Looking at Fenhe River in the south and loess high slope in the north,
This is a beautiful place with fertile land and beautiful scenery.
Bathed in the spring sunshine, I walked into the Wang family courtyard.
Wang is the surname, and the surname is half of the country;
Home is the yard, and the yard is half the city.
At first glance, I was shocked.
I know what a mansion is!
Impressed by the spirit of Lingshi, the beauty of Lingshi,
The beauty and rhyme of lingshi,
The top of Feng Ming Plateau is undulating, with pavilions and pavilions.
The wind slowly reaching the top, the rising atmosphere,
Like a Sanskrit warning from a magpie,
This paradise with nine ditches, eight castles and eighteen lanes,
Unlike Jiangnan, it is better than Jiangnan. ...
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It's been more than a month since I came back from Shanxi, and the image of "Wang Family Courtyard" still appears in my mind from time to time ... I feel possessed by it-they all say "Wang Family came back without looking at the yard". With a little curiosity, I am very much looking forward to it. In the first month when the New Year bell was still ringing, I embarked on a journey to find the ancient buildings in Jinzhong ... The Wang Family Courtyard is a descendant of King Taiyuan and one of the four families in Lingshi County.
The second sentence is like a mountain man walking into an official mansion, full of surprises, not knowing whether to take his left foot or his right foot. Red lanterns, hanging on the high gate, are trying to show off the excitement and prosperity of the past, but they have weathered and some have faded and turned white. The two proud lions in front of the door faithfully performed their duties and guarded the prominent position of the Wang family. There are not many tourists. Maybe everyone went sightseeing. Without the noise, the compound seems to be very quiet, and in the warm sunshine, it seems that it has just fallen asleep.
Known as the "first residence", the residential group of Wang Family Courtyard in Jingsheng Village has three architectural elements: practicality, firmness and beauty. Gaojiaya in the East Courtyard and Hongmenbao in the West Courtyard. Gaojiaya is an irregular series of castle-style residential groups. The east gate is the main entrance. The gatehouse is magnificent, with a red lantern hanging on each side, and the word "Wang Fu" is particularly eye-catching.
The fourth step, people are surrounded by high walls and deep institutions, and it seems that there is a strict atmosphere immediately imprisoned in their hearts. Stepping into the threshold, along the road, we came to the gate of Ningruiju. A pair of neat couplets on the wooden column jumped into view: "Yang is prone to thick soil, which is often liked by the east, west, north and south;" This pair of couplets, shrouded in mist, covered with rainbows in spring, summer, autumn and winter, set off the Wangs' courtyard even more and more charming. Walking into two or three yards with different styles is like walking into a maze. Without the guidance of a tour guide, it is difficult to get out of the hospital with a hospital and a door in the door.
The fifth sentence pushed open the heavy door, and vaguely, a wooden carriage came from the depths of the compound. Isn't that young man driving a carriage the ancestor of the Wangs, Wang Shi, who sells tofu? "Sell tofu, sell tofu ..." Shouts and hooves, from far and near, are so simple and kind, so childlike, wake up the street that is still talking, and the smell of tofu permeates the morning breeze. ...
The sixth sentence climbed to the highest floor and looked around. The residential groups embraced the sunshine in the shade of trees, with their backs to the mountains of water. Because of the architecture of 1ll, the mountains overlap, change with the shape, bend with the potential, and the buildings are layered. The whole thing is "flying interest, writing Austrian thoughts". The castle wall is high, with four doors and four closed circles. It is said that this is the architectural feature of quadrangle with front hall and back room formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which enriches the closed space level and enhances the safety function. The whole Eastern Hospital is condescending. Step by step, it combines the beauty, elegance and simplicity of the south with the grandeur, massiness and roughness of the north, forming a unique architectural style and giving people a perfect sense of villa.
In the early years, the story of "tofu getting rich" was heard from grandparents. The Wangs moved from Taiyuan, started small business, and gradually abandoned agriculture to do business ... copper coins became silver tickets, tofu bears became banks, and caves became castles. During the Jiaqing period, the Wang Family Courtyard was finally built in Jingsheng Village, Lingshi. Layers of courtyards have exhausted the Wangs for generations. I like this story, honest management, hard work to get rich, heaven rewards diligence, even if I live in this big house, I sleep at night. At least, the Wangs' money came clean, traveled all over the country and accumulated every penny.
The Wang Family Courtyard is not so much a group of residential buildings as an architectural art museum. Walking in the passage, shuttling in the courtyard and boarding the pavilion, everyone can't help but stop to watch and applaud. The architectural decoration art immersed in the rural customs is particularly eye-catching. The architectural decoration here can be described as the epitome of "slender density" in Qing Dynasty. Exquisite, lifelike and colorful stone carvings, wood carvings and brick carvings can be seen everywhere inside and outside the courtyard, up and down the house, inside and outside the house and on the dock. These works of art, from eaves, arches, watchwalls and kissing animals to cornerstones, shrines, stone drums, doors and windows, are lifelike in shape, unique in conception and originality. Twenty-four filial piety pictures, five sons winning the championship, flying horse reporting good news pictures and eight immortals pictures are colorful and lifelike.
The three sculptures in the Wang Family Courtyard give people a deep, simple and fresh feeling, which can be called a bright pearl in the northern residential architecture art garden. I was deeply impressed by the unique garden study when I visited the Wang Family Courtyard. This is a place where masters cultivate their minds, study and explore knowledge, and it is also a holy place for young masters to study and further their studies. Looking at the antique book wall, full of beds, respected by Zhong Ding, I forgot the earthly profusion, but there was Lingyun's ambition.
At the moment I stepped into the high threshold, I clearly saw Wang Qian, Wang Qian and two brothers leading the camel team back from Inner Mongolia. Their faces are all smiling, confident, smart and free. Their business experience came out in the shuttle, their entrepreneurial history was completed in the jingle of camel bells, and the Wang family courtyard was engraved on the earth in their laughter. It is these two brothers who have devoted their life's great wisdom to carving a grand view garden with classical meaning: the dragon in the center of Hongmen Castle, the phoenix in the east of Gaojiaya, the tiger in the west, the turtle in the southeast and the forest in the south. Write with your heart Imagination is concentrated in overlapping buildings, and vision is squeezed in blue bricks and tiles. The eaves that fly high fly with ambition, ambition, ambition! This tolerance, this mind, is it "one mountain and one water"?
1 1 sentence Standing on the rostrum of the north gate of the Wang family courtyard, let the wind blow and look around, there is only a feeling of being shocked. The so-called Wolong Road, the street is a dragon body, the lane is a dragon claw, the river boulder is a dragon forest, the old locust tree is a dragon tail, and the well is a longan. The water in two wells is bitter and sweet, which seems to correspond to a philosophy of life: there is sweetness in bitterness or sweetness comes from bitterness. However, in the middle of the dragon, there is a king's pattern hidden. A big "king" will always be branded on the land of Jinzhong! Is it intentional? Or was it unintentional? Wang, this is the family name, this is the family bearing, this is the family business card, this is the endless blood of the family!
12 The Wang Jia quadrangle in Shanxi also combines the wooden structure with the "cave dwelling" structure of Shanxi traditional houses: the front yard has a wooden frame, the backyard has a two-story cave building, the bottom floor has a cave dwelling, the front eaves have a corridor, and the second floor has a beam-column wooden house. In addition, the small chimneys above the roof are also "row upon row", which makes people suddenly understand the living habits of Shanxi "heatable adobe sleeping platform". In addition to the traditional style of front hall and back bedroom, the courtyard also draws lessons from the style of southern garden architecture, forming a pattern of "front garden and back yard". The experience of "promoting business and showing officials" makes this building complex a typical "official residence", which is also the difference between it and the Qiao family courtyard in Qixian County, and the main reason why it makes people feel magnificent and elegant.
The Moon Pavilion in the garden and the Wang Mian Pavilion in the east gate are all gone, and it is clear in all directions. The arches are folded and the wings fly. Standing on it, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery, with Mianshan Sunrise in the east and Suxi jathyapple in the west. It is the best place to "guide the countryside" and become a traditional courtyard landscape. The Wang Family Courtyard is the pride of Jingsheng Village. From cultural connotation to scale momentum, from terrain selection to internal structure design, it embodies a magnificent and unique momentum, which integrates gardening art and gardening skills into one and becomes an immortal masterpiece of architectural art. When I left the Wangs' compound, it was already sunset in the evening. In the twilight, Jingsheng Village, together with the "First House of China", was left behind. And the "beauty" of the Wangs' courtyard always haunts me. ...
Needless to say, the huge building area and exquisite pattern of the Wang Family Courtyard attract enough tourists just because of its famous "three sculptures"-brick carving, wood carving and stone carving. What fascinates me is that these lifelike figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish are carved on lifeless and cold bricks and stones ... these small bricks and stones bear many beautiful hopes and longings of the ancients! I think, because of this, the life of the ancients is "poetic"
15 immersed in the story of the Wangs, breathing the smell of tofu, looking at the ancient pavilions, stroking beautifully carved doors and windows and furniture, as well as weather-beaten calligraphy and painting, recalling the life scenes of that year, although time and space are long, they are still so familiar, as if everyone in this big house is still here, just walking around and joking. You may still see their fading back; In other words, a little woman is wearing light makeup, greeting the children to play under the flower window, with a friendly and kind smile on her face; And an old woman, standing trembling on crutches, watched generations of children and grandchildren multiply and grow, full of sweetness in the vicissitudes of life. ...
16. Wandering around the Wangs' courtyard, slowly sweeping the ancient courtyard: using peeled wood to expose the partition board of logs, mottled carved doorplates, and masonry carvings that have become rough after wind and rain erosion; Poetic plaques with different shapes, delicate railings faded from glitz on the embroidered floor, and black couplets with blurred and restored handwriting all make people think: there may have been a lady's footprint here.
17 Perhaps the Wangs' courtyard is not as graceful and graceful as the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, and the architectural color is slightly monotonous in the green. Therefore, the Wangs carved with their heart, painted with emotions, painted with natural landscapes, painted with rare birds and animals, painted with historical anecdotes, and painted with legendary scenery, making the plain wood, stone and brick vivid and agile. Not to mention the carving techniques, the content of the performance has been dazzling: Three Friends in the Cold Year, Flowers in Four Seasons, Chyi Chin's calligraphy and painting, the birth of a lotus seed, the twenty-four filial piety, the legend of a black cow, the sending of a unicorn, the flying horse, the clouds and the eight treasures of Buddhism ... It can be said that all the paintings are full of trees, each brick and tile is beautiful, and every inch and stone is full of affection.
18 The phrase "The moon is like a hook, and the deep courtyard of the solitary phoenix tree locks the clear autumn", in a cold or warm afternoon, her graceful figure may have leaned against the colorful railings in the past, and the warmth of her palm may have stayed on the worn-out door leaves now. Her delicate and graceful footprints may have been printed on the Shi Zhuan in that courtyard. On the one hand, the deep courtyard locks up the hustle and bustle of the outside world, and also locks up the lingering loneliness and loneliness of the boudoir ... In the courtyard that silently exudes the "art" atmosphere everywhere, people's body and mind seem to be experiencing elegant edification-quiet, enjoying and intoxicated again.
19 sentence: The Wang Family Courtyard is like a picture scroll unfolding gradually, like a long ballad, which is a gentle and kind reminder. Beauty is in your eyes, ringing in your ears and imprinted in your memory; On the other hand, you will show some sense of responsibility in a perfect and harmonious atmosphere, care for your husband, educate your children, honor your parents-in-law, family and everything ... is this just to prove your wealth? Show off the wisdom of the family? Flaunt the king's Excellence?
The 20th sentence is good, it is "intoxicated", and it is infected by the colorful art gushing out like the sea in Wang Yang. Wherever you go, you will feel calm and peaceful. Quietly enjoying the "ancient time and space" in this corner, let the time stagnate at this moment, let the footprints stay at this second-I have no intention of observing the tourists coming one after another, holding the hand of the camera and constantly focusing, pressing the shutter, leaning back or squatting, squatting or standing, right or left, constantly deleting, patting and patting, just to live up to this perfect expression.
My heart ached a little when I stepped on the stone steps leading to the Xiulou. There is a saying about these thirteen steps: thirteen heads, fourteen marriages! At that time, the daughters had to match them up and take care of their dowry from an early age. Now thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls are naive and lively, so why get married? I touched the red lanterns floating in the air. They were like the sighs of ladies in the boudoir, whispering something to people.
Sentence 22 Wang Rucong's house was built according to the layout of traditional geomantic omen "Kanzhai follows the door". Wood brick carving is the main theme, with piano, chess and calligraphy and painting as the theme, and hanging columns to carve bottles, ding, flowers, peony and lotus flowers, which means wealth and many children; There are four pairs of eight pictures on the top and bottom of the pot. The picture frame is square, fan-shaped and begonia-shaped, and it is carved with phoenix peony, mythical figures and wishful thinking, which means wealth and longevity. Town houses ward off evil spirits, and Suzaku and Longkui carved in Bo Sew Head are simple. Large-scale brick carvings set each other off, with the lion rolling the hydrangea as the heart. Four groups of Taoist figures in Guangchengcheng are imitation wooden archways, with peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and plum blossoms on the back, and roosters, Yuanyang, quail and magpies, which mean "fame and fortune", "Yuanyang's precious son", "living and working in peace" and "beaming".
The 23 rd sentence is not prosperous, and all the original intentions and ideas are delivered to the yard above this land carrier. After all, some people understand their intentions, not necessarily descendants of the Wangs, not necessarily me, not necessarily you, but more spiritual visitors. Because of poverty, we went to the west without hesitation and had a splendid compound; Because we are rich, we stayed in this yellow land together, but we returned to poverty ... The Wang Family Courtyard is a warning and a lesson. Sitting in the yard, what can I do but drink old vinegar and think sourly about "the days when we were rich"?
Twenty-fourth sentence, the Wangs go into business and become officials. "After success, the Wangs began to stride into officialdom during the Qianlong period. During the Jiaqing period, there were 3,000 male Wangs, among whom 34 doctors entered the officialdom through examination, donation, sealing and gift, which can be called Wang bureaucratic group. The Wangs were awarded the titles 13 to 18. On the other hand, it seems to have "aimed" at the "bright road" of "official career" and taught future generations to take the road of official career everywhere.