Chastity and Filial Archway of Zhou's Wife Wang and Daughter-in-law Liu Review

Zhou Wang's archway is located in the ancient town of Qingyan in Guizhou, "Huaxi District Zhi" states: "Qingyan history has 8 stone archway, existing "Zhou Wang's - Liu's Day Xiaofang", "Zhao Lilun 100-year-oldfang", "Zhao Caizhang 100-year-oldfang" a total of 3. All are built with local high-quality stone white Mianshi, four pillars three three-story four-a-top style, four pillars have bollards, beams and pillars have many empty carvings and characters reliefs and other exquisite patterns, inlaid in the middle. Superb skills, exquisite, magnificent, for the ancient town of the art boutique.

Guiyang Qingyan Ancient Town was built due to the Ming Dynasty Tunbing, which was a stone city that evolved from Tunbao. Here, many Qingwa wooden houses, ancient streets and stone alleys in the Ming and Qing Dingguang era have been preserved. Along the stone archway outside the town and the ancient ramp at the foot, pick up the level and go up to the south gate of Qingyan Ancient Town - Dingguangmen. There is a archway of Zhou Wang's-Liu's Day Xiaofang next to Dingguangmen, carved from the whole stone. Built in the Qing Dynasty, it was built to honor the observance of Zhou Chaozhong's wife Wang and daughter-in-law Liu's family. The products of the feudal era admired Wang's and Liu's personality, and deeply felt that the society was unfair to women at that time. There was a delicate "two dragons grab treasure" carved above the beam. The beams above the forehead have relief "Lotus map", the five dragon maps above the map, and the word "sacred order" in the middle, which is still very interesting, and you don't need to buy a joint ticket, you can see it when you turn to the south gate in the ancient town.

Zhou Wang's - Liu's Day Xiaofang" is located on Tangshang Street outside Dingguangmen, built in the Qing Dynasty in Tongzhi eight years (1869), the archway layout is the same as Baishoufang, four pillars and three. The characters in the archway are Zhou Chaozhong's wife Wang and daughter-in-law Liu's. Wang's son, daughter-in-law Liu's marriage to the Wang's family, the husband later died, the mother-in-law by doing handicraft work to maintain a livelihood, Liu's family also did their filial piety to serve the mother-in-law to the year of the family, and for Zhou's family to raise their children, passed on as a good word. Festival and filial piety in a door, won the emperor a happy, rewarded the two generations, praised "for the Zhengqi of the Xinjiang."

The archway retained in ancient times to the present reflects China's fine tradition!

Visit the previous archway to learn about history and long knowledge.