Ānyì

Anyi lies west of Nanchang, among the hills and fields near the Liao River. At Luotian, the Huang lineage traced its beginnings to a refugee from Luotian in Hubei, who settled here amid the wars of the late Tang and gave his new home the name of his old one.

By 1381 the village had more than a hundred households. Its position on a route to the Daoist sanctuary of Wanshou Palace brought pilgrims through its streets. During the Qing, the merchant Huang Xiuwen built a large residence with many courtyards, including rooms for study, storage and household work. The house and its neighbours show how wealth earned in trade could be invested in a family's ancestral village.