My old house

My old house is not too old. Construction started in 1986 and was completed in 1988.

The old house is a traditional Chaoshan folk house called "Xiashanhu". It is very familiar to friends from Chaoshan, but for friends from other places, it is still interesting to introduce it.

Let’s first take a look at the floor plan and building complex of “Xiashanhu”:

Then we will start introducing my old house. This is the appearance:

This is the gate:

The three characters "Xiang Deju" are written on the gate, because there is a "Xiang" character in my father's name; and there are couplets on both sides. It starts with the words "香" and "德".

This is the small side door:

This is the reverse side of the gate:

It is said that our hometown was moved from Ji'an, Jiangxi, so the inside of the "gate tower" Write "Old Home in Luling".

This is the roof at the front of the back hall and the stone carvings on the left and right:

There is a river picture painted in the middle of the main beam; and the stone carvings were carved by my second brother himself.

This is the decoration on the roof of the hall and the walls at both ends of the main beam:

In the middle of the main beam are Tai Chi diagrams and Luo Shu.

This is the tile painting on the back wall of the hall and the table used for worshiping ancestors:

This is the tile painting on the door heads of the four rooms:

This is a traditional stove:

This stove is still in use, and the incense burner on it is used to burn incense for the Stove Lord.

There are also skylights for lighting:

Attachment:

Baidu Encyclopedia introduces the text of "Xiashan Tiger"

Xiashan Tiger: Also known as climbing lion, it is a common architectural style in Chaoshan area and is more common in mountainous rural areas. Folk Feng Shui has a saying that the green dragon on the left is the white tiger on the right. First of all, it is better for the green dragon to be a thousand feet high than for the white tiger to be one centimeter longer. Then there is the white tiger on the right. It extends from the right side of the house to the distance. If it goes from high to low, it is called downhill. Tiger, if it goes from low to high, it is called a mountain tiger.

Chinese name

下山虎

Pinyin

xia shan hu

Geographical location

Guangdong Yuedong

Climate type

Subtropical monsoon climate

Praise

"The imperial palace in Beijing, the home of Chaoshan people"

Famous Attractions

Former Residence of Huang Xuhua

The "Xiashan Tiger" architecture is more common in rural areas of Chaoshan area, also known as "Climbing Lion". As the name suggests, the beginning of "Tiger Down the Mountain" really looks like a tiger going down the mountain and a crawling lion at the same time. The architectural layout is simpler than that of "Four Points Gold", with two fewer front rooms, and the rest are basically the same. "Xiashanhu" has different entrances and exits, so it has a main entrance and a side entrance. Usually the door is not opened in the middle, but is opened on both sides. The doors on both sides are also called "Dragon and Tiger Gates". There are also some that open the front door but not the side doors. The shape of the "Downhill Tiger" is very old. Its predecessor can be seen in the Han Dynasty Ming vessels unearthed in Guangzhou and the "Spring Outing" attributed to Zhan Ziqian of the Sui Dynasty collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Its layout is also quite similar to the "One Seal" residence in Yunnan. for similarity. Most of the residential houses built in the past by "Xiashanhu" were lived by one family. With the development and increase of social population, the form of living in one household has gradually been broken by people. There are often three or four families living in a residential house. Although such a house is a bit crowded and messy to live in, it is very suitable for friendly interactions between people.

The patio is paved with smooth marble, and all the doors are also painted with murals. The content of these murals is different from the flowers and plants on the "gatehouse belly", but drama stories and myths and legends that are widely circulated among the people, such as " "Mu Guiying takes command", "Xian Ji sends her son", "Guo Ziyi gets the treasure", etc. There is a long mural on the wall of the main hall, mostly "Ten Immortals Congratulating Birthday Pictures", all of which have auspicious meanings. There are also red sandalwood and blue citrons (collectively called "red stringers and blue stringers"). These colorful paintings make "Xiashan Tiger" a real painting garden, just like the corridor of the Summer Palace, with Art is everywhere to be admired. The paintings alone cannot show the magnificence, but there are also treasures that are more representative of Chaoshan culture and art: ingenious carvings, glittering Chaozhou embroidery and lifelike paper-cuts, as well as the inlaid porcelain that never fades, making the entire "Downhill Tiger" magnificent and beautiful. Gorgeous.