Fang Guantian’s residence is a must location on the China Photography Tours,
and is a good example of the less extravagant houses belonging to
wealthy farmers. This bungalow is compact and contains a main hall and
two rooms occupied by the children and the farmer with his wife. An
interesting feature of this house are the small pieces of wood, lodged
between the supporting columns and plinths, which were supposed to
absorb shock during an earthquake and were possibly one of the first
examples of purpose-built earthquake-proofing.
Towards the center
of Qiankou, tourists can find Si Jiandi - an ancestral worship temple
built in honour of Wangshan, a supposedly incorruptible official, by his
descendants. Constructed in the Hongzhi period of the Ming and
containing a board inscribed for Wangshan by Emperor Yongle, this temple
is one of the oldest buildings of this kind to have survived in the
whole of southern China. The temple also contains traditional ponds
inside the courtyard, which in this household were used to breed fish
and turtles.
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