The courtyard as an ancestral hall must have been very glorious in the past. Zhou Zhi entered the courtyard, bypassed the screen wall with the word "Chu Shen" glued on it with blue and white tiles, looked around, and found a decoration that ordinary wealthy people would find difficult to buy -

—Brick carving.

Brick carving refers to carving patterns such as landscapes, flowers, and figures on blue bricks. It is an important art form for carving and decorating ancient buildings.

The core point of the production process is to use finished blue bricks of gold brick grade, and use various carving techniques to carve out various themes and patterns from the fine-textured green bricks, which can be used for decoration of building components or doors, screens, and walls.

.Let the mansion achieve exquisite and delicate effects, vivid charm, and extremely bookish atmosphere.

There are nine major regions of brick carving, the most famous ones being the Beijing style in the north and the Su style in the south.

The brick carving patterns in this ancestral hall can be viewed from far and near, and the carvings are also very exquisite. There are dragons and phoenixes presenting auspiciousness, harmony of two immortals, bangs playing with golden toads, three Yangs in prosperity, Guo Ziyi celebrating longevity, unicorns delivering children, and lions rolling embroidered balls.

, three friends in winter, four immortals in flowers and other patterns.

The characters on the gatehouse are "Three Stars Gaozhao", "Weituo Jinbao", etc. On the roof ridge are "Jia Di Lian Yun", "Ping Chu Three Levels", etc. The calligraphy is quite good.

It's a pity that the protection is worrisome. Many places inside the blue brick patio have holes formed by dripping eaves, and the masonry floor has not been replaced.

The surrounding ditches are also covered with moss. It is estimated that the water was not dredged properly, causing waterlogging.

Even the large wooden pillars are covered with tiny wood fungi.

In addition, many families live here, and the courtyard is just like the large courtyard where my aunt lives. There are coal piles from various families in the corridor, chicken coops and briquette stoves against the walls, and there are wooden boxes and flower pots for planting in the patio.

Onions, garlic, melons, vines, etc. In short, it is messy and damp.

Zhou Zhi shook his head as he saw it. If this once gorgeous and exquisite courtyard was not repaired, it would be completely destroyed in less than ten years.

"What are you looking at with your elbow there!" Manager Fei's voice sounded: "Come and sit down and have a bowl of brown sugar fermented eggs!"

Only then did Zhou Zhi realize that Manager Fei had arrived at the main room at the bottom of the courtyard, sitting there holding a bowl and waving to Zhou Zhi.

It is said to be the main room, but it has actually been divided into two rooms by using ugly red bricks. Manager Fei is now in the room on the left.

There was a small Eight Immortals table, a small cupboard, and a recliner. An old man was lying on the recliner. There was a small briquette stove next to him, and a small copper pot was placed on the stove.

There was a bowl of fermented glutinous rice eggs boiling in the pot. The old man's legs were covered with a quilt and he was shakily filling the fermented fermented glutinous rice eggs from the pot into the bowl.

"Oh, how dare I work for you, old man!" Zhou Zhi hurriedly caught up and took over: "I'll do it, I'll do it!"

"Third Master, this is my little friend, just call him elbow." Manager Fei scooped up glutinous rice flour with a spoon and said loudly to the old man named "Third Master".

The old man was really thin and shriveled. He wore this velvet hat on his head, and his face and hands were covered with age spots. However, his little eyes were still clear. He nodded to Zhou Zhi and spoke in a weak voice: "Young man, okay.

Very good."

"How long do you live, Third Master?" Zhou Zhi put the fermented glutinous rice noodles in front of him and said, "You look good and healthy!"

The third master gently waved his old hand, which was as dry as a vine: "This is what Erwa said that Teacher Fei is coming today and asked him to cook it for you. You can eat it."

After saying that, he shook his head: "Seventy-six years old, you have to put aside the glutinous rice after eating it."

"My grandma is eighty-five years old. She makes a fuss about eating glutinous rice balls during the Chinese New Year, which makes people extremely worried." Zhou Zhi looked around, scooped up all the glutinous rice flour in the small copper pot, and took one.

Crack the eggs into the pot and mix them into egg drops, then add some sweet potato starch to thicken the sauce and add it to the egg drop soup, then mix it into the shape of osmanthus and lotus root powder, and serve a bowl to Third Master: "Here, old man, you can eat this."

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Mr. Liu Sanye took it, took a sip, and said softly: "Young man, it's very good."

At this time, Liu Er came out of the back room, holding a large wooden box in his hand: "Teacher Fei, this batch was left by grandpa after seeing it. You have been waiting for your visit for a long time."

"Er baby, if you learn 20% of Third Master's skills, I'll hire you as an artist." Manager Fei put down the glutinous rice bowl: "Third Master, let me take a look first?"

The third master took a small bowl and ate the "lotus root starch" and nodded gently.

The rule when looking at goods is not to touch the goods. For the sake of convenience, Liu Er directly put the wooden box on the ground and opened the lid: "Teacher Fei, please."

Zhou Zhi held the bowl and glanced into the box. There were boxes full of toys.

The main ones are porcelain, which is probably what Manager Fei asked for. In addition, there are many miscellaneous items such as bones, wood, gold and stone, and a few scrolls.

Dayi is a big cultural county, and Anren is a big cultural town, with quite a lot of good things.

A large bottle of colorful characters and stories that takes up half the volume of the box is particularly eye-catching.

There is also a Ji-red glazed celestial sphere vase, which looks like the object that opened the door to the Qianlong Dynasty.

Zhou Zhi also became interested this time. After slurping down the glutinous rice flour in a few mouthfuls, he joined in the procession of looking at the goods.

The character story vase is a lion-eared vase, which is a vase with a thick and long neck. The ears of the vase are two auspicious lions.

This bottle is very beautifully painted. In addition to the lion, the picture is a stage for performance. The glazed eaves are painted on the shoulders of the bottle, which cleverly divides the upper and lower parts of the bottle into two scenes: outside the wall and inside the wall.

Outside the wall, there are bamboo, rock and flower trees in the distance, and there are two big trees nearby. Several children are climbing on the big trees, peeking at the rehearsing of the play inside the wall.

The inner part of the wall is the bottle belly, surrounded by lawns, rockeries, and waterside pavilions. There are seven or eight characters in the picture, including Hua Dan and Xiaosheng, Tsing Yi is singing his voice, and there are two painted faces and one holding a hammer.

, holding a gun and sparring on the grass.

There are tables and chairs set up next to the opera practitioners. Several musicians are playing there, and there are refreshments and cups and pots on the table.

The funniest thing is that there is a banana plant in front of the moon gate in the corner. In the shadow of the banana plant, there is a child showing his little face at the moon gate, also peeping at the play. It forms an echo with the children on the tree outside the bottleneck.

relation.

Of course, there are many other sights, such as the swimming fish in the pond, the pairs of swallows in the air, and even a few butterflies attracted by the refreshments, making the picture extremely vivid and vivid.

The bottom of the bottle has the standard inscription of the official kiln blue and white "Made in the Qianlong Year of the Qing Dynasty", but the picture is slightly different from the exquisite five-color official kiln bottle, and seems to be a little... deformed.

Manager Fei also saw the flaws in the painter's work. He smiled at Master Liu and said, "Master Liu, is there a hole in this bottle?"

"This bottle is a little weird." Liu Sanye was also a little confused: "The bottom is Zhenzhener's official kiln bottom. I can't find any faults at all, but this painter..."

"It's a pity that such a large vessel is of such a large size." Manager Fei shook his head: "This must have been copied from a folk kiln in the Republic of China, right?"

"It's not like it was imitated after the Republic of China." The third master slowly teased the spoon: "It's weird because apart from the unqualified proportions, the other brushwork and the use of colors are really hard to fault. I prefer the late Chaojia.

It is the apprentice work of the Taoist period, and it is something that the disciples of famous masters used before they left the apprenticeship."
Chapter completed!