Food, clothing, shelter and transportation are the four aspects of human life, none of which can be lacking, especially in such an era of great development of the market economy, housing has become a headache for many Chinese, and housing loans are like an invisible tight curse that tightly encapsulates the energy of the middle class.
In fact, housing has not always been a problem, and our parents can find a place to build an earthen house by themselves.
Before the rise of cement forests, the earth's living life was flat, people attached to the land, the house was basically one or two floors, for example, the northeast people called the one-story bungalow Beijing Ping, and the Beijing bungalow was called the courtyard.
Many TV dramas have an introduction to the life of the courtyard, there are both happy times and annoying times, today we will talk about the Beijing courtyard and the courtyard in those graces and grievances.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the courtyard in Beijing</h1>
Unlike ordinary bungalows in other parts of China, Beijing Courtyard is a courtyard surrounded by houses, which is a relatively high-end courtyard-style building in China, and the houses on all four sides are called the main room, the east wing, the west wing, and the inverted seat.
Who lives in which room is prescribed, and the entrance generally has a beautiful screen, what trees can be planted in the courtyard is also a folk custom, but unfortunately there are not many real courtyards.
Generally speaking, the construction of the courtyard began in the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that rich families can also build multi-storey courtyards. There can be 13 houses in the courtyard, and the number of courtyards is increased step by step.
The courtyard has a good rigor, reflecting people's innate defensiveness, the elderly usually live in the main room, the eldest son and the second son live in the east and west compartments, the maid lives in the inverted seat room, and the lady lives in the backyard.
The family spends day and night in such a quiet and welcoming environment, and if the yard is large enough to not need to go out for a walk, their own yard can be designed as a small garden.
Nowadays, some courtyards remain in the old city of Beijing, but most of the courtyards have become large courtyards, with multiple families living together, living in the courtyard has become a symbol of helplessness, and only the courtyard of celebrities has been preserved.
Some large courtyards are opened as consumption or public welfare places, and some are used as government offices, such as the former site of the European and American Returned Scholars Association on the east side of Tiananmen Square.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the courtyard life of old Beijingers</h1>
Friends who love to watch TV dramas may know that there are not many movies about the courtyard, such as "Year after Year", "The Little Woman Under the Gate of Zhengyang", "Love Full courtyard" and so on.
Among them, "Love Man Courtyard" tells the story of the Beijing Courtyard that took place in the 1960s and 1990s, and there are selfish Xu Damao in the courtyard, there are also uncles who are kind, and there are silly pillars who help others.
Because of the many intimate interpersonal interactions brought by the courtyard, we have seen humanity that is usually difficult to detect. In the courtyard, idlers walk birds from time to time, and in the words of Beijingers, "like red seeds."
Grumpy people scold the mother from time to time, people who feel harsh run back to their houses, gentle women teach their husbands and children, making people feel that the years are quiet.
When we walk into the former homes of celebrities, the stories that happen here also come to us, and when we "mistakenly enter" the homes of the people, or walk in front of the courtyard, we will feel that this courtyard is not simple.
In the eyes of Chinese, the courtyard is a kind of life with a taste, the smell of fireworks rises here, people walk through the alleys, many people will remember the green plum bamboo horses that they grew up with when they were children, this feeling is an inseparable childhood memory, and the cold feeling of the cement forest is not the same.
As long as there are people's places, there are four seasons, everyone is a season, will bring people a different feeling, some people like the spring breeze, some people are cold as frost, of course, the courtyard is also outside the natural four seasons mixed with the four seasons of humanity.
We see the warm and beautiful side of the courtyard, but also to see the crackling side of the courtyard, pots and pans where there is no collision of the reason, look down and do not see the people who look up to see the inevitable contradictions, and then we will listen to the old Beijinger Li Jiacun's evaluation of the courtyard.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Li Jiacun evaluated the courtyard</h1>
Li Jiacun is a maitreya Buddha-like being with a big belly, and photos on the Internet show his smiling belly, an artist who grew up in Beijing.
Born in Zhushikou in 1954, Li Jiacun has a say in the Beijing Courtyard, once saying, "Don't think that the Beijing Courtyard is a good time, 17 families get up early and pour the urinal together can make you collapse in an instant."
After listening to this sentence, we can imagine that scene, the filth of the world is also such a scene, this is the other side of man, but also the positive side of life, eating and drinking Lazar is something that everyone has to face.
I think that there were no modern toilets in Beijing, all the filth coexisted with humans, there were people who specialized in collecting filth, and there was a city gate in Beijing dedicated to walking dung trucks.
Of course, many people have experienced such a scene, when they were young, there was at most a dry toilet, but the experience of more than 10 families pouring dung buckets together is still not often experienced, generally they deal with the filth of their own homes.
Of course, this is not a hygienic embarrassment in Beijing, France also had a period of filth, so the French invented perfume, these inventions are for practical application.
This also reflects from one side that the task of human hygiene is long, garbage disposal is an eternal topic, under the national behavior of today's garbage classification, garbage classification has not actually achieved the desired effect.
A lot of garbage is still mixed together, and it is difficult to sort them one by one. Dealing with filth is also the top priority in life, and every morning after getting up early to deal with it, you will feel relaxed, and people who have lived in the courtyard are even more deeply aware.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > miss the courtyard, what are we missing? </h1>
Although Li Jiacun said that the morning of the courtyard was a collapse, many ordinary people still remember the good memories of the courtyard, and they miss it very much and want to return to the old place. People miss the courtyard, what is worth remembering?
The answer is obvious, there is childhood, youth, and affection in the courtyard, people's memories will slowly filter out bad things, and the last thing that remains is something that tends to be beautiful, of course, the memories of encountering major injuries are not within the scope of today's discussion.
Courtyard is a grounded place, go out can see people coming and going, go home can greet neighbors, and now single-family high-rise buildings are not the same, that is to say, the courtyard can contact more people, and communicate with people to have more touches.
However, it is regrettable to say that time rolls forward, many people can not return to the courtyard, the courtyard has become a frozen mode of life, if time can travel and reincarnation, I really hope that I can also experience a complicated life of the courtyard.
Text/Li Qingyu