Essay on Winter Tour of Diaohualou

I took the winter solstice to Suzhou and visited the famous carved buildings. In the middle of winter in Jiangnan, the weather is cold, the mountains and rivers are silent, the scenery is shrinking and the greenery is sparse. Although many fragrant flowers and beautiful flowers in nature have withered, sculpture architecture has left a deep impression on us with its exquisite carving art flowers.

The Carved Building, whose real name is Chunzailou, was built in Dongshan, Dongting, Wuxian County, on the coast of Taihu Lake, located in the south of Suzhou, about 40 kilometers away from Sioux City. The name of the building is taken from a sentence by Yu Yue, a famous poet in Qing Dynasty, "Flowers are still in spring". It was the private residence of Jin Xizhi, a rich businessman in Dongshan in the early years of the Republic of China, and was known as the "first building in the south of the Yangtze River". It is a magnificent manor built three years after the yarn-opening business broke out in Shanghai, and it took 20 16-02-08374 12 to go back to my hometown. The building is magnificent and luxurious, with seven major arts: brick carving, stone carving, wood carving, gold carving, clay sculpture, painting and mural painting. Carving techniques, there are relief, round carving, through carving, Yin and Yang carving. All kinds of carvings are exquisite, which can be called the masterpiece of Xiangshan Sect sculpture art of Soviet-style architecture in the south of the Yangtze River, so it is called carved building.

Carved buildings are antique buildings, which mainly imitate the artistic style of quadrangle buildings in Ming Dynasty, and draw lessons from the techniques of western Gothic architecture. They are mainly Chinese, combining Chinese and western, and have great artistic characteristics. It sits west facing east, and there are screen wall, gatehouse, front building, middle building, back building and mountain pavilion arranged in sequence according to the central axis. In the overall design, it inherits the closed courtyard pattern with clear axis and balanced layout of traditional garden buildings, and the buildings are separated by patios, which not only realizes the artistic effect of virtual and real in architectural aesthetics, but also skillfully solves the problems of lighting, ventilation and drainage in practice. At the same time, solemn Buddhist buildings and exquisite gardens are set up in the north of the building, while they are integrated with the ancient and elegant Qinde Hall in the Ming Dynasty in the south, so that more than 100 houses in the forest gather into a harmonious whole. At the same time, the building is hidden in the building, and the garden is hidden outside the building, with a bright future and a winding path. In particular, the Jubaoge, which was built in the middle building, used the sparrow cornice method with two floors and three dark floors, and the hidden method with raised horse-head walls on both sides, which concealed the reality, resulting in the visual illusion that the appearance of the building is only two floors, which is very confusing. It is said that this is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation by craftsmen adhering to the Jin family's intention of saving money and saving lives. At that time, with the help of this half-hidden, half-hidden, dark third floor, the Kim family kept all these exquisite things in the Jubaoge. Although it was looted by bandits in Taihu Lake three times, its wealth was not eroded, which can prove that the design of this building is exquisite.

In the past, people in Jiangnan paid attention to "carving is the most precious thing, and it is impossible to build a house without carving", and attached great importance to the decoration and artistic sense of the house. It is precisely because of this reason that "the spring building is carved everywhere", and the carved building can be described as a world carved everywhere, just like a graceful beauty with tattoos all over her body, beautiful in appearance, beautiful in heart and beautiful in appearance. Regardless of screen walls, lintels, halls, beams, panes, porches, fences, closets, doorsills, steps, column bases, floor tiles and even pull rings, buttons, pins and keyhole, there are patterns everywhere, such as model mountains, herbs, auspicious birds and animals, portraits of immortals, household appliances and so on. Which looks good and which looks good. The content and theme are varied and unconventional, including Confucian classics, anecdotes, folklore, novels, anecdotes and legends. There are thousands of patterns carved on the whole building, all of which are exquisite and full of auspicious meanings and beautiful symbols of seeking wealth. It can be said to be a museum of auspicious culture and folk customs in China. In particular, the 24-character "Reaching for money, stepping on the ground, having a long life when looking up, having an official when going back, having a treasure when entering the door, and being blessed when going out" consists of a coin-shaped handle at the front door, a bat-shaped needle eye at the front door, an official hat-shaped head in the living room, a cornucopia of woodcarving at the entrance on the second floor, eight immortals carved in bricks on the lintel, and the inscription "Hongxi" on the screen wall. The architect of the building also ingeniously blended profound and ancient Confucian classics such as Heaven-sent Pure Land and Yu Xiu's Unique Virtue with plain and gaudy drama stories such as Peach Garden Wishing, Romance of the West Chamber, which not only improved the cultural taste of the building, but also catered to the public's appreciation taste. In addition, the furniture in the carved building is simple, elegant and antique, luxurious and dignified, or exquisite and rich. Beds, screens, cabinets, tables and chairs, coffee tables, piano cases, candlesticks, flower stands, railings and handrails are all made of pure mahogany, plus gold, silver, pearls, jewels, jade, stones, teeth, horns, porcelain and handrails.

The "Four Seasons Garden" in the north of the carved building is elegant. The garden adopts the art of borrowing scenery, with an inch of scenery and a thousand Li feet. Exquisite layout and beautiful scenery. Less than 300 square meters of tiny land, rockery winding path, clear water arch bridge, pavilions, trees and flowers, fish, insects and birds, surrounded by mountains and waters, trees and flowers, condensed the elegance of Jiangnan gardens. In the garden, a group of rockery rocks piled up with Taihu rocks stand against the wall, circling back and forth, deep and remote, with tiny waterfalls hanging obliquely between the stones, flowing water gurgling, foggy and cool. Under the rocks on the side of the mountain, the pictographic stone of Taihu Lake, which looks like a dragon, a phoenix, a deer and a horse, lies on its side and moves vividly. Surrounded by mountains and waters, there are many famous trees, such as ginkgo, cypress, crape myrtle, osmanthus, smiling face, wintersweet, loquat, Metasequoia, lotus and so on. , are more than one hundred years. In the severe winter, although most of them are bare leaves, they are full of vitality. The ground in the park is paved with colored pebbles, inlaid with various patterns such as Five Blessingg Shoushou, Songhe Yanshou, Pingsheng III, Shoushan Fuhai, Taiji Map, Dark Eight Immortals, etc., which are elegant and interesting. Strolling to the "Miss Building" in the south corner of the garden, I feel that the sky is vast and my vision is wide. The lookout column can overlook the vast smoke and waves of Taihu Lake, and order fishing boats. On the edge of Dongshan, there are jagged forest houses, and there are smoke curling up. You can also overlook the white mountains, clear water, green trees and red flowers in the garden. In short, wandering in the carved building and the Four Seasons Garden, the carved building, with its exquisite carving art and profound folk culture, always holds your heart and tugs at your intestines, making people linger.

Carved floor, an artistic building that makes people linger.