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[1] Gao Pian. Poem "To the Snow"
When six out of flying flowers enter the house,
Sit and watch green bamboos transform into qiongzhi;
Now it's good to go up to the tall building,
Cover all the evil roads in the world.
Snowflakes fluttered into the window, Qingwan sat in front of the window, watching the green bamboo turn into white jade. She thought to herself: "At this time, I just climbed up to a tall building to have a look" Then she put on a bright red windbreaker, and slowly left the East Wing.
Qingwan's home is a typical courtyard[1], with a large garden in the northwest of the courtyard and a two-story building in the back garden, where Qingwan lived in Zhen's family just after she married.
Qingwan walked up the small building and came to the room where she used to live. Thinking of her daughter Ai Ai who was born here, she couldn't help feeling sad.
She walked to the window and pushed it open: the trees that had lost their leaves were covered with fluffy and shiny silver bars; the evergreen pine and cypress trees in winter and summer were covered with fluffy and heavy snowballs.
A gust of wind blew, and the trees swayed gently, shaking off the beautiful strips and balls, and the snow powder like jade chips fluttered in the wind.
She looked up and saw that the winding path was covered with thick snow. It seems that all the dangerous roads in the world have been annihilated by the heavy snow.
Two people were pushed by the blast, and they rushed towards this side in a hurry.
Qing Wan took a closer look, but it was Ji Xu and his younger brother Mu Yu. "What time is it? Why, the teacher also skipped class?" Then he went downstairs.
When Qing Wan went to open the gate, Ji Xu and Mu Yu just arrived at the "Manzi Gate".
Mu Yu asked in surprise: "Sister, how do you know we're back?"
"Sister can pinch and count!" Qingwan asked, "Why did you come back so early today?"
Ji Xu said: "It's snowing today, I let the children go home earlier."
"Didn't the snow stop?"
"It will be released later!"
"I think," Qing Wan teased, "You kid has done enough! If that's the case, tell your sister, don't force yourself~"
"You are lonely because no one at home is making trouble for you! If that's the case, then go to school with your younger brother!" Ji Xu led Mu Yu into the gate, and every time he took a step, there would be a "creaking" sound under his feet , and then said to Mu Yu, "Qingyun, how about we sweep the snow?"
Qing Wan closed the door, turned around and said, "Didn't you say it will snow again? Isn't it a waste of effort to clean up now?"
"There is no effort in vain, and there is no effort for nothing!" Ji Xu took a look at Qingwan and said, "Now the snow is thin and easy to clean. When the snow is thick, it will take twice as much effort to clean it up." It's over." After saying that, he and Mu Yu entered the gatehouse.
Seeing that the two of them found shovels, brooms and other items, Qingwan asked, "Why, I'll help you too?"
Ji Xu said: "How dare we order my sister!"
"Is there anything I dare not order?"
"You are a landlady."
"The landlady won't work anymore?"
"That's right!" Ji Xu laughed, "How can a landlord's wife do such dirty work! Find a bench and sit there, and the supervisor will be there."
Qing Wan smiled foolishly.
[2] "Dung Beetle" Anonymous
Cai Yan was doing some needlework in the house, and when he heard voices in the yard and the jingling of shovels, he ran out. Seeing that everyone was sweeping snow, he also picked up the broom in the corner and joined in.
After a while, the snow in the front yard was swept away, and they followed the second door and entered the courtyard. The yard is huge, so they swept along the wall to the middle.
Qingwan asked: "Is it necessary to clean such a large yard?"
Ji Xu said: "The place where the landlady lives should be cleaned even more. What if I go out at night, go to the latrine or something, and slip again, and fall a shit"
Qingwan swept the snow away with a broom and scolded him, "You don't expect me to be better!" Then, she said, "Wow! It's so cold!" As she spoke, she put her hand to her mouth and breathed out to keep warm.
Looking at Qingwan's little hands that were red from the cold, Ji Xu gave her his gloves, took some snow and rubbed his hands, then took a large piece of snow, kneaded it into a ball, and rolled it in the snowdrift up.
Qing Wan said: "Are you stupid? How easy it is to shovel with a shovel!"
Ji Xu also ignored it, just kept rolling the snow ball in his hand to make it bigger.
Qing Wan smiled and called out, "Mr. Ji?"
 Go find some red paper and cut a mouth for the snowman. "
Cai Yan found scissors and red paper and handed them to Ji Xu, saying, "Sir, come on I'm stupid, how can I cut my mouth!"
Qing Wan rushed to say: "I can cut!"
Cai Hua handed the paper and scissors to Qing Wan.
Qing Wan quickly cut a red lip with upturned corners, dipped it in water and handed it to Ji Xu. Ji Xu hugged Mu Yu and put his red lips under Snowman's nose.
It was already very expressive, but Ji Xu seemed not satisfied, and said, "It would be much cuter if I could have a hat and a scarf"
Upon hearing this, Qing Wan immediately entered the main room. She found her father-in-law's Mongolian top hat and the colorful hada that others gave him. Ji Xu picked up Mu Yu, put a hat on the snowman, and wrapped the hada around the snowman's neck
After everything was dressed up, everyone looked at the silly big snowman standing there with a smile and waving his hands. They jumped around it happily, laughing! Hold hands and dance happily around the snowman.
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Notes
[1] Siheyuan
Also known as Sihefang, it is a traditional Chinese courtyard building. Its pattern is that houses are built on all sides of a courtyard, and the courtyard is enclosed in the middle from all sides, so it is called Siheyuan.
The Siheyuan is a house with a gate in front of the Sanheyuan to seal it off. If it is in the shape of "mouth", it is called the first courtyard; if it is in the shape of "日", it is called the second courtyard; if it is in the shape of "mu", it is called the third courtyard. Generally speaking, in a mansion, the first entrance is the gate house, the second entrance is the hall, and the third or last entrance is the private room or boudoir, which is the activity space for women or family members. Ordinary people are not allowed to enter at will. No wonder the ancients have a poem saying : "How deep is the garden?" The deeper the courtyard, the less you can get a glimpse of its mystery.
(1) History
Siheyuan has a long history. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, complete Siheyuan appeared. The architectural relics of the two-entry courtyard unearthed at the Zhouyuan site in Fengchu Village, Qishan, Shaanxi Province, is the earliest and most rigorous example of a courtyard house known in China.
The courtyard buildings in the Han Dynasty had a new development. Influenced by the theory of Fengshui, the courtyards had a whole set of yin and yang and five elements from site selection to layout. The courtyards of the Tang Dynasty inherited the Han Dynasty and the Song and Yuan Dynasties, with a narrow front and a narrow rear.
Most of the ancient courtyard houses are corridor courtyards, that is, the central axis of the courtyard is the main building, and the surroundings are connected by corridors, or there are houses on the left and right, instead of building houses on all sides. In the late Tang Dynasty, courtyards with corridors and verandahs appeared, gradually replacing them. After the Song Dynasty, the corridors gradually decreased, and gradually disappeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
(2) Overall pattern
? Formal courtyard houses, one family and one house, the floor plan can be large or small. The owner of the house can build it according to the size of the land and the number of people in the family. It can be as small as only one entrance, as large as three or four entrances, and it can also be built as two courtyards with a width of two courtyards. For small ones, there are 13 rooms; for one or two courtyard houses, there are 25 to 40 rooms. The back wall of the wing room is the courtyard wall, and brick walls are built at the corners. The large courtyard is surrounded by walls from the outside. The walls are tall and no windows are opened to show its privacy. In terms of format, many palaces and temples are also designed and built according to the layout of courtyard houses.
As soon as the smallest one enters the courtyard, it is the courtyard directly after entering the street gate, running through the central axis. The houses are all single-storey, surrounded by inverted rooms, main rooms, and side rooms to form a courtyard. The house is a wing room, and the door of the south room opens to the north, so it is called "inverted room". Flowers, fruits and trees are planted in courtyards for ornamental purposes.
The two-entry courtyard is divided into the front yard and the back yard, and the back yard is also called the inner house. The front yard is composed of a gate tower and an inverted house. The door connecting the front and back yards is usually a vertical flower gate, and some relatively simple houses use a moon gate. The back yard is composed of east and west wing rooms, main rooms, and verandas.
A complete quadrangle courtyard is a courtyard with three entrances. The first entrance is the narrow courtyard in front of the vertical flower gate, where the inverted house lives; The entrance courtyard is the back cover room behind the main building, and a door is opened in the ear room on the east side of the main building, connecting the second and third entrance courtyards. In the entire courtyard, the elderly live in the north room (upper room), the middle is the large living room (middle hall room), the eldest son lives in the east room, the second son lives in the west room, the servant lives in the inverted room, and the daughter lives in the backyard, without affecting each other. This also reflects the influence of traditional Chinese cultural philosophy of "men outside and women inside".
There are many combinations of the fourth and fifth admissions, usually in the form of "sleeping in the front hall and sleeping in the back". The first entrance courtyard is the same as the third entrance courtyard, the second entrance courtyard is the hall room and the east and west wing rooms for external use, and then a vertical flower door is set up to form the third entrance courtyard between the hall room and the vertical flower door, and the main room and wing rooms are behind the vertical flower door. The fourth courtyard where it is located is the main courtyard. If there is a back cover room at the back, it constitutes the fifth courtyard. There are also a row of south houses built on the north side of the inverted house to form a courtyard with four or five entrances.
The maximum depth of a Beijing courtyard is the distance between two hutongs, about 77 meters. Some luxurious courtyards even have gardens and rockeries. High-standard courtyard houses are equipped with toilets, and these built-in toilets are generally arranged in the southwest corner. According to Feng Shui, the southwest is the "land of five ghosts", and the white tiger can be subdued with filth if the toilet is built; from a practical point of view, the toilet is built in the southwest to adapt to the northwest-southeast wind direction and prevent the odor from spreading in the courtyard. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)?? is the distance between two hutongs, about 77 meters. Some luxurious courtyards even have gardens and rockeries. High-standard courtyard houses are equipped with toilets, and these built-in toilets are generally arranged in the southwest corner. According to Feng Shui, the southwest is the "land of five ghosts", and the white tiger can be subdued with filth if the toilet is built; from a practical point of view, the toilet is built in the southwest to adapt to the northwest-southeast wind direction and prevent the odor from spreading in the courtyard. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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