The Seventeen Houses of Zheng’s

The ancestors of Zheng’s clansmen once moved from Xingyang，Henan Province According to the recordation in Red volumes of Zheng’s genealogy compiled in the reignof Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty，one branch of Zheng’s offspring moved from the north to Xiepu Town of Zhenhai district.

After six generations of breeding，Zheng’s clansmen was separated and lived in seventeen houses and became a distinguished family of the town.The existing seventeen houses were mostly built in the period between Qianlong’s and Guangxu’s reign of the Qing Dynasty except several buildings which are typical of the Ming Dynasty.It was recorded that Zheng’s houses were among one of the earliest business groups of Ningbo.The seventeen Houses of Zheng’s represented the classical style of residences in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the south part of the Yangtze River Basin.Every room constitutes its own system with a unique layout and scientific structure and fine workmanship，which implies a great significance for research and sightseeing.The residential clusters border Zhenhai on its east and Ningbo on its south with high mountainsas their barriers against harsh winter and wide oceans to coordinate the air temperature.It reveals a typical style of residences in the Central Plain Region with water and mountains in its surrounding.

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