Ye Lin hurriedly went over and opened the door, and then said to Chen Jing, "Come on! ”

"Hmm!" Chen Jing nodded, and then went up.

After Chen Jing went up, Ye Lin hurriedly put the clothes Chen Jing gave him into the carriage, and then opened the scarf and wrapped it around his neck.

"How's it going?

Ye Lin asked this, how did Chen Jing answer.

The answer is good-looking, a little suspicious of boasting about herself, but if it's impossible, it's not what she wants!

Seeing Chen Jing's expression, Ye Lin patted his head and said embarrassedly: "I feel very good-looking, it suits me better." ”

"If it fits, you can wear it!"

"Hmm!"

Ye Lin went up from the other side, and then drove the sleigh to the Xinjiekou Cinema.

When she arrived at the cinema, Chen Jing said, "Are we really going to see a movie?"

"Uh! you can do this, I don't care. ”

Ye Lin really doesn't care, besides, there is nothing to watch in the current movies, and there are only a few movies that Ye Lin has watched it many times.

It is estimated that Chen Jing is the same, so he asked Ye Lin like this.

"Why don't you take me around the imperial capital! I haven't seen what the imperial capital is like. ”

"No problem, and I've got a camera with me so I can take some pictures of you. ”

"Hmm!"

The two of them didn't go to the movies, but drove a sleigh around the imperial capital.

The white imperial capital is much better looking than usual, mainly because it doesn't look so dilapidated, because the dilapidation is covered up by heavy snow.

Small snowflakes float in the sky, adding some mystery to the city.

"That's good. Chen Jing looked out the window and said.

"yes! Ye Lin answered.

It's really good, and it's good if time goes on like this, but it's just his wishful thinking.

The two of them came to Xizhimen, there is no building here, there is only one railway station, that is, the Imperial Capital North Station, the Xizhimen Station in later generations.

Except for this lonely train station, the neighborhood is all wasteland.

To the east of the train station there is a reed lake, which is beautiful in spring and summer, but now there are no reeds.

Needless to say, they were all cut off by the common people, and the reed poles could be used to make reed mats, and the hairs on them could be used to warm shoes.

In this era, many families could not afford to make cotton shoes, so some people made them with reed wool.

Because there is no cost to this, two wooden planks are used to make the sole, and then the upper is woven with reed wool.

Of course, it is also sewn with stitches and threads, because the soles of the planks are relatively high, which is especially suitable for mud roads in winter.

You know, even in the imperial capital, there are more mud roads, and the real asphalt roads and cement roads are only on some main streets.

This kind of warm shoes is worn on the feet, but it is much stronger than the cotton shoes made or bought, the first is not afraid of dirty, the second sole is relatively high, even if it is relatively large under the snow, it is not easy to spread the shoes.

In this way, it is not easy for snow to get into the shoes.

Ye Lin had such a pair before, which was made for him by his grandfather, but it was all when he was a child, and Ye Lin hadn't worn it for many years.

It's not that he doesn't like it, it's that it's too troublesome.

Because there are no reeds, the lake is exposed, and this lake is a little bigger, at least a hundred acres of area.

Now the lake is frozen, and the ice is covered with a thick layer of snow, which looks so beautiful.

Ye Lin stopped the sleigh and walked down with Chen Jing.

There was a city wall in the distance, Ye Lin took out the camera and said, "I'll take a few pictures of you!"

"Hmm!"

The endless sea of snow and the city wall in the distance as a background are really beautiful.

Not only the scenery is beautiful, but also the people, and it is a natural beauty.

Women in this era basically don't wear makeup, and even say that there are very few people who use alabaster, especially ordinary families, who are reluctant to buy even a box of Vaseline.

Chen Jing was the same, she was also reluctant to buy it, but fortunately, Ye Lin knew that it would be like this, and gave her a few bottles of alabaster.

After taking a few photos, Chen Jing turned her back to the train station and said, "Ye Lin, take a few photos of the train station as a background." ”

"Uh-huh. ”

In later generations, although Xizhimen Railway Station still exists, it is no longer what it is now.

The Xizhimen Railway Station is also mainly based on Metro Line 13, and now this kind of scenery will not be seen in later generations.

Ye Lin not only took pictures of Chen Jing, but also took pictures of these scenes.

After staying here for half an hour, the two of them drove to the drum tower in a sleigh.

The Drum Tower is located on the central axis of the imperial capital, at the intersection of Drum Tower East Street and Di'anmen Outer Street.

Together with the bell tower, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties were the time reporting center of the imperial capital.

The Imperial Capital Gulou Street is quaint and heavy, lined with hutongs extending in all directions, many time-honored shops and a variety of old imperial snacks

In later generations, Gulou Street no longer has the current atmosphere, but is filled with a fashionable atmosphere, and the fusion of classical and postmodern makes Gulou Street glow with new vitality.

The "evening drum and morning bell" make the whole city orderly and followable.

Discontinued after 1924.

Since 1990, the bell and drum beating have resumed every Chinese New Year's Eve. The Drum Tower is a single wooden ancient building.

Ash tube tile green trimming, heavy eaves rest mountain, pass height 46.7 meters, pass width 34 meters, pass into depth 22.4 meters, under the eaves there is a single ang single warp five step bucket, rotate in the color painting.

There are eight arch doors on the ground floor of the building, three in the north and south, and one in the east and west. There is a side door on the east side of the north wall, and there are stone stairs in it, which are inclined 45 degrees from north to south, a total of 60 steps, and then turn to the west, and slope 45 degrees from east to west, and there are also 9 steps.

That is, climb the sixty-nine stone stairs to reach the second floor. On the second floor, there are six square doors and windows on all sides, surrounded by corridors, about 1.3 meters wide, with wooden guardrails, 1.55 meters high, and a construction area of 1,925 square meters.

The third layer is the dark layer. The whole building sits on a masonry platform about 4 meters high, with a width of 56 meters and a depth of 33 meters.

There are brick stairs in the north and south, and the slope road in the east and west.

The total area of the drum tower is about 7,000 square meters. There is a pair of stone lions in front of the door on the south side, which is about 1.25 meters high.

The drum, for the time signaling instrument, is placed on the second floor of the drum tower, there are 25 sides, among them, one side of the big drum, 24 sides of the small drum (to represent the 24 solar terms of the year).

In later generations, only the drum side remained.

The reason why Ye Lin came to the Drum Tower was to take pictures of these, you must know that they will not be seen in the future generations.

The diameter of this big drum is about 1.5 meters, and it is made of whole cowhide, but the drum surface is already full of knife marks, which is the 26th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded the imperial capital, the little devil army did it.

When the drum tower beat the drum and told the time, there was a certain pattern.

Every night at 7 o'clock "fixed shift", drumming twice, a total of 100 and 8 sounds, after that, each shift is beaten two drums 108 times, until the fifth watch (5 o'clock in the morning) to hit the last "bright watch" drum.

Drumming also has a certain rhythm, and to this day, the imperial capital still circulates the saying of "tight eighteen, slow eighteen, unhurried and eighteen".

The original copper kettle on the drum tower leaked a piece, but it has long been lost.

contains, "the copper carving leakage system of the drum tower is extremely exquisite, so the old legend, thought that the Song Dynasty is the old thing, its system is the copper leakage pot four: the upper is said to be 'Tianchi', the second is said to be 'flat water', and the second is said to be 'ten thousand', and the next is said to be 'collecting water'.

The mouth is safe and scratches the spirit, set up a machine, and when the time comes, then every moment hits the cymbal eight, and the pot of water is full.

If it is dry, it will be increased, and in winter, it will be warmed by fire. ”

After the Republic of China, the drum tower was renamed "Ming Shame Building", and some pictures and models and other physical objects were displayed on the upper floor, showing the massacre and robbery after the Eight-Nation Coalition Army invaded the imperial capital, for people to visit, in order to show that they did not forget the national shame.

Later, it was successively set up as "Jingzhao Popular Education Center" and "First People's Education Center".

The construction of the bell tower in the imperial capital began in the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1272). The former site of the bell tower is the central pavilion of Wanning Temple in the Yuan Dynasty. It was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), and the bell tower was rebuilt on the current site, but it was soon destroyed by fire, and it was rebuilt in the tenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1745).

Built on the tall masonry city platform, the ash tube tile green cut side rest on the top of the mountain, the ticket door is opened on all sides, about 33 meters high, all masonry structure, exquisite and solid. Since then, it has been repaired many times.

"Ye Lin, it's so beautiful here!"

"Is it pretty?"

To be honest, Ye Lin really didn't see it, because what he saw was shame and what he saw was the evil that the Eight-Nation Alliance did here.

"You look around first, I'll take some pictures first, and I'll take them for you later. ”

"Hmm!"

In later generations, after several repairs, this place has changed greatly, at least the twenty-four small drums are gone.

So Ye Lin wants to record it here, and he can take it out and take it out in the future.

Until it was almost dark, the two of them stayed here.

Ye Lin also took a lot of photos.

Ye Lin glanced at his watch and said, "Let's go, I'll send you back." ”

"Hmm!"

After sending Chen Jing back, Ye Lin also went back, today is Xiao Nian, and it is impossible for him to eat out.

It was also because of this that he didn't let Chen Jing go to the house for dinner, but sent her back himself.

When Ye Lin arrived home, Li Ran had just finished the meal, saw him come back, and said, "Son, go wash your hands and eat." ”

Li Ran didn't even ask him what he was doing that afternoon.

This is also reassuring to Ye Lin, if it is another parent, the child will run out for an afternoon, and when he comes back, he will definitely ask questions, but Li Ran did not.

"Oh! Ye Lin agreed, took the basin and went out.

Now that it's cold, he has to get some cold water first, and then go into the house to add some hot water, so that it is more comfortable to wash his hands and face.

After washing his hands, Ye Lin still didn't eat, because he had to send food to Grandma Liu before he could eat it when he came back.

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, as soon as Ye Lin came out of the backyard, he saw Hu Laoli squatting in front of his house to eat.

People like to squat at the door to eat, Ye Lin won't care so much, although Hu Lao is shivering.

"Second fool, did your house get oil today?"