all the mornings

Chapter 48 End Chapter: All the Mornings in the World
Daming Palace Ruins Park in Xi'an is a place that Li Sichuan has long wanted to visit.He and Xiaoyu Yingying wandered under the northern winter sun, and their vests were slightly sweating after walking.He took off his padded coat, took off his scarf and leather gloves and held them in his hands, walked around the ruins with Xiaoyu, gave pointers, and explained some technical terms casually.

He said to Xiao Yu: "Have you seen the design drawing of the 'Renren Building' in Chongqing recently? Two people are stretched into large characters and overlapped, with all four limbs and two heads. Do you know what people on the Internet say? Said that this is a position of two gays making love. Such design drafts spread, and the face of our architects was completely humiliated. Do you know what I am most angry about? It is not that people say that these two houses are having sex. Like It’s okay to have portraits having sex, but the most annoying thing is that this is not just a design draft, it’s the two-dimensional symbol of Chongqing’s image, ‘Everyone Chongqing’, which was confirmed through a recent tender.”

He made a disdainful gesture, "This is an insult to the architect and the architectural design itself. Because the logic of this design is that there is no need for architectural design, as long as there is a graphic designer, and then the structural engineer can draw Here is the picture, give it to the contractor. We don’t need to consider the space of the building, just have a facade. According to this meaning, Nike’s headquarters should be a tick, Apple’s headquarters is the merciless apple, and Starbucks can only directly Give up, the mermaid is too difficult to do, what about the two fish tails on the left and one on the right? The elevator takes a turn?"

Xiao Yu laughed straight after hearing this.

"It's like a few girls participating in the interview, including returnees, masters, and double degrees. In the end, the interviewer chose the one with big breasts. It can be seen how much attention is paid to the condition of big breasts, and they would rather sacrifice the real 'function'. The same is true for architecture, human beings' pursuit of symbolic meaning is extremely strong and cannot be ignored. Just like the boss chooses employees, talent and strength are not as attractive as girls with big breasts."

Hearing that his words became more and more shameful, Xiao Yu glared at him, telling him to restrain himself in front of his daughter, and stop talking about everything.

Li Sichuan made a helpless expression, and said, "I think my son is better now, and I can talk rough words about girls in front of him."

Xiao Yu said, "Go."

Li Sichuan had no choice but to return to the topic: "Look, such a big square is as big as [-] football fields. You study in England, and you have always been to Buckingham Palace. Here are fifteen Buckingham Palaces! Three Versailles Palaces." ! Twelve Kremlins! This place is so big, you should be able to rent out bicycles, and let me take a stroll around and come back to see it with you.”

Xiao Yu said: "Isn't there a battery car?"

"How can there be a bicycle at will." He looked at it and said: "The modern landscape of this heritage park is well done. Such a large area is treated relatively purely, and only one thing is placed, unlike most scenic spots, which are messy and various. The times from the Western Zhou Dynasty to last week are all piled up."

"What was last week? The terracotta warriors that just came out of the oven?" Xiaoyu asked with a smile, "What do you think is good about this place?" She pointed to a high platform in the middle of the square. Trees were planted on the high platform, and all the leaves fell in winter. A bush of bare branches, "This should be the foundation of a certain palace in the Daming Palace."

Li Sichuan looked at it and praised: "Excellent. Ordinary ruins are either restored or covered with a glass cover. This is the first time I saw it. Restoring the foundation and letting trees grow on the top is so poetic and picturesque. , It’s so freehand. It’s a whimsical idea, showing the size of the main hall and turning it into a park. And, how should I put it, this is a kind of performance art. I’m very surprised to see this kind of creativity in China .”

Turning around, I saw another palace foundation. The difference from the one just now is that not only the foundation has been restored here, but also several palace pillars and the brackets above it have been erected.Li Sichuan was hooked: "This is the most amazing restoration in my opinion. He only restored a part of the structure and outline of the original building, but isn't this the most wonderful? The most prominent thing about ancient Chinese architecture is the exposed structure. The characteristic of Chinese painting is the contour line, and the charm comes out all at once. It also saves money. It is much more elegant and ingenious than building a fake restoration palace. Especially from a distance, it looks like ink floating in the sky.”

He kept taking pictures with the camera, taking pictures of the places where he was amazed.When I came to a sculpture, I shook my head and said: "Oh, this is not good, it is too new. The walking dragon made of gold is placed in front of this ruined palace. What it wants to show is that this is a declining empire, this is a ruined empire. Palace. But the bright golden dragon can't express the theme of decline."

Xiaoyu saw that the red-gold walking dragon looked so shabby under the gray sky of Xi'an in winter, so she smiled and said: "You can't ask too much, the whole park has just started, and the trees will grow well in the future." When it’s bigger, it’s not so glaring.”

Li Sichuan said: "You are right. There are also problems with the light and visibility now. In another time, the contrast may not be so strong."

The garden is too big, Xiao Yu said she was tired, so she sat on a chair under a bare tree to rest.Li Sichuan took a bottle of water to drink, took the baby over and held her, and fed her water again.

Yingying asked, "Why don't the trees here grow leaves?"

Li Sichuan smiled, "There are deciduous trees here, and evergreen trees are not easy to survive in the north in winter. You just came from the south where your mother is full of green and red flowers all year round, so you think the scenery here is too boring."

He took out his mobile phone to check the Internet, and said with a smile: "Guess what? This heritage park was designed by the Australian IAPA design company, which is my old employer. Hehe, what an honor. If I were still in this company , maybe I will also participate in this project." He sighed.

"Excited, aren't you?" Xiaoyu asked.

"Well, this is the dream of every architect. Of course, the rural ancient village protection planning I am doing now is also very interesting, but compared with such a large project, it is much inferior."

"The Pritzker Prize you mentioned was won by a Chinese architect Wang Shu this time. Do you have any thoughts?"

"I'm envious, and everyone else is so successful, I just have to work harder." Li Sichuan said.

"Have you thought about going to study again?" Xiao Yu asked, "Study the doctorate?"

"Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"

"I was moved by your passion and thought you might want to go to school again. You have always loved to read, anything."

"Didn't you always call me a nerd?" Li Sichuan smiled, "I like it when you call me a nerd, it's very intimate and pampering." Li Sichuan left the southern part of Fujian and returned to his hometown, and his language took on a strong local accent. There are also some usage of words.

"When do you want to study, just tell me, and Yingying and I will accompany you there." Xiaoyu smiled charmingly at him, "You study architecture, I can continue to study art, and Yingying is studying abroad, English does not need Pass the oral level."

"Can you let go of everything here?" Li Sichuan asked.

"Anytime is fine, the ends of the earth are up to you. I like to see you speak so passionately, full of confidence." She smiled, "In your words: sexy."

Li Sichuan laughed out loud, and the laughter was carried far, far away by the wind in the empty Daming Palace ruins.

There is still a long way to go, and their next stops are Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, and Yumenguan.

It's exactly: Changfeng tens of thousands of miles, blowing across Yumen Pass.

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