Talking about the Old Houses in Qing Dynasty

Looking around, big cities are full of high-rise buildings, and even the original rammed earth houses in rural areas are rare, replaced by small cement buildings. Apart from the "fake buildings" specially built in some scenic spots, where are the shadows of the six ancient buildings in China?

Do students studying architecture now need to travel all over the country like Liang Sicheng and Lin? Do you still have to climb the eaves and beams of the house? Can you draw a piece of paper after the field trip? In 1950s, in order to protect those precious ancient buildings, Liang Sicheng wept bitterly and Lin went on a hunger strike.

But because of the need of developing production, those precious ancient buildings have not been preserved. With a demolition order, many families that have been passed down for hundreds of years have to move out of their old houses for hundreds of years. In the 1990s, the Huang family in Huangcun, Huangshan City, Anhui Province also faced such a dilemma.

As early as the beginning of19th century, the ancestors of the Huang family made a fortune by doing business, so they built a "shady hall" in their hometown as the mansion of the Huang family. Yin Yutang is a representative of Huizhou architecture, covering an area of 4,500 square meters, including patios, fish ponds, rockeries, wood carvings and other garden landscapes. The whole courtyard is quite beautiful.

Although the ancestral home of the Huang family gradually became vacant because most people moved away, it is still their home. 1996, when the Huang family saw that their ancestral home and the ancient buildings in the nearby area were facing demolition, they were helpless, but the good news came that an American named Bai Lingan wanted to buy the guild hall.

In fact, although Bai Ling 'an is a foreigner, she has always been interested in the culture of China. In the 1990s, she was the director of the China Culture and Art Department of the local Bieber Museum. Before she got the news that many Huizhou ancient buildings, such as Yinyutang, would be demolished, she had taken a fancy to Yinyutang in more than 600 ancient houses.

Bering 'an once thought about buying Yin Yutang, but several applications failed. This time, she moved the idea of moving Yin Yutang to the United States, and her application was quickly approved. In order to buy this ancient house, Bering spent 65.438+0.25 billion yuan, not including the expenses of careful disassembly, handling and reassembly.

Finally, the old house was broken down into 2700 pieces of wood, 8500 bricks and 500 stones, and shipped to the United States by 19 container. The assembly process of Yinyutang was also very careful, and it took eight years to complete. In order to completely restore the temple, Bering 'an had to discuss the placement of hairpins with the Huang family.

In 2003, when Yinyutang was officially opened to the outside world, Bai Lingan specially invited the Huang family to watch it. Soup Soup has quickly become a famous scenic spot in the United States, but there are rumors of "imitation building" in China. I believe many people in China felt sad when the true history of the Aftersound Concert Hall was revealed.

Because we ourselves have lost the most exquisite part of traditional culture, and finally we need a foreigner to protect it. How ironic! If Liang Sicheng and Lin, two giants in China's architectural history, come to modern times, will their hearts be distorted again?

Perhaps the commercial value of ancient buildings is not as high as that of stars; Perhaps the ancient buildings are far less eye-catching than high technology; In today's society that pursues fame and fortune, it is difficult for someone to stop and let go of their mentality to ponder over ancient buildings. However, as one of the carriers of Chinese civilization, ancient buildings that have been passed down for thousands of years are allowed to disappear in the long river of time. Isn't it a sad thing for people's spiritual prosperity?