Regarding Yuan Songlin's friend who was about to become a secretary in the backing township, Kang Mingsong didn't ask much.

Although it is said that he will be the parent official of the mountain township in the next few years, Kang Mingsong does not think that under normal circumstances, he, a flat-headed little person, may have anything to do with a senior official like him.

Turn off the village road from the main highway and go about 400 meters to the compound where Kang Mingsong's house is located. However, Kang Mingsong's house is not in the compound, but a small hill a few meters high across the compound.

The two cars parked in the parking lot in the middle of the compound, and then Kang Mingsong led the group to his house.

There are not many people from the Yuan family, except for Yuan Bingya's family of four, it is Yuan Qiong and her daughter Shi Ya, and the other is a middle-aged couple in their forties, according to Yuan Bingya, it is her second uncle Yuan Chao and second aunt.

With the arrival of the Yuan family, Kang Mingsong's family will inevitably have a lot of chickens and dogs.

After some greetings, Kang Dazhi and Xiu Chengyan took the Yuan family into the hall.

However, Kang Mingsong noticed that Yuan Bingya's second uncle Yuan Chao did not enter the house, but watched the old house of Kang Mingsong's family with great interest, knocking here and patting there.

Kang Mingsong was a little puzzled, is there anything special about his old house?

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The reason why Kang Mingsong has such an idea is mainly when Yuan Bingyan introduced Yuan Chao just now, but he said that his current work unit is the Guxing Museum, and his major is also archaeology.

Isn't it obvious that he is so interested in his family's old mansion now?

The old house of the Cummingsong family is some years old. According to her mother, it was built by her great-grandfather, Kang Mingsong's maternal great-grandfather, after the family split.

At that time, it was still the former Qing Daoguang period, and after the efforts of several generations, it had a huge scale with a construction area of more than one acre and an area of nearly two acres.

Kang Mingsong's mother's family has been a literati since ancient times. His ancestor was from Huguang Macheng, and was once a man of the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that he also served as the county magistrate. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, in order to avoid the military disaster, he came to the mountain village that was still a primeval forest at that time, and together with the ancestors of the Kang family who also fled here in the same period, he worked hard for hundreds of years to transform this place into a fertile soil.

As for the other surnames in the village, they all moved in one after another. It is also because of this that the surnames Kang and Xiu occupy the vast majority of the backing villages, and their influence in the village is not comparable to other surnames.

Kang Mingsong's maternal great-grandfather was a Xiucai, who studied and taught in ancient X County during the Daoguang period. In addition, the female grandfather is very hardworking at home, and the couple has accumulated a lot of wealth over the past few decades to build such a mansion.

Compared with most of the houses in the village where they are only one floor, the main beam of the old house of the Kang Mingsong family is as high as eight meters and one, and the whole is a two-story structure.

In particular, the stilted building at both ends is ten meters high from below, with three floors.

This is a very difficult way in the era when bluestone and logs were used as the main building materials.

Because the family foundation of the Xiu family is not thin, the pillars and beams used in the old house were all nanmu, oak, pine and so on pulled out of the primeval forest of Qianhui Mountain at that time, which made the old house still stand after nearly two hundred years of wind and rain.

The window railings, gates, eaves, and even the foundation stones and benches are all made of exquisite carving techniques, integrating local ethnic characteristics and relevant characteristics of Central Plains culture.

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After Yuan Chao watched for a while, he smiled and smiled at Kang Mingsong, who was walking around with him: "Xiaokang, your old house is not ordinary!"

Kang Mingsong asked suspiciously, "Second uncle, how do you say this?"

Yuan Chao pointed to the two pillars in front of the main hall that were as thick as an adult's hug and said, "Not to mention anything else, these two big nanmu pillars are priceless treasures! And I noticed that there are eighteen such pillars on both sides of the entire main hall!"

Kang Mingsong was a little dumbfounded at this moment, he knew that Nanmu was a very precious firewood, but these pillars in his own house turned out to be Nanmu?

Yuan Chao then pointed to the stools made of fine bluestone under the pillars, as well as the carvings on the windows, gates, and eaves, and said a lot.

For example, the stool under the four pillars exposed in front of the three main rooms is carved with four vermilion characters of "Fu", "Lu", "Shou" and "Xi" on the front, not only the stool is the best bluestone, but the pigment is not an ordinary pigment, which can be seen from the past nearly two hundred years, these words still have not faded.

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The bench is also called the pillar, the stone is a kind of ancient building component, which is mostly bluestone chiseled, cushioned under the wooden pillar of the house, and is the cornerstone of supporting the column. It takes the weight of the house that is passed by the pillars and conveys it to the ground, making the house solid.

All houses with wooden frame structure can be said to have columns and columns, all of which are indispensable.

Legend has it that the origin of this pillar is related to the craftsman Saint Luban.

It is said that Master Luban built a Jinluan Palace, and the apprentice accidentally sawed a pillar short when sawing the pillar, so anxious that Master Luban turned around.

When the apprentice saw that the master was in a hurry, he offered a plan and said, "Master, we all have to wear shoes, can we also put shoes on the pillar?"

When Lu Ban heard him say this, he applauded again and again. He asked the stonemasons to make a round stone mat overnight, and the round stone looked very imposing, and the pillars that fell to the ground were stronger.

Later, when people built houses, they also put hewn stones under the pillars, and the people called the pillars.

The environment of the mountain township is relatively humid and hot, there is a rainy season that does not open for months, and the ground of the house hall often returns to moisture when it rains, and the stone wall can prevent the wooden pillars from becoming moldy and rotting.

The wonderful patterns carved on the stone also play a decorative role.

In short, it makes people feel a sense of elegance in their calmness and calmness.

The stone carvings of the pillars are exquisite, reflecting the cultural and artistic characteristics of different eras, and the cultural relics are also of high value.

The pattern of the pillar is dominated by dragons, phoenixes, lions and beasts, and there are hundreds of kinds of dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, double dragon playing with pearls, hundred lions and flying cranes, unicorn sending children, piano and chess, calligraphy and painting, lotus lotus petals, chrysanthemum peony, magpie Dengmei, tiger claws auspicious clouds, flowers, birds, fish and insects and so on. auspicious clouds float, dragons fly and phoenixes dance, and phoenixes wear peonies......

These moving carvings show that they are exquisite and detailed, exquisite and fresh, and each image is vivid and lifelike, which shows the wisdom and ingenuity of the ancient skilled craftsmen.

This is not only the expectation of life, but also reflects the taste of the owner.