Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

Qixian County is one of the famous historical and cultural cities in the country. It was called "Zhaoyu" in ancient times and was named after "Zhaoyu Qizesou".

Its history can be traced back to the Neolithic Age.The textual research on Liangcun’s ancient cultural relics proves that the ancestors thrived on the land of Qixian County as early as the matriarchal commune period five thousand years ago.

In ancient times, Qixian County was an absolute cattle-breaking existence. Qixian County has outstanding people, and there have been many celebrities in the past.According to incomplete statistics, there are more than one hundred celebrities listed in "Cihai", "Ciyuan", "Chinese Dictionary of Celebrities of the Past Dynasties" and "Chinese Dictionary". There are 225 celebrities listed in "Shanxi Tongzhi", including politicians. , Military strategists, thinkers, writers, calligraphers, painters, opera artists, medical scientists, educators, martial artists, Shanxi merchants, industrialists, and revolutionaries.

To name a few, Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was a native of Qixian, one of the most famous prime ministers in the early Tang Dynasty, and he worked with the civil servants and generals of the early Tang Dynasty and the peerless emperor to cast the rule of Zhenguan.

There is also the first queen of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, the one who was framed by Wu Zetian and lost her position. She was also from Qixian.

Wang Gui and Wang Sengbian were also from Qixian County, and Wang Gui was also the prime minister of the early Tang Dynasty, who was even better than Wen Yanbo.

The great poets Wang Bo, Wang Wei, and Wen Tingyun were also from Qixian, and Luo Guanzhong who wrote the Three Kingdoms was from Qixian.

Of course, in modern Qixian, the most famous is the Shanxi merchants, the Qiao family in Qixian County, which connects the world. And more famous than the Qiao family in Qixian County is a large courtyard, Qixian Qiao Family Courtyard.

The Qiao Family Courtyard, also known as Zaizhongtang, is located in Qiaojiabao Village, Qi County, Shanxi Province. It was built in 1756.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qiao Quanmei and his two elder brothers separated and bought several homes in the northeast corner of the crossroads and set up buildings.The main building is a hard hilltop brick house with brick and wood structure, with window lattices but no doors, and stairs are built inside.

It is characterized by thick walls, small windows, and firmness. It is composed of five courtyards and three courtyards.To the east of the main building is the original house, which has also been renovated as a partial courtyard.The second entrance in the courtyard was also converted into a school, which was the earliest courtyard of the Qiao family compound, which is also the old courtyard.

Legend has it that there was a five-way shrine outside the courtyard. There were two locust trees in front of the shrine. They were strangely long and were called "sacred trees".

Between the main courtyard and the side courtyard, there is a large brick-carved land shrine with stone mountains and deer carrying ganoderma lucidum.There are four brick-carved lions and a ruyi handle on the front of the ground shrine, which is a metaphor for "Four Seasons Ruyi".There are phoenix trees and pine trees on the wall of the temple, and six pairs of deer are combined together, which means "six harmony and smoothness".

After Qiao Zhiyong became his home, he continued to develop civil engineering for the light gate.He bought a large homestead in the alley to the west of the old courtyard, and built a building courtyard with five inside and three outside, forming two floors facing each other. The main building is a suspended mountain top with exposed pillars.

After the Ming Building was completed, Qiao Zhiyong built two quadrangular courtyards on the opposite side of the street from the two floors. The four courtyards were located at the four corners of the intersection of streets and lanes, laying the foundation for the subsequent integration. .

In the middle and late Guangxu period, local public security was unstable. In order to protect their own safety, Jingyi and Jing Yan of Qiao's family spent a lot of trouble and money to buy the right to occupy the streets at that time.After the Qiao family obtained the right to occupy, the alleys were blocked, and the alleys were built into the side courtyards of the northwest courtyard and the southwest courtyard; the entrance was blocked and the gate was built on the east side; the ancestral hall was built on the west side; Across the courtyard, two newly built Wulang gates.There are fences across the courtyard, and the arched gate top is used as a bridge to connect the north and south courtyards to form a castle-like building complex.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Qiao family's population increased and housing appeared insufficient, so they bought land and expanded westward.Ten years after the Republic of China, Qiao Yingxia and Qiao Yingkui built a new courtyard next to the Southwest Courtyard, similar in layout to the Southeast Courtyard.

At this point, the Qiao Family Courtyard has completely formed its future pattern and area.

The entire courtyard is in the shape of a double "happy" and is divided into 6 large courtyards, with 20 small courtyards, 313 houses, and a construction area of ​​4175 square meters. It faces the street on three sides and is surrounded by a fully enclosed blue brick wall with a height of more than 10 meters. The gate is a city gate type cave.

The Qiao Family Courtyard is a majestic architectural complex.

But to be honest, even the locals in Shanxi didn't know much about the Qiao family courtyard in the 1980s, and many didn't know that there was such a house with such a courtyard.

The Qixian County Government only used this ancient house to establish the Qixian Folk Museum in the first two years, and then it opened to the public the following year.

Therefore, it has only been opened as a tourist attraction for only a few years, and it has no reputation at all.

And to make this place suddenly become famous has to wait for a movie to come out.

That movie is called Raise the Red Lantern and is a tragedy of the era directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li.

This movie hasn't come out yet, and even Zhang Yimou doesn't even have the idea of ​​it, because this movie is based on an adaptation, and the adapted one will not be written and published by the author until 1990.

"Wife and Concubine Crowd" is a novelette created by writer Su Tong.This work describes Songlian, a female student "educated in the new era", who voluntarily married into the well-ordered feudal family Chen Mansion in the high wall and deep courtyard, and finally went to the tragic fate of a mental breakdown in the "wife-concubine group" battle. , Artistically reproduces the horrible scene of Chinese feudal ethics devouring humanity.

The Raise Red Lantern is based on this adaptation, but it changes the misty Jiangnan background in the original work to the tragic and majestic northern deep house compound.

Among them, the most shocking or envious of the red lanterns is to raise the red lantern.

But Qiao Feng didn't care about this. He changed the plot of the TV series he had watched at the Qiao Family Courtyard, and then put the light-on ceremony into the story, and enthusiastically told all the girls along the way.

Because raising the red lantern is a tragedy in itself, Songlian, who was so sad that there is no hope, was finally driven mad.

This is the opposite of Qiao Feng’s ultimate wish to have a group of wives and concubines, so he can’t tell the story in the movie, but can only talk about the legend that belongs to the Qiao family and Qiao Zhiyong’s life, and the unscrupulous story that Qiao Zhiyong married six wives and was not ashamed. The story of living together without shame.

As for the Qiao family’s rules of not allowing concubines, Qiao Zhiyong’s six wives are all married, but Qiao Feng simply ignores the fact that the five of their predecessors died.

Anyway, the story is derived from life and higher than life. In order to instill the feudal dregs to the women, it doesn't matter to change it.

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