When I returned to the hotel and went to Grandpa Kong's room to ask about the Shakya Pagoda, Grandpa Kong looked admiring: "This tower is still there!" That's great, I've been there many times before when I was on Earth, and when I left, I heard that the damage was already a bit serious, and I didn't expect it to stand for a thousand years, so you really want to go and see it. ”

"How about we go together?"

"Huh! Before I left the earth, I basically went around every place of interest and nature reserve, and I remember that the tower was still limited in the number of visitors at that time, and I don't know how to do it now, so go ahead! Less personal damage to it. I looked at Grandpa Kong suspiciously, his response was so surprising to me.

He secretly pinched my palm and said, "Then we'll go to Selwyn and them, you're always busy with you." I was quickly pulled out of the room, and I looked at her in confusion.

"You are so confused, Grandpa Kong has been away from home for many years, the first thing is naturally to see his hometown and family! What would be interesting to see the ancient tower first. She pointed at me on the forehead.

"Yes! How to forget! I laughed, and it was an instant hit with Selwyn and the others, and we decided to go the next day.

The next day, we changed our means of transportation and flew to Ning County, where the Shakya Pagoda is located, in a subsonic passenger plane. As soon as I got off the plane, I found that there were a few planes parked on the tarmac here, not as many as I thought. There are also a few cars parked next to the airport, I think it may be because of the tourist attraction! These buses should all be shuttles. I asked the service staff at the airport, and sure enough, these cars are all to the Shaka Pagoda Scenic Area in Ningxian County, and they can seat thirty people. After sitting in the car for about half an hour, a small city gradually appeared in front of me.

As soon as you get off the car, you will see a heavy eaves pagoda standing on a lush forest a few hundred meters away, and a ray of sunlight will shine, and the pagoda at the top of the pagoda will reflect the brilliance of the pagoda, so that it will be like this light is emitted by the pagoda. To get closer, only to see clearly the general structure of this tower, the pagoda has five layers and six eaves, the plane is an octagonal layout, the height and width ratio is not large, it seems particularly stable, of course, only particularly stable can make it stand for nearly three thousand years.

Everyone accelerated forward and came to a square, where there were not many people, which was still related to the relatively sparse population of the earth at present. There is only a single-storey antique building on the square, a plaque hangs under the eaves, and the book is written at the appointment office. At the end of the square are rows of cedar trees, which seem to form a wall, enclosing the Shakya Pagoda, leaving only a passage about 20 meters wide.

There are dozens of people lined up in an orderly manner at the reservation office, and I went to line up to make an appointment by myself, and when I came over, I listened to the car introduce that for the purpose of protecting the ancient pagoda, the number of people who can visit the ancient pagoda at a time is limited, only 20 people, and the time for each person to visit is one hour. The open hours are 8 hours a day, and the full day can accommodate 160 people. Of course, it's okay to come when you're free, but if you're late when it's crowded, you might have to stay here for a night.

There are not many people coming today, we are in line at No. 62~66, counting more than 1 hour that has been open, we have to wait for more than an hour to get our turn, fortunately, we can also go around outside the tower while waiting, not nothing. Everyone entered the passage with laughter and laughter, and the majestic pagoda finally came into our eyes.

This is a huge square, square, length and width are nearly 100 meters, a five-storey and six-eaves wooden tower is located on a stone pedestal nearly four meters high, it stands there dignifiedly, extremely stable. There is also a four-pillar three-room archway near us, the middle one is high, the two sides are lower, the ancient style is ancient, the shape is exquisite and complex. There is also a plaque in the middle of it, and there are four ancient characters on the plaque, but unfortunately I don't know it. This plaque should be the one that Grandpa Kong said was originally kept in the museum. Since the time has not yet come, the pagoda can not enter, so carefully admire this archway.

We walked over, and there were dozens of tourists who were still waiting to enter the tower by the archway, and a female staff member with short hair and a delicate appearance was standing

She was smiling at every visitor who came by, and her smile was so sweet that it was extremely pleasant. After the people in the square were basically concentrated here, the female staff member began to explain.

"Hello everyone, my name is Du Mingxuan, and I am the second docent here, because of the number of people, you can't enter the tower to visit immediately. But it doesn't matter, I'll talk about some of the situation of the Shakya Pagoda, and when I enter the pagoda, I will also give my turn to explain. Shakya Pagoda has a history of more than 3,000 years, and there are many stories about it, so I am afraid that I will not be able to finish it for three days and three nights. She paused for a moment, saw that everyone was attracted by her explanation, smiled more brightly with satisfaction, and continued to explain.

"Let's look at this archway first, this kind of archway is called four pillars and three archways, each is about three meters wide. The archway is a kind of landmark building in ancient times, which plays the role of indication here, do you see the four words in the middle! I'm sure you don't know each other. These four characters are a font in ancient times, which is read as "Futu Baosha". Baosha is the meaning of the treasure temple, there was originally a temple here, called the Buddha Palace Temple, now the temple is destroyed, and the pagoda is left. There are many archway styles, the full name of this archway is called four pillars and three three-floor archways, it has four floors of columns, forming a three-bay style, so it is called four pillars and three rooms. The building refers to the structure of the uppermost roof, also called the roof. It has three buildings, and there are also three five-floor buildings, and the fifth-floor ones will make two secondary roofs of different heights on each side of the building. Du Mingxuan paused, giving everyone a little time to receive this knowledge point, and after a while, he pointed to the archway and said:

"There are also several animals carved on the roof ridge of the building, which are very exquisite, called vertical beasts. The hanging beast on the roof ridge is a kind of decoration commonly used in ancient buildings, and the number is also exquisite, and the maximum is ten. The wooden structure that is closely arranged in a row below the roof is called the bucket, the bucket is also the common structural form in the ancient building, the bucket is actually the general name of the two building structures, the skids block that is block-shaped square like the grain bucket is called the bucket, and the bow-shaped short wood that is turned over like an arch is called the bucket. There are many forms of buckets, the structure is complex, and many buckets are also carved beams and painted buildings, which are extremely exquisite. There is no carving here, and it looks coarse, but the structure is tight. We see that below the roof of the main building is six columns and seven rows of arrangement, and under the roof of the second building is four columns and seven rows of arrangement, the top of the pillar is a square component is the bucket, and then the bucket and the bucket are connected together through the exquisite arrangement, forming a beautiful structural form like a group of flowers. The bucket and the bucket are connected by its own special shape, without the need for a nail. ”

As soon as Du Mingxuan explained this, everyone was more interested in this archway, and they all approached to watch. I also got a little closer to the Dou Fei, but I saw that the buckets were put together in a very orderly manner, and there may be nothing outstanding when taken out individually, but so many buckets together, like a blooming lotus, are indeed exquisite. I have seen the bucket of the ancient oriental building from the information, and I have admired it for a long time and can't help but sigh: "The bucket is so beautiful!" ”

"It's nothing, there's something more beautiful." Seeing my obsessive look, he smiled.

"I want to hear about it." The knowledge of ancient architecture is much stronger than mine, and the reality is better to hear in front of me.

"Some of the fights in the halls are called complicated. It also has a lot of component names, first of all, like this vertical row in a row is collectively called accumulation, should not be called a column. Like this row, there are six columns, and it should be said that there are six buckets. Dou's explanation was also inaccurate. The bucket is a square wooden block that opens the intersection in two directions and bears two directions, and the wooden block that only bears one component directly at the opening of a direction is called a liter. The short wood on the top is not all called 栱, only the longitudinal parallel to the building is called 栱, and the vertical building longitudinal is called warping, and there is a particularly long one in the warp and the oblique downward drooping is called the pleiades. The Pleiades are very easy to identify, and many ancient buildings under the eaves of the bucket arch in the downward slope of the head are still a little pointy. "The narration is much more detailed and accurate than the narrator. However, listening to the meaning of the text, the narrator is still in place overall, and it is commendable to have this level of knowledge in ancient architecture.

"It's still early, I'll talk about the structure of the archway

。 Du Mingxuan's clear voice reached my ears again. We see that there is no stone under the four columns, there are two small holes on each side of the stone, there are two iron hoops on the stone, this kind of stone is called the clamp rod stone, the building stability of the single-row structure of the archway is not good, so its column should be reinforced. There is a standing stone on both sides of its standing, the standing stone and the pillar will make a few holes, and then the standing stone and the pillar are connected together with wood, and the standing stone is fastened with an iron hoop outside, which can maintain the stability of the archway. You can also see that there are two diagonally bracing wooden poles on both sides of the column, which are called poles and also play a stabilizing role. The columns are connected by beams and flower boards, and the pattern of the flower boards here is simple, and there is no carving, and some of the exquisite flower board carvings are quite exquisite. That's roughly the structure of the archway. ”

I looked at the vermilion painted wooden archway and was deeply impressed by its shape and momentum. I found a special angle, the Shakya Pagoda in the distance just appeared in the middle of the archway, and in an instant this tower and the archway seemed to be integrated, which was extremely majestic and magnificent.

The vermilion archway shines in the sun with a bright jade color, very beautiful, I don't know if it is painted or some other reason, people want to go up and touch it. Of course, touching is not possible, according to the regulations here, unless you are a professional worker, the more precious the cultural relics can not be touched, even if it is an ordinary carved ancient brick, lacquered wooden doors are not allowed to be intentionally touched.

I really like this color, I couldn't help but ask Du Mingxuan: "Miss Du, I see that the red paint color on this archway is very beautiful, I don't know how to do it, the archway is windy and rainy, and the wood should have traces of fading, but the color of this archway is very bright, without the slightest trace of fading." "There were also some people in the crowd who were attracted by my question and were thinking.

"Hmm!" Du Mingxuan was stunned for a moment, the smile on her face was eaten into her stomach, she contemplated for a while, and finally smiled lightly: "I'm sorry, I really don't know this!" ”

"Oh!"

I was thinking suspiciously because I couldn't find the answer, and the corner of the beauty next to me was slightly twitching, so that I was reluctant to go far.

"By the way, don't you have any certificates, you are very good at antiquities, do you know the reason!"

Su Fei nodded, and said: "I know this, wood, as an organic building material, is susceptible to all kinds of erosion, and its durability is not very good, but this situation changed nearly a thousand years ago." People have invented an organic outer protective material for wood utensils called carbon-based nitrogen ammonia. This material can form a very dense film on the surface of the object, in addition to the film can isolate oxygen and water molecules, more importantly, the surface of the wood can form a slow chemical reaction similar to carbonization after absorbing it, as long as the years are long enough, when the surface of the wood forms a dense "carbonization" layer, the object can be basically permanently preserved, this time can be tens of thousands of years or even millions of years. ”

"Millions of years, isn't that petrified?" I was taken aback.

"Yes, but it's only superficially petrified, and the degree of petrification depends on the amount and frequency of carbon-based ammonia sprayed. Generally, the number and amount of wood sprayed for construction will be a little more, and the wooden utensils collected in the museum will be much less, and the amount of spraying is enough to form a dense protective layer on the surface to achieve "carbonization", which will not reach the level of petrochemical. The ancient wooden artifacts treated in this way and indoors can basically be protected for hundreds of thousands of years or more. Carbon-based ammonia is a boon for all wood-based utensils. With it, we and future generations will be able to see ancient wooden artifacts in museums. The preservation of wooden utensils has been permanently solved, and wooden buildings have excellent durability no less than stone buildings, and we can now see the most valuable wealth left to us by our ancestors. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and the louder he spoke, the whole square seemed to be listening.

As soon as the words ended, a rhythmic applause suddenly rang out.