"Suddenly, I met the peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps between the shores, there were no miscellaneous trees, the fragrant grass was delicious, and the fallen flowers were colorful...... Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" made countless people in the world yearn for it. In Yiyang Street, Feicheng City, there is a village built on the mountain - Yushan Village. Here, the hundred-year-old village collides with rural tourism, the quaint old stone houses are combined with modern homestays, and hundreds of acres of peach forests are set against the green mountains and green waters...... In recent years, this century-old village hidden on the mountainside has slowly "woken up" from the mountains and grown into another "peach blossom source" outside the hustle and bustle of the city.
The car turned into an asphalt road, along the road, a carp leaping over the dragon gate of the archway soon came into view, on which were written red "Yushan Ancient Village" four big characters, on one side of the sign marked "Yushan Peach Blossom Seascape Area" let people about to step into the Yushan Village more expectations and exploration. Not long after the journey, the whole view of this quaint mountain village is already in full view. Antique stone houses, wooden gates, and mottled walls tell the story of the years everywhere on the roadside; At the foot of the mountain, the peach forest is lush and green, and the flowers are all gone, bearing fruitful fruits; The sunlight shines through the soaphorn trees on the roadside, sprinkling dappled light and shadow on the stone walls, stone mills, and stone bridges, and the breeze blows, and the leaves rustle, playing a beautiful music in the summer mountains......
Speaking of the origin of Yushan Village, we have to mention Yushan. 3 kilometers south from Feicheng City, on the west side of Jiyan Road, there is a mountain shaped like a carp, which is called Fish Mountain by the locals. Yushan is a north-south direction, turning over this mountain from the east, there is a small village on the mountainside in the west, the village is built according to Liyu Mountain, so it is named Yushan Village. Yushan Village consists of two natural villages, one in the south and the other in the north, with 104 households. The village was founded in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Song and Zhao surnames led their families from Wangjin Village to the deep mountains to choose a site to establish a family to avoid war, which has a history of more than 600 years.
At the beginning of the establishment of the village, in order to resist the war, the villagers of Yushan Village used local materials to build houses with stones, houses, courtyards, streets and alleys, public facilities, and various buildings built of stones, all of which reflect the architectural characteristics and architectural styles of northern mountain villages. The wall is a dry stone wall, the thickness of the selected stones for each layer of the wall is the same, the stones and the stones bite tightly, the bottom layer is thick, the upper layer is thin, from the bottom to the top, decreasing in turn, such a wall is beautiful and generous, fully shows the wisdom and craftsmanship of the working people; The gate has a flat-topped stone door made of large stone strips, and an arched semi-circle door made of rectangular stone blocks; The courtyard is a stone wall surrounded by stones; The streets and lanes are all paved with stone slabs or stones, and the irregular stones constitute a variety of patterns on the road surface, which have been eroded by the years and washed by wind and rain, so that the road surface stones are smooth and smooth, reflecting the unique style of Yushan Village.
"In order to escape the war, the ancestors of our village really lived in seclusion in the mountains, and there was only one sheep intestine trail leading to the outside of the mountain in the village, and the small carts could not push it through, and it took more than an hour to get out of the village, which was really called going over the mountains and mountains." Niu Shundai, a member of the party branch of Yushan Village, recalled that in the 80s of the 20th century, the village began to open up mountain roads, and the isolated small mountain village was closer to the outside world. Later, the village divided the land, in line with the concept of "relying on the mountain to eat the mountain", and vigorously developed the peach industry.
In 2017, Yushan Village ushered in another new development opportunity. Yushan Village is the only way to Feicheng Liutai Taohuayuan Scenic Area, that year the village party branch put forward the development idea of "revitalizing idle houses, building characteristic homestays, and developing rural tourism", and the villagers relocated the 116 old homesteads vacant after the right to use the unified return to the village collective. At the same time, Beijing Tangxiang Investment Management Co., Ltd. was introduced into the village to carry out overall planning and construction of Yushan Ancient Village, retain and use the original appearance of the traditional village to the greatest extent, transform and upgrade the stone houses, and develop and build boutique theme homestays.
"By leasing rural homesteads in Yushan Village, we have restored and renovated 20 stone courtyards to create a themed homestay in Yushan Ancient Village. With the help of the Feicheng Peach Blossom Festival and the Peach Festival, the B&B can receive five or six thousand tourists every year. Niu Kai, manager of Peach Blossom Sea Tang Township B&B, said.
Among the stone houses in Yushan Village, the Song family compound in the center of the village is unique, and it is also one of the series of homestays in Taohuahai Tangxiang. As the main courtyard of the Song family, the gate of the Song family's courtyard is formed by a stone hair ring to form an arch, and the upper side of the door is made of small stones to form a fish scale, and the two sides are warped, and the shape is exquisite. Walking into the courtyard, the bluestone paved path is arranged along the terrain, the green grass is paved on the ground, the lush creeper covers the roof, and a few soaphorn trees are scattered in the courtyard. In the courtyard, in the circular pond, goldfish swim around, enjoying a relaxing time. Sitting in the spacious and stylish lounge, through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, the beautiful scenery of the courtyard can be seen at a glance, and occasionally one or two kittens are lying or sitting on the ground to break into the picture, bringing unexpected surprises. Since it was converted into a homestay, the stone house has collided with modern art, giving this century-old stone house a new lease of life.
In order to promote the development of rural tourism to a higher level and higher quality, in recent years, Yushan Village has actively renovated and built infrastructure, built a village history museum, excavated and cultivated rural characteristic culture, and become a new window to display Yushan to the outside world, comprehensively improving the grade and comprehensive reception capacity of rural tourism. At the same time, Yushan Village has actively developed supporting industries such as leisure and tourism, characteristic agriculture, and built cherry picking orchards and trails around the mountains, which have effectively lengthened the rural tourism industry chain, and the income of the village collective has also increased year by year.
In today's Yushan Village, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the mountains are full of a sea of flowers; When the fat peaches are ripe, the air is filled with the fragrance of peaches. Yushan Village, which sleeps with peach blossoms, has nostalgia and nostalgia, and the closed mountain village in the past is becoming another paradise step by step.
Reporter: Yang Wenjie, Liu Xiaodong
Photo: Sui Xiang