The significance of traveling in Nanjing —— (2) Sentimentality does not show the beauty of gardens.

I once read Chen Congzhou's Eye of the Garden. He compared China culture to beauty, and compared gardens to beauty's eyes.

After all, I personally didn't feel it, but I was confused. I once met a garden villa with China characteristics. I swam a few times and wrote some words, but I still couldn't understand it.

During my trip to Nanjing, I was lucky to meet Zhan Garden, night tour and day tour. Although I still don't understand the essence, it has become the entrance for me to know about China gardens.

There are two well-preserved gardens in the south of Nanjing. One is Xu Yuan in the presidential palace. It is the back garden of Hanwang Zhu, the son of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. I knew the name when I was looking at those things in the Ming Dynasty, so I didn't feel strange.

When visiting Xu Yuan, I was always attracted by the blue bricks on the horse's head wall and the lattice windows on the cloister, and some of them were absent-minded.

However, one thing I know. I always thought that the decorative horsehead wall was actually an ancient firewall, which was both practical and beautiful.

Another garden is Zhan Garden, one of the four famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. The other three gardens are Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Humble Administrator's Garden in Wuxi and Jichang Garden.

Zhanyuan, located in the Qinhuai River Scenic Area of Confucius Temple, is the house that Ming Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang gave to Xu Da, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty. Because I played too late the day before, I arranged my trip to the garden for another day.

China people pay attention to the right marriage, and I often use this idiom, but I don't know the source and true meaning.

What our ancestors left behind is always well-founded and reasonable.

When I was visiting Nanjing, I admired the profoundness and long history of China culture more than once, but as a toddler in this long river of culture, I looked up at the whole galaxy like a frog in a well.

Before one foot stepped into the gate of the garden, one knowledge was popularized. In fact, I knew this knowledge when I visited the ancient city of Taierzhuang, but I didn't know it completely.

A pair of drum stones in front of the door is the door. The door of the ancient military attache's house was round, and the door of the civil servant's house was square, which was opposite to the paper inkstone in the pen, ink and paper inkstone.

Xu Da is a military attache, and the door should be round. Hudui is a circular short column protruding from the lintel, which appears even. The bigger the door, the more pairs, indicating that this family has a higher status.

However, there are very few households in Xu Da's family, which is to tell Zhu Yuanzhang that he has no ambition and protects himself. Opposite the gate is a wall, which plays a decorative role and avoids ghosts and gods. The bigger the screen, the more prominent the position.

When I entered the hospital, Jingui and Cinnamomum camphora, Jinguier and Cinnamomum camphora were planted on both sides to show that the children were satisfied. It is said that Jiangnan gardens are beautiful all year round, but winter is not as good as other three seasons. I didn't see the wisteria planted by Xu Da, which symbolizes the purple gas coming from the east. I see old dead branches everywhere. Gu Zhuo is full of vitality and intertwined, just like a black dragon.

When visiting Jiangnan gardens, you always take the cloister. I remember walking through the Jiuqu Bridge of Shanghai City God Temple, and there was a similar result, with nine twists and eighteen bends. At that time, only people could not see the bridge, let alone swim.

I heard that the ancients were superstitious and believed that ghosts only walked straight, so these winding corridors and paths came into being. Perhaps because of this, there are many beautiful poems with winding paths in the history of China literature.

When you visit Zhanyuan, you must walk along Fulu Xi Shou Road, which is paved with small tiles. It is an adult-shaped road, also called "people are on it". This is a road to wealth and good luck. It was specially built for Qianlong to descend to the south of the Yangtze River. The patterns on it are copper coins, butterflies, bats and evergreens. Each pattern represents a beautiful meaning. I deliberately stepped on evergreen for ten years.

Zhan Yuan, the most famous is Tiger Brand.

This is a famous tiger. It is said that there is a blessing tablet in Gongwangfu, Beijing, which is collectively called Nanhu Beifu.

This tiger character is the treasure of Zhan Yuan. "This tiger is a pen, the word is tiger, shaped like a tiger. A tiger is sitting with its head, mouth, body, back and tail clearly visible, as if roaring at the sky.

This tiger hides the word "rich in the world" and is rated as "the first tiger in the world" by Qianlong. Thanks to the tiger's blessing, Zhan Yuan has experienced ups and downs in the past dynasties, escaped the Nanjing catastrophe and preserved it intact for future generations to pay tribute to. Since ancient times, the lion has kept the house, the tiger town house, the lion belongs to yin, and the tiger belongs to yang, and one yin is harmonious and prosperous.

A few pots of plants in the garden can't help but evoke childhood memories.

My uncle likes bonsai and bamboo scenery. In the summer afternoon, under the shade of a tree, there is a cool breeze blowing gently. He always prunes and shears in his yard.

The bonsai must have different shapes, exquisite and beautiful after passing through his hand. The shelves in the yard are covered with gourds and vines. When the gourd is ripe, my uncle will always pick it carefully, put it in the yard and brush it with a layer of clear oil. After the oil dried, he began to write poems and paint on the gourd. My uncle's words are beautiful and meaningful, and my uncle's paintings are elegant and refined, mostly based on ink and wash landscapes, which are quite artistic.

I also tried to write on the gourd, but it was too rough because there was no foundation.

He gave me some gourd paintings, but he separated from me in moving again and again. The asparagus he gave me also changed from green to yellow, rotting in the years, leaving no memory.

My uncle is a skillful craftsman, and all the furniture at home is made by himself imitating the furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasties. All mortise and tenon techniques are nail-free.

I still remember that summer evening, on the dim mahogany table, a sketch, a ruler and a pencil, the leaves of the gourd rustled in the wind, and several morning glory plants were scattered under the vines of the gourd. The air is filled with a kind of sweetness called green leaves, but I heard the jingle of wood, accompanied by a few dog barks, and it seems that there are mosquitoes buzzing ... This is an important part of my childhood memory.

Unconsciously, my thoughts drifted away. Writing here, I am a little sad, lamenting the passage of time, lamenting that my old black hair is gray today, lamenting that my versatile hands can't hold the dishes now, and lamenting that I don't know how many important enlightenments I have missed in my life.

But who says disability is not beautiful? If I visit the garden, I'm afraid I can't sleep tonight. Leave some reverie and some expectation. When the flowers bloom, you will travel with a few friends. Do you remember how I felt today?

To be continued!