The eastern and western civilizations inherently have natural differences in rivers and seas, among which, the most basic clothing, food, housing, and transportation are even more different. Perhaps the most striking and intuitive is the architectural tradition of both China and the West. Since the Mycenaean civilization and the ancient Greek civilization of Western civilization, the mainstream architectural tradition has been stone architecture. In contrast, traditional Chinese civilization has advocated wooden or bamboo architectural styles, and this difference has not changed much in the past thousand years.
Why? In fact, there are many related sayings, the most common is that the geographical environment is different, and ancient China in the east is easier to mine wood for social life. Among them, the millennia-old material tradition has also allowed Chinese to gradually have experience, and the four kinds of woods such as Nan, Camphor, Catalpa and Tang have good and stable excellent traits, thus standing out and becoming the "four famous trees". Among them, the hard and easy to shape of the wood is proud of the crowd and has become the most favored wood.
According to the ancient "Museum Essentials", there are three kinds of nan wood: one is xiangnan, slightly purple and fragrant; the second is golden silk nan, wood overflowing gold wire; and the third is water nan, the wood is soft and soft. Among them, the golden silk nan wood is the most superior, which is necessary for the dynasties to expand the palace and the palace. However, due to excessive logging and destruction, Jinsinan was rare in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The largest surviving Nanmu building is the Changling Tomb in the Ming Tombs. Among them, a temple of grace has 60 giant pillars made of a whole golden silk nan wood, which is unparalleled in the world. However, there is something else. In Enshi Gaogongqiao Village, Hubei Province, there is a pure golden silk Nan wooden house, with a construction area of more than 100 square meters...
In other words, the owner of this house, Uncle Yang, is just an ordinary Chinese farmer, and this house is only handed down from his ancestors, and he never knew that this dilapidated old house is worth a lot. It wasn't until he was facing demolition that he remembered to look for someone to take a look, and suddenly found that about 90% of the wood in this old house was extremely valuable gold silk nan wood. After professional calculations, the largest golden silk nan wood in the house has a thousand years of history, and it is estimated that the total amount of wood is more than 100 cubic meters. According to the degree of corruption of the wood, the house was completed around the Ming Dynasty, about 400 years ago.
Based on the historical value of this object and the huge amount of gold silk nan wood used, experts have estimated that the compensation for demolition and relocation at a sky-high price of about 800 million yuan has been obtained. Of course, with the leakage of this news, many timber merchants on the market have flocked to the market, fearing that they will fall. According to the market price, the total price of the golden silk nan wood of this old house can be about 100 million yuan, one in and one out, it is a sky-high profit, which attracts countless merchants to pour up. In addition, the government also has the need and responsibility to protect cultural relics and monuments, among which the Enshi Forestry culture museum is trying to lobby Uncle Yang.
Although Uncle Yang's life was uneventful, he also knew that the ancestral things could not be sold easily. After weighing the pros and cons, he resolutely decided to donate his old house to the country. Of course, after the old house was moved into the museum, it was also well repaired. As compensation, Uncle Yang also received a generous demolition payment and a new house. The simple Uncle Yang will also often go to the museum to come back to see the place where the ancestors once lived.