Songyang, Zhejiang: Traditional and artistic integration of ancient villages to rejuvenate

Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, August 25th. Question: Zhejiang Songyang: Traditional and art merged ancient villages to rejuvenate

Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Wenyu

Located in the southwestern Zhejiang area and "Bashan, one water, one point", Zhejiang Province, Songyang County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province. There are more than a hundred traditional villages, 75 of which are selected as a list of traditional Chinese villages. In recent years, the local villages and old houses have been exquisitely integrated around the ancient villages and old houses to achieve the integration of ancient village tradition and contemporary art, so that the countryside has rejuvenated the vitality in cultural heritage and development.

Ancient Village embrace art

There is a "brown sugar workshop" designed by a tea tree and sugarcane forest in Xingxing Village, Changxi Township, Songyang County. The open space surrounded by glass curtain walls is a modern building that integrates the functions of ancient brown sugar processing, technical experience, product exhibitions, and art exhibitions. It is also a place of rest for villagers to work, and the traditional puppet theater of the young and old in the agricultural leisure.

Fu Jinzheng, the secretary of the Party branch of Xingcun Village, introduced that every year, the cleaners can attract tens of thousands of people to visit; after receiving the e -commerce platform, the workshop revenue last year exceeded 300,000 yuan. The reporter learned that there are currently more than 30 artistic workshops such as brown sugar workshops, tofu workshops, and rice wine workshops.

There is a "bamboo forest theater" in the back of Zhuyuan Township. Wu Yongming, a vocal inheritor of Songyang, often performs here. Like a bamboo basket, a natural space similar to the dome is surrounded by natural bamboo, and there is no need to lay a foundation and structure. With the new and old bamboo, the "Bamboo Forest Theater" is an artistic building that can metabolize.

"In Songyang, the fusion of the traditional and contemporary art of ancient villages can be seen everywhere and new contrasts." Gu Zenghui, who walked out of the farmer to go to college and left his hometown for more than 20 years, took the design team to return to his hometown of Sidukeng, Songyang County. The village, the villagers have been leased the old houses that have been idle for more than ten years, strengthen the structure of the house, retain the quaint facade, and use modern living facilities to open a rural art homestay.

The reporter learned that since 2018, the "Rural Change: Songyang Story" architectural culture exhibition has been presenting the new appearance of the ancient village in China through the brown sugar workshop, the Shimenlong Gallery Bridge, the Damiyama Tea Room, and the Mucanca Cottage. It is exhibited in Vienna, Austria.

Monalians, Fengping Township, Songyang County, a 90 -minute drive from the county seat, was listed as the object of relocation of the whole village. Seeing the complete ancient village resources and natural ecology, the rural work instructor and oil painter Li Yueliang shined. He first painted the local culture and relics in the village, and contacted painters at home and abroad to sketching and organizing oil painting exhibitions in the village. After gradually becoming a climate, they then convinced the local government to adjust the plan and intervene in the protection with "embroidery kung fu". Today, it has become a well -known "painter village", which attracts nearly 30,000 artists, college art students, and tourists every year.

At present, there are 94 artists, 68 studios, and 3 public art museums in Songyang villages. Four Dadu Chenjiapu and other art gathering areas.

Old house rejuvenating

Putting the wood to the log, Ye Changxian's hands holding the ears and pushing forward, the movement is in one go. Accompanied by the friction of Lisuo, the light rolled wooden skin fell, and the fragrance of the logs came from. He is a "big carpenter" with decades of ancient building repair experience. Since 2016, he has participated in the construction of more than 160 old houses.

The old houses distributed in traditional villages constitute the unique rural historical style of Songyang. However, with the passage of time, these old houses are increasingly dying, and the overall situation is worrying.

In April 2016, the "Rescue Old House Action" project initiated by the China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation was launched in Songyang. The target of "rescue" is the cultural relics protection unit of the national key cultural relics, the cultural relics protection unit of Zhejiang provincial cultural relics, and the general non -mobile cultural relics in the third national cultural relics census.

The reporter learned that about 50%of the repair costs of Songyang Old House were subsidized by the China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation, 20%to 30%were subsidized by the Songyang County Government, and the remaining parts needed to be raised independently by the villagers. Let the villagers partially contribute, and the results of repair and protection can be more lasting.

The blue stone ground in the main hall is strictly co -sewn. The newly -built window pupae and the original component are integrated. Under the eaves of the tiles, the exquisite patterns are used as the old.

Xu Lianyun, a 85 -year -old villager Xu Lianyun, who has lived for a lifetime, has been repaired. Seeing government staff, the old man seemed to see his relatives who had been reunited for a long time.

"After the old house was repaired, some rural scenes and lifestyles were also returning." Wang Yongqiu, chairman of Songyang County Cultural Tourism Investment Group and the deputy director of the "Old House Office" of Songyang County, told reporters that every New Year and New Year, now The "nostalgia" in Songyang Village.

"Swallow flying back to build a nest is a hi sign." After the old house of Lei Jinyu's home of the first village of Chi Shou Township, a large family decided to move from the county to the village to live. The old house, which has been emptied for more than ten years, has become popular for more than ten years, and naturally vitality has also been constantly developing in a slight place.

The reporter learned that in the "Save the Old House Action", there were more than 100 ancient villages and more than 200 old houses in Songyang being protected and utilized. More than 300 local ancestral temples, 270 traditional houses, and more than 20 ancient gallery bridges, etc., also re -renovated in many ways in the process of old houses.

In order to ensure the "original flavor" of the old house and cooperate with the "rescue of the old house", the China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation and the Zhejiang Ancient Architecture Design Research Institute formulated the technical guidance and acceptance methods of traditional village cultural relics building repair. "The old house has been repaired, and the rural craftsman team has also recovered." Huang Guiqiang, director of the five rooms of the heritage of the Ancient Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang Province, said, "Save the Old House Action", more than 2,000 traditional craftsmen and more than 30 branches were cultivated locally in Songyang. The team has more than a thousand "Songyang craftsmen" who have participated in the project.

Inheritance of traditional culture

Not far from the ancient houses of Shicang in Dadongba Town, Songyang County, a modern building built into a wall -the Shicang Contract Museum is located in the mountains and the surrounding mountains.

Local villagers said that the museum is like the living room of the village. When the guests come to the family, they will bring it here to introduce the culture of integrity in Xiacun.

Wangjing Memorial Hall of Wangcun Village, Wangsong Street, Songyang County is built on the basis of the old house. Prior to this, many local villagers believed that it was better to push all the old houses and build new talents. Now they slowly realize the importance of retaining the original style and protecting the cultural root.

"This is time to cut off the firewood before." Wang Jing's descendants and villagers Wang Genshui talked about a story: when the memorial hall was built, there was a big tree blown down by the wind, and he was pressed against the mottled mottled. On the wall, it is integrated after years. The villagers felt that this was "just right", which was simply reserved as a historical mark, and also spontaneously raised more than 4,000 yuan for reinforcement and maintenance.

Old houses with a well, a temple, a big tree, green tiles, gray windows, and yellow mud walls, are surrounded by mountains and rivers, inlaid between green pine and terraces, forming a typical image of traditional Chinese villages.

Traditional villages are the carrier of thousands of years of farming civilization, which records the nation's unique local customs and humanities marks, including tangible residential houses, ancient wells, ancestral temples, etc., as well as intangible cultivation of psychological culture.

The reporter learned that Songyang, as the first batch of pilots in the field of high -quality development and construction in Zhejiang, is accelerating the high -quality development of integration, sharing and innovation.

The rural rejuvenation led by culture has attracted young people from the native home to the country, and also attracted foreign investors and tourists. In 2021, Songyang received 2.754 million tourists and achieved tourism income of 3.05 billion yuan.

Chinese -style modernization is the modernization of the common prosperity of all people, and the modernization of the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization. The "saving old house action" is the repair of the old house, and it is also the protection and inheritance of traditional Chinese villages and excellent local culture.

【Edit: Bian Liqun】

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