National Tide 1980.

Chapter 631 Wonderland
After reading the north room, turn to the east again.

The east wing and west wing correspond to each other, and are also three rooms wide.

After the opening of these rooms, the most commendable thing is that there is a hollow floor-to-ceiling cover between the middle open room and the two side rooms, which is also completely preserved.

The pair of floor-to-ceiling covers in the east wing are brownish-yellow. The bottom of the plantain is cylindrical, with leaf bases on it, and gradually turns into fine patterned lattices at a height of more than one person.

In terms of production level, it is not only close to the floor coverings of the Forbidden City.

As far as the ingenuity of the design is concerned, it seems to be more innovative.

Ning Weimin liked it very much when he saw it, and couldn't help but praise it.

"The floor-to-ceiling cover in the east wing is amazing! It's so beautiful! It's ingenious! It can be called a work of art! It's even more exquisite than the things copied by the Jingcheng Hardwood Furniture Factory during the 'movement'!"

"Grandpa, I bought so many furniture and wooden utensils from the hardwood furniture factory, that is, a "Squirrel Grape" floor covering, which is comparable to the floor covering in your room. It is placed in the 'Altar Palace' restaurant."

"To be honest, even though your house is just a residential house, I am really envious of this plantain floor covering. It is much better than the ordinary flower coverings and square coverings in the rooms of my No. [-] courtyard. My uncle You have overwhelmed me at this point."

Seeing Ning Weimin being so knowledgeable, Kang Shude was naturally very happy.

"That's not true. What's wrong with the folk houses? You have to see who built the houses! You can search all over the capital, and you can't find another private garden with a high standard and originality like Ma's garden. !"

After talking for a long time, the old man who was already a little thirsty, at this time Tan Xing was provoked again.

"I'm not bragging. You kid, don't use bean bags as dry food. Don't forget, this is a house built by the master builder Ma Huitang for his own honor. Can he not care about it? What's more, the Ma family and another builder The aristocratic family 'Xiang Lei' has been friends for many generations, and is also related to the descendants of the Qing Dynasty's mountain master 'Shan Zi Zhang'. Therefore, this Ma's garden uses many clever techniques that cannot be compared with other private gardens."

"Where is the brilliance? You can see the delicacy in the simplicity. Hey! First of all, you have to be clear. When Ma Huitang managed this garden, the Qing Dynasty had perished, and its buildings did not have to be restricted by the feudal hierarchy. But the whole garden A relatively low house shape is still adopted, only one hall is a gable roof, and most of the rest of the buildings are hard hilltops. They all use roll roofs or saddle ridges, and no brick carvings are used on the bricks of the head and eaves. On Liang Fang, there are only a few colored paintings on the headband, which looks very simple."

"Why? It's because Ma Huitang thinks that he is only a craftsman and a businessman. He doesn't want to follow the example of bureaucrats in pursuit of grandeur on the surface of the house, but only seeks a peaceful and simple style. To put it bluntly, he has served the royal family for more than a hundred years. It was built by the Ma family, what kind of house do they know how to make? But they pay more attention to the interior than the appearance, and the place I live in is not willing to be in a noble and gorgeous form, but more important is how comfortable and comfortable it is to live in. That's why I put all my heart into it It has been used in landscaping and interior decoration. This is called buns with meat but not folds."

"Let's talk about the architectural layout of this garden. The most unique feature of this garden lies in its ingenious division of courtyard space. There are almost no partition walls in the garden, and each courtyard is separated by rockery and verandas, either wide or deep. Or small, with different shapes. Through the decoration of flowers, trees, water and stones, the effect of one step at a time can be achieved."

"In the past, when the garden was intact, from the moment people entered the garden gate, their travel route was constantly interspersed between the rockery and the corridor, with twists and turns. The corridors in the garden are also very long, and most of them have benches and railings. The houses are ups and downs, lingering and interspersed, and the transition with the residential part is very natural. Ma Huitang himself is the most proud of this, and he often commented on the mystery of it in person.”

"In addition, the building materials of Ma's Garden are of course also very particular. But all the halls are made of gold bricks, and the walls are all polished bricks, which are exquisite and dense. In terms of the quality of the house, it is not worse than your No. [-] courtyard. Especially the interior of the house A variety of floor-to-ceiling covers, flower covers and Duobaoge are set up, and the workmanship is excellent. Not only are the materials high-quality, but the styles are also innovative. Many of them are from the hands of the Ouchi workers at that time. Can they be better than the objects in an ordinary clan's home? ?Just kidding."

"Especially when this garden was built, the capital already had running water, electric lights, cars, and telephones. When the Ma family built houses, they introduced all these modern facilities into it. They also built billiard halls and dance halls for entertainment. At the same time It also retains the traditional theater building, the God of Wealth Temple and the Buddhist hall. Therefore, in terms of functionality, the Majia Garden has all the advantages of both traditional and modern residences.”

"Finally, what really makes the Majia Garden surpass ordinary gardens is the wonderful landscaping. In this garden, there are two large rockeries, and there are five or six groups of exquisite stone peaks, and the entire courtyard is surrounded by corridors. Exquisite sculptures and fountains can be seen in the three pools in the garden. Moreover, the Ma family planted lotus directly in the pools. In winter, straw curtains are spread in the pools to prevent freezing. This is a very expensive method of building lotus pools. The setting method of placing lotus vats in the pond is comparable to that common in house gardens. Especially in the south of the theater building, the Ma family also specially set up two large "flower caves", that is, flower houses, dedicated to cultivating flowers and plants in winter. Let the garden live up to its name all year round."

"As for the ordinary flowers and trees in the garden, they are even more luxuriant. The old tree we saw at the beginning is tall and lush. This kind of tree is called catalpa, which is rare in the capital. There are two old locust trees in the garden, Several people need to hug each other and plant them in the north of the main peak of the big rockery and the west of Xiyinxuan. In addition, there are jujube trees, apricot trees, ginkgo, wolfberry, quince, elm, cypress, persimmon trees, walnut trees, etc. The main flowers are There are begonias and cloves in Xifu, and there are often peony ponds in front of the Ma family's private houses in the garden, and many beautiful plants are planted."

"But that's nothing. Because in addition to plants, there are many animals in the garden. Birds of various colors are singing in the cages under the porch. A porch can hang more than sixty bird cages. All the pools are There are fish swimming among the lotus leaves, which adds a lot of vitality. What's more interesting is that there were two nests of ducks and four deer in the garden. They can swim freely among the trees and stone ponds, which is quite interesting in the mountains and forests. "

"Hey, you haven't seen what the garden looked like in the past. It's beyond your imagination. Except for the lack of running water and the inability to go by boat, the rest of the Ma's garden is complete. Come on Almost all the guests who have been here linger. Let me tell you this, although the garden in Jinyu Hutong is famous, and the Prince Gong’s Mansion where He Shen lived is well known, but it is all official, but the house is big and the servants The ostentation like clouds. If you really want to enjoy life, you have to belong to Ma's garden."

"Otherwise, why is Mr. Song willing to spend 100 yuan per month to rent such a small courtyard. The entire Zhangyuan villa rented by Puyi in Jinmen is only [-] yuan per month. In terms of fundamentals, Mr. Song is nothing more than I love this garden so much, and I am willing to pay for the quality of Ma’s house.”

"Do you know what the most beautiful time here is? That is during the New Year's holidays, or when the owner of the Ma family holds a festive church meeting. The entire garden corridor will be covered with lanterns. There are lights for lighting, and some for viewing. There is also guessing riddles. That scene is called a bright scene, it is like a fairyland on earth."

"At that time, box flowers were also very important, and I often climbed to the roof. Standing on the roof, I waited quietly to watch the silver flowers and fire trees in the garden. Finally, there were Lianzhu fireworks, which were played from the theater building. In addition to the colorful fireworks all over the night sky, there will also be white parachutes floating towards me like white elves, which are part of the fireworks, which are spurted out as the fireworks fly into the sky. The little white parachutes, Floating slowly toward me, over the roofs, I can reach them down with just one hand...

Kang Shude's description made Ning Weimin completely dumbfounded.

Originally, Ning Weimin felt that this Majia Garden was a bit like a garden villa complex in the era of commercial housing.

Many different families live in small courtyards in the garden, and everyone regards the garden as an area for public activities.

Nothing too special either.

But now he thinks more than that, he now thinks that the Majia Garden has completely surpassed the concept of ordinary houses.

It is simply too illusory in reality, even more than "Dream of Red Mansions".

You can get what you want here, it’s so happy and dreamy, it was a paradise that was completely isolated from the troubled times back then.

Well, I still raise deer in the garden and let them run around!Also set off fireworks in the sky and on the ground!
This is better than people who will play 30 years later!

So feeling it, he couldn't help sighing enviously.

"Master, what you said is much more real and vivid than the rich family described in the cross talk "Kowa Residence". If you hadn't told me, I would never have imagined that there is such a rich life in the world. This is low-key luxury! Thank you It gave me a lot of insight, as if I had wandered around the gardens of the past with my imagination. It seems that the Ma family is indeed worthy of being the richest man in the capital, and it is indeed too rich!"

Unexpectedly, his words also amused Kang Shude.

"What do you mean, low-key luxury? This word is quite new, but it is also appropriate."

"Hey, as for the cross talk, it's just cross talk. It belongs to the extremely exaggerated imagination of the poor, and it can't be taken as real at all. Because the common people's knowledge is quite limited. How can a person who talks about cross talk know the real life of the rich?"

"You see, when ordinary people talk about being rich, they must eat sweets and drink spicy food, wear gold and silver, silk and satin, and fragrant cars and BMWs. However, the life of a real wealthy family only means 'the music returns to the courtyard, and the lights go down to the stairs'. Among them The difference can be judged in one sentence! Think about it, is this the case?"

(End of this chapter)