Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1809 Three Mores and Nine Likes

Feng Xueshan had obviously thought this through thoroughly. Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Look, I told you that I feel very relieved to have you at home. Xueshan is always busy. Come up with a plan. I strongly support all your ideas!"

"By the way, do you have people in your department who can come up with these plans? If not..." At this point Zhou Zhi suddenly reacted: "Hey! Apart from the initial design, the rest is the engineering part. Just assign the work to the monk. How dare he not work diligently to come up with the plan?"

Feng Xueshan smiled: "Actually, the details of Brother Wu and the Li family's work are still not good enough. IBM and Microsoft are almost pure technical development, which is somewhat different from our company. The food court cannot be copied from Pacific Department Store. Since you have agreed, I will start to make major changes!"

"Well, don't do everything by yourself. You have to get used to being the client, making demands, and letting others fulfill them." Zhou Zhi warned: "Don't make yourself too tired."

"I haven't even started to feel tired yet." Feng Xueshan said, "Even if you want to be the client, you still have to think about your own needs, okay? Here are the car keys. I'm going to work!"

A park is already being built at the Muzong Factory. Two-thirds of the area has been enclosed by blue iron houses for infrastructure construction. The huge warehouse in the original factory area, which was used for locomotive maintenance, has now become the working area and warehouse of the Yu Tang Cultural Heritage Protection Fund.

The warehouse is divided into several floors by steel frames, full of mechanical punk style, but inside are stored various antiques sent from the Three Gorges area that are not yet at the level of cultural relics but are equally of great historical value.

The most common things here are various building components and valuable wood. Building components are divided into multiple categories based on materials, including bricks, stones, wood, bamboo, tiles, and metals. They are further divided into two major categories based on building structure: hard construction and soft furnishings. Hard furnishings include roof, beams, columns, walls, doors, corridors, windows, pavilions, etc., while soft furnishings include beds, cabinets, tables, chairs, screens, etc.

Another category is daily necessities that have been withdrawn from people’s daily lives, such as large carved water tanks, shrines, stone basins, etc.

There are also interior furnishings such as a study, a pharmacy, and needlework tools and supplies for women in the boudoir.

It can be said that here, one can find the most vivid and direct silhouettes of the lives of the people in the entire Three Gorges region from ancient times to modern times.

Many of the items are extremely exquisite, especially the wood carvings and stone carvings. The Yu Tang Foundation does not accept all random things. After all, there are too many things, and only the best of the best can be sent here.

The most exquisite and valuable things did not come from ordinary families, but basically came from temples and Taoist temples that had to be flooded.

"This is a wooden component from the Chuanzhu Temple in Luoling Township. Each component is divided into five layers, with characters from operas, historical stories, and Buddhist themes carved on it. It is made of camphor wood, which is not easily deformed or eaten by insects. It is considered to be very exquisite among the wood carvings in southern Sichuan."

There is a team of more than 20 people working here. The Yu Tang Cultural Heritage Protection Fund is now quite famous. From the investigation of the Three Gorges Project to the current investigation of the Chinese Civilization Communication Belt, the filming of the documentary "Blood Rivers", sponsorship of the oracle bone splicing project, and the excavation and research of ancient Yi characters and epics, many of these projects often appear on CCTV and other media accidentally.

The staff here mainly rely on the recommendation of the unit and self-assessment. Because there are many and important projects here, those who can be seconded to work in the Yu Tang Cultural Protection Fund support project are very beneficial to their future careers. It is also very easy to produce results during the secondment period, and most of them are combined with international cutting-edge science. In addition, the allowance is generous. Therefore, both cultural protection units at all levels across the country and individuals are very eager to work in the foundation support project for a few years. The young man who introduced Chuanzhu Temple to Zhou Zhi is a student who just graduated this year. His name is Li Jun. He originally worked in a cultural protection unit in the capital of Hubei Province. Because his master's major is the study of southern folk houses, the major is very suitable. This place is almost a place where the components of southern folk houses are gathered except for cultural relics. Therefore, the two sides are "like-minded".

"Brother Li, the origin of Chuanzhu Temple is the Shu people's worship of Li Bing. Luoling Township is in Hubei Province, right? Why are there Buddhist themes on the architectural carvings?"

"This is actually a prominent feature of local religious architecture," Li Jun said. "Many ancestral halls and temples in the south were built by local clans or the public. Compared with buildings honored by the court, built by royal decree, or granted by the emperor, they are much more flexible, and some even have some absurd phenomena."

"Wood carvings mainly appear on beams, purlins, rafters, brackets, brackets, brackets, ceilings, doors and windows. The wood carvings in Chuanzhu Temple in Luoling Township are very rich in themes and the imagination is extraordinary."

"For example, this piece of wood is actually a corbel in ancient building components, which is a 'support'. It is a necessary support structure between the cantilever beam and the cantilever of the cantilever system, usually called a beam support. Its function is to connect the cantilever beam and the hanging beam and transfer the load from the hanging beam."

"Because the beams have to overlap each other here, force transmission supports have to be set in the middle to transmit large vertical and horizontal reaction forces. Therefore, the volume is large and the structure is complex. After combining with the beam heads, column heads and other parts, the space available for creation is relatively large and more three-dimensional. Therefore, it has become a part of traditional architecture where carvings are concentrated."

"In this section of the component, the auspicious pattern on the beam head has fish as a decorative image, which means carp leaping over the dragon gate and fish every year. However, below the fish theme, there is no common lotus pond, sea waves and other decorations, but a treasure tree."

"We named it the Duobao Tree because there are three kinds of fruits carved on the tree: Buddha's hand, pomegranate and peach. In addition, there are also auspicious decorations such as copper coins, book boxes and Ruyi hanging on it."

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel a little amused: "Isn't this just a random pile of stuff? The fish have all swam up the tree, and this fish has a pair of bird wings. You said it looks like a Capricorn, but its mouth is too pointed, so it shouldn't be."

"We did find a similar fish in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, called the Manta Ray: it has a fish body and bird wings, with gray stripes, a white head and a red beak. It often travels in the West Sea and the East Sea, flying at night. When it is seen, the world will be prosperous. This is not only a flying fish, but also an auspicious animal. Once it appears, it indicates a good harvest."

"No wonder, the white head and red beak are a perfect match, it really is a good omen." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "What else does this treasure tree have to say?"

"Not really." Li Jun shook his head.

"I think you may have gone in the wrong direction." Zhou Zhi touched the "Duobao Tree" with his hand: "This may not be a tree, but a ruyi. The theme of combining nine ruyi with Buddha's hand, pomegranate and peach, which represent good fortune, many children and longevity, is quite common on Ming and Qing porcelain. This is called 'Three Mores and Nine Likes'."

"Eh?" Li Jun's eyes lit up, and he carefully counted the leaves and trunk parts that he had previously thought were abstract sculptures: "There are really nine! These are nine Ruyi! This should be the theme of the Three Mores and Nine Ruyis you mentioned!"