Chapter 57 Emotions with Jin Yuelin

After the beginning of spring, another snow fell. The snow was not heavy, but it drifted softly for a day and a night.On weekdays, the streets and alleys of "three feet of soil with no wind, and a street of mud with rain" are covered with snow, looking solemn and clean. The sun came out and shone on the snow, shaking people's eyes.Wearing an old man's hat, Jin Yuelin squinted his eyes and walked into the bungalow of the Construction Society of Zhongshan Park with two books between his hands. Lin Huiyin was lying on the table drawing a picture, saw Lao Jin, greeted him happily, and put down his work.

There is a stove in the room, cotton curtains are hung on the door, and white window paper is tightly pasted on the windows, making the room very warm. Jin Yuelin took off his glasses, wiped the smudges on the lenses and said, "I went around Liulichang and picked up two books. When I read them, I turned here long ago. Where's Sicheng?" Huiyin made tea for Lao Jin and said, "Sicheng has gone to the Peking Library, is there anything wrong?" "Nothing, just drop by to see what you are up to." Huiyin flipped through a stack of papers on the table and told Lao Jin that he was going to write an article on the characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture, and he needed to add some relevant illustrations and do some desk work first.

"Oh, that must be very interesting!" Lao Jin was very interested, "Can you tell me about it?" Jin Yuelin is 9 years older than Huiyin, and 6 years older than Sicheng. Huiyin and Sicheng regard him as an elder brother and have a very close relationship. Huiyin smiled happily and said, "Okay, let's go out to step on the snow and talk while walking. We stayed in the house for a long time and got a headache from boredom." Zhongshan Park used to be called the Sheji Altar, next to the Forbidden City, where the emperors offered sacrifices to the land and grain gods every year.Pines and cypresses are planted all over the garden, and there are red walls outside the Hall of Enjoyment and the Hall of Sleeping.There are three gods outside the low wall of the Sheji Altar, all of which are extremely solemn and beautiful under the snow cover.

Following the snow-swept path in the garden, Huiyin and Lao Jin walked to the Zhongshan Hall.In the past, when the emperors came to sacrifice, this was the place where civil and military officials had an audience with the emperor. The main hall is beautiful and solemn.The platform base and three stone steps in front of the hall are inlaid with white marble, the vermilion lacquer columns are juxtaposed, the doors and windows are carved exquisitely, the green painted forehead, the yellow glazed tiles are covered with white snow, and the slope of the hall roof is beautiful and harmonious. The guards of the main hall recognized Huiyin, greeted him respectfully, and opened the door of the hall.

The roof of this hall has no ceiling, which is the form of "Luming Zao" in the traditional French construction.Looking up, all the beams, brackets and brackets are exposed, and each structure is as beautiful as a decorative painting, and at the same time forms a harmonious pattern. "This hall has given me a lot of inspiration for writing!" Huiyin sighed. She told Lao Jin that in many foreign architectural history works, it is rare to admit that Chinese architecture has its own independent system and status in the history of world architecture.In her thesis, on the basis of analyzing the main structural features of ancient Chinese architecture, she demonstrated that Chinese architecture has a unique status and value no matter in the world or in the East, and these structural features have never changed due to external influences.

Hui Yin believes that the main features of Chinese architectural art are manifested in the roofs, platform foundations, bucket arches, colors and plane layouts of ancient buildings, which are the spirit of Chinese architecture. Lao Jin usually hears Sicheng and Huiyin talk about such topics, usually expressing their views on a specific building.He could hear that what Huiyin talked about today was the result of Huiyin's many days of research, and it was also the main point of view in her article.So he listened very carefully.