The center of Overseas Chinese Village is a circular Xigu Pool. At the beginning, it was just a wasteland between the inland river around the city and the back street of the county. 1956, 46 returned overseas Chinese villas surrounded this big pond called Xikou, drawing lessons from the architectural characteristics of Southeast Asia, Europe and America, with unique and restrained styles. At that time, it was the "big hand" of the local government. The circle of trees by the pool and the tree in the villa group have not stopped growing for more than half a century, from ornament and foil to some concealment in the overseas Chinese village. The appearance of the villa is old. Through the lush green shadows, listening to the noise of the street behind you and the surrounding high-rise buildings, your heart will suddenly settle down at that moment-so that even if you walk into the overseas Chinese village in the ancient city of southern Fujian, you can enjoy tea quietly. In a trance where there is no time to think, Overseas Chinese Village is like a riddle placed in time. It hides in downtown and is immune to it. When people walk in, impetuous life is blocked out.
Either traveling between the two places or living abroad for a long time, few villa owners stay behind, making the overseas Chinese village empty for a long time. The moss in Xigu Chi Pan quietly turned green, and the breeze shuttled in the shadowless corridor. Citizens who occasionally set foot in it are destined to be hooked by the sight here. Here, it seems that every budding blade of grass and every trembling stem bud can almost touch the joy in your heart and cheer up your sentimental heart. Strolling through the overseas Chinese village, you can feel the warmth of the years. Slowly, tea tables, chairs, umbrellas and tea sets were quietly placed, and there were more teahouses around the west exit, scattered among villas. The fog in the west exit is full of water, and the wind is swaying everywhere. People sit around here, drinking tea, drinking or eating fish. The increasingly vague words in memory suddenly revived here: nostalgic private chats between confidants, slapstick banter between later sisters, whispering between young lovers while making tea and eating melon seeds ... all these were recorded by green leaves and accepted by antique old villas. ...
When you walk through the Qingshiban Street of Hong Kong Road in the urban area and walk into a courtyard of the Overseas Chinese Village Villa, you will find that the leisure of this Overseas Chinese Village has never gone far.
The old villa that has experienced wind and rain is definitely not just the accumulation of running around. Through that ancient window, perhaps the eternal yearning is solidified. The bamboo fence flies, and the colonnade at the corner of the steps is another kind of bright, clear and open. In the depths of time and years, if the hot summer in Qiaocun is as cool as Shui Ying in the west, there must be a colorful autumn dusk that stirs your eyes for thousands of times. There may be a beautiful music flowing in the shell of mediocrity and secularity under the phonology of Minnan ancient Chinese and the transpiration aroma of various foods.
The overseas Chinese village at night is another scene. The old villa is hidden in the bushes. Whether it's a starry Xigu Pool or a Xigu Pool with a bright moon hanging high, the lights shine on the water with the permission of branches and leaves, and the night on the sparkling teahouse looks quiet and charming, and the breeze is loose and nostalgic. Perhaps a corner is noisy, but the overseas Chinese village gives a city another expectation by static braking.
This is the overseas Chinese village under the breeze tree in Zhangzhou city.