The beauty of perching on the eaves
Wen | Wu Qiong Figure | Network Editor| Liema Green Onion
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the specific date is unknown, and an old woman stood alone in the wind, staring into the distance for a long time. Described as haggard, two sideburns white, sluggish eyes, full of sadness. Because of the frequent wars in her home country and the smoke of wolves, her husband joined the army many years ago and never returned. At first, she was still looking forward to being reunited with her husband one day, but later, all she hoped for was one of his corpses. Later, the war had no intention of ending, and their only son was sent to the battlefield. Similarly, this trip was never returned. Now, she was the only one left in the family, no longer home, all her loneliness, loneliness and sadness were not talked about, only a small lark often came to accompany her.
The lark is a very strong, vigorous bird, which will also live in the north of China in winter, and fight against the harsh natural climate with its own perseverance. The little lark seemed to know what had happened to the old woman, or it was probably the soul of her husband or son who had become a figment of her soul, singing around her every day, to spend the rest of her desolate life with her.
One night, it was pouring rain, and the dilapidated house where the old woman lived crumbled in the wind and rain. When nothing could be done, the lark appeared, and it transformed into a wooden carving and fixed it to the eaves, supporting the old woman's dilapidated house. Early the next morning, the rain stopped and the wind stopped, but the larks could no longer fly and sing. The old woman was very sad, she told the story of the lark to the neighbors to listen, so everyone came to see the wood carvings on the eaves, thinking that it was both beautiful and could play a fixed role, and every household began to imitate this look, and also installed such wood carvings between their own eaves. Because it is a bird incarnated, instead of the relatives who are on the expedition to accompany the family, instead of the wooden wedge to fix the frame, people named it "bird". With the passage of time and the spread of stories, the use of chittip spread locally.
In the Song Dynasty, the bird became a decoration on houses across the country. It is no longer just the shape of the bird, but also invented a variety of birds, flowers, auspicious clouds and other patterns, and painted on it with colorful pigments, but also according to different levels of the façade divided into different models, some also from wood carvings to stone carvings. It ascended from the people to the temple, from the dilapidated house of a poor commoner old woman, into the mansion of the princely general.
Que Ti, one of the characteristic components of ancient Chinese architecture, is also known as "horn substitute", "angle insertion", "tomu", "ox leg", which effectively shortens the net span of the beam, thereby enhancing the load force of the beam, reducing the downward shear force at the junction of the beam and the column, and preventing the angle of the angle between the horizontal and vertical structures.
Chinese is the best at telling stories, and behind every festival, every object, every piece of food, every utensil is a legend to illustrate its origin. In this way, these things are no longer just a thing, a day, but full of cultural connotations, enriching the emotional world of human beings. Although there are many names for Queti, and I don't know if its origin is really like that poignant legend, I still like to call it Queti, or I am willing to believe that story. When a person is most lonely and lonely, there can be a small creature who is not human, but is willing to accompany her. When posterity tells such a story, it is always full of warmth and emotion.
About the author: Wu Qiong, female, born in 1986 in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, graduated from Mudanjiang University, majoring in Chinese language and literature in the Department of Chinese, founded a literary club with Xueyou during the school, and published the newspaper "Jingpo Xue soul", since 2003, she has published essays and poems in "Jiaohe City Composition Newspaper", a member of the Jilin Poetry Society, and is now working in the Jiaohe Municipal Bureau of Statistics.
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