How to decorate quadrangles? What about culture?

The classic architecture of old Beijing-Siheyuan Chatting about Beijing is indispensable to Siheyuan. I didn't think it was necessary before. Many students who went abroad to study were interested in asking me, only to know that Siheyuan has also become a scene in Beijing. This time, I'll pay a visit in the community, and my Beijing buddies who don't know much about it will look at it, so as not to make people wonder. It's a little bit that I don't know about my own doorstep ... Friends from other places will come to Beijing to play in the future, and they won't feel wronged when they visit quadrangles. It's better than walking their legs wherever they go. The quadrangle in Beijing, which began in the 12th century, meets the requirements of the patriarchal clan system in feudal society and is a traditional residential form in Beijing for a hundred years. Four-in-one means that there are houses in the southeast and northwest, with neat layout and bright courtyards, which makes people feel quiet and comfortable, and they live in their rooms in an orderly manner, making it convenient to work and rest. Once upon a time, Beijingers paid attention to a lot of housing. As the saying goes, if you have money, you can't live in the southeast room. It's not warm in winter and not cool in summer. Everyone is happy to live in a house on the north side of the road, with neat yards at four corners. They don't like falling down the steps, saying it's jumping into the pit (stupid …). There are four sayings in Beijing: it is better to live in front of the temple than behind it, and it is better to live in the left side of the temple than to live with friends. Pine and cypress trees and poplars can't be planted in the yard, because they are trees planted in a secluded house. It doesn't matter now, plant them as you like, hehe. The quadrangles in Beijing are divided into large, medium and small specifications. Big quadrangle: the main room is the front porch and the back building, and there is a cover room behind it. There is a hanging flower door in the middle of the flower wall on the south side of the east and west wing. There are four wooden screens in the door, and both the east and west wings have a veranda that communicates with the hanging flower door. Some flower walls are on both sides of the hanging flower door, with two or three leaking windows. Between the main room and the wing, there is a round moon gate, which can go from the aisle to the backyard, and some have a hall to walk through. In the outer court, there is a flower wall in the east and west, with the moon gate in the middle, four wooden screens painted in green with red cross characters, "moving wall books" in the east and "Xiyuan calligraphy" in the west. You can go to the cross yard from this gate. There is a mountain corridor in the south room, which is a corridor connected by gables. In this way, several courtyards are formed, which are interconnected from east to west, from north to south. The most typical big quadrangles in Beijing are Nawangfu (in Goldfish Hutong) and Gongwangfu (Shichahai West Street) in the Qing Dynasty, which are spectacular and have gardens. In quadrangles, there are usually five or seven main rooms, with wooden partitions or floor coverings in the rooms, and some main rooms and wings with porches. The five rooms are three main rooms and two wing rooms, and the wing room is a single door, so-called "three positive ears". Seven rooms, between the main room and the wing room, there are two suites (open on the gables) communicating with the main room. There are three east and west wing rooms, and there is an aisle between the wing room and the wing room, which can lead to the backyard. On the south side of the east and west wing, there is a courtyard wall that divides the courtyard into an inner courtyard and an outer courtyard, all of which are brick fields. After the rain, there is no water. There is a moon gate in the middle of the courtyard wall. In order not to let people in the outer courtyard see the inner courtyard at a glance, just behind the moon gate, a brick or wooden screen wall is erected. Some put a few pots of flowers in the yard, put a big fish tank, set up a ceiling in summer and enjoy the cool in the yard. Old Beijingers say: ceiling, fish tank, pomegranate tree. This is the scene of quadrangles in summer. In the outer court, there is one or two deer roofs in each thing. The house at the top of the deer is a little smaller than the wing, and it is used as a kitchen or for servants to live in. In the pattern of seven rooms in the south room, one in the east is the gate hole, the other in the west of the gate is the porter, and the door opens on the western wall of the gate hole. Do a garage or a side door at the head of the west. The whole house, pay attention to grinding bricks to seam, yellow pine wooden frame, double eaves of wind and fire, square brick floor in the house, bright windows. Except for the deer roof, the wing room and the garage, all the windows are supported from the top and removed from the bottom. The so-called "upper support and lower support" means that there are two windows pasted with Korean paper on the top, and the one outside can be supported by two thin iron bars. In summer, the window inside is changed into cold cloth for ventilation. In winter, the one outside will be exhausted, sheltering from the wind and cold. A window at the bottom is a whole big glass. There is another window guard outside. Hang it at night and take it off in the morning. After liberation, this quadrangle was distributed to several families for living. Most residents in Beijing lived in this kind of house just after liberation. Now, the population of Beijing is increasing year by year, and everyone is happily living in buildings. This kind of house is becoming less and less ... Small quadrangles, which have a simple layout, are generally three rooms with north rooms (also called principal rooms), and there are partitions in the room, which are divided into one bright room and two dark rooms and one bright room. There are two rooms in the east wing and three rooms in the south wing (also called inverted seats), all of which are tile-roofed houses with bricks lying to the top and ridges. There are also some small quadrangles with chessboard hearts, or with gray stalks. It is very suitable for a family of two or three generations to live in a small quadrangle with a single house. Parents live in the main room (upper room, upper room), the younger generation lives in the wing room, and the south room is used as the living room and back study room. There is a brick-paved cross road in the yard, which leads to the door of the east, west, north and south rooms, and there are steps in front of the door. Street gates are all in the southeast, and rarely open in the south, because the temple gates are all in the middle of the south, all of which are gates with clear water ridges. The two street gates facing the customs each have a small iron ring with which to knock. The main buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties are less and less in today's high-rise buildings, but some of them have been listed as cultural relics protection units, and you can go and see them if you are interested. They are: No.87 Xijiaomin Lane in Xicheng District, No.112 North Xinhua Street, No.23 West Fourth North Street in Xicheng District, No.11 West Fourth North Third Street in Xicheng District, No.19 West Fourth North Third Street in Xicheng District, No.15 West Fourth Sixth Street in Dongcheng District, No.63-65 Lishi Hutong in Dongcheng District, No.11 Neibu Street in Dongcheng District, No.7 Yuanensi Back Street in Dongcheng District, No.15 Fangjia Hutong in Dongcheng District, No.36 Fuxue Hutong in Dongcheng District. Recently, the city of Beijing has been demolished badly. If you have a camera, go and leave those precious shots that will never be repeated, otherwise it will only be reproduced in your memory in the future. < /p>