Duan Gongzi and I first cautiously probed secretly on the eaves, and looked down to see that the tiled houses of the ancient city showed a blue color mixed with heaven and earth, and the vastness was like a huge ink painting. Under the shadow of the ancient wood forest of the majestic Lion Mountain, the palace-style architecture of Mu Tusi is magnificent, and it deserves to be the colorful Grand View Garden of Lijiang Old Town Culture. In a few years, Mufu will be even more magnificent, because the Ming Dynasty traveler and geographer Xu Xiake once marveled at the beauty of the palace in his "Diary of a Journey to Yunnan", and intended to be the king. It fully shows that the residents of the ancient city have reached more than 1,000 households, and the residential buildings are quite large-scale, Xu Xiake once described the residential clusters in the ancient city of Lijiang at that time, and the tiled houses are lined up side by side, which shows the prosperous scene of the residential houses at that time.

The Lion Rock behind the Mufu is full of cypress trees, a large area of ancient cypress forests are densely packed, covering the sky and the sun, this is one of the twelve views of Lijiang Huangshan ancient cypress, the lush woods make the Mufu more able to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, the luster of the sun and the moon, Duan Gongzi happily looked at it for a long time, and involuntarily whispered in my ear: " The feng shui of this wooden mansion is really good, you see, the whole mansion welcomes the rising sun and gets the wood gas, there is a green dragon on the left, that is, the jade dragon snow mountain, there is a white tiger on the right, that is, the tiger mountain, backed by Xuanwu, that is, the lion mountain, there is a turtle mountain in the southeast direction, the snake mountain confronts and guards the pass, the wooden mansion embraces the ancient city, there is both the pillow lion mountain and the masculinity, and there is the vein of the jade water and Taiji. It's really a rare good feng shui. ”

I don't think so, what feng shui is not feng shui, it's just a fool's errand, it's just feudal superstition, feng shui is so useful, then there is no need to struggle hard in life, what to do to see feng shui will get twice the result with half the effort, and you will become famous, so in our modern society, we are all talking about science, not talking about unwarranted metaphysics, it seems that Duan Gongzi is really a genuine ancient person, hey, what a pity. Then I suddenly thought that the Forbidden City was in the center of the city, and obviously the Mu Mansion was not in the center, so I asked Duan Gongzi curiously?

Duan Gongzi said softly: "In fact, when the Mu Tusi built his palace-style wooden mansion, he did not follow the Central Plains Feng Shui theory that it is better to sit north and face south, but to the sun and the east. The east belongs to wood, and the sun and wood are the worship objects in the Naxi Dongba religion, and they are also the surnames of the Naxi people given by the emperor. Therefore, the idea of wanting to get the spirit of wood flourished made the architecture of Mufu take the direction of sitting west and facing east. And we don't build a city wall around the old town of Lijiang, because Mu Tusi lives in the city, and a city is equivalent to adding a box to the word "wood" to become a "sleepy" word, which is tantamount to trapping "wood", which is unlucky from feng shui. Although the mansion of Mu Tusi has the bearing of a king, it goes against the tradition of "respecting the center" in the Central Plains Wangcheng and builds the mansion in the south corner of the city. As the center of the city is the Sifang Street, where merchants gather, and the criss-crossing streets radiate from the business center of Sifang Street in all directions. It is clear that the ancient city was originally formed as a village market and eventually flourished as a result of commercial trade. This is closely related to the history of the ancient city as an important town on the Ancient Tea Horse Road for thousands of years. ”

I saw that the whole building complex sat west to east, magnificent atmosphere, brilliant and splendid, although it was so late, the inside was still brightly lit, shining, and brilliant. Although now the wooden mansion is only a small scale, but it does not prevent it from still being a big family here, not to be underestimated, it is worthy of being the most worthy of a special book in the history of the development of the Naxi nation, as the saying goes, "there is the Forbidden City in the north, there is a wooden mansion in the south", this thousand years ago the wooden mansion, worthy of the name is the "Forbidden City" in the ancient city of Lijiang. Now the antique and antique, the style is still the wooden mansion is a brilliant architectural art garden, it fully reflects the style and temperament of Naxi architecture, and at the same time retains the simple and rough afterglow of the Tang and Song Dynasty Central Plains buildings, and its seat is facing east, the jade ditch in the house is vertical and horizontal, and the layout of the living water flows for a long time, then see the spirit of the traditional culture of the Naxi people. There is an old saying in Lijiang: "If you don't get to Mufu, you don't get to Lijiang", which is indeed worthy of its name.

There is also the stone memorial arch in front of the door of the wooden house is still, as exactly the same in modern society, look from the ancient capital, is quarried from the white marble of the Jinsha River under the tiger leaping to build, 4 stone pillars support the monument on the archway, rafters, eaves and square cover, so this structure is magnificent, the carved stone building is famous, in the folk there are - Dali Three Pagoda Temple, Lijiang stone memorial arch said, hundreds of years only those large-scale palace-style buildings, such as three large arches made of stone and wood, wooden courtyard, refuge hall, Jade Emperor Pavilion, Sanqing Palace, Guangbi Building, Jingtang, Family Temple, Ten Thousand Volumes Book Building, Yuyin Building, etc., but there are not so many wooden mansions now, only ten thousand volumes of books, and so on. On the wooden archway, the big book "Tianyu Liufang" is four characters, Naxi language "read it" The homonym, embodies the spiritual wisdom of the Naxi nation to respect knowledge, skilled craftsmen, meticulously crafted, the stone archway is all stone, the structure is three layers, it is the hall of dignified and spacious, the momentum is magnificent, it is the hall of the Tusi Discussion and Politics; the essence of the cultural heritage of 2,000 years, the 10000 volumes of the Dongba Sutra, the 1000 volumes of the Tripitaka Sutra, the poetry collection of the Six Gong Tusi, many famous calligraphy and paintings, are all the treasures of the Hanlin Forest, the treasure of the Academy, the Dharma Protector Hall is also called the back chamber, it is the palace of the Tusi family affairs, the Guangbi Building is the gatehouse of the back garden, and the history calls its building "called the west of Jiayun" , Yuyin Building is the place to receive the holy decree and the place of singing, dancing and feasting, Sanqing Hall is the product of the Taoist spirit of Mu's Tusi,

As far as we can see, the ancient buildings of this wooden mansion, not to mention the grandeur of the building, the splendor of the palace, the exquisiteness of the carving, the exquisiteness of the components, and the brilliance of the paintings, are really beautiful and incomparable. Although it is only a toast's mansion, its luxury and grandeur are no less than that of any princely and noble residence. The hall is majestic, the layout is rigorous, the houses on both sides are listed, the buildings and pavilions are numerous, and the garden corridor is unique in style. The building of its mansion is full of weather, and the famous traveler Xu Xiake in ancient times once sighed at the wooden mansion and said: "The beauty of the palace is intended to be in the royal family." On the basis of the architectural style of the Central Plains, Mufu integrates the local craft styles of Naxi and Bai nationality, and is also a garden where famous trees and ancient trees, exotic flowers and plants gather in the ancient kingdom of Naxi, which is between the royal garden and the Suzhou garden, integrating the elegant atmosphere of heaven and earth and mountains and rivers with the elegance and richness of the palace, fully demonstrating the open spirit of Naxi's multicultural diversity. A wooden mansion embodies the thousand-year-old civilization spirit of Lijiang, a world-famous city, and the broad wisdom of people of all ethnic groups.