reflects the unique wisdom of the builders at that time.

In addition to square enclosed houses, Zhoutian's ancient building complex also has a variety of ancient buildings such as schools, tea pavilions, inns, medicine shops, waterwheels and oil mills, temples, and a total of 20 scenic spots.

Relevant provincial and municipal experts said that this ancient building complex is large in scale and well-preserved, which is rare in the province. It is a "living specimen" that reflects the architectural characteristics of Hakka folk houses in Jiangnan and has high research value.