140, Heavenly Tour

On the east and west sides of the vacant land, there are two small two-story buildings, which are a bit like townhouses outside, but without yards, which are different from other buildings in the village. Chen Rong, a military advisor next to Pinshu.com, replied: "There is a school house, one belongs to the primary school, the other belongs to the university, and the children's accommodation is located. ”

During the "schooling" period, the "public" is in charge of the food, and the food is from the public treasury, but if you usually want to improve your life and eat something better, then the adults of each family will send it to the children themselves, usually when the small market or the big market is every month. Because the arrival of several heavenly brothers coincided with the small market, the children in the school house were on vacation, and classes were temporarily suspended so as not to disturb the rest of several heavenly brothers.

A few people left the market and came to the alleys of the village community, the so-called alleys are the natural paths between the courtyards of the houses, there is no shortage of places here, the area of the village community is large, there are only more than 50 households, so the courtyards of each family are very spacious.

It is all blue brick houses, which are very spacious and comfortable, and each building is exquisite. The thresholds are made of stone, and the lintels and window lintels and under the eaves are almost all decorated with exquisite tiles, which contain birds and animals, plants and flowers, as well as various stories of people in the history and legends of this place.

Nowadays, the large materials used for building houses here are no longer harvested in the mountains, but are taken from the street trees planted on both sides of the road, and the large materials are harvested and stored every certain number of years before planting new ones. The storage method is to use stone bars to press and sink in the lake, if anyone needs beams and pillars to repair the house, you can take it out, and now there are sunken trees for hundreds of years and thousands of years.

The local architecture is very durable, and once it is repaired, it will take at least 100 years, which is why it will be repaired so delicately. Those exquisite tiles are actually not too labor-intensive, because most of the brick molds are ready-made, and they have been processed and left over generations. The real craftsmanship is carpentry, and when you walk into the house, you can see that it is a carved beam and a painted building, even if it is just an ordinary person.

Almost every household here keeps chickens, which are scattered in the yard during the day and put in chicken coops at night. Chickens are their main source of meat, and eggs can be exchanged for goods at the market. And one of the advantages of raising chickens in the yard is that almost all kinds of insects will be pecked and eaten, including centipedes, cockroaches, etc., and chicken manure can also be used as fertilizer.

Hemp seeds can be extracted for oil, and more importantly, hemp fibers can be used to weave cloth, and there are three kinds of cloth here, linen, kudzu and silk, and the production of linen is the largest. There are wild silkworms in this place, which were captured by the ancients and raised in captivity, and planted mulberry in the fields. The production of silk is very low, but the population here is also small, and it is very cherished.

In winter, the main warm clothing is fur, elk skin is the most precious, can also be used to make bedding, more bamboo rat skin. Bamboo rat skin clothes, almost all adults and children here have several sets.

Ding Qi and others once saw the tung oil tree in the deep mountains, and at that time Bi Xuecheng also recognized it as a small orange that was not familiar, but in fact, it was a tung oil fruit, which Ding Qi had seen when he was a child. They also saw citron fruit in the mountains, and the fruit was also very similar to an orange, but with thorny branches, and the fruit had a special fragrance, which could be used to make spices or aromatics.

Bamboo rats are good at making holes, and their teeth are very powerful, so they have to build bricks that they can't climb out of to feed, and even the ground has to be paved with bricks. Raising bamboo rats also means planting bamboo forests and sweet potatoes, and the things used to feed bamboo rats here are mainly sweet potatoes, and young bamboos are often collected for feeding.

Adults and even many children are good bamboo craftsmen, but the energy is used more or less, the efficiency is high and low, and the varieties of bamboo processed are also different. Those who can process bamboo and sell it in the market are the people who make the most, the best and the fastest bamboo wares. The most abundant bronze artifacts in this area are bamboo knives used to break bamboo, carve bamboo, and scrape bamboo.

There are two reasons for this, on the one hand, of course, the inhabitants of this place are industrious and simple, and on the other hand, the tradition of this world is to pay attention to the best use of things. If the consumerists from the outside world, especially the West, come here, they will definitely not like this habit.

Therefore, the durable goods here are often very delicate, because they have to be used for as long as possible, so of course they have to be made more beautiful, and many daily utensils are like handicrafts. Consumables that are easily damaged are made as simple and sturdy as possible. It is on the basis of making the best use of things and accumulating that such abundance can be achieved.

Locals don't agree with this consumerist view, it's not that it's thrifty, it's just that they want to make the best use of what they can be.

Visiting the homes of the village, Ding Qi has a deeper understanding of the "New Ten Heavenly Rules" formulated by Tao Xin back then, which is not only the ten rules, but also represents the tradition of this place, including the attitude towards the world and life.

There are two types of street trees, ginkgo biloba and spruce, both of which have straight trunks and are also essential materials for construction. According to local regulations, each street tree is equally spaced at an interval of 5 zhang or 60 years, and the trees should be replanted in time after they are felled or die and lodging due to accidents. If the stock of each battalion is full, it is not necessary to cut it every 60 years.

Daliu is not only a beam and column material required for construction, but also a more local use for shipbuilding. There are many rivers and lakes in Dongdaying, so boats are an important means of transportation, especially during the harvest season. However, the boat travels too far in the waterway and cannot be returned at night, so it is necessary to put tanks at both ends of the boat to ignite.

When local residents go to work far away from the village, they often carry torches with them in case they don't come back in the dark. Even if you light a torch, you can't see the distance clearly, and it's hard to see the direction, but as long as you can get back to the main road, follow the arrows of the street trees.

Dongying No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 are about seven or eight kilometers away from the main society, which is not a short road, and most of them come directly. The team also had a car pulled by an elk, but the cart was basically loaded with things, and some children sat in front of them.

People who live in the cities outside of the city rarely walk eight kilometers on a regular basis, but all the people from the three local villages and communities came here today, and many of them arrived in less than two hours, and they still carried baskets on their backs! It can be seen that the physical strength and endurance of the people here are very good, and many old people and many young people who know Ding Qi are light and healthy.

The largest daily consumables in the area are shoes, including cloth shoes and bast shoes, and the best ones are soft boots made of deerskin and deer tendons. Good shoes are generally worn when you need to travel long distances during the holidays.

He watched as he walked and asked various questions. There are two types of fields here, public fields and reserved fields, and the so-called public fields are owned by the village community, and they are mainly used to grow grain and oil crops. The retention field is equivalent to the reserved land in the countryside outside, which is owned by each family, and what they want to grow is according to their needs and good at it.

The wilderness where the East Camp is located is intertwined with lakes and plains and hills. The plains are basically close to the villages, and there are many trees planted in the fields. If there are more mulberry trees in the field, it may be that the family is raising silkworms and spinning silk, and if there are more soybeans planted in the field, then the family may be making tofu.

Primitive tribalism? sort of, but not exactly. The level of local production is very developed, and under the conditions of limited resources, it has almost reached a great material abundance. Lao Tzu's small country and widowed people? Some places are a bit similar, but there are also big differences.

But this generalization is not accurate, in short, it cannot give a known definition, in the long history of 10,000 years, after too many disasters, several times from the brink of extinction to come out of today's world. People live in peace and tranquility, and what happened in the outside world more than 150 years ago is more like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the true sense.

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