Chapter 279: City Lord's Mansion

The City Lord's Mansion is in the most prosperous area in the center of Tianshui City. The City Lord's Mansion is naturally the residence of the City Lord Dongfang Peng. However, Dongfang Peng rarely shows up and goes out from time to time. Therefore, the sale of the house was carried out by his own assistants.

With the sale of the house, the city lord Dongfang Peng amassed a large amount of wealth.

In fact, it doesn't cost much to build a house. The reason why the housing prices in Tianshui City are so expensive is because the land in Tianshui City is relatively expensive. Outside Tianshui City, you must always face the attack of fierce beasts. In Tianshui City, there is the protection of the city lord, and it is relatively safe. Therefore, people are all vying to stay in Tianshui City.

Chen Feng walked briskly all the way, and the crowd around him was extremely lively, more and more, and he had obviously entered the prosperous area.

After another candle of incense, the three of them finally saw a majestic mansion, which was the city lord's mansion.

"How can I help?" Not long after stepping into the City Lord's Mansion, a staff member greeted him and said with a smile.

"Where can I buy a house?" Chen Feng asked.

"Just register with me." The staff member was slightly surprised, and hurriedly said in a respectful tone, "Recently, there are just fifteen vacant houses to be sold in Tianshui City, I don't know what type of residence style you like." Do you like bamboo buildings, palaces, or courtyards or the like? There are two kinds of courtyard houses on our side, one is a large courtyard house, which is very expensive in size. There is also a small courtyard house, which is economical and cost-effective. ”

The main house of the quadrangle is generally three, and the main house of the large quadrangle can be five to seven, sitting north and facing south. The abode of the head of the family. The bright room (i.e., the middle room) of the main house is called the hall house, also known as the middle hall. The three-bay main house is flanked by a bedroom and a study, and the main room is characterized by the fact that the sun can shine into the house in winter. Warm in winter and cool in summer. Usually there is a table of eight immortals in the middle of the bright room, with two chairs on either side of the table, and a painting and two banners hanging on the wall, or four paintings in the central hall. Wing House Master Entry: The east and west wings of the wing are the houses of the children and grandchildren, and they are often three.

The east wing is respected, the west wing is inferior, the east wing of the Beijing courtyard generally lives in the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, so there is a slight difference in the height of the east and west wings in the building, the east wing is slightly higher and the west wing is slightly lower, but it is difficult to see with the naked eye because the difference is very subtle. For example, the east wing of the Shijiazhuang courtyard house is two inches taller than the west wing. However. In North China, the east wing is exposed to the west in summer and is directly blown by the cold wind from the northwest in winter, so it is not suitable for living. The two rooms on both sides of the main room are lower in height than the main room of the transept, and the layout resembles human ears, so they are called transepts. If the yard is long and narrow, the wing room will usually have an ear room as well. It is usually flat-roofed, so the transept of the wing room is called the dome.

The back house is usually the innermost house, near the boundary of the courtyard, and usually the owner's daughter lives. The rear cover room and the main house are oriented in the same direction. Sitting on the north and facing south, the number of betweens is generally the same as that of the inverted house, so as to maximize the width of the residential base. The grade of the rear hood room is lower than that of the main house and the wing room. The scale and quality of the houses are slightly inferior in comparison.

Group rooms

Group room, also known as podium. A row of houses, usually on the east or west side of the courtyard, served as kitchens and servants' dwellings.

Main Corridor article: The corridor in the courtyard is a covered building. It is used for walking when it rains and snow, and is divided into two types: eaves and verandah, the former refers to the covered corridor in front of the main house and the wing room, and the roof is usually extended from the eaves; The latter refers to the corridor along the wall (the verandah of the hand) and the corridor connecting the main house and the wing room (the verandah through the mountain). Some eaves and verandahs are sealed with windows to become an indoor environment, which is called a warm corridor.

In addition to the main courtyards of the inner house and the outer house, the courtyard will also form some small courtyards, such as the small courtyard in front of the ear house on both sides of the main house, and the small courtyard separated by screen doors on both sides of the outer courtyard.

In the courtyard of the inner house, there is a cross-shaped road in the north and south, and most of the residents will plant trees in the yard, except for pine, cypress and poplar trees that cannot be planted because of a variety of them in the cemetery, all kinds of other trees are planted. The more common trees are jujube trees, persimmon trees, etc., flowers and trees mainly include peonies, peonies, magnolias, cloves, begonias, wisterias, pomegranates, etc., planting jujube trees and pomegranate trees in the courtyard means "early" to give birth to noble sons, many sons and grandchildren, planting persimmon trees means that everything is going well, planting cloves, begonias, indicating that the owner has an identity and has a certain cultural accomplishment.

In addition, there is also the custom of raising fish, and the fish tank with a diameter of 60 to 70 cm is mostly used to raise various kinds of fish and grow lotuses, and the fish tank can also be used to store food in winter. In summer, the weather is hot, you can also set up a canopy in the courtyard to shade the sun, there is a saying in old Beijing that "the canopy fish tank pomegranate tree, Mr. fat dog and fat girl", which is a portrayal of the life of the scribe who lives in Beijing.

Large courtyard: The main house is the front porch and the back building, and there is a cover room at the back. There is a hanging flower door in the middle of the flower wall in the south of the east and west wings, there are four wooden screens in the door, and the east and west wings have a hand-copying verandah, which communicates with the hanging flower door. Some flower walls are on both sides of the hanging flower door, with two or three leaky windows.

Between the main room and the side room, there is a full moon door, which can go from the aisle to the backyard, and some have a hall, which can be walked through.

In the outer courtyard, there is a flower wall in the east and west, the moon gate in the middle, four wooden screens with green paint, red bucket square characters, the east side is "moving wall book", and the west side is "West Garden Hanmo". You can go through this door to the cross-courtyard.

The south room has a verandah through the mountain, which is a corridor that is opened with a gable wall and connected. In this way, several courtyards are formed that are connected to each other in the east, west, north and south. The most typical large courtyard houses in Beijing are the Qing Dynasty's Nawangfu (in Goldfish Hutong) and Gongwangfu (Shichahai West Street), which are spectacular and magnificent, with gardens. The middle courtyard house, the middle courtyard is generally five or seven main rooms, there are wooden partitions or floor covers in the house, and some main houses and wing rooms have porches. The five rooms are three main rooms and two ear rooms, and the ear rooms are single-door, the so-called "three positive and two ears". Seven rooms, between the main room and the transept, have two suites that are connected to the main house (open on the gable). There are three rooms in the east and west wings, and there is an aisle between the wings and the ear rooms. Access to the backyard. On the south side of the east and west wings, there is a courtyard wall. The courtyard is divided into inner and outer courtyards, and they are all bricks. After the rain, the yard is clear, and there is no water. There is a moon gate in the middle of the courtyard wall, so that people in the outer courtyard can not see the inner courtyard at a glance, just behind the moon gate, a brick or wooden shadow wall is erected. Some put a few pots of flowers in the courtyard, set up a large fish tank, and set up a ceiling in summer to enjoy the shade in the courtyard. In the outer courtyard, there are one or two deer tops in the east and west. The house on the top of the deer is slightly smaller than the wing. It was used as a kitchen or for servants. The layout of the seven rooms in the south room, the one at the east end is the gate hole, and the one at the west side of the gate is the gate room, and the door is open on the west gable of the gate hole. One at the west end is used as a garage or as a side door. The whole house pays attention to the grinding brick joints, the yellow pine wooden frame, the wind and fire double eaves, the house is a square brick floor, and the windows are bright and clean. In addition to the deer roof, ear room, car room. They are all windows with upper branches and lower branches. The so-called "upper branch and lower picking" means that the upper side is two windows covered with Korean paper, and the outer one can be supported by two thin iron rods. In the summer, that window inside. Replace with a cold cloth for ventilation. In winter, the one outside is gone, keeping out the wind and cold. A window below. It's a whole big glass. There is also a window guard outside, which is hung at night. Take it off again in the morning.

Small quadrangle

Small courtyard house, this kind of courtyard has a simple layout. Generally, there are three rooms in the north room (also called the main room), and there is a partition in the house, which is divided into one light and two darkness or two darkness and one light. There are two rooms in the east and west wings, and three rooms in the south room (also called the inverted seat), all of which are tiled houses with lying bricks to the top and ridges. There are also small courtyards with chessboard hearts, or Yangwa gray terriers.

A family of two or three generations lives in a small courtyard house, which is very suitable. The parents live in the main room (upper room, upper house), the younger generation lives in the wing room, and the south room is used as the living room and back study. There is a brick-paved cross road in the yard, leading to the east, west, north and south houses to take care of the doors, and there are steps in front of the doors.

The street gates are all southeast, and they are rarely opened in the south, because the temple gates are all standing in the middle of the south, and they are all gatehouses with clear water ridges, and the two street gates are facing each other, each with a small iron ring, and use it to knock on the door.

There are several levels of house-style gates

1. The palace gate is the highest level of the house-style gate. There are usually five rooms with three doors and three rooms with one door and so on. This kind of gate is located on the middle line of the royal mansion and is magnificent. The gate of the Qingol Royal Mansion (now the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China) on the north shore of Houhai in Beijing is a house-style gate with five rooms and three doors. In feudal society, the number of rooms, door decorations, decorations, and colors of the palace gate are all set according to regulations. For example, in the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the main gate of the prince's palace was five wide, and the door was opened with three green glazed tiles, and each door had sixty gold nails. The door nail of the prince's mansion is reduced by two-ninths of the prince, and the Baylor mansion is stipulated as five main gates and one open door. Located in the south bank of the Houhai Sea of the Qing Gong Palace, was originally the favored minister of the Qianlong Emperor and the palace of Chong, and later gave to Prince Gong, the gate of this palace is three bays, on the green glazed tiles.

2. Guangliang Gate Guangliang Gate is second only to the palace gate, it is a main form of house-style gate, this kind of gate is generally located in the southeast corner of the house, occupying the position of a room. Although the Guangliang gate is not as prominent as the palace gate, but there is also a higher pedestal, the door is relatively wide and bright, the door is open between the middle pillars of the entrance hall, and the gate eaves village is installed under the finch for the bird, three clouds and a kind of ornament that has both decorative functions and represents the status of the master.

3, the golden pillar gate is a kind of door installed in the golden pillar (commonly known as the old eaves pillar) between the gate, called the "golden pillar gate", this kind of gate and Guangliang gate the same, also occupy a room, generally its regulation and Guangliang gate is very close, the door is also wider, although not as deep and solemn as the Guangliang gate, still does not lose the style of the official eunuch door, is an evolution form of the Guangliang gate.

4. The barbarian door is installed between the outer eaves columns, and the form of the door sill grip still takes the form of Guangliang gate, and the Beijing people call this kind of door "barbarian gate", which is another form of further evolution of Guangliang gate and Jinxiang gate.

5. Among the gates used in small and medium-sized courtyard houses in Beijing, Ruyi Gate accounts for a considerable number. The door of the Ruyi door is located between the outer eaves columns, the brick wall between the two sides of the door and the gable leg, the door is relatively narrow, the door is often decorated with the delicate brick flower pattern of the carved floor, at the corner of the door finger of the Ruyi door and the brick wall on both sides, often make the flower decoration of the shape of Ruyi, in order to imply auspicious Ruyi, so it is named "Ruyi Gate". The residents of Ruyimen are generally of low political status, but they are very wealthy and wealthy.

6. In addition to the above-mentioned several house-style doors, there are not a few people who often use wall-type doors in private houses. The most common and most common form of walled door is the form of small gatehouse, although its style is many, but the basic shape is similar, mainly composed of legs, lintel, roof, ridge decoration and other parts, generally are relatively simple and simple, there are also a few luxury small gatehouse, the door refers to the brick carving all over the place, although it is not magnificent but very gorgeous, showing the wealth and vanity of the owner.

There are also one or two rooms on both sides of the main house, which are deep and small in height, like two ears hanging on both sides of the main house, so it is called the ear room.

If there is one transept on each side, and there are two on both sides, it is called "three positive and two ears". If there are two on each side and a total of four auricles on both sides, it is called "three positive and four ear".

Small courtyards are mostly "three positive and two ears", and medium-sized courtyards are "three positive and four ears".

The transept refers to a small house built next to the main house, which is smaller in height and volume than the main house, just like the ears on both sides of the main house, hence the name auretner.

In the courtyard, the two sides of the main house can be built with ear rooms, and the wing rooms can also be set up with ear rooms, and some are built with flat roofs, which are called "domes".

Transepts can also be built on top of the tower, for example, there are transepts on both sides of the Tiananmen Tower.

Ear room, Yunnan dwelling, the house is open, divided into three directions, the main room is among them, and the two sides of the side are called the ear room. The dougong is a unique form in ancient Chinese architecture, and it is the transitional part between the column and the roof of a larger building. Its function is to bear the weight of the eaves that are spent on the column, or indirectly to the forehead and then to the column. Generally speaking, all very important or monumental buildings have the placement of dougongs. Among the many temples of Xingma. bucket from the appearance. The shaking of the arch evokes a sense of mystery and unpredictability, and its high fidelity is wonderful. It also possesses a unique style both aesthetically and structurally. No matter from an artistic or technical point of view, the dougong is enough to symbolize and represent the spirit and temperament of classical Chinese architecture. The middle protrusion of the bucket arch is still called the head. Carved with a vertical double type of cyan dragon head. The cushion arch plate on both sides of it is carved with a semi-three-dimensional flame bead, symbolizing auspiciousness.

The staff of the City Lord's Mansion asked Chen Feng which one he liked, and Chen Feng thought for a moment and said, "Can you take me to observe it first?" (To be continued......)