What are the characteristics of the Xiguan Dajia house

Xiguan Dajia is the Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi, Guangxu years, rich merchants and foreign buyers and other emerging rich in the "Xiguan Angle", that is, today's Liwan District, Bao Hua Road, Duo Bao Road, Fung Yuan Fang, Hua Gui Fang area built mansions. In the folk rumor, the construction of Xiguan Daxue is very exaggerated, the brick wall paving is not cement, but to mix mortar with glutinous rice, so there is not a single gap in the wall, after laying a good brick wall must be attached to the outside of a layer of water-worn bricks, which should be manually polished before being pasted on the surface of the bricks, so that the brick wall of the Xiguan Daxue will always be smooth. The decoration of Xiguan Dajia is exceptionally elaborate, and the furniture is all made of gorgeous acid twig table and chairs. Decorated with wood and stone brick carvings, wood carvings, ceramic sculptures, murals, stone scenes and iron window flowers and Manchurian windows, the whole Big House looks auspicious and elegant. Wanton luxury and capricious preoccupation are the same characteristics of rich and noble families ****, right? The door of the mansion is also not easy to enter. "Bar" has become the outsiders also know some kind of sign, however, this is not the complete "Xiguan big house door". The entrance to the Xiguan Daxue must have three pieces of head, that is, the first screen door, also known as the short foot hanging fan door or flower door. Flower door on the top end of the flower, generally carved with wood carvings for decoration; the second door is unique Lingnan characteristics of the bar door, "bar" as the name implies, open for the trip, together for the bar, all with 13 8 cm in diameter thick garden wood cross frame made; the third door is the real door, more camphor or kundun wood manufacturing, the door thickness of about 8 centimeters, the door knob is a copper ring, the door is the real door, the door foot rotates in the stone mortar, the door knob, the door knob is the door knob, the door knob is the door knob, the door knob is the door knob, the door knob, the door knob, the door knob, the door knob. Door feet rotating in the stone mortar, inside the buckle door. Across the three doors, is the foyer, then to the tea hall, the third is the main hall, then the head room (elders room), then the second hall (dining room), and finally the second room (tail room). The three doors and three entrances make the feudal hierarchy manifested in Xiguan Daiya. There are small open wells between the halls and the halls, relying on skylights for light, hanging corridors on both sides of the big house, two Qingyun lanes inside the house, the study on the left, the side room guest room on the right, and finally the kitchen. Some of the Xiguan house and a small garden, planting flowers and plants, set up rockery fish pond for enjoyment.