The patio in the family hall in the mountains of Dongjiang Lake.

When people in the mountains hear the word "well", they usually think of a well that gushes spring water, but the patio, on the contrary, is a well that meets the sky and flows into the ground. According to the five elements, there are wells in Jin Mu's fire, water and soil, which are called by different places.

It is an old house. There must be a Tianmen, a skylight and a patio. So where are these three days? Tianmen refers to the hole above the patio, which rose in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the earliest, there was a curtain board, which was built at dark and opened at dawn. It is commonly known as opening the Tianmen or opening the eyes of the sky. Few ancient towns in Jiangxi still inherit this custom, but few local people know this operation. In addition, there is a kind of Tianmen four-corner column with a tile wider than Tianmen, and Tianshui only flows into the patio from Tianmen cover one or two. Skylight refers to the place where the roof of each upstairs is covered with exposed tiles, which is convenient for the attic to light. As the saying goes, if you open the skylight, it will not open. If you open it, it will leak rain, just like in reality. Patio refers to the place where Tianshui meets in a hall. It not only has size, elegance, geomantic omen, but also has a saying.

The length-width ratio of the patio is 2: 1, the width-depth ratio of the patio is 1: 1, and the width of all sides of the ditch is 1: 1, which is almost proportional. As for the size of the patio, it is generally determined according to the width of the screen beam and column, and the bottom is low on the left and high on the right to facilitate running water. The center of the patio is turtle-backed or turtle-bellied, the turtle-backed bulge is piled with goose egg sky, and the turtle-bellied shape is arranged with six or eight large stone slabs, all of which belong to Xuanwu, which is in charge of water. The flowing water in the patio does not flow to outsiders, and generally a special underground reservoir is left. The cultured people will raise money beetles in the sewers to dredge the sewers. People in Dongjiang Lake have four walls, three walls, a courtyard surrounded by two walls and without walls. The courtyard is clean, and the older generation has a saying: the damaged owner is ill, too deep has an argument, planting trees is disastrous, the people with stones are not prosperous, and the bonsai has no children; Both sides of the patio correspond to the ear rooms, and cannot go ahead or behind. The patio is the center point of the hall, how long the back hall is and how wide the front is. The layout of the center point is the coordinate core, and the front is empty with the proportion of the length of the hall. The wall square, the courtyard, and the wall square are rooted in Mount Tai and Shi Gandang; The courtyard is surrounded by gates, and the foot of the left courtyard stands on Mount Tai and Shi Gandang. The gates are listed in the courtyard wall. Generally, there are two screens in the hall to separate the patio. Many patios have been observed on the spot. There is a kind of patio that is as big as Tianmen, and the center of the patio is flat around it, forming a circular ditch. This kind of patio receives dripping water directly against the ditch, and all the heavy rain falls on the center of the well. The patio is covered with moss because of too much water, and the hall that is resistant to the sun is also cloudy, and it is easy to get sick and difficult to live for a long time.

The most representative buildings of the ancient dwellings in Dongjiang Lake are all in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it has been about 5 years since, influenced by the architectural style of Jiangxi School in the Ming Dynasty, finding the patio is the building center; Horsehead wall, cockscomb bucket, magpie tail, imitating Huizhou Hexin firewall; Most of the ancient houses were built between green mountains and green waters, and they were born in Jieyu (now Xiayu), the largest ancient village of the Ming Dynasty near Dongjiang Lake. Unfortunately, it became the Shuilong Palace in the last century. I want to know more about the local patio structure. There are still some buildings left in this city, such as Liuhua Bay, Heitanlong, Xingtang, Liaoyuan Bay, Nakata, Akita, Aotou and Xianghuashu, which are worth visiting.

When I was a child, before I immigrated to the Jianghu, I saw many ancient houses. One autumn, I saw a small animal basking in the sun in the courtyard. I didn't know what it was, and I was very surprised. I saw that his body was not turbulent for a long time, with a golden neck, a brown shell and black and white eyes. I asked the old people that it was a sacred object, but fortunately I didn't catch him naughty. I heard from the old people that he would release a gas in the waterway to lure small insects to wrap their bellies, if it were not palm-sized; I have seen the god of "the tortoise and snake lock the river" and the Xuanwu of the snake-headed tortoise. If you see him again, please give him my regards.