20 years ago, Geng Baoguo, a native of Pingyao, Shanxi Province, used his half-life savings, loans, and money borrowed from relatives at an auction to collect 1 million yuan and bought a 400-year-old Ming Dynasty mansion in his hometown.
Geng Baoguo is a lacquerware craftsman, after living in the old house, he made lacquerware while repairing the house, intermittently repaired for 20 years, invested four or five million, and is still not completed. When the house was first bought, the roof leaked and was in tatters, and now it has become an old mansion and a business card of Pingyao.
Entering the house through the alley through the deep door opening, you will enter the courtyard.
From the first entrance to the courtyard, there is a housekeeper building built above the door of the house, which is where the family lives.
This is the second gate, which is the most ornately decorated door in the courtyard, and it is also the demarcation gate from the outer courtyard to the main courtyard.
▲ Exquisite wood carvings on the lintel of the second gate
▲ Exquisite wood carving
▲Stone carving at the entrance
The stone carving is a golden toad that attracts wealth, only has three legs, and it is very good at spitting out money, so it is regarded as a beast of wealth and wealth.
The niches on the walls are places where the gods of the land are worshipped.
▲Two-door mountain gatehouse
▲ Bo wind plate decoration on the upper floor of the door
The entire house building is very well preserved, with three main courtyards and a side courtyard, which is the main room of the second courtyard.
▲The west wing of the second entrance courtyard
▲This is a three-entry hospital
In the traditional courtyard, the north room is the main room in the south direction, the opening depth of the house is larger, the base is higher, mostly for the elders to live, the east and west wing rooms are smaller in depth, the foundation is also shorter, often for the younger generation to live.
▲Three into the main room of the courtyard
The outer wooden pillar of the corridor is two stories high, about ten meters long, and the long wood has been uncorrupted for 400 years.
▲ Exquisitely carved finches
▲Carved beef leg
▲ Skeleton daughter wall of the two-story platform
▲Side yard
This compound was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it is the ancestral property of Ji Yugang, the treasurer of the "Rishengchang" ticket number, with a history of more than 400 years.
There are more than 4,000 ancient courtyards in pingyao, and this courtyard has the best location, the longest history, and the largest area, 250 years earlier than the Qiao family compound.
The yard is the specification of a four-pin official,
The overall structure is a three-in-two-yard aisle hall,
The first admission is the function of the nursing home,
The second entrance to the hospital is generally a housekeeper and an accountant to live.
▲Aisle hall
The aisle hall after the second entrance,
People in the past were very particular,
Enter the door and stay in the hallway first,
Generally do not easily entertain guests to the main courtyard,
Therefore, the aisle hall is equivalent to the current living room.
The third entrance is the main courtyard,
There are main rooms and boxes where the owner lives,
The main courtyard was built in the style of five cave dwellings in a square,
The seven sorghum on it are called "five rooms and seven frames".
Cave dwellings were built by people of great status and wealth in the past,
Live inside warm in winter and cool in summer.
▲ In 1997, the yard looked like before it was restored
During the 1950s and 1990s,
This yard used to be a factory, a party school,
When Geng Baoguo bought it in 1997,
The yard is basically deserted,
In particular, the grass on the roof of the second floor is half a person high.
He spent 10 years working on civil and wood structure repairs.
It took another 10 years to decorate the interior.
Once I entered the gatehouse of the hospital, it has long ceased to exist,
Geng Baoguo looked all over Pingyao County
Hundreds of gatehouses, large and small.
According to the style of the ancient building in Pingyao County
Draw and design by yourself,
It ended up taking four or five months.
The restore is complete.
In order to create the effect of repairing the old as old,
Geng Baoguo even went to the countryside exclusively
Go find some Ming and Qing dynasty bricks and stone carvings.
I also invited a local master from Pingyao who understood ancient construction,
There's a master carpenter,
It's been here for more than 20 years.
It has always been the maintenance of this hospital.
The plaque of the main courtyard "Mountain Elevation",
From writing to making engraving,
It was all done by Geng Baoguo alone.
He adopted one of the most high-end techniques in lacquer art,
It's called roast wood paint,
The bottom must be flawless,
Paint it eight or nine times directly,
The top is all made of real gold,
Even if you soak in the water, you are not afraid.
The entire second floor is currently uninhabited,
Take it all as an exhibition hall,
Inside is now a lacquer painting,
Geng Baoguo plans to make it a private art museum.
The back yard turned out to be a large auditorium,
Geng Baoguo demolished it and restored it to its original form,
Inside it was converted into a studio.
▲Yingbokuni Lacquer Painting Works
In 2008, Geng Baoguo was identified
The first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritors.
After this house was bought, plus the later construction,
The total investment reached 4 to 5 million.
Since I can't come up with so much money,
So you can only sell a little lacquerware,
Earn a little first, and then put into the repair of the yard.
3000 square meters yard,
Geng Baoguo never felt afraid when he lived here,
Instead, I feel very used to it,
Get up early in the morning to clean and water the flowers,
Start painting after eating.
Someone once asked him,
Teacher Geng, you put this academy
Doesn't it make a lot of money to build a hotel?
Is it worth putting your life's work into it?
Geng Baoguo felt,
A person's life should do something,
Leave a trace.
He said, "I'm going to put what I've learned all my life in this yard.
When I'm gone,
This yard can also leave a little thought for the family. ”
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