The Historical Value of Luzhai

The land residence is called "Oriental residence with international level" by ancient architecture experts. 1988 1 month, which was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

In 2005, the World Heritage Foundation announced the 2006 World 100 Endangered Cultural Sites in new york. There are six sites on the list in China, namely: Tianshui Ancient Building in Gansu, Ji Ming Post Station in Huailai, Hebei, Qikou Village in Shanxi, Shanshilin Forest in Yunnan and Sichuan, and Luzhai in Dongyang, Zhejiang.

Dongyang, a vast national key cultural relics protection unit, is called Luzhai Ming and Qing ancient buildings. Although it was built for 544 years, it seems to be hidden in the boudoir. Until three years ago, Dongyang municipal government decided to develop Luzhai, and a total of 150 households moved out of the house.

There is the Forbidden City in the north and Luzhai in the south.

There is a strong saying that there is the Forbidden City in the north and Luzhai in the south. Is it hype? Is it exaggerated? Someone once asked Zheng, vice minister of culture and president of the Palace Museum, and the answer was yes. Yes, Luzhai is a folk palace museum.

Luyang Luzhai, a folk house in Dongyang, also has a vertical axis, and its pattern is similar to that of the Forbidden City, which is called "front hall and back bedroom". The front hall is the court of the Lu family, where the descendants of the family can hold sacrifices, parties, entertainment, auspicious celebrations, discussions, teaching and so on. Behind the Shikumen is the living space for family and servants. At ordinary times, the Shimen is closed and outsiders are not allowed to enter.

Before entering Luzhai, there were three archways, namely, the home of discipline, the home of generosity and chastity, and then you had to walk through a wide aisle to see the true face of Luzhai. There are nine lines on the whole longitudinal axis, and the length actually reaches 320 meters. In China, only the Forbidden City and Confucius Temple have such a structure.

The essence of woodcarving lies in Luzhai

The difference between Luzhai and other buildings in the south of the Yangtze River is that it has both the layout of the northern atmosphere and the exquisite carvings in the south. The halls and mansions in Dongyang are generally decorated with wood carvings. Whether it is building components, such as buckets, beams, beams, arches, sandalwood, sparrows, doors, windows, or indoor furniture, they are cleverly constructed and finely connected, which embodies the highest level of Dongyang wood carving. I saw two unique woodcarvings in Dongyang in Luzhai: the three beams of the Nine Lions Play Ball, carved from a whole piece of camphor wood 1.7 meters, which is as high as 1.5 meters. Ancient artists used deep relief, through carving, round carving and other techniques to carve lions with both form and spirit, which is really the pinnacle of traditional architectural woodcarving in Dongyang.

The "hook and buckle" structure adopted between the front hall and the main hall of Su Yong Hall is another unique feature of Dongyang woodcarving. In order to avoid the long depth of the hall, avoid the rising roof from affecting the appearance, and save materials, Dongyang craftsmen designed this kind of "hook connection"-two roofs are connected together, and there is a specially designed "big ditch" at the junction for running water to pass through. It can be said that the essence of ancient Dongyang woodcarving is hidden in Luzhai.