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Write a 600-word composition with bricks.

Listen, the old bricks are telling.

Goethe said, "Music is flowing architecture, and architecture is solidified music". If architecture is music, then the bricks and tiles of traditional architecture are beating notes. In the China Ancient Brick and Tile Museum in Jinxi Town, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, you will see pieces of ancient, simple, heavy and beautiful bricks, which are like a string of notes that make up a classic song. This melodious voice floated from the depths of history and sang the replacement and evolution of the history of human civilization.

Entering the China Ancient Brick and Tile Museum in Jinxi Town, which is located in the "Ding Zhai" of Qing Dynasty, all kinds of ancient brick and tile treasures are dazzling. The earliest brick in the museum has a history of more than 5,000 years and is a relic of Liangzhu culture. It is made of soil, chaff and straw, with bamboo poles and reeds as the skeleton and burned by fire. Archaeologists call it "stew soil" and it is also the "ancestor" of brick.

Lu Qiusheng, a curator who loves ancient tiles, gave a passionate explanation before "Braised Clay". "China ancestors carried out a revolution of mud and fire with transcendental wisdom, industrious hands and amazing verve, and created human housing civilization. Pan mud into blanks, open kiln to burn bricks, build houses, solve the disadvantages of' Maozitu steps', build a city to live in, and gather different countries. Split chaos, get out of the flood and meet the Xuanyuan civilization that is about to rise on the eastern horizon. "

There are more than 2,300 exhibits in the 400-square-meter ancient brick and tile museum, spanning more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. From the city bricks of the Han Dynasty, the bricks of the Six Dynasties, the bricks of the Western Jin Dynasty, the bricks of the Tang and Song Dynasties, to the blue bricks of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Republic of China, and even the five-star symbol, it can be called a long scroll in the history of brick development. Each collection is an artistic crystallization that shines with the wisdom of the ancient working people in China.

China is the birthplace of bricks and tiles in the world. In Lu Qiusheng's eyes, these ancient bricks bear the history and record the steps of human civilization.

The treasure "Tongque Tile" is the remains of Jinfeng Terrace, Bingjing Terrace and Tongque Terrace built by Cao Cao in Linzhang, Hebei Province in the 18th year of Jian 'an. The back of the tile is engraved with "Made in March in the 5th year of Jian 'an". The bronze sparrow terrace in those days has long been forgotten by the dust of history. However, after 1700 years, this tile is still well preserved in a corner of Jiangnan town, which makes the viewer's thoughts fly to the magnificent Three Kingdoms era. ...

A group of characteristic tiles in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties attracted my attention. These tiles involve dragons and phoenixes, flowers, fish and insects, pine, plum, bamboo and chrysanthemum, stone durian, and rich peony. They are either rough and freehand, or finely carved, with high quality and complete collection, which is amazing. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the decorative art of ancient bricks and tiles has spread from Hui Ze, the royal court, to the people, which has created convenience for the cultural inheritance of ancient brick and tile art. From Jiangnan dwellings to Suzhou gardens, from Huizhou merchants to Shanxi merchants, and even to Beijing quadrangles, the ancient brick carvings used are novel in composition, vivid in knife cutting and exquisite in craftsmanship.

A row of "golden bricks" displayed in the main hall of the museum are square bricks for laying the floor of the palace. According to the museum's data, BRIC is a kind of Qin Gong material, and its quality requirements are very strict. Only when the color is pure blue, the knocking sound is loud and intact, can it be considered qualified. "BRIC" has large specifications, easy deformation and extremely low yield. Generally 10 brick only produces 1 2 pieces of finished products. The origin of "BRIC" is in Suzhou, and with the high transportation cost, there is really a sky-high price of "one or two BRIC" in history.

After visiting the brick carving exhibits, look at the brick carving gatehouse in Ding Zhai. This deep house compound in the south of the Yangtze River, built during Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty, was originally the residence of a businessman named Ding. The antique and vicissitudes of old houses set off the ancient brick and tile culture more thickly and far away.

Jinxi, a beautiful water town, once had 72 kilns, and brick kilns have a long history. A large number of ancient bricks and tiles are scattered among the people, which has aroused the strong interest of some collectors. 1in the spring of 996, in order to further explore the treasures of ancient bricks in China and promote the "ancient brick culture", the Kunshan Municipal People's Government and the Jinxi Town People's Government jointly raised funds to formally establish the "China Ancient Brick Museum". At present, based on the Millennium history and culture, relying on ancient towns, ancient bridges and ancient rivers, Jinxi has carefully built the "Hometown of Folk Museums in China", with 15 museums including China Ancient Brick Museum, China Coin Collection Museum, Huaxia Planetarium, Huaxia Stone Museum and East China First Antique Museum. This feature is attracting many Chinese and foreign tourists to visit Jinxi ancient town.