Chapter 33: The Dawn of the Clouds (3)

The towering ancient building has undergone the baptism of wind and rain, showing the vicissitudes and heaviness. The roof of the main building is a small green tile Han Dynasty nine-ridge roof, the corridor waist is manback, and the eaves teeth are high peck. At both ends of the front hall, there is a small "round building" covering an area of twenty or thirty square meters, but it is wearing the top of an octagonal pavilion with heavy eaves.

The ancestral hall is carved with beams and paintings, and the front and two sides of the door are engraved with gilded ancient figures and flowers and birds. The pillars of the middle hall and the front hall are load-bearing, the wood carved screen, the screen pillar is painted, the huge eaves are sealed, and the roof is sealed with nine ridges. The ancestral hall is like a stage, there are four large stone pillars with a circumference of nearly 2 meters and a height of nearly 7 meters in front of the stage, 30 rooms on both sides of the stage are circled into an inner circle, and the second floor corridor is a delicate cast iron lattice railing.

The stone doors and windows in the building are exquisitely carved, showing the glory of the past. The hanging hilltop beam-lifting frame is divided into two circles inside and outside, forming a pattern of building in the building and building outside. There are four sets of up and down stairs symmetrically distributed in the building, and the ground floor is connected and the layers of corridors are accessible, and it is very convenient to communicate with each other. The room, staircase, and partition wall are all made of cedar wood, all connected by the head of the adjacent falcon, without the use of an iron nail, and it has survived nearly six centuries of wind, frost, rain and snow, and still stands tall together with the two-meter-thick earthen wall.

The colors used in the gates, interior walls, ancestral halls, flower walls, etc., boldly adopt the principle of diversity and unity emphasized by Western architectural aesthetics, and reach a very high aesthetic realm, which can be called a masterpiece of Chinese and Western native residential architecture.

The black tiles of the earthen walls and the Greek columns complement each other, and the painted murals and the balustrades of Western vases compete with each other. The dougong, lintel, finch replacement, column head, supporting wood, hanging flowers and other parts of the beam are carved with the images of dragons, phoenixes, auspicious clouds, unicorns, lions, deer and other auspicious meanings, as well as flowers, birds, insects and fish. The carving process has a variety of techniques such as round carving, relief, hollowing, yin carving, yang engraving, etc., coupled with color lacquer painting, each image is full of vitality and vitality, and the overall effect can be called exquisite.

The quaint pillared eaves, as well as the traditional Hakka house layout, give people a friendly and rustic feeling. There are bamboo baskets, lanterns, and red couplets hanging in the corridor, as if time is frozen in that distant long river. It's really amazing and beautiful.

The inner courtyard is paved with granite, and the ancestral courtyard of the atrium is faintly mossed, and the nomination "Huai Ting" makes people have a lot of imagination and yearning. On the pillar of Zhongtangyu, there is an excerpt from the "Diamond Sutra": "Words and deeds, blessings and good roots". The previous sentence can be seen as: words and deeds are rules, that is, the norms of speech are the norms of behavior, and what should be said should be done, so as to emphasize that words and deeds must be consistent; And the next sentence can be seen as: the fruit of happiness is cultivated by the root system of goodness, that is, the fruit of happiness is cultivated by the root system of doing good, and to be happy, you must first do good deeds and do good deeds. In addition to the influence of Confucianism, the Hakka people are also deeply influenced by Buddhism, believing in the cycle of cause and effect, believing that if you plant good causes, you will bear good results.

The seal engraved in front of the school is a couplet that is "Fengqi Danshan Xiu, Jiaoteng Blue Water Ring", which is the beautiful landscape and pastoral scenery around the Heshun Building depicted by the ancestors. Dan Yan and his cousin Bi Yu are the only two girls in the youngest generation of Heshun Lou, there are many boys in the family, and girls are regarded as treasures by their elders, so their grandfathers each take the third word of the upper and lower couplets as their names.

A tulou is like a "big family, small society". Dozens of families living under the same roof have the same ancestor, ancestry, blood and family, and live a harmonious life of sharing the same door, hall, staircase, courtyard, and well. This kind of living pattern of gathering ethnic groups and living in the same building typically reflects the traditional family ethics and family affinity of the Hakka people.

Moreover, the Hakka people in the building live in an equal room with the same number of floors, the same area of the studios, no obvious difference in orientation, and no distinction between high and low grades. Equal living reflects the harmonious family style and the tradition of equality and unity of the Hakka people. While the whole family receives basic living security, they also enjoy the joy of several generations in the same house and family reunion.