Chapter 71 The consciousness of "house"

In the countryside of the plain, no matter you walk into any village, within three steps, it will hear such a greeting: "Have you eaten yet?" "Have you eaten?" is a general kindness, a general greeting.It is like the "hello" without the word "heart" in Western society, like a strange nod, a politeness that can be addressed to anyone.Its voice is docile, well-behaved, and kind, but its temperament is defensive, distant, and insincere.Its enthusiasm and its hypocrisy are mutually exclusive and co-prosperous.At the same time, it is an old brand, a brand of hunger signals passed down from generation to generation.

So "Have you eaten yet" is the first sentence on the plain.After saying "Have you eaten?", it is generally not a second sentence, unless it is a close friend or someone close.When relatives or friends meet, you will hear the second sentence that is widely popular in Yuzhong Plain: "Go to the house." At this time, "Let's go to the house" has become a special invitation, an expression of sincerity, and a kind of kindness that has been watered down on the surface but is flesh-and-blood.In the countryside on the plain, if you walk into a familiar house and the dog barks at your lap, the owner comes out from the yard and says, "Here you are? Go to the house. "There is no need to say anything more, this is to tell you that you have arrived at your "home", and this is your "home".You will naturally receive the best hospitality, even the dog won't bark anymore, and will obediently wag its tail at you... In this sentence, the pronunciation of "house" is very strong, and "house" has become a kind of symbol.A symbol of home and a place of refuge.

In the plain, the "house" has always been a symbol of a place of refuge. The sky is very big, very big, so big that there is no support; the clouds are very heavy, very heavy, so heavy that they will collapse at any time.That cloud looks white, soft, tall, fluffy, but suddenly it will turn dark, the whole sky will turn dark, black into the bottom of a grid, and the black air can fly against the head of a person !Not to mention the wind, frost, rain and snow, thunder and lightning, and such impermanence and disorder. People, what do you rely on to hide?The sky is on the head, and a thin neck cannot support the sky.As for the land, it is a stretch of flat river, which is so flat that you can't see the edge at a glance, and there is nowhere to hide.Therefore, people's fear is written on their necks. People first have to find a refuge for themselves, a place where they can hide, so the concept of "house" came into being.

The consciousness of "house" is based on death. The word "house" first puts the "corpse" on the head, and then there is a solid foundation for existence layer by layer. "Afterwards, there is the understanding of "life", which is also an infinite cycle from "death" to "life".This cycle is composed of the survival formulas of the plain people: ...build a house, marry a wife and have a son; a son build a house, marry a wife and have a son; a son build a house, marry a wife and have a son son…… Here, people spend their whole life on the construction of "houses". Houses have become the first element of people's survival, and they are also the shell of people's spirit.The ultimate goal of people in their whole life is to build a house, a "house". The essence of this "house" is introversion, avoidance, and spirit over matter.But the externalization of the "house" is to see the big from the small, the weak to the strong, and the limited to the infinite.At the same time, the consciousness of the "house" still contains a feminine, singular, and ego complex, just like sheep on the slope, which seem to be in a herd, but are lonely and one by one.Anyway, after all, there is still a "house".The sky is big, isn't it?But I have a "house"!

Here, both "mountain" and "water" have become the imagination and desire of the people in the plains, and they have become a ritual of resistance to the sky, which means yearning for protection.Therefore, the walls here are called "House Mountains", and the high roofs here are also called "ridges".In the rural areas of the plains, a "ridge" must be built when building a house, even a small thatched hut must have a "herringbone"-shaped ridge.Those with better conditions and those who can afford tile roofs should pay more attention. Some have "dragon ridge", some have "loach ridge", some have "lotus ridge", and some have "dougong ridge". There are "five spines and six beasts"... Such ridges have an imaginary fighting posture, as if they are declaring war on the sky.Placed, molded and carved on the ridge of the house are all water-related tokens, such as dragons; People in the plains used "mountain" and "water" to deal with the fighting spirit of the sky.However, inside, the fear was real and engraved in his bones.

Here, the bones of a person are soft, but the breath is hard, and people live by the three inches of breath.In the later days, that "Qi" actually became a character, a real legend that was widely circulated on the plain...