Thoughts on the pursuit of Xie's castle
In recent years, the castles such as Imperial Palace, Xiangyu Castle and Diji City have become the most valuable tourist business cards in Jincheng. The elaborate production and performance of large-scale field sitcoms such as Return to Xiangfu and Castle, Castle have made the profound and profound castle culture known and spread by more and more people.
yesterday (February 12th, 222), I visited Xie's Castle in Dongbaling Village, Zezhou County on the recommendation of a friend. Dongbaling Village is about 3 kilometers away from the urban area, and it takes about 45 minutes by car to take Erxi Line. The winter snow on the hills along the way is elegant and holy, especially enchanting. The traffic is scarce, and the photos taken by the camera are far less layered and open than those seen by the human eye. But out of the urban jungle, close to nature, there is an incomparable sense of closeness and impulse.
When I arrived at the navigation destination, I didn't see a grand castle like the Imperial City Xiangfu or Xiangyu Castle. At noon on the twelfth day of the first month, there were very few people on the rural streets. Driving further, I suddenly saw a full-page introduction of Xie's Castle on the wall, which must be the center of the castle.
Introduction to the Castle
The origin of Xie's Castle can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 82-782 BC), with a history of about 3, years. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Xuanwang named Shen Bo, his yuan uncle, a vassal of the ancient Xie State. According to the inheritance from generation to generation and the textual research of existing historical materials, the Xieshi Castle in Dongbaling Village is a summer resort on the scale of the vassal king's city site built by Shenbo with strong economic strength and a three-dimensional defense network system after decades. Xie's Castle uses the ancient geomantic theory (namely geomantic omen, commonly known as geomantic omen, which is a mysterious art with a long history) for site selection, adapts to local conditions and changes with the situation, and integrates the defense concept into all levels of the building, so that the underground, the house and the roof form a trinity and complete castle defense system. The ancient culture left by Xie's Castle is the cultural remains of the Zhou Emperor and the cultural system of the vassal Wang Shenbo. After the destruction of Xie Guo by Chu in 688 BC, Shen Bo's clique took the country as its surname and became the authentic Xie family.
? Xie's Castle has 22 ancient courtyard buildings, 5 chessboard courtyards, 8 quadrangles, 4 triple courtyards and 5 irregular courtyards built on the ground. On the east side of the village, there are big and small temples. There are 9 city gates, 8 hutongs and 8 T-shaped streets in the castle, which are connected with four main streets, including East Street, West Street, Shangjie Street and Xiajie Street. Xie's Castle has 18 connecting passages connecting 22 courtyards, with a building area of about 15, square meters, a tunnel and drainage system of about 5 meters long, and a total area of more than 3, square meters, all of which are two floors with brick, wood or stone structures. More than 84 houses are unblocked from top to bottom, households are connected, and hospitals are connected.
Looking for the Castle
Walking into the village center to explore the Castle, it seems that you can't find the imprint of the Castle in the orderly courtyard buildings of the rural school. Looking further into the depths, I suddenly saw a design explanation plate of a ruined Feng Shui Pavilion.
Go south along the direction of Fengshui Pavilion, and you will see the signs hanging on the wall, which are introduced in turn as Foreign Affairs Courtyard, and the door plaque: South Earth is the guarantee. Originated from The Book of Songs. Using the original sentence in the Book of Songs as a door plaque has also become a special culture to inherit and praise Xie's Shenbo. Middle door plaque: Kun Hou carries things, from the Book of Changes. It means bearing everything with breadth and density, nourishing everything and benefiting everything. Menbian of the Chamber: Keqin Kebang. It means that in dealing with state affairs, generations should do their best, work diligently, and build a harmonious family with high morality and self-discipline.
The site of the "Chamber" in front of us is a place to discuss state affairs. One into three courtyards. The magnificent screen wall in front of the hall is nowhere to be found, but you can still feel the solemnity of this ancient building.
Then there is the Bagua Courtyard, which is the No.11 Courtyard of Baling, an immovable cultural relic cave in Zezhou County. The door plaque is of Chen Liushi origin. Chenliu is the birthplace of Xie's family, and now Chenliu is in Kaifeng. Chen Liutang is the earliest Tang name of Xie's family. This plaque tells the world that Xie's family in Dongbaling Village is the authentic ethnic group of Shenbo. There are two Tai Chi pictures on the head of the North House of Bagua Courtyard introduced on the door plaque. There is a Tianma in the northwest corner, and there is a god cow looking at the moon in the southwest corner of Maweigan. The cow is the land and the land is Kun. Inner courtyard door plaque: South China is a style, which also originated from the book of songs "The Book of Songs is elegant and lofty". It means that people in the castle should follow the example of the South China and build Xieshi Castle into a summer resort at the southern tip of Taihang Mountain.
all the sculptures in the courtyard are one yin and one yang. Unfortunately, there is no way to verify the refutation of the spot marks in the hospital.
Carefully taste, all the sculptures and Taiji pictures introduced are rooted in the Taoist culture of the Chinese nation; The family rules on the plaque are also a model of Confucian culture. ?
further along the street, a neat courtyard comes into view again. In the courtyard, a narrow sky pierced through. When you look closer, it is a dripping alley with two rows of houses, but there is a hole in the alley that is less than two feet. Looking up at the cornice line of the two eaves and the corrugated line where the dog teeth intersect, it shows the architectural aesthetic art of the ancient buildings in China. In addition, what makes me lament is the visual impact and psychological induction brought to me by the use of different materials for the adjacent two walls of the North and South Houses. Blue bricks in the south and blue stones in the north, one yin and one yang, are like the guardian and confession of a couple, especially the texture left by the bluestone bricks when they are carved, a curved moon and piles of beehives. Each bluestone brick is like a mural painting splicing the story of this castle.
It is said that there are echo walls, echo pavilions, echo lanes, empty slate streets, etc. in the castle and around the village. When there is noise, the volume doubles. Under the action of echo walls everywhere, echoes can be transmitted to each other, and the function of spreading sound can be felt everywhere in every street, forming an architectural system with information transmission function in ancient architecture. Some people feel: it is difficult to distinguish the sounds of nature, and who can divide the bells? It is really an exquisite architectural masterpiece.
But such a legend is now impossible to verify.
Revival of Castle
In the cradle of the 5,-year history of Chinese civilization, there is a saying: China saw Beijing in 1, years, China saw Shaanxi in 3, years, and China saw Shanxi in 5, years. The 3,-year-old cultural accumulation of Xie's Castle is an excellent window to look back on history. Many famous people have commented that it is the epitome of the site of the ancient Xie country, the carrier of the Chinese culture of Confucianism and Taoism, and the "living fossil" of the cultural history of Yanhuang. It is a pity that people have gone to the empty building now, lost the breath of life in the past, and declined and broken in the stormy weather. Walking into Xie's castle in its twilight years, I deeply feel the decline of ancient villages, and at the same time I am full of expectations for the restoration and revitalization of the castle.
On July 17th, 28, Mr. Feng Jicai wrote an inscription encouraging Xie's Castle: "Keep the Chinese Heritage". On April 5, 212, when I visited in person, I wrote an inscription calling again: "The ancient village mourns, and I hear its voice. The giant tree will fall, who will live? Save it quickly, who should I call? "
Xie's Castle bears the civilization of ancient villages, and also contains the core of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. The purpose of studying it is to interpret the ancient cultural symbols hidden in deep houses, touch the context of national culture, and feel the profound cultural charm of the Chinese nation while bringing people aesthetic feeling.
when the horn of revitalizing the countryside blows, it is a new subject entrusted to us by the times. While revitalizing the economy, it is necessary to explore and develop cultural recovery and reconstruction. Of course, this subject requires manpower, material resources, financial resources and time, and it is even more necessary for us to draw the most three-dimensional and diverse picture of the new era on the basis of the original heavy history and culture.
Go into the homeland, excavate the history, reshape the culture, and revitalize the countryside. May every land of the motherland be planted with wings to realize the dream of China's great rejuvenation!
Written on February 13th, 22
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