National Treasure Artist

Chapter 75 Pinellia's Amazement! (seeking collection recommendation)

In the early hours of the morning, the transportation team departing from Shanghai has already started to go to Qingdao.

At the same time, the construction team of the second site in Qingdao is ready, and everyone is ready.

At a quarter past seven in the morning, Ms. Xia's home.

"Mom, hurry up!"

"I'll check it one last time to see if the doors, windows, water and electricity are closed."

"I said, Mom, don't worry, it has been checked eight hundred times!"

"If you don't leave, we won't be able to catch up with the train."

"Come on, come on, really, you two are urging your life!"

At the door, Ms. Xia was carrying her luggage, leading the child and her father to rush into the room.

While answering, the old lady tried to see if the doors and windows in the yard were locked tightly, and if the liquefied petroleum gas in the kitchen was turned off.

It wasn't until the main power supply in the room was turned off that the old lady finally put on her small bag and went out.

This is Ms. Xia's mother, a very peaceful and indifferent old lady with kind eyebrows and kind eyes.

It's just that her slightly aged face can't hide a paleness, showing an unhealthy body.

Ms. Xia stood at the door, looking at her mother who was walking out a little bit, her nose suddenly felt a little sore.

She remembered when she was still a child, her mother was still young, she was standing at the door at that time, and she was also urging her mother with joyful shouts, let her hurry up, hurry up and take herself out to play.
Time is so cruel, and there are not many days left for mother in a blink of an eye.

"Mom, let's go to Shanghai this time and go to Jiangnan to have a good time!"

"You want to visit that water village, you've been thinking about it all your life."

With their mother half in their arms, the child was held by the grandfather, the four of them took a taxi and went straight to the station.

In the car, Ms. Xia quietly sent a text message on her mobile phone.

Ms. Xia's mother didn't know that, as soon as she left here, Lao Wang and Lao Liu on the other side received news from her daughter, rushed to her house, and opened the door of her house with the key left by Ms. Xia. The team entered the house.

"Pack them up and take them away, pay attention to the labels."

"Be careful, be careful, don't miss anything!"

Old Wang ordered in a deep voice.

With an order, everyone put on gloves one after another, emptied the things in the room, packed them, labeled them and brought them back to the second scene.

In just two hours, the entire room was completely empty.

Then, 24 hours after Ms. Xia's mother left, her home was completely changed.

The walls were opened, exposing the masonry inside;

Pipeline excavation, pipeline laying basically completed;

Waterproof paint begins to spread;
Re-installation of suspended ceiling and prefabricated aluminum alloy door frame
If Xia's mother came home at this time, she would probably lie down on the ground in shock.

In Banwan Village, thousands of kilometers away from Qingdao, all projects are also underway.

Davidia involucrata and Banxia wore yellow construction hats and patrolled the village.

Banxia's current identity is Gongtong's assistant, holding a notebook in her hand, which records the phone numbers of all contacts in various aspects.
When the two passed a stilted building under construction, Gong Tong saw Ban Xia's curious eyes.

Following her gaze, she smiled lightly, and then opened her mouth to explain to her:

"The stilted buildings of the Buyi people in Banwan Village are traditional wooden structures with buckets. They are generally built on the mountain and are divided into three floors. The bottom floor is an overhead space formed by the mountain, which is mostly used for raising livestock."

"The second floor is a left-right symmetrical structure, with the main room, fire hall and kitchen in the middle, and bedrooms on both sides."

"The third layer structure is mostly a semi-open space, which is used to dry and store food."

Saying that, Gongtong took Banxia and walked into the stilted building.

He raised his head and pointed at every component, and said to Banxia.

"Many stilted buildings in the village have begun to tilt because of their age."

"So the first step I did for these old houses was to straighten them."

"Fuzheng?"

Ban Xia watched the workers' movements: "Is it like that?"

"Why is this possible? When I was studying in the West, I have never seen such straightening. Their repairs are often very difficult and the cost is very high."

In the place where Banxia's sight is looking.

I saw that a construction team first removed the tile roof, and then locked and dragged the structure through steel cables to restore the entire structure horizontally and vertically, and then used wooden wedges to re-engage the structure tightly.

Ban Xia's question touched the heart of Davidia Davidson's, and she raised her eyebrows slightly proudly:

"Hey, this is the excellence of our traditional Chinese architecture."

"It's the wisdom of the ancestors."

"You should know that during some earthquakes, even modern new buildings collapse, but some centuries-old houses are still intact."

Gongtong said, looked towards the roof, and shouted to the workers: "Brother, this whole beam has to be replaced."

After seeing the other party nodding, Gong Tong looked at Ban Xia again.

"why is that?"

Ban Xia asked more and more curiously.

"It's like this piercing structure." Gongtong paused, pointing to the beams: "It is connected by interspersed mortise and tenon joints, and positioned by wooden wedges."

"These allow it to be adjusted throughout its life cycle, giving it great flexibility!"

"Because of the interspersed fit of small wooden components and mortise and tenon joints, the bucket-type wooden structure naturally has a certain tolerance for structural deformation."

"After the house is straightened, the construction team will have to replace the rotten parts of the original wooden structure, which is very convenient."

"This is why some buildings in ancient times were demolished, but they can be rebuilt thousands of miles away, just like building blocks."

The two walked out of the Diaojiaolou, Gongtong stopped, showed respect and admiration and said to Banxia:

"It also contains the philosophical wisdom of our ancestors."

"Everything, we have some leeway, the moon is full and the loss is full, and the water is full and the overflow is the same principle."

Look at one place and one by one, and check.

Ban Xia looked at the busy construction site, and at the Davidia involucrata not far in front of her, her beautiful eyes sparkled.

She is an art student, and has never understood the skills of her ancestors in building houses, but she was attracted by the cultural connotation contained in this simple contact.

"Those walls are cracked!"

Seeming to have discovered something, Banxia suddenly pointed to a stilted building and reminded Gongtong.

"This is the structure outside the house, which acts as a protective rammed earth wall."

Gongtong glanced at it, took a few steps forward, touched the wall and said.

"I observed the entire village some time ago and found that the rammed earth walls of many households have been reduced and cracked."

"I'm looking for a reason"

"It was later discovered that many of their back walls are directly connected to the mountain, so that the rainwater and sewage discharged can easily come into contact with the wall."

"In the long run, the wall surface will naturally be corroded and cracked."

Ban Xia also stretched out her tender little hand, gently touched the cracked wall, and blinked her eyes.

Immediately afterwards, she looked at Gongtong with a bright smile, and said crisply: "Then how did you solve this problem?"

There is no question of whether it can be solved or not, the direct question is the result.

The tone is very firm, with satisfaction and expectation.

The girl likes to see Davidia involucrata very much.

Not a god, not high above, but capable enough to find problems, solve them, and really improve the lives of the villagers.

"I had a long discussion with Zuo Chao and the master craftsmen."

Gongtong smiled, raised her right hand, as if holding something in the palm of her hand, and then pressed down hard: "Finally, I decided to use traditional techniques to tamp it again, just like this."

"But even if the rammed earth wall is repaired, after a long time, the rain will wash it away and it will crack again."

Ban Xia asked.

"Yes, the natural rainwater in the village has not been organized, and it will definitely be like this again after a long time."

Gongtong opened the notebook she always carried, turned to a page and handed it to Banxia: "I sorted out the water system of the whole mountain village."

"Drainage ditches are designed for each family to sort out and organize these natural rainwater."

Pinellia carefully looked at the streamline diagram in the notebook, and found that there were drainage ditches following the mountain at the back of the house. They were either intertwined, interspersed, aggregated, or dispersed.
In a remote corner, next to the main flow line of crowds, between gathering and dispersing, the drainage ditch was turned into a small landscape, surrounded by several stone benches, stone chairs...
Quiet and comfortable, very comfortable!

"Using this ditch, the village's waterways will no longer be disorderly, and this problem can be solved from the root."

Ban Xia felt amazing, and felt that such a work was more remarkable than designing a glass pyramid.

Feeling overwhelmed, my whole heart is gradually filled by the young people around me, and I can no longer tolerate others.
This canal is best used in many ancient villages in the Jiangnan area. It is a drainage system that is inseparable from life and production, and is a part of the village.

Davidia involucrata only learned part of it.

The two continued to walk, and the work and progress of different construction teams were also different.

The newly-built brick houses are undergoing special craftsmanship to unify the style and appearance.The exterior finish of their brick walls is finished by laying steel wire mesh first, then spreading soil and adding white cement, black cement, and soil curing agent
As for the cement roof, the traditional sloping roof is restored with wooden blue tiles
The brick houses with different styles gradually become less obtrusive in the village, and slowly blend into the mountain village.

Davidia involucrata and Banxia stood in the mountains, looking at the busy scene.

My heart is yearning and satisfaction.
(End of this chapter)