Xujia Mountain Village is a natural village under Xumin administrative village in Chayuan Township (there are also four natural villages including Minhutian, Xu Family, Yichangping and Xiao’an). It is located in the east of Ninghai County and the west of Chayuan Township, 13.5 kilometers away from the county seat. The average altitude is about 200 meters. There are 277 households in the whole village with a total population of 720. Most of the labor force in the village goes out to work. The permanent population living in the village is about 220. The area of this village is 4718 mu. The existing cultivated land area is 821 mu, and the forest area is 3008 mu. According to the village genealogy, Ye Daqing and his son, descendants of Ye Mengding at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, settled here to avoid chaos from Dongcang. It has a history of more than 700 years. Xujia Mountain is located on the top of the mountain. It is surrounded by mountains. The vegetation is well protected. The vegetation is lush. The ancient maple trees are towering. The green bamboos are graceful. The stone scenery is secluded. The smoke from kitchen chimneys curls up. The environment is quiet. Entering Xujia Mountain is like entering a paradise. The major characteristic of Xujia Mountain is the beauty of primitiveness and wilderness. Houses seldom use modern materials such as reinforced concrete. Most of the houses in the whole village are stone houses. The wall materials of stone houses are piled up with black basalt (locally known as ‘copper plate stone’). Xujia Mountain is an ancient stone village with a large existing building complex and relatively complete preservation in Ningbo City. It is also a model of mountain stone house building clusters along the coast of eastern Zhejiang. It can be called the stone kingdom. This village not only preserves complete combined resources such as stone houses, stone courtyards, stone walls, stone alleys, stone bridges, stone roads and stone benches, but also continues traditional lifestyles, such as ox plowing, making sweet potato flour, making sweet potato liquor, pounding rice cakes and making bamboo weaving. The tourism resources of Xujia Mountain Village are divided into four blocks: ancient stone village, tableland scenery, geological park and farming inheritance. Open all year round and all day.
Stone Village
Xujia Mountain Village is a natural village under Xumin administrative village in Chayuan Township ([...]
