Bamboo bridge village prose appreciation

Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province, there is a bamboo bridge village. In my opinion, it is a representative of Gandong residential houses, a model of constructing feng shui, and a masterpiece of managing the heart.

It is said that it is the representative of the Gandong residential area, in addition to its architectural and decorative styles, which centrally embodies the basic characteristics of the ancient residential area in Fuzhou, it also maintains a complete village form, ancient residential buildings and a large number of cultural relics. There are still more than 100 well-preserved Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, including 8 Ming Dynasty residences and 1 Ming Dynasty Ancestral Hall Wenlong Gong Ancestral Hall, all of which are made of green bricks and gray tiles, appearing simple and elegant. Most of the houses have two chambers, and the lintels, eaves, eaves and walls inside the houses, door pillars, window panes, column bases, square heads and ceilings are decorated with carvings and paintings. The village is equipped with a main gate, alley gate, gate, within the three groups of self-contained complexes, such as Wenlin Di, ten lane, eight lane, those side-by-side four or three houses of the same style by the ear door to each other, the rainy day to and from the foot is not wet.

The Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings there have a feature that drew my attention, which is that the wainscoting part of the wall is mostly built with large pieces of green stone, and then bricks are laid on top of three or four layers of hard green stone, which is said to prevent thieves from breaking through the wall and entering the house. The village alleys paved with lapis lazuli are left with deep and narrow open ditches against the walls, so that if you accidentally fall down at night, you will have a very bad fall, so the village people also have reason to believe that it also has the same function of anti-theft. The building's emphasis on the anti-theft function discloses the historical information that men went out to do business, and from this, we can also imagine the affluence of Bamboo Bridge in those years. It is important to know that the village was founded in the 5th century, and has always had a cultural tradition that emphasizes both Confucianism and business.

It is said that it is a model of feng shui construction, because through it, it seems to be able to penetrate the feng shui doctrine of some of the mystery, which is "touching things, not not to take". The village is situated in a fan-shaped layout facing south. From the terrain, the environment here is relatively ordinary, neither the mountains as a barrier, nor a large river for the arch, but the village of bamboo bridge is adapted to the local conditions, artificial scenery, with the terrain of the birth of the charm, the ordinary for the magical, and the construction of a village in harmony with nature.

How to "touch things Xinghuai, not to take"? For example, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years, in order to make up for the terrain defects, perfect scenery, the village people in the village west of the river said that the hill of Yan Mountain to build the pavilion, take the Song poem "the sea back to the wind purple Lan" meaning named Zilan Pavilion. In the eyes of the bamboo bridge people, "although this is a stream, but to the sea, who said not? An in the stream can not produce purple Lan also." Really have mountains and the sea in the chest. Subsequently, there are Yu's descendants of the record: "but not said temple said temple said view and said the attic, high, also, from the towering steeply confronted by the barrier to the emptiness and stand low sinking also. Rice paddies flat, a look at the end of the world; stream eddy, four times inexhaustible; there are cinnamon and bamboo, there are flowers and trees mingled among them."

"Far case Chong Lin Ling, near case Huang Bao Gang" of the General Gate Tower, it is in accordance with the direction of the mountains, make full use of the terrain of the example. The main gatehouse was built in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and was set by the Feng Shui master Mr. Liao Yu. Including the main gatehouse, the village **** has three gatehouses, upper, middle and lower, regardless of red and white celebrations, these three gatehouses are the way to go through, and the gatehouses are facing the reservoir, access from both sides and out, clearly reflecting the fire prevention and anti-theft craftsmanship. Behind the village there are three gates leading to the back of the mountain, in the past is specially for the prevention of robbers, bandits and deliberately set up a retreat. The houses in the village are connected, making the village a closed complex. There are nearly two hundred households and more than one thousand people in Jhukgyo Village, and there are seven ponds, all made of stone, with the January pond in the center, forming the image of seven stars accompanying the moon. Village drainage ditches are made of stone, from north to south into the village of seven ponds, a straight east-west street with ten north-south or east-west alleys, curved alleys, are paved with green stone slabs.

It is said that it is a masterpiece of the heart of the operation, because in front of the main gatehouse for the "Pin" shape arranged in the ancient well, the middle gatehouse at the ground to the lapis lazuli paved with the word "Ben", "people", confirms my understanding of the folklore of the village, and the village is the most beautiful. Characters, once again confirmed my aesthetic judgment of folk architecture: those old houses are full of people's desire to express, that expression is precisely infiltrated in the ordinary life of the cultural spirit. As Yu's genealogy of the 'text of the ancient well interpretation of the same: "Since the three wells Pinli, but also the ancestors of the mind. Peasants see, know that people are inherently evil and positive grade points; scholar see, know that the poor can be guarded and the character can not be bad; merchants see, know when the loyal king Shi Shi matter character and virtue is not fallacious." What amazes me more is that the village of "Yangzheng Mountain House", "Canglan Mountain House" and other places, is the past of the engraved book printing workshop, which proves that the operation of the culture was once one of the sources of wealth here, and Zhuqiao people claimed to be the first they opened the Jinxi engraved book printing. To know the bamboo bridge people "to carve books sell books for the industry", originally only for their own books, book collection of convenience, so, not hesitate to open a book store, run a book printing workshop. So addicted to books, really breathtaking! It seems that, in the bamboo bridge and even Jinxi, the book printing industry is the original industry to raise the heart and talent, people in the board sowing words, in order to harvest the world's books, the world's talent! They should be called the real Confucian businessmen, do business with panache. For example, Yu Yangfeng went back to his hometown to open a bookstore, "publishing books and placing the board in the door, daytime is plowing in the south acres, and twilight is wantonly in the bookstore," this peculiar way of life makes me feel that the ancients who have learned to do business are still not able to give up their attachment to the land. Or rather, Zhuqiao people in the operation of the land, business at the same time, in fact, also in the operation of the inner self, the operation of the traditional literati personality ideals.