Jiangpan Village, formerly known as Futan, is located in Yanxi Town, Taihe County. It originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Surrounded by rivers and shaded by green trees, there is a thousand-mu meadow in front of the village. Behind the village, green mountains serve as a screen. It has a unique natural ecological environment and is a beautiful village with well-arranged buildings, mountains and waters.
First, it has rich historical and cultural landscapes. Jiangpan Village is an ancient village with a long history and is an ancient village with a history of a thousand years. So far, there are more than 60 contiguous ancestral halls, academies, pawnshops and dwellings in the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Around the village, there are ancient camphor trees, ancient post roads, ancient ferries, ancient embankments, ancient docks, ancient stages, ancient mills, ancient temples and ancient nunnery ruins. There are also ‘cooperatives’, ‘grain depots’ and ‘rice mills’ after liberation. There are also ancient bridges and ancient pagodas listed as cultural relics protection. Second, it has unique Chinese village feng shui culture. Jiangpan Village is backed by mountains and facing water. According to the unique mountain topography, water system and environment, the ancients created the unique feng shui culture of Jiangpan Village, such as ‘cattle lying in the pool’, ‘seven-star ancient pond’, ‘literary tower by the stream’, ‘pencil holder camphor tree’,’sangzhi tree’ and ‘waterside residence’. Third, it has profound Jiangxi merchant culture. Jiangpan Village is also an ancient village of Jiangxi merchant culture, an ancient village of five righteousness charities and the former residence of Sun Ming, a generation of Confucian merchants. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Sun family in Jiangpan became a powerful force in the ‘Jiangyou merchant gang’ and made a large number of wealthy merchants. During the Daoguang and Xianfeng periods of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Ming and Sun Fang, the richest man in Taihe and billionaire, appeared successively. They donated military pay to serve the country, built guild halls, academies and colleges, and built embankments and bridges and roads on Bailuzhou in Ji’an. Three generations of a family renovated the examination yard of Ji’an Prefecture three times, leaving a thick ink color in the history of the prefecture and county. Opening hours: Open all day throughout the year.
