Chapter 278: Tianshui City Residence

Mo Qianyun followed Chen Feng, Guan Long followed Mo Qianyun, and the three of them wandered on the street.

"Brother Chen Feng, let's go around, what are we going to buy?" Mo Qianyun said speechlessly.

"I don't think I have the money to buy it." Guan Long's face was cold and arrogant, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Uh, I don't know the way, forget it, I'd better find someone to ask."

Searching like a fly without a head is not an option. Chen Feng immediately caught a passer-by and hurriedly asked, "This big brother, where do you want to buy a house?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Mo Qianyun and Guan Long behind him were stunned.

"Of course, I went to the City Lord's Mansion to buy it." The passer-by glanced at Chen Feng with some awe, and then pointed in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Oh, thank you!" Chen Feng thanked him, and then walked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

Mo Qianyun and Guan Long looked at each other. Mo Qianyun's beautiful eyes were full of doubts.

"I heard you right, this bun is going to buy a house in Tianshui City. Hahaha! Guan Long was stunned, came back to his senses, and immediately laughed, "He wants to buy a house in Tianshui City, hahaha." He didn't think that the house in Shuicheng was the same as the house in our village. Hahaha, dirt buns are soil buns, this day the house in Shuicheng can't even afford my father, he has a dirt bun, hahaha! ”

"Shut up!" Mo Qianyun glared at Guan Long fiercely, and then chased after Chen Feng, "Brother Chen Feng, you just said that you want to buy a house in this Tianshui City?" Mo Qianyun was a little suspicious, and her beautiful eyes were a little incredulous.

"That's right, I'm going to settle in this Tianshui City, and you can come to my house as a guest if you have time in the future." Chen Feng blinked. Smiled slightly.

"Brother Chen Feng, don't make trouble, then Guan Long is watching our jokes." Mo Qianyun said dissatisfied.

Chen Feng rolled his eyes. There was no answer. As he walked, he looked at the buildings around him.

The buildings on both sides of this street have attic types. There are also palaces and courtyards.

With the detection system turned on, almost the entire city building can be seen. There are many lofts that are shops. The courtyard houses are mostly residential.

Courtyard house, also known as courtyard house, is a traditional courtyard style building, its pattern is a courtyard with houses on all sides, and the courtyard is enclosed in the middle from all sides, so it is called courtyard house.

The courtyard is a house with a gatehouse in front of the courtyard to enclose. If it is in the shape of a "mouth", it is called a courtyard; The "day" shaped one is called the Erjin courtyard; The "目" shaped one is called the three-entry courtyard. Generally speaking, in the courtyard of the mansion, the first entrance is the gatehouse. The second entrance is the hall, and the third or rear entrance is a private room or boudoir, which is the activity space of women or dependents, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter at will.

The formal courtyard house, one household and one house, the plane layout can be large or small. The owner of the house can build according to the size of the land area and the number of people in the family, so small that there can be only one entrance, large can be three or four entrances, and two quadrangle wide courtyards can be built with a cross courtyard. The lesser. There are 13 rooms; For the first or second hospital, there are 25 to 40 rooms. The back wall of the wing house is a courtyard wall, and the corner is built with a brick wall. The large courtyard is surrounded by a wall from the outside, and the walls are tall. Do not open the windows to show their secrecy. In terms of system, many palaces and temples were also designed and built according to the layout of the courtyard.

The smallest one entered the hospital. When you enter the street, you will directly enter the courtyard, which runs through the central axis. The houses are all single-storey, surrounded by inverted houses, main houses, and wing rooms. Among them, the north room is the main house, the house in the east and west directions is the wing room, and the south door is open to the north, so it is called the "inverted house". Flowers and fruit trees are planted in the courtyard for viewing.

The two-entry courtyard is divided into the front yard and the back yard, and the back yard is also called the inner house. The front yard is composed of gatehouse and inverted seat room, the one that connects the front and back yards is generally the hanging flower door, some relatively simple residences use the moon gate, and the backyard is composed of east and west wings, main houses and verandahs. There are also two-entry courtyards, such as the former residence of Mao Dun in Beijing, which does not separate the front yard from the hanging flower door, but adds a backyard behind the main house to build a back cover house for female dependents to live in.

The complete courtyard is a three-entry courtyard, the first courtyard is the narrow courtyard where the inverted seat house dwells before the hanging flower door, the second courtyard is composed of a wing room, the main room, and a verandah, the main house and the wing room can also add an ear room, the third courtyard is the rear cover room after the main house, and a door is opened in the ear room of the landlord's side, connecting the second and third courtyards. In the whole courtyard, the old man lives in the north room (upper room), the middle is the large living room (middle hall room), the eldest son lives in the east room, the second son lives in the west room, the servant lives in the inverted seat room, and the daughter lives in the backyard, which does not affect each other. This also reflects the influence of traditional Chinese culture and philosophy.

There are many combinations of four and five courtyards, usually in the form of "front hall and back bed". The first courtyard is the same as the third courtyard, the second courtyard is the hall room and the east and west wing room for external use, and then set up a hanging flower door, form the third courtyard between the hall room and this hanging flower door, and the fourth courtyard where the main house and the wing room are located after the hanging flower door, is the main courtyard. If there is a rear cover room in the back, it constitutes the fifth courtyard. There are also a row of south houses built on the north side of the inverted house, and the courtyard is formed by four or five entrances. The maximum depth of the courtyard is the distance between the two hutongs, about 77 meters, and some of the more luxurious courtyards even have gardens and rockeries. According to Feng Shui, the southwest is the "land of five ghosts", and the toilet can be used to calm the white tiger with filth, from a practical point of view, the toilet is built in the southwest to adapt to the northwest-southeast wind direction, which can prevent the smell from spreading in the courtyard. The single building courtyard is composed of many single buildings, including the gate, the main house, the wing room, and so on. The gate is also called the street gate, the house door, is the passage of communication between the Beijing courtyard and the outside world, generally built on the southeast side of the whole courtyard, in order to take the meaning of "purple gas from the east", it is also said to occupy the Xun position in the gossip, that is, the wind position, is the position where the wind blows in and run, in order to introduce the southeast wind, block the northwest wind in winter, it is an auspicious position, and embodies the principle of "Kan Zhai Xunmen". The shape of the gate is divided into several different shapes such as the palace gate, the Guangliang gate, the golden pillar gate, the barbarian gate, the Ruyi gate, the wall-type gate (gatehouse) according to the status level of the master, and the gate of the Western-style building, along with the construction of the Western-style building Yuanmingyuan, there are also a large number of Chinese and Western wall-style gatehouses in the folk, which are vividly called the "Yuanmingyuan-style" gatehouse by the people. As the name suggests, the palace gate is used for the royal palace. The largest scale. Its size is usually as follows: five rooms of the prince's mansion (five rooms and three rooms), and three rooms of the county palace. The gate of the palace is usually located in the center. There are also regulations in the middle: the gate of the prince's palace is five, and the middle three can be opened. And the roof can be made of green glazed tiles, the kissing beast can be installed on the ridge, there are door nails on the door, there are 63 door nails in the prince's mansion, the gate of the county king's mansion is three, only the middle one is open, and the door nails have become nine rows, five columns and a total of 45. Guangliang Gate is a kind of house gate second only to the palace gate. The Guangliang gate is of a very high level, and this kind of gate must be used by people with certain official qualities at that time, and the Guangliang gate is usually one room wide. The door is located in the position of the central pillar and has a more ornate decoration. The Golden Pillar Gate is also used by officials and families, but the Golden Pillar Gate is one level lower than the Guangliang Gate. The size of the golden pillar gate is slightly smaller, and the door is located at the position of the golden pillar (the position of the door is further forward).

The Barbarian Gate and the Ruyi Gate are used by ordinary people, and they are relatively small in scale. The gate of the Barbarian Gate is located in the front of the eaves pillar, which is said to be named because most of the merchants in the south lived here at that time.

Ruyi Gate. One level lower than the barbarian gate is the Ruyi Gate, which usually builds a wall at the position of the eaves pillar, and the door is very small. The forehead of the door is often engraved with the word "Ruyi" or Ruyi graphics.

Small gatehouse. The simplest and most common gate is to build an entrance door opening with bricks directly on the wall, install the door leaf, and have no internal space, called the gatehouse.

The components of the gate, the roof of the gatehouse is usually paved with tiles, in two ways: cylinder tiles and inhibition tiles. There are several kinds of roofs, such as clear water ridges and roll sheds (also known as ingots ridges). Clear water ridges usually have two upward tiles on either side. It is called scorpion tail, owl tail, and Chaotian Wat. Under the tail of the scorpion there are tiles. The position of the eaves located at the head of the pier is usually equipped with Bofeng to protect the wall of the pier, and the Bofeng can also have brick carving. The finch is a wooden member located between the eaves column and the eaves. It has a certain role in mechanics, but the finch and the three clouds are more symbols of official products. Only the palace gate, the Guangliang gate and the golden pillar gate have a finch replacement. The Manzi Gate and the Ruyi Gate have no position for the Sparrow because the gate is located on the eaves pillar.

The door hairpin is a wooden structure that is fixed on the threshold of the door, and the door is made of four hairpins and the small door is made of two hairpins. The exposed part of the hairpin is decorated with a hairpin cap, which is generally a hexagonal shape with curves. The hairpin hat is usually engraved with signs and words. There are many kinds of door panels of the gate, usually carved with door couplets on the door panels, some of the more elaborate street doors are carved with door hearts, and the more common couplets are "loyal to the family for a long time, poems and books for a long time" and the like. [4] The door is equipped with a door cymbal in the middle for knocking, and there is a door guard iron under the door.

The pier head refers to the part of the gable that protrudes beyond the eaves column, and the pan head on the pier head wall (also known as the eaves and eaves) and the brick carving of the door head of the Ruyi Gate are exquisite handicrafts. On the top of the pier wall cluster down are the eaves, two layers of eaves, lotus piers, decals and other components. From top to bottom, the door head of Ruyi Gate is a railing and a pillar, an ice plate eaves, a mixture, a bead, a hanging board and other components. The door pier refers to the part of the door sleeper stone located on the outside of the door, usually there are two kinds of box shape and drum shape (drum stone), and there is a stone socket inside the door sleeper stone for inserting the door pivot. The gate pier is a more distinctive component of the gatehouse, which is usually composed of several parts, such as the Sumeru seat, the drum or the box, and the beast's kiss or the lion (some say that it is a fox). According to the shape of the gatehouse, the shape of the gate pier is also different, and the carving that appears on the gate pier is an important material for the study of ancient Chinese society and culture, and it is also a fine stone carving artwork. There are usually facilities such as horse stones and horse tethering piles next to the door, and some have Taishan stone to dare to be. Shadow wall main entry: Shadow wall Shadow wall Source: Tang brick carved shadow wall is usually used in the courtyard to block the view, beautify the realization and highlight the role of the gate, usually made of bricks, composed of three parts: seat, body and top, the seat has a Sumeru seat, and there is a simple no seat. The gate of the courtyard sometimes steps back a few steps back to build a figure of eight wall on the left and right of the gate, which is called the swallow wing shadow wall and the shadow wall of the skimmer. There is generally a shadow wall in the gate of the courtyard, which is generally inlaid on the gable wall of the top of the east wing, and there are also courtyards with higher specifications, using independent shadow walls. The shadow wall is also placed in the street outside the gate of the courtyard house, and it is located directly opposite the gate.

The central area of the shadow wall is called the center of the shadow wall, which is usually made of square bricks placed at an angle of 45 degrees, and the simple shadow wall may not have any decoration, but it must also grind the bricks to the joints very neatly, and the luxurious shadow wall is usually decorated with brick carvings with many auspicious patterns. The brick carvings on the shadow wall wall mainly have the center and four corners of the central area, and there are also mixed owls and beads in the places that intersect with the roof. The central brick is carved with a central flower and a fork in the center of the wall, and a brick plaque with the word Fushou is inlaid in the center of the shadow wall, or a brick carving with auspicious meaning.

The roof of the shadow wall is generally the same as the roof, although it is made of bricks, the roof of the shadow wall is also carved out of bricks, and the roof of the clear water ridge or roll shed ridge is set on it. Inverted Owner entry: Inverted Occupancy

The inverted house is the southernmost row of houses in the whole courtyard, and its eaves wall is facing the alley, and the windows are generally not opened. Since the doors and windows are facing north, the lighting is not good. The easternmost part is a private school, and the westernmost is a toilet, and the houses in the middle are generally inhabited by servants.

The street gate on the south side, the inverted seat room, the pendulum gate on the north side and the verandah together enclose the front yard of the quadrangle, the front yard is the place where the host meets the guest office, and after the pendulum gate is the inner house, that is, the living area of the quadrangle.

Main entry for the screen door: There is a screen door on the left and right sides of the shadow wall after the screen door enters the gate, leading to the small courtyard of the "juku" to the east and the outer courtyard with an inverted seat to the west. There is also a screen door in the hanging flower gate between the inner and outer courtyards.

Main entry for the Hanging Flower Gate: The Hanging Flower Gate, also known as the Second Gate, is open on the partition wall between the inner and outer courtyards, and is located on the central axis of the courtyard. In the old days, it was said that the daughters of large families "do not go out of the gate, and the second door does not step", which means that they do not step out of the flower gate. The outer eaves pillar of the pendulum gate is not erected from the ground, but hangs on the horizontal wood of the middle pillar, which is called the pendulum pillar, and the lower end of the pendulum pillar has a pendulum bead, which is usually painted in the form of petals, so it is called the pendulum gate. The Hanging Flower Gate is a richly decorated building in the courtyard. The roof of the hanging flower door is usually a roll shed type, or a hall and a roll type, that is, the outside of the door is a clear water ridge type, and the inside of the door is a roll shed type. There are two doors of the pendulum door, one is in the middle pillar position, which opens during the day and closes at night; The other is the screen door, which is usually closed at the position of the inner eaves column, which plays the role of isolating the sight of the inner courtyard. The entrance to the inner courtyard is through the space between the inner eaves columns and the middle pillars on both sides of the hanging flower gate, which is usually connected with the verandah.

The main house of the main courtyard is generally three, and the main house of the large quadrangle can be five to seven, sitting in the north and facing south, which is the residence of the head of the family. The bright room of the main house (i.e., the middle one) is called the hall house, also known as the middle hall, and the main room of the three-bay main house is flanked by bedrooms and study rooms, and the main house 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. (To be continued......)