Rong Knee Residence, the word Rong Knee comes from Tao Yuanming's "Return to Xi Ci" in "Leaning on the South Window to Be Proud, Judging the Ease of Tolerance Knee", which means that the room where I live by myself is very small, and I can only accommodate my knees, but I lean on the window to watch the scenery, and I feel proud in the scenery, and even the small room feels comfortable. This is the poet's free life after he resigned from the government, and a couplet is also engraved on the doorpost of Rong Knee Residence: "Tinglai Bamboo Friends have a broad heart, and the door has a wide vision for Matsuoka", which is similar to the artistic conception of "Return to Xi Ci".
What is just puzzling is that in all the materials that introduce Rong Knee Ju, I see another version: Rong Knee Ju is a women's school funded by Wu Changtong, the Duke of the Eighteenth Dynasty, during the Qing Xianfeng Period, which mainly trains the unmarried daughters of the clan and the daughters-in-law who marry into the door, and hopes to make them into virtuous wives and good mothers who know how to be reasonable, work in female red skills, and are proficient in domestic women's morality. What is even more bizarre is that some people grasp the four words "talkable wind and moon" on the wall of Rong Knee Residence, and describe Rong Knee Residence as a place of sexual enlightenment education. Does the "wind moon" have to be the little thing between men and women? Absurd, the moon is the wind moon, the poetry and song are the wind moon, the leisure thing is the wind moon, the beautiful scenery of the good night is the wind moon, the Chinese characters created by the ancestors are broad and profound, the wisdom is unfathomable, if you are obsessed, it is the benevolent person who sees the benevolent, and the wise person sees the wisdom.
Walking into the door, on the inner wall on the side, the words "Can Talk about the Wind and Moon" are written impressively, which is indeed reminiscent. However, the Hakka people's dream of "equality for all, courtesy and etiquette, and emphasis on upbringing" has been passed on in Rong Knee Juri.
Today, Rong Knee Curie is an old aunt's paper-cut exhibition hall.
Talking with the local old man, the old man smoked a cigarette and calmly explained it to us - look at the word "rong knee" to know that this is to describe this residence is very small, only allowing knees to talk. This is actually an ancient girls' school. Mainly training fang clan women and daughters-in-law, hoping to cultivate a good wife and mother who knows how to be knowledgeable, works in female red skills, and is proficient in domestic affairs and women's taoism. The Peitian people advocate Confucian culture, such as: "Men and women are not intimate", "three from four virtues" and other rules are well known in this village, young and old women and children. Especially Hakka women, they have heard and seen the strict concept of clan since they were young, accepted the influence of Hakka culture, and are more industrious and simple and disciplined.
Now, in such a small square inch of Rong Knee, aunt paper-cutting has been sitting for decades, which is both the place where she read poetry and literacy as a child, and the exhibition hall of her talents.
As can be seen from the plaques hanging in the halls, this was indeed a place to learn. But the plaque behind the "Great Man of the Kingdom" does not know how to explain.
The walls on both sides of the hall are written with the contents of the family rules and family training, which also shows that this may really be the girls' school in the village at that time. As for the special sexual enlightenment, I think it is also a partial generalization. Girls' schools are naturally not only sexual initiation education, but also include other aspects of education.
However, at that time, it was really remarkable that there was such a girls' school in a village.
This paper-cut work of the old aunt also illustrates the special features of this residence. The name of Aunt Cao's work is "Caring for Girls, Starting from Me". In that era of male superiority and inferiority, it was also the luck of the girls in Peitian Village to have such a place and truly care for the girls.
The workshop building is diagonally opposite Rong Knee Residence, is another famous building in Peitian, the purpose of this residence was to provide accommodation for the craftsmen who built the "Jishu Hall (Dafu Di)", the Jishu Hall was built in the tenth year of the Qing Dynasty (1884), and the workshop gate building should have been built slightly earlier than the Jishu Hall, rather than the "built in 1829" introduced on the door plaque.
It can be understood that this workshop building is the courtyard built by the former construction craftsmen themselves, which is specially used to prove their superb architectural skills to undertake more business "model houses".
Today, more than 130 years have passed, and the workshop building has also declined. Originally a workshop for craftsmen who built the "Jishu Hall", it was later built into a residential house. The stone of this gate tower supports the solemn three mountains, its stacked eaves gray plastic pavilion pavilion, flowers, birds, insects and fish, Zhuangyuan you street and other exquisite patterns, the lintel horizontal book "Qili Jie Lian", the door link is "Nanshan XiuYu Shu Xiang Shao, Beidou Guangteng Sword Qiming", the wall is composed of landscape and water fans, the hall floor is lower than the road surface, and the craftsmen break through the infrastructure routine with the concept of "gathering wealth inside and rising out". While demonstrating their exquisite skills, the craftsmen finally built the humble workshop into an ideal home for shops and houses, demonstrating the high level of their construction.
"Engineer Room Building" is a place that embodies the advanced concept of Peitian culture. Inside the gatehouse is a "craftsman's room", where the carpenters who built the "Doctor's House" lived at that time. Although the craftsmen live very exquisitely, the so-called "three-point hall and seven-point gatehouse", how the craftsman's technology depends on where they live, the craftsmen integrate the architectural technology and art of the gatehouse, and also combine the geographical feng shui.
In such a living environment, the accommodation conditions between the craftsmen and the owners are no different. At that time, the status of craftsmen was much higher than that of today's construction workers.
Stepping out of the door, there is a pebble paved half-moon basin shape, the steps go inward, not far away from a slender clear ditch facing the gate, indicating that the money is rolling in the door, and the door is rising step by step, such details are also the ingenuity of the craftsmen.