Old home-old house

The old houses in my hometown are very distinctive, mostly dry-built houses or adobe houses, collectively referred to as mud houses. All local materials are used, with loess below 20 cm in the local black soil layer as the basic raw material. The so-called dry paving is to make a template with wooden boards on the planned foundation, and spread layers of loess with similar humidity just pulled out of the loess pit on it, and tamp it layer by layer with soil rammer until it reaches a certain height. The roof is insulated and waterproof, and the main body of the house is basically completed.

Another method is adobe house. After beginning of autumn, when all the people in the village hung hoes for leisure, the laborers of the neighbors took soil from the loess pit together and took down the adobe beside the pit.

Adobe is loess mixed with wheat straw and mud, and then a standard wooden mold, commonly known locally as adobe mold, is soaked in water, filled with awakened marine mud, compacted, and poured out one by one with fists. Living in the northeast is the most tiring work, and it is one of the four tiredness of singing around the duo. Adobe used to build two adobe houses, even the 10 men in the village, have to work for two days. The stripped adobe is neatly arranged beside the pit. At night, silly dolls often come to Huangtukeng to find their own ducks and geese. When he thought he was commanding his "soldiers" to go home like a general, when he saw the adobe that had just been sorted out, the two little feet that he owed could not help stepping on it. It's a little hard and stereotyped in the morning, wet and soft, very strong. Unconsciously, they gently left innocent little footprints for the children. When he commanded these "soldiers" to advance one by one, his feet became more and more sticky When he walks to the adobe house that he just took off, he will sink in and cannot extricate himself. The little guy started to run in a panic. Inadvertently, "Paji" fell heavily on the billet that had just been taken off, destroying the labor achievements of several men. Come home, see this, make sure this guy is naughty. I will quickly take off my clothes and scold him, telling him not to be so naughty in the future and walk around the point. I will also tell the children very seriously that if your second uncle knows, you will open your ass. This is actually a warning to children not to do such things in the future. In fact, the child is still young, not intentionally, just curious. When everyone comes to work again the next day, his second uncle will mutter a few angry words when he sees this situation and continue to work. Adobe is dried and palletized. Generally, these materials are prepared this autumn, and the frame of the house is built with these large adobe in the next spring. Completed after autumn, some adobe was completed that year, but generally not in that year.

Another feature of my hometown house is that it has a flat roof. The gable of the house is mainly made of loess. However, this roof is exquisite, which definitely shows the financial strength of this family. Some beams and purlins used by families with good conditions must be thick enough not to be vague. Not only the side walls are beams, but also the gables are beams, and they are supported by enough column feet. To tell the truth, even if the earth wall of this house falls down, the shelf of this house will not fall down. If the conditions are not good, other materials should be saved and adapted to local conditions.

If the roof insulation conditions permit, the owner will ask the pickpocket to weave the best reeds into patterns by weaving kang mats, which is commonly known as "weaving pickpockets" here. The guests of this family can directly see the ceiling of the shed in the house, and the guests will be full of praise and the owner's face will light up. Slightly worse, only the reeds are made into reed curtains to keep warm, and the worst thing is to spread the local sorghum stalks on them. This kind of heat preservation is a little poor, and the senses are not good. Then spread loess, and finally go to the alkali ditch to pull the good alkaline earth back and mix it with wheat straw to make marine mud, and the whole roof is thickly smeared twice as waterproof. This kind of roof is only available where we have saline-alkali land, and it is warm, waterproof and breathable.

There is a custom in my hometown that building a house is the same as marrying a daughter-in-law. When a family builds a house, basically all the men, women and children in the village will come to help. Everyone knows the principle of reciprocity, and close relatives will come from other villages to help. Building a house in my hometown is the heaviest physical labor. Because there are many people, everyone will do it when it is fun. The division of labor is also very clear, some go to buy food, and the dishes can be the same when the owner builds the house, not to mention delicious beer, liquor and cigarettes. Most women are cooking, and some women who broadcast live can reach out by playing reed curtains. Then there are those who pull soil and mud, because it is mainly masons who build this house. Carpenter is absolutely indispensable as the core figure in building a house. It all depends on the level of carpenters, from laying foundations to cutting shelves on beams. Building a house, especially a beam, is the most ceremonial. The purlin in the middle of the house is called the roof purlin, which is the core. When you invite a beam from underground, copper coins, axes, green onions, big fish and other things tied together with red lines will be tied in the middle of this purlin. When the carpenter presides over the foundation and beams, he will mumble and put a whip to celebrate his good luck.

The house in my hometown is maintained every spring and autumn. When the spring is civilized, I have to go to the alkali ditch to pull the alkaline soil mixed buckle and mud to waterproof the roof again, so as to spend the summer safely. In autumn, I will go to the loess pit to pull loess, mix wheat bran to make foreign buttons and repaint the walls of the house, that is, put on a dress for the house, because the original wall skin will fall off a lot after washing for one year, and it is also to re-insulate the house.

This is the house in my hometown. Warm in winter and cool in summer, moisture-proof and breathable. My joy and unforgettable memories are all here: the adobe kang is warm, the hen with a nest on it passes by me, the little man who stole a few cents from his mother under the kang mat, the little man who cooked potatoes in the brazier on the kang, and the little man who slept in a leisurely car hanging from the beam. I will never dream of me today. .........

Ancient black land, unforgettable things, one by one. Listen to me next time. .......