From a Ding village residents couplets talk about

In the Ding Village Cultural Exhibition Hall on the east side of a residence, hanging outside the door there is a sign written "No. 1 House", the door hung with an iron lock, this compound is probably just acquired from the hands of the residents back to the public has not been opened to the outside world, tourists can only look at his peripheral appearance. From the outside looking at this courtyard, a color of green brick to the top, tall and sturdy, extraordinary momentum, the most attractive is the architectural style of the gatehouse and the wall of exquisite brick carvings. Three doorway sitting north to south, in front of the column porch, wooden beam structure, green tile roof, the east and west walls Chang eight shape outreach. In the courtyard door on each side of a brick carving pattern, respectively, "pine and crane to prolong life" and "fortune and longevity". There is a brick couplet on the wall of the figure of eight shape, the upper couplet engraved on the east side is "looking for pestle and mortar answer in the courtyard", the lower couplet engraved on the west side is "listening to the chicken talk under the quail", and the brick plaque above the lintel is "Pei Shi Ze "

The word "Peishize" is literal, meaning that this courtyard should protect the beneficiaries and generations of people, and the couplets on both sides reflect a rich flavor of rural life. To appreciate the beauty of this couplet and the interest it contains, we need to first understand the "pestle" and "牗牗" (杵) and "牗牗".

The mortar and pestle is a wooden stick used by the ancients for pounding rice and beating cloth, usually made of date wood, which can still be found occasionally in the countryside. This folk life often use the apparatus, in Xiangfen folk language it is called pestle and mortar, in the past the textile cotton cloth in the wash due to the uneven contraction between the cotton threads, so that the cloth surface produces wrinkles and uneven, this time the peasant women will be washed cotton folded into a neat quadrilateral, placed on a stone called whacking the cloth stone, with the pestle and mortar, after beating the cotton cloth will become flat. Into the door is the court, after the court is the hall, after the hall is the room. Room door is called "household", room and hall between the window is called "lattice", also said to open the window on the wall is called "牗牗牗牗牗牗"

"Court to find pestle and mortar answer

"In the courtyard, searching for pestle and mortar, listening to chickens under the window," the scene before our eyes is a peasant's leisurely life after returning from laboring in the field. The farmer sat in the courtyard leaning under the window to rest, smoking a bag of cigarettes, drinking a bowl of tea made of jujube leaves old wife, the faint sound of pestle and mortar in the distance, as the answer, near the chickens as if in the narrative of what this. Or perhaps the farmer is smoking and drinking tea with his wife in the court pounding cloth questions and answers, the pounding cloth thumping sound masked his wife's answer, he seems to be in the thumping sound of the pounding cloth to find distinguish what his wife said, and the circle in the cage placed in the hall under the chickens this time also restlessly chirping and chirping interjections, so that the farm yard is full of the breath of life of this farmhouse. This couplet is a strange language, creative and chic, rhyme, fun, and Tao Yuanming's "picking chrysanthemums under the East Fence, leisurely see the South Mountain" verses comparable.