Shitouzhai Village

Traditional village listing

The list reprinted on the provincial housing department's website on 23 March 2023 records that the Jiangsu section of the sixth batch of Chinese traditional villages includes "Shitouzhai Village, Baima Town, Lishui District, Nanjing". The batch was published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other departments on 20 March 2023.

A district government report separately states that Shitouzhai Village "entered the sixth batch of Chinese traditional villages in October 2022". That is the date of public notice, not of publication, and any citation must say which is meant.

Relation to the settlement within it

Lixiang, within Shitouzhai Village, entered the first batch of traditional villages of Jiangsu in April 2020. The two stand to each other as an administrative village and a settlement within it, both in Baima Town, and have separate entries.

The Lixiang inside the village has a district-level protected status that can be checked: item 2 of the third batch of district-level protected sites published under Li Zheng Fa [2017] No. 197 is the "Lixiang Revolutionary Site Building Group", dated to the modern period. The address in that document reads "Lixiang Village, Baima Town", treating Lixiang as a village-level unit, which differs from this library's reading of Lixiang as a settlement within Shitouzhai Village on the basis of the traditional village list; the three-level form of the list is followed here, and the standard form of the village name needs separate checking.

Recent use

According to the report carried on the Lishui District People's Government website on 31 March 2026 reprinting Nanjing Daily, on 28 March 2026 the Lishui Industrial Group held a spring study-tour product launch at the Tianshengqiao scenic area under the theme of "Lishui spring light, a journey of study", releasing 11 spring study-tour routes on the spot; of these, three were one-day routes, namely "asking about learning in the Lishui tea fields", "lotus breeze brushes Lixiang, integrity reflects a loyal heart" and "craftsmanship in joinery, building dreams at Tiansheng". It follows that Lixiang served as one of the settings for a spring study-tour route in 2026.

The nature and limits of that document must be stated: the routes were released by a district-owned state enterprise and carried on the government website as a reprint of a media report, an official channel but not a published document; the 11 routes are of spring 2026 and change from year to year. The report gives no start and end points, distances or detailed itinerary, and these fields must not be filled from it; the study-tour route touches Lixiang at village level, while the state of the village's own heritage remains unrecorded.

Points of doubt

• The date of founding, the origin of the name and surviving structures of Shitouzhai Village are not recorded in the sources held here.
• Whether Shitouzhai Village also appears on the provincial list of traditional villages of Jiangsu is not recorded in the sources held here; this library has made separate entries only for the two listings that the sources attest.
• The district protected list writes Lixiang as "Lixiang Village, Baima Town", a village-level form, differing from this library's reading of Lixiang as a settlement within Shitouzhai Village; the standard village name needs separate checking.
• The study-tour report gives only route names, with no start and end points or distances, and changes from year to year.