Introduction to Liu Tong Xinglong Village: Liu Tong Xinglong Village is located on Guxi Street, Sanhe Town, also known as "Liu Ji Buzhuang" and "Liu Ji Rice Shop". A famous merchant on Guxi Street in the late Qing Dynasty. He is a Zhuangzi owned by a man named Liu, and the "Tongxinglong" in the middle is the business name of this Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi's master Liu Jintang (1879-1941) was the vice president of the Sanhe Chamber of Commerce and had five brothers. Among them, Liu Jintang and his second brother Liu Jinchen lived in "Liu Tongxing Longzhuang".
The entire Liutong Xinglong Village consists of 32 houses with five entrances and eight compartments. Facing the street is a two-story wooden building. The second entrance is the Zouma Zhuanxin Building, and the last three entrances are bungalows. The third entrance is the open hall, used to receive visitors; the fourth entrance is the incense room, used to worship ancestors; the fifth entrance is the living dormitory, with a construction area of about 700 square meters. At that time, the entrance hall here was bustling with traffic, and Liu Tong's Xinglongzhuang's business was extremely prosperous, stretching from Yinshan in Lu'an in the north to Nanjing and Shanghai in the south. Liu Tong Xinglongzhuang mainly deals in various kinds of cloth and rice. The daily sales volume of rice can reach more than 500 tons, and the annual income is tens of thousands of silver dollars. At that time, "Tongxinglong" was extremely prosperous, and it was one of the most famous businesses in the ancient town.
The structure of the house in Liutong Xinglongzhuang has the characteristics of Hui-style architecture in central Anhui. It adopts traditional Chinese wooden structure and combines it with local architecture in central Anhui to form its own building system. A patio is left between every two houses to create a self-contained building system. Create a unique drainage system. At the same time, it also symbolizes the business philosophy of "don't let the rich water flow to outsiders' fields".