The highest realm of Chinese people: there are water scenery and gardens, and never lock the door for 6 years

Dong Yu and Gan are associate professor at Peking University Architectural Research Center,

He is more inclined to be a "gardener".

In 2016, he was a high school classmate Nie Nie in the country in Jiangxi.

The garden "Ears in the Ear".

Mountain views, ponds, waterfalls, big trees, gardens ...

Stepping high and low, step by step, different scenery,

Full of the joy of travelers of traditional literati,

Can be called the most ideal home of the Chinese.

After the epidemic and cool summer,

Is this home still ideal?

A return to the homeowner Lao Nie,

Talking about the living experience of three generations in the past six years.

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Life Photography in the Ear Court of Ear | Zeng Renzhen

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In the past 6 years, the Chunhua and Winter Snow in the Ears of the Lao Nie's family

In early 2020, the epidemic was blocked for 2 or 3 months,

His family depends on vegetable fields and ponds,

Realize the freedom of vegetables and fresh fish,

There is also a balance of helping the neighbors.

The hot summer day,

The Nie family seems to live between the cool water and mountains directly,

Only 2 hours of air conditioner every day,

Staying outdoors is cooler than indoor.

The outdoor barbecue of more than 40 people was crowded.

In the natural landscape,

Feel the changes of the four seasons and the waiting for.

Self -report: Nie Weishi

Edit: You Weiling

Responsible editor: Chen Ziwen

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Before and after the Central Yuan Festival, Nie Weishi, the owner of the ear, picked up the burden that the ancestors were preparing to burn, and walked out of her door. The wife Wang Taoling was as long as the granddaughter who was more than 2 years old and played. The picture shows the old Nie family shooting

Er Cing is located in the countryside of De'an County, Jiangxi.

In 2016, the associate professor of the Beijing University Architecture Research Center and Dong Yu and Gan, the construction of the garden, completed the construction of the ears, which lasted more than 3 years. The two were high school classmates, designed Dong Yu and Gan, and Lao Nie was responsible for construction. When Lao Nie talked about his home, he could inadvertently "Versailles".

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Looking at the ears in the ears, the front yard of the front house, five main houses made of red bricks, covering it in a forest, the backyard is seamlessly connected to the North Mountain, hidden in the mountains and forests.

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Relying on their own vegetable fields, ponds and fruit trees, the old Nie family realized the freedom of vegetables and some fruits. The picture shows the old Nie family shooting

"Since the beginning of the epidemic, the longest sealing in De'an County is the Spring Festival in early 2020, but we eat a lot of our family. There are sweet potatoes, potatoes, and vegetables in the vegetable fields. Essence

There are fish in the pond, you can fish at any time if you want to eat. The meat was to buy a whole pig or cattle in the countryside during the New Year, and killed the quick freezing. People at home often come and go, and rice has been prepared a lot. Raise chickens, ducks, goose, and eggs are not worried. "

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The big goose of the Nie family has another single goose pond, but the entire pond is the scope of its activity. The picture shows the old Nie family shooting

"But this summer is too hot, chickens and ducks are no longer eggs. We turn on air conditioners for two hours before going to bed every day, and do not turn on air conditioners at other times. Because there are many trees in the family, many direct sunlight can be blocked. The building is cool faster than the second floor, and the outdoor Fangting is faster than the first floor. The most comfortable is the open hall and Tao Guangting. The water is on the mountains and the air can be flowing. We like to sit there, listen to the sound of water and bamboo sounds. It's cool. "

The epidemic and the heat of the heat were so "Versailles" by Lao Nie.

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There are five halls of the main house, which is the living space of the whole family. There are also tea rooms, tables and patios on the first floor.

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Looking at the ears in the air, the large buildings on the left side are five main houses. The diagonal angle is connected to the kitchen and dining room. Outside is rice fields

"Ear" comes from the owner Nie (Nie), and "Li" comes from Li Lili, a former residence of Tao Yuanming nearby. Lao Nie's home is also like the ideal residence in Tao Yuanming's writing: "The bird loves the old forest, the pond fish thinks of the old man ... there are more than ten acres of square houses, there are eight or nine cottage houses.

The North Mountain is the pond, the pond dam is planted with a peach tree, and then it is a large area of ​​rice fields. At the side, there are vegetable fields on the side of the front yard.

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Five halls, named after five -sided -in -shape borrowing windows, also borrowed a homophonic "blessing"

The main house is called five halls, because there are five different windows borrowing scenes, there are banners, vertices, rounds, squares, and windows that can see the entrance patio.

Dong Yu and Gan also played a homophonic stalk: the "blessing" of "blessing", Lao Nie liked it.

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Fang Ting and the pond are connected. The clothes in summer are just rubbed in the pond, and the washing machine is not needed. Zeng Renzhen

The corner of the main house is Fang Ting, with 8 meters long and width of the four -square open -air garden. At 8 meters, the gap between the garden is surrounded by many different sizes. The trunk sent three branches from the bottom, and the trunk continued to grow up new branches, and eventually covered the square court with other trees.

Under this structure, Dong Yu and Gan arranged a long cement table, stool, and washing pots. Usually the old Nie family could wash and dry it under the tree.

This summer, Lao Nie's younger son's college entrance examination was over. He entertained more than 40 students at home to barbecue at home. The old Nie couple was baked in the kitchen and the barbecue rack was placed in Fang Ting. The students were scattered around the yard. "People", Lao Nie said.

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The floating corridor of the guesthouse, combined with the changes in the ground platform, can be changed from the corridor to a stool and table. Photo | Zeng Renzhen ▲

From the window of the guesthouse, there are steps to the roof of the "hanging platform", photography | Zeng Renzhen

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Ascending to the roof of the guest house, it seems that you are alone in the mountains and forests, and you can call at any time to break the loneliness, meet your family and friends, take pictures | Zeng Renzhen

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On the side of the open hall, through the eaves frame, you can see Fang Ting and the main house, watch the family at any time, and be observed by the family. Photo | Zeng Renzhen

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On the other side of the Open Hall, through a rectangular wall hole frame, watching mountains, watching bamboo, listening to water

Fang Ting is facing the guest house area, closer to the mountain, and it is closer to the garden scene of Journey. The space for sitting and standing is embedded in the dense forest near Beishan.

Play water at low places, there are terraces at high places. You can touch the branches of the roof diagonally across the roof. You can listen to the water flow, watch the mountains and bamboo forests, halls, courts, corridors, Xuan, Taiwan, and houses. Everywhere, because I always hesitated at the fork, this has the interest of the literati garden.

In the cool summer in 2022, Nie Weishi, who was connected to Dian, Jiangxi, talked about the feelings and experience of staying in the 6 years since he stayed. The following is the self -report of Lao Nie.

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Above: Dong Yu and Gan, born in 67, below: Nie Weishi in 66 years. The architects and owners and builders in the ears. When young, high school students reunited in 2012

I want to go back to my hometown to build this house. From 2012, I lived in Dean County, but I wanted to return to the ancestral house in the village to build a house and leave a foundation.

It happened that Dong Yu and Gan returned to Jiangxi to settle behind his father. I was in Guizhou at the time, and I learned that the news came back the next day. I had a classmate party. At that time, our classmates did not see each other for 20 or thirty years. I gave him a good meal, and I mentioned this.

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On the left, in the ears before the reconstruction, the house site of the old Nie Zuzhuan, only the L -type pigs residue built when he taught the pig after graduating from high school. The construction tree on the right was once suspected of abandoning too ordinary, and it was almost cut off. Dong Yu and Gan were retained with the "strike" as a threat. Now it is Fang Ting’s atmosphere.

At that time, he did not promise immediately, but had to go to the "place" first. We made an appointment to go to the base of my ancestral house together. At that time, the homesteads at that time were deserted for many years. Only the broken wall of the pigpen was left. big. After he saw it, he felt good, so let me talk about what happened here.

The story of this place is long. In the 86th college entrance examination, Dong Yu and Gan and I were on the list. He returned to Henan to re -study. I returned to my hometown to teach.

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The appearance of the ears before the transformation

At that time, our entire elementary school was in the ancestral house of director Li An, and both of our paddy fields were next to each other. The salary of teaching is very low, and it is a bit reluctant to support himself. A friend of my father knew that my family had this land, so I told me that you went to hit a few pigpen and I would provide it.

In this way, I taught and raised pigs. Later, I tested the first -level builder and switched to the construction.

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In the scorching sun, under the cover of the big tree, only mottled light and shadow cast on the ground. The picture shows the old Nie family shooting

At the beginning, Dong Yu Gan was worried that I could not accept the design of red bricks and water walls. I was very acceptable. Coupled with myself, I do n’t need to send someone to follow up the construction site. I follow the project by myself. If you have any questions, you will send a photo to communicate with him.

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The entrance road in the ear in winter, the picture shows the old Nie family shooting

I think the more brilliant things are designed, the easier it is. It is easier to pile up, what is simple and European style, this is not what we yearn for.

What I yearn for is to be able to combine with our lives and be able to combine it naturally with this environment to facilitate our movement.

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Different from the red bricks of the main house, the wall of the guest house is the water wall, photo | Zeng Renzhen

Water wall

The water wall of my family is 37 cm thick, and the effect of thermal insulation is very good; another water wall like me can't rot 10 cm in 100 years.

When starting to do the water wall, the mud workers ran several days in the first two days. Why? The technology of the water wall will not. The clear water wall looks simple. People who do it really do not be trained will run away.

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House eaves

I left 3 people later, let them not worry, do it slowly, including the eaves of the guest house, the concrete grid screen, and the frame of the roof. Can't be so delicate.

"Come to the tree, let me give up"

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Lao Nie designated the cluster osmanthus to be transplanted. When he was young, he planted himself by the water well, covering the sun to the villagers who took the water.

In addition to the infrastructure part, we also had to explain the mud workers at the beginning. During the construction, we met the tree, encountered bamboo, and encountered stones. You let you make it and wrap them up.

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Lao Nie's construction principle of "encounter bamboo, let you make, and wrap in" inadvertently forms a gulf of the curved path in the slope protection, photography | Zeng Renzhen

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Lao Nie took the initiative to ask for the retained Huanglianmu, which was straight at the bottom, which once made the architect Dong Yu and Gan commit difficult. Because he looked at "no imagination", later, Dong Yu and Gan intended to widen the roof of the roof of the guest house. In the end, this air gallery. The crown of straight direction of the pen to form a natural and natural interaction and linkage, which can be described as a wonderful pen, Photo | Zeng Renzhen

This is also an inspiration from Teacher Dong. There are a few trees in the yard, such as structured trees, camphor trees, and Coptis chinensis. It is a very ordinary tree in our local area. At first, my wife said that the tree was not beautiful, and there were a lot of pollen in the flowering period. Said whether to cut the tree and replace it. Teacher Dong joked at the time, "If you want to cut off the trees, I will not design it with you." In fact, I know what he meant. Large, it means that it adapts to the soil, climate, and water quality here. If you change a tree, you may not be able to grow bigger and dense. So basically I don't have much green transplantation, and they all grow naturally.

Picking stones everywhere, gardening

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Backstone becomes a "waterfall", Photo | Zeng Renzhen

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The stone used in the frame is also the old Nie picked it up by himself

When I was ready to build a garden, I started picking up stones.

There are better stones in other construction sites, and they are transported back. Some old houses are dismantling, and I will pick up some. Although the door pillow stones and door pillar stones are small, it is also useful to make a little decoration.

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Packing stacks into "cliffs", as well as slope protection

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Waterfall scene in Beishan in the Passage Hall | Dong Yu Gan

The strange stones in the pond are transported from Lushan West Sea. If you use Taihu stone or other shaped stones, the cost will be high. Friends and workers around them know that I am looking for stones, and those who have appropriate will bring me.

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My old grinding plate was embedded by the old Nie, which facilitated the underwater to nourish the trees. Photo | Zeng Renzhen

Then there were some, I thought about it myself. For example, from the dining room to Fangting, it was just between two trees. People could pass through the door, but how did the two trees penetrate? At that time, there were two mills of grinding plates in the home. There was a hole in the middle of the grinding plate, which was grinding, and the water could go down. If it was put in the middle, it could be made of a step stone.

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Electric rod bridge, photo | Zeng Renzhen

The electric rod is also the same. At that time, I wanted to make a bridge on the pond. I wanted to use wood, but I haven't found such a big tree. It happened that there were two electric poles near my house. Pour on the fields. I wonder if I can use it as a base. Finally, the two electric poles were made by bridge for people to walk.

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Above, outside the house and the open hall, the picture below, the frame of the guesthouse window, photo | Zeng Renzhen

Originally, I hope that everyone lives in five halls. As a result, compared to a large family live, everyone is more willing to live and keep a little distance. Father -in -law came over and was more willing to live in the kitchen.

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Two dogs in the ears are cats, goose, ducks, and chickens. The picture shows the old Nie family shooting

The eldest son lived further. He worked in Nanchang and lived in a guest house closer to the water and mountains every time he returned home. Because I didn't lock the door, I didn't know that he was back. Although I raised 2 dogs at home, but when the acquaintances did not call, I saw the eldest son on the breakfast table before knowing that he was back.

However, he got married in 2019, and later gave birth to his daughter, and his daughter -in -law and daughter lived in five halls. Because the child is still young, there is a pond in the backyard, and she cannot let her run around. So the eldest son is now back, and he will follow his daughter, so he will come to the main house, and you will not be in the guest house.

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The Nie family's self -produced and self -made wild peach jam is a must. Since her granddaughter was born, the center of gravity of Nie Mom Wang Taoling has been transferred to the child. No one picks it. The picture below is taken.

The house is big, and it is not easy to take care of it. We have invited someone to help clean up, but since the granddaughter was born, my wife would bring a child, and it was even more busy. Many things could not be done. For example, in this season, if she did not need to take care of her children, she would pick peaches for jam, but she couldn't be busy, so she would eat the peaches on the tree by the bird or falling on the ground.

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Lao Nie sitting outside the open hall drinking tea

Since living in the countryside, I really don't want to return to life in the county seat. The life here is the most comfortable.

Every season, every place, there is a different taste in different times. For example, when it becomes a day, the fish will float on the water, rainy and sunny, and it is another state, which is not fixed.

It is necessary to grow vegetables in spring, and it is to see flowers. 26 peach blossoms on the pond dangba are blooming. The flowering period of a week is very lively. During the Qingming Festival, the wisteria flowers near the water were full of flowers, and we sat under the flower stand, and now there are sporadic wisteria flowers.

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In the spring, the peach blossoms on the shore bloom. In the Qingming season, the wisteria flowers were placed in a sea of ​​flowers. Lao Nie said that because of the epidemic, Teacher Dong has not returned to the sacrifice for a long time.

Summer vegetable fields are very lively, and various vegetables and fruits can be harvested. In the open hall and Tao Guangting, you can listen to the sound of water. A gust of wind blew, and the bamboo forests are rang.

Have you heard the sound of woodpecker pecking bugs? Tap a regular sound of bamboo, find it along the source of the sound, and sometimes you can see the woodpecker busy.

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The camphor tree transplanted in the past two years of Lao Nie was okay in the first year and half of the year, but a place where the camphor trees died, a murmur came out, and after the beginning of autumn, the leaves of the 桕 桕 began to turn yellow. Shooting for Lao Nie's family

After the beginning of autumn, the leaves on the tree began to fall, and the leaves of the black tree will turn yellow and red. It is beautiful. The leaves fall out of light and have white fruit. This season, the scanning leaves are relatively hard, and it will soon pile up. If the weather is clear, we will let the leaves pile there. If it is about to rain, we must quickly sweep off. Rotten. After late autumn, the mosquito was gone, and the fireflies came out, and it was when the yard was the most comfortable in the year.

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Lao Nie's family photographed the winter snow scene in the ears

In winter, you can enjoy snow. In the morning, a white world can be raised in the main house. We will have a large pot of fire in the main house. If you come, the rest will accumulate snow, and the thick place will make it thick.

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Always in the ears of the guest Yingmen

In addition to the five halls, the ears never locked the door. In the 6 years after completion, many visitors came. Summer is the "peak season" to visit my house. Because the summer vacation arrives, some parents and teachers will come to my house to visit.

I often see strangers in my own yard. Last year, there were two couples in Hunan. I made a special driving to take the child to see the construction.

Last summer, three people asked me if I was eaten. It turned out that they were professors of Wuhan University. They came here, but they were not familiar with life. I didn't find a place to eat. I cooked them for 3 bowls of noodles. In the daily life in the ears, there are Hong Confucianism and white daisy.

This fall, the younger son Nie Zhuoqun is going to Beijing to go to Beijing to study architecture. Although he actually hopes that he has learned medicine, he has liked nature, plants and small animals since he was a child. We have not explicitly talked about this house. Is there an impact of learning architecture? I think how much should be available

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