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<h1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman">Introduction to <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place></font></font></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place> has now over three hundred households and a population of more than nine hundred people. Nonnative villagers make up 20% of the total population in the village. Almost all the villagers bear their surnames as Ye, Cheng and Li ,the majority of which bear the surname Ye. There are two hundred or so old houses. Most of the villagers are engaged in farming with an average of one mu farmland per person. <placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype> is also boasted as <placename wst="on">Hanlin</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype> in history (Little Imperial Academy) because several scholars who came from the village were members of the <placename wst="on">Imperial</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Academy</placetype> in the feudal <country-region wst="on"><place wst="on">China</place></country-region>. Yixian county surrounded by mountains from all sides is located between Mt Huangshan and <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Baiyue</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountains</placetype></place>. The location is blessed with quiet environment, fresh air and little streams burbling . Lots of ancient local-style houses are kept intact there and folk custom and traditional ways of life inherited and passed down from generation to generation. <placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype>, five kilometers away from the county proper, lies in the southwest of it and is considered another village in the <place wst="on"><placename wst="on"> each-Blossom</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Land</placetype></place>.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nanping , once named Ye Village, was first called Wudu Ye Village, because it ranked the fifth according to serial order of the twelve administrative divisions of Yixian county in ancient times. Later on it was changed to its present name Nanping for there is a <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype></place> behind it in the southwest. The history of the village can be traced back as far as Tang Dynasty (618-907 )and Song Dynasty (960-1279). Originally the villagers had various surnames. But since Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) Ye families moved to here from <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">White</placename>
<placename wst="on">Horse</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype></place>, in Qimen county. Later <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place> grew very rapidly. Up to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 )the village was expanded and developed on a large scale. Villagers with surnames of Ye, Cheng and Li are dominant in number in the village gradually. </font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the middle of the Qing Dynasty in about 1877 people of Nanping worshiped and took great interest in Neo-Confucianism put forward and developed by Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi, famous philosophers and educators in the Song Dynasty (960-1279).The three big families competed against each other and established quite a few primary schools in the village. The numbers of people who became either officials or merchants were on the increase. In its prime time of the developments, Nanping had a population of over one thousand people., seventy-two lanes, thirty-six wells, three hundred or so houses, in addition to those ancestral temples of various sizes and gardens along the rivers and streams. <placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype> was then the fourth biggest village among the other three, namely, <placename wst="on">Bishan</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype>, <placename wst="on">Xidi</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype> and Waihenggang, and <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Longshan</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place> in Yixian county.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype> is surrounded by <placename wst="on">Jinzhu</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype>, <placename wst="on">Linli</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype> and <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype></place> from three sides. The nunnery in <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Jinzhu</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype></place> was destroyed but is now covered with bamboo bushes all over. <placename wst="on">Linli</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype> extends to <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Yuhong</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Mountain</placetype></place>. The very place was once the ancient battle field in the period of Three Kingdoms (220-280). Wuling stream and Jiaogan stream flow across the village and continue eastward. <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Tao</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place> is about three kilometers away from here upper stream of Wuling stream, where the descendants of the famous poet, Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420) live there. There are some places of historical interests around such as Tao Yuanming's houses, Jieli, etc.. Besides the genealogy of Tao family is discovered here so some scholars in the academic circles even boldly proposed that the poem, <place wst="on"><placename wst="on"> each-Blossom</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place> by Tao Yuanming actually described the scenery here in Yixian county. The seventy-two lanes form a traffic network in the village, some long, some short and look like a labyrinth indeed. Thirty-six wells make up a complete system of water supply for the villagers. The sewage system under the ground connects each house and works efficiently.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, walking in <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Nanping</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place>, one cannot help feeling that he or she was back to the ancient time. For row upon row of local-style houses in the architectural styles of Ming and Qing dynsasties are all around you. And each house has its own unique beauty. There are stone carvings, wood carvings and brick carvings, exquisite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and extraordinary. Everything here shows the wisdom of our ancestors and everyone comes to realize here the strong impact of the Huizhou culture on them. </font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9.9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span lang="EN-US"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are now twelve administrative divisions in Yixian county: 1.County proper; 2. Longjiang Village; 3.Bishan Village; 4. Guzhu; 5. Nanping Village; 6. Xidi and Waihenggang; 7. Yuting; 8. Ye Village and Tankou; 9. Pingshan ; 10. <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Chong</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Village</placetype></place>; 11. Ji Village; 12. Fengkou.</font></font></span></p> |
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