Chenguo

Traditional village listing

A message published on the Nanjing municipal government's website on 22 August 2025 states that the eighth batch of traditional villages of Jiangsu named 70 villages, of which 5 are in Nanjing, and that "Chenguo, Wucunqiao Village, Hefeng Town" is among them. A report by the district media centre of 14 July 2025 is a notice-of-publicity item; the two refer to the same selection, and the formal list is to be read from the document published by the provincial housing department.

One month between publicity and naming

The timing of the two sources can be checked: the district media centre reported on 14 July 2025 on the provincial housing department's publicized shortlist, while the municipal government website carried the naming result on 22 August 2025. A gap of about a month fits the sequence of publicity first, naming second. The provincial document itself is not held in this library, and the present basis is these two retellings.

The district media report is titled "Two Lishui villages make the provincial list", and the two names verified here for the selection — Shanzhuang and Chenguo — match the title. Shanzhuang belongs to Shanggang Community, Honglan Subdistrict, and has its own entry.

Characteristic countryside village and current state

A further source from the town government records Chenguo. A report published on 21 May 2024 on the website of the Hefeng Town People's Government, Lishui District, records that the 2024 Wucunqiao Harmonious Countryside Wufan Festival theme event was held on 15 May 2024 under the guidance of the district culture and tourism bureau, the district agriculture and rural affairs bureau and the Hefeng Town People's Government; that the festival of that year set up a themed market in Chenguo village, with food stalls offering glutinous rice balls and sweet fermented grains and stalls for traditional handicrafts such as tiger-shoes and bags; and that Chenguo village was named a characteristic and harmonious countryside village of Jiangsu in 2023.

Two things must be kept apart: "traditional village" is a designation conferred by the provincial housing department on the basis of traditional character and heritage value, while "characteristic and harmonious countryside village" belongs to a separate recognition scheme of the province; the two lists are not counted together. The designation of 2023 appears in a town government report, and this library holds no published document of the provincial competent department, so it is reproduced as the report's own wording.

The market being held in Chenguo village is the only record held here of a collective event landing in the village in recent years; the organiser, the guiding units and the date of the event can be checked, but the physical form of the village and the state of its heritage are still not recorded.

Points of doubt

• The date of founding, the origin of the name and surviving structures are not recorded in the sources used here.
• Chenguo is a settlement inside Wucunqiao Village, and the two have separate entries. In the sources at hand their relationship is conveyed only by the three-level form used in the list, with no further explanation.
• The designation of 2023 as a characteristic and harmonious countryside village of Jiangsu appears only in a town government report on the festival; the published document of the provincial competent department is not held here.
• The Wufan Festival report is a news item on the town government website, an official channel but not a published document; the glutinous rice balls and sweet fermented grains it lists as food stalls are not the same items as the corresponding intangible cultural heritage projects and must not be conflated.