Yanchuan Yangko Performed in Zhenjiawan Ancient Village
Zhenjiawan Village is located at Qingpingchuan, 15 kilometers northwest of Yanchuan County, 5 kilometers away from Wenanyi Ancient Town and 7 kilometers away from Liangjiahe. Qingpingchuan is famous for the Beijing educated youth Shi Tiesheng's work, My Remote Qingping Bay, which was written based on his experience of living and working in a production team here. The ancient village of Zhenjiawan was built in the second year of the Zhiyuan Reign of Mongolian Dynasty (1265 AD), 754 years ago. The place is named as Hejiawan, because the people who surnamed He built a house at the bay. In the 41st year of Kangxi's Reign (1702 AD), the people who surnamed He moved out and the people surnamed Zhen moved in. The village's name was changed to Zhenjiawan since then. The ancient village of Zhenjiawan is the largest building complex of cave dwellings, with the most complete structure. The building complex now has 66 courtyards and 167 cave dwellings. In 2018, the ancient village was included in the list of "the fifth batch of national traditional villages". According to preliminary research, after the people surnamed Zhen moved in during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, there were two Suigong (Zhen Yuncong and Zhen Dong), one Bagong (Zhen Lanying), one Wusheng (Zhen Xiang), one Linsheng (Yang Zhaolin), and two Shengyuan (Zhen Shixuan and Zhen Shiyan) were elected during the reign of Jiaqing to Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty. According to the memory of old people in the village, the selected Bagong had strong strength and high prestige. The magistrate of the county came to visit him in a deferential way, that is, stopped the horse and got down from the sedan to personally pay an official call. The Bagong's house has 4 courtyards and 12 cave dwellings, including banqueting hall, study, tunner and dyeing room.
In 2017, Zhenjiawan Village proactively proposed to be included in the county's tourism development strategy of "famous people, works and landscapes, ancient stockades, towns and villages". The rural cultural tourism of Zhenjiawan was taken as the important supplement and the connecting point of Liangjiahe educated youth cultural tourism and Wenanyi ancient town cultural tourism, with the aim of building the rural cultural tourism industry of "one core and two wings". Namely: Take Zhenjiawan traditional village as the core, construct four major bases of "film and television shooting, education and research, creation and sketching, and traditional cultural experience". Take the open and livable new villages and modern agriculture as the two wings, forge the tourism project of recreation, vacation and sightseeing, increase the popularity of rural cultural tourism in Yanchuan and extend the industrial chain of increasing people's income and wealth.
Aerial photo of Zhenjiawan Ancient Village
The quiet and peaceful ancient village