Legend has it that Beijing is blocked, and I have never seen anything in the blockage, and I have heard such a joke from a taxi driver. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

said that a person drove to work, and the morning rush hour traffic was particularly congested, which made the guy nervous, he opened the car door and jumped out of the car in a rage, opened the trunk, and took out a long wooden stick from it.

The people blocking the road looked at him in amazement, only to see him holding a wooden stick and smashing it to pieces at a snail behind the car. While fighting, he complained: "I see that you are still stalking me!" I see you're still following me!"

That Friday afternoon, Beijing was like an old man with hardening arteries, and all roads were blocked.

We were stuck in the third ring road, and after half an hour, the car was finally able to move at a reduced speed.

The highway has become a huge parking lot, and the exhaust heat wave comes out one after another, accompanied by the roar of cars, as if cooking a pot of car dumplings.

I said to Yuan Zheng: "If Liang Sicheng's old man's idea is adopted, we will have already arrived at your house, where do we still need to block here to suck exhaust gas." ”

Yuan Zheng looked at the long traffic flow in the evening rush hour, and said with emotion: "No matter how many roads are built in Beijing, they will be blocked, you think about it, the main business districts, financial districts and administrative districts are concentrated within the third ring road, and education, medical care, and commercial resources are crowded within the second ring road, which does not form a typical tidal traffic?" I said, Beijing should be replanned and decentralized. ”

"Let's go down like this, it's estimated that it's your birthday next year when we get to your house, let's just get out of the car and leave, just throw your car here, no one wants your broken car anyway."

Yuan Zheng shouted "yo yo yo" monster: "Don't say it, this broken car is worth more than 1 million to say the least, wait for one day to take you to Biao Yi Biao to see the truth about this beast." ”

I looked at the stop-and-go traffic and said, "Do you know how I'm feeling right now? It felt like we were sitting on a luxurious horse, with a couple of old turtles pulling in front of us. ”

Yuan Zheng is good at adjusting the atmosphere, he said: "I'll tell you a joke." A gentleman with a pet turtle drove home after work and encountered a traffic jam on Beijing's Second Ring Road. After watching the car for a long time and couldn't walk a few steps, the turtle couldn't bear it anymore and insisted on crawling home first, so the owner had to let it go. I don't know how long later, the owner heard a knock on the door in the car, opened it, and saw the turtle sweating all over his head, and said angrily: 'Master, you forgot to give me the door key......

Yang Chenjun was able to calm down, and he actually closed his eyes in the back seat to recuperate, and his mind wandered to Elysium again.

Yuan Zheng woke him up: "Junjun, look at our big Beijing, what do you think?" ”

Yang Chenjun opened his eyes slightly: "I had a dream just now, and I dreamed that a giant turtle was crawling fast in front of us. ”

Yuan Zheng and I were stunned and speechless.

Less than ten kilometers away, after walking for more than two hours, Yang Chenjun curled up in the back row and snored and fell asleep.

After driving for a while in the North Fourth Ring Road, the car drove into a villa area, and a huge European-style fountain at the door, the base of the fountain was engraved with three brown inconspicuous small characters "Hantang Garden".

Why is it called "Hantang Garden"? Could it be taken from "Dream of Red Mansions"?

In "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun wrote a couplet poem under the moon, Xiangyun's sentence "Crossing the Crane Shadow in the Cold Pond" almost stumped Daiyu, and after pondering for a long time, she finally came up with "Cold Moon Burial Poetic Soul".

Hantang is more than one or two grades higher than the vulgar "Royal Rarity", "Manfu Homeland" and "Chang'an Prosperous Age".

The trees in the community are full of flowers, the roads are clean, and the lawn is very smooth, like a green blanket laid out.

Another village, as if entering another paradise, suddenly opened up in front of you.

The garden design is unique, the plants and trees complement each other, and the lighting is also romantic. The purpose of the garden designers was obvious, so that the occupants could see flowers and grass in all seasons, and a lot of thought was put into it.

The car stopped in front of a two-story villa, and Yuan Zheng said, "It's here, let's go in." ”

We walked in after Yuan Zheng and saw that the decoration style inside was unique, luxurious but not vulgar, and there was a rough style of American pastoral.

Yuan Zheng said intoxicatedly: "How about it, every detail here is designed by myself, isn't it handsome?" ”

I don't want him to be too proud, saying that he is okay and a little better than the "cage people" in Hong Kong.

There are a variety of buffets in the hall, all kinds of fresh seafood, imported red wine, and high-end drinks, which are dizzying.

There were more than a dozen people standing in the house chatting, and when they saw Yuan Zheng entering the house, they gathered up: "Our birthday star Yuan Dagongzi has arrived, happy birthday!" ”

Everyone hugged him and congratulated him. After that, he turned his head and introduced us to his relatives and friends: "My classmate and roommate, Zeng Xiaoyu, has three unique poems, calligraphy and paintings, and is still a writer, and he is very talented. This is Yang Chenjun, a Buddhist scholar and practitioner, and a philanthropist. ”

The exaggerated introduction caused bursts of laughter, and Yuan Zheng looked like he was strategizing, enjoying the time that belonged to him.

After greeting those people in a restrained manner, we hurriedly went into the corner and nested in the corner.

The main thing is that everyone is wearing evening dresses, which is very formal.

I saw that I was wearing a cotton shirt, jeans and sneakers, and I didn't look like that family.

Yang Chenjun was wearing an inferior white shirt and black linen gauze pants, with pants in the waistband of his pants, and a pair of leather shoes that were about to be unglued, like a village party secretary or a person collecting electricity bills.

How do you look at it, we both look like we're eating and drinking.

Seeing the traffic jam in Beijing, we vowed never to travel in rush hour again, and the traffic jam was so heavy that it was really difficult for bicycles to move an inch.

Sometimes, I miss the laid-back life in the town without congestion.

Southern cities are not as boxy as the north, and with the stingy sunshine of their hometowns, people rarely use the position of the sun as a reference to distinguish east, west, north and south.

When we first arrived in Beijing, we did not distinguish between east and west, north and south, and we all said that we were left and right, and as soon as we communicated with the northerners, we encountered obstacles.

I went to see someone, and the other end of the phone said I was at the west gate of the mall. Jumping up and down to find a big head, I couldn't find where the West Gate was, and finally had to ask the mall security guard.

The layout of the ancient city of Beijing covers various elements of traditional Chinese culture. To put it bluntly, he thinks about the emperor in everything.

"Zhou Li? There are already specific requirements for urban construction in the "Examination of Merit", with the palace as the center, "Fang Jiuli, next to the three gates, nine longitudes and nine latitudes in the country, nine rails in the warp Tu, facing the back city, the left ancestor and the right society". The former dynasty took righteousness, and the market took profit, highlighting the dignity of the emperor and flaunting the justice of the king.

When the Yuan Dynasty built the capital, three gates were opened on the south, west and east sides, only two gates were left in the north city wall, and there was no gate in the north, in order not to vent the emperor's spirit.

They plan the city, no matter what the morning and evening rush hours, the flow of people and vehicles, and the sycophants are comfortable.

The nine longitudes and nine latitudes talk about the rules of the square and circle, and divide the residential areas of the citizens into neat communities. The city wall should be built around the city, and the ditch should be dug and filled with water outside the city wall as a moat, and trees should be planted along the river, and there is a saying that "the ditch tree is solid".

The whole city became a chessboard pattern with a central axis of symmetry, which met the cultural needs of feudal rule.

However, the palace has always been a forbidden place, placed in a central location, not allowed to pass through, and traffic has been seriously hindered. But there is no obstacle to the traffic of the royal family, because every time they travel, they are opened by police cars that are restricted to the whole people.

It can be said that the urban planning of the Yuan Dynasty has become the indiscriminate traffic jam and car purchase lottery in Beijing today.

Repairing the city should not only talk about cultural needs, but also preach sermons. The so-called Tao is natural, and no one can say what this Tao is. It contains a little cosmic philosophy and the wisdom of the ancients.

In addition to the provisions of the "Examination of the Gongji", this shape is also related to the ancients' cognition of the universe.

The ancients believed that the structure of the universe was "the heavens and the earth". In fact, they don't know the concept of the earth, and even if they are told that "the earth is round and the sky is square", they still don't believe it.

Although the ancients had limited cognition, they realized that there must be some connection between the stars in the sky and our eating, drinking, and Lazar on earth.

Naturally, when people make major decisions, such as building cities, they often look for an ideal model to refer to in order to pray for peace and auspiciousness, and at this time, some people look up at the stars and see some eternal laws.

At that time, the ancients observed the celestial phenomena and divided the sky into four major regions, among which the stars in the east were imagined as dragons, the west as tigers, the south as birds, and the north as turtles and snakes.

The north gate of the palace city in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty is called Xuanwu Gate, and Xuanwu is the turtle and snake, that is, from the four elephants.

They also divided the starry sky into three large regions, Ziweiyuan, Taiweiyuan, and Tianshiyuan. The reason why the Forbidden City is called the Forbidden City is derived from the name of Ziweiyuan.

The Donghua Gate, Xihua Gate, Zuo Ye Gate, Right Ye Gate and Duan Gate also come from the astrological signs. "Historical Records and Heavenly Official Book V" said when describing Taiweiyuan: "Taiwei, the court of three lights. Kuang Wei 12 stars, vassal ministers: west, general; East, phase. ”

Therefore, the outside of the Forbidden City faces east for the Wenhua Palace, and the west is the Wuying Palace; The south gate of the inner city of Beijing, Chongwen in the east and Xuanwu in the west, are consistent with what the "Historical Records" says.

In the 28 houses, the area between Angsu and Bisu is called Tianjie, and during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the street in front of Tiananmen Square was also called Tianjie. Apparently, the name is also associated with the sky.

When the People's Republic of China was founded, Mr. Liang Sicheng served as the deputy director of the Beijing Planning Commission, and he firmly advocated the protection of ancient buildings and city walls, and proposed to build another new city in the west of Beijing.

Liang Sicheng, a romantic intellectual, has too advanced views for others to understand.

At that time, some people criticized him: "You are an old conservative, in the future, high-rise buildings will be built everywhere in Beijing, and your archways and palace gates will not become chicken coops and aviaries surrounded by high-rise buildings, and what cultural relics appreciation value can be said!" ”

Liang Sicheng cried bitterly on the spot.

Later, he wrote many times to save the Tuancheng in Beihai and the city wall of Beijing, but his opinion was never adopted, and the city wall was still demolished.

He also proposed to protect the old city of Beijing and build Beijing into a beautiful, tranquil and harmonious political and cultural center in Washington, D.C.: the administrative center of the Central People's Government should be established between the Gongzhu Tomb and the Temple of the Moon; The inner and outer city walls and moats are transformed into three-dimensional parks around the city to protect cultural relics and highlight the style of the ancient capital.

He advocated building the railway station outside Yongdingmen, so that you could feel the central axis of Beijing from Yongdingmen in the south to Jingshan in the north. It's a pity that this romantic dream was shattered for various reasons.

It can be assumed that if Liang Sicheng's dream comes true, perhaps the ancient city of Beijing will become the world's best ancient capital and architectural museum, and the city will be able to avoid the extreme concentration and congestion it is today.

Whenever I sit in the car and look at the ugly buildings and high-rise buildings in Beijing, my mind will dissolve them, imagine the ancient city walls and towers rich in history, dream of crossing through the spring, and use lust to confront reality, so that my mood will improve a lot.