Xujiashan Village./許家山村。[Photo by Yan Long]嚴龍攝
By Dong Na
In the mountains in the eastern part of Ninghai County, there is a "stone house village" called Xujiashan Village. In 2010, the village was named a "Famous Chinese Historical and Cultural Village" in the title's fifth awarding round. It is the largest and best-preserved village of stone dwellings in Ningbo and a typical example of the stone architecture style in eastern Zhejiang's mountainous coastal areas.
在寧海縣東部的大山里，坐落著一座“石頭村”，喚作許家山村。許家山村在2010年獲評第五批“中國歷史文化名村”，是寧波現有建筑群規模最大、保存最完整的石屋古村，也是浙東沿海山地石屋建筑群落的典范。
Unlike other villages, most houses in Xujiashan Village are made of black basalt, which is unique to the area. The village has not only many intact stone homes, stone walls, stone alleys, stone bridges, stone-paved roads and stone benches, but also traditional ways of life: plowing the fields with oxen, making flour with sweet potato, making rice cakes by manual pounding, and crafting bamboo wicker objects.
和一般的水鄉村落不同，許家山村中絕大部分是石屋，均以當地特有的黑色玄武巖堆壘而成。村內不僅保存著完整的石屋、石墻、石巷、石橋、石路、石凳等，同時還延續著傳統的生活方式，如牛耕田、制番薯粉、搗年糕、做竹編等。
Xujiashan's cluster of well-preserved, distinctive historical buildings creates potential for the village to become a destination for rural tourism, cultural exchange, wellness, recreation, and sports.
許家山村現存古建筑群格局完整，特色鮮明，可打造成具有石村特色，集山村體驗、文化交流、療養度假、休閑運動等功能為一體的山村休閑旅游區。