Riding the wind of rebirth

The large courtyard as the ancestral hall must have been very glorious once. Zhou Zhi entered the courtyard, bypassed the screen wall with the word "Chushen" glued on blue and white tiles, looked around, and found a decoration that is difficult for ordinary rich people to buy—— — Brick carving.

Brick carving refers to the carving of landscapes, flowers, figures and other patterns on blue bricks, as an important art form of ancient architectural carving decoration.

The production process and the core point are to use the finished blue bricks of the gold brick level to carve various themes and patterns from the finely textured blue bricks through various carving techniques, which are used for decoration of building components or gates, screen walls, and walls. .Let the mansion achieve the effects of exquisiteness, vividness, and bookish atmosphere.

There are nine areas of brick carving, the most famous being the Beijing School in the north and the Su School in the south.

The brick carving patterns in this ancestral hall can be viewed from far and near, and the carvings are also very exquisite, such as dragon and phoenix presenting auspiciousness, Hehe Erxian, Liu Hai playing Jinchan, Sanyang Kaitai, Guo Ziyi making longevity, unicorn giving birth, lion rolling hydrangea , three friends in cold weather, four immortals in flowers and other patterns.

The words on the gate tower include "Sanxing Gaozhao", "Wei Tuo Jinbao" and so on.On the ridge of the roof, there are "Jiadi Lianyun", "Pingchu Sanji", etc., and the calligraphy is quite good.

It's a pity that the protection is worrying. Many places in the blue brick patio have been leaked out of potholes by the dripping eaves, and the brick and stone floor has not been replaced.

The surrounding ditches are also covered with moss. It is estimated that the water has not been dredged properly, resulting in waterlogging.

Even the large wooden pillars are covered with tiny wood fungi.

In addition, many families live here, and the courtyard is like the large courtyard where my aunt lives. There are coal piles from various families in the corridor, chicken coops and briquette stoves against the wall, and wooden box flowerpots in the patio. Onion, garlic, melon and vines are messy and damp in short.

Zhou Zhi shook his head when he saw it. If this once gorgeous and exquisite courtyard was not repaired, it would be completely ruined within ten years.

"What are you still looking at with your elbows!" Manager Fei's voice sounded: "Come here and sit down, and have a bowl of brown sugar fermented glutinous rice eggs!"

Only then did Zhou Zhi realize that Manager Fei had arrived at the main room at the bottom of the yard, where he was sitting there holding a bowl and waving to Zhou Zhi.

It is said to be the main room, but it has actually been partitioned into two rooms by ugly red bricks, and now Manager Fei is in the one on the left.

There is a small Eight Immortals table, a small cupboard, and a reclining chair. An old man is lying on the reclining chair. There is a small briquette stove beside him, and a small copper pot is placed on the stove.

A bowl of fermented glutinous rice eggs was boiled in the pot, and the old man's legs were covered with a quilt, tremblingly filling the bowl with fermented glutinous rice eggs from the pot.

"Oh, old man, how dare you work for you!" Zhou Zhi hurried to catch up to take over, "I'll do it, I'll do it!"

"Third Master, this is my little friend, you can just call him Elbow." Manager Fei said loudly to the old man called "Third Master" while scooping up glutinous glutinous rice powder with a spoon.

The old man was really thin and thin, with this velvet cap on his head, age spots on his face and hands, but his small eyes were still clear, he nodded to Zhou Zhi, and spoke in a weak voice: "Young man, good Very good."

"Third Master, are you living a long life?" Zhou Zhi put the glutinous glutinous rice powder in front of him: "It looks like a fairy!"

The third master gently waved the old hand that was as dry as a vine: "This is what the second baby said that Teacher Fei is coming today, so I asked you to cook it for you. You eat what you eat."

After finishing speaking, she shook her head: "It's 76, and the glutinous rice should be put away after eating."

"My grandma is 85. She eats glutinous rice balls during the Chinese New Year and even clamors to eat Yueyuehong, which makes people very worried." Zhou Zhi looked around, scooped up all the glutinous rice flour in the small copper pot, and took an egg to beat it. I went to the pot to make egg drops, and found a little sweet potato starch to thicken it into a sauce, added it to the egg drop soup, made it into sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root powder, and served a bowl for the third master: "Come on, old man, you can eat this."

Third Master Liu took it, took a sip, and said softly: "Young man, it's very good."

At this time, Liu Er came out from the back room, holding a large wooden box in his hand: "Mr. Fei, these batches are left by grandpa after looking at them, and we are waiting for you to come to the door."

"Erba, if you learn [-]% of the skills of the third master, I will recruit you." Manager Fei put down the bowl of fermented glutinous rice: "Then third master, let me take a look first?"

The third master ate "lotus root noodles" in a small bowl, and nodded slightly.

The rule of looking at the goods is that you don't even have to go to the table for convenience. Liu Er directly put the wooden box on the ground and opened the lid: "Teacher Fei, please."

Holding the bowl, Zhou Zhi glanced into the box, and there was a box full of Wenwan.

It was mainly porcelain, which was probably what Manager Fei had asked for. In addition, there were many miscellaneous items of bone, wood, gold and stone, and a few scrolls.

Dayi is a large humanities county, and Anren is a large humanities town, so there are quite a lot of good things.

A large bottle of colorful characters and stories occupying half the volume of the box is particularly eye-catching.

There is also a Jihong-glazed celestial ball vase, which at first glance is the object that opened the door during the Qianlong Dynasty.

Now Zhou Zhi also became interested, finished the glutinous glutinous rice powder in a few mouthfuls, and joined the ranks of watching the goods with a wipe of his mouth.

Character story The big bottle is a lion-eared bottle, that is, a big bottle with a thick and long neck, and the ears of the bottle are two auspicious lions.

This bottle is very beautifully drawn. Except for the lion, the picture is a stage for performances. The glazed eaves are drawn on the shoulder of the bottle, which subtly divides the above and below the shoulder of the bottle into two scenes outside the wall and inside the wall.

There are bamboo, stone and flower trees in the distance outside the wall, and there are two big trees nearby. Several children are climbing on the big trees, peeping at the rehearsal of the play inside the wall.

The inner part of the wall is the bottle belly, surrounded by lawns, rockeries, and water pavilions. There are seven or eight characters in the picture, including Hua Dan and Xiaosheng playing each other, Tsing Yi singing, and two painted faces holding a hammer. , one holding a gun, sparring on the grass.

There is also a table and chairs beside the opera practitioners, where several musicians are playing, and refreshments, cups and pots are placed on the table.

The funniest thing is that there is a plantain plant in front of the moon gate in the corner, and under the cover of the plantain, there is another child showing a small face at the moon gate, and he is also peeping at the scene, forming a vertical echo with the children on the tree in the bottleneck. relation.

Of course, there are many other scenes, such as reed reed swimming fish in the pond, swallows chasing each other in the air, and even a few butterflies attracted by the refreshments, the pictures are extremely vivid.

The bottom of the bottle is the official blue and white "Great Qing Qianlong Year System" standard inscription, but the picture is slightly different from the exquisite five-color official kiln bottle, and it seems to have some... deformation.

The painter's flaws were also noticed by Manager Fei, and he smiled at Mr. Liu, "Master Liu, is there a hole in this bottle?"

"This bottle is a bit weird." Liu Sanye was also a little puzzled: "The bottom payment is a real official kiln bottom payment. I can't find any faults, but this painter..."

"It's a pity that such a large vessel." Manager Fei shook his head: "This should be imitated by the Ming dynasty kiln, right?"

"It's impossible to imitate after the Republic of China." The third master was fiddling with the spoon slowly: "It's strange, it's because the painter's painting skills are not up to standard, other than the brushwork and color, I really can't fault it. The work of apprentices in the Taoist period, the gadgets of famous disciples before they left their masters."