Nuwa refining stones to make up for the heavens, this ancient Chinese mythological story, almost everyone knows. The ancient Huizhou people also had a skill, which was to cut the sky for the well. The sky of Huizhou seems to be magical paper. When Huizhou people build houses, ancestral halls, and academies, they embed pieces and pieces of blue sky in the building, as an internal space, and become part of the building, which is the patio. The patio is rectangular and square, as if the blue sky was cut with scissors.
The patio is a masterpiece of the unity of heaven and man. It is the humanization of nature, and it is also the humanized nature. Nature is objective, man is subjective. Huizhou people exert the spirit of subjective initiative, conform to nature, use nature, transform nature, introduce the heavens that belong to nature into huipai architecture, serve people, and thus practice the philosophical concept of the unity of heaven and man. Huipai residences, ancestral halls, colleges and other buildings, the walls are high and the courtyard is deep, and the daylight is all by the patio. Light creeps into the patio and then projects onto all the architectural spaces. Thus the solemn hall became brighter, and so did the shaded compartment; and the inaccessible lady's boudoir was brighter because the light sneaked in.
The patio not only introduces sunlight and air, but also rainwater. Sunlight, air, water, is the source of life. The role of the patio can be imagined. Water is not only the source of life, but also the symbol of the source of wealth. Huizhou people are good at financial management. Set up a patio, the rain comes from all directions, like jewels, rolling down to the courtyard, in front of the middle hall, which is what huizhou people like to talk about the four waters returning to the church, and the fat water does not flow out. Exactly: rain fell in all directions, and the inexhaustible sources of wealth rolled in. This is a powerful echo of the image of Zhao Cai Jin Bao and Lian Lian Youyu (More than Every Year) in the Architectural Sculpture of the Hui School.
When it rains, the water droplets on the upper end of the patio are connected, and if they are intermittent, they roll and fall, as if there is a curtain of fluttering water hanging in front of the hall. In summer, raindrops falling from the patio fall on the lotus bonsai in the courtyard, and the water droplets on the lotus leaves roll around, adding another landscape. In the late autumn, the lotus leaves wither, and when it rains, the sound of the residual lotus hitting the raindrop is the sound of collapse, not the crisp sound. At this time, people can't help but think of Li Shangyin's famous poem: "Stay dry and listen to the rain."
From the above quotation, it can be seen that the definition of the Huipai patio is: an indoor "light garden", a clear well in the sky. The originality and world significance of the Huipai patio lies in the fact that there is no Japanese and Western Europe, and the Huipai architecture is unique. The shape and use of the courtyard of huipai architecture are diverse. The important position of the Huipai patio is that the patio is the basic space of the Huipai architectural residence, and the artistic meaning of the four waters is: a piece of blue sky that has been cut.
The patio is a special symbol of Huipai architecture. The courtyard embedded in the building is marked with the emblem school, forming an important feature of the Hui school architecture, and it is also one of the characteristics that distinguish it from other architectural schools.
Anhui people Shunlu, the entrance to the hall of the four waters back to the church, is one of the most attractive places for diners in the hotel, look up is the bamboo zenith, clear water flow from the zenith gathered, with a large vat of antique design to catch the rain from the sky, looking down at the river into a river, babbling streams down the river below to the outside of the house, koi quietly swimming in the river, with the different seasons, the vat has a very suitable green plant, sometimes delicate copper money grass, sometimes pavilion pure planted lotus, simple but without losing the atmosphere, Cleansing off the beaten path.