In recent years, whenever I see the ancient buildings and houses of the nine palaces of Chen's Santai on my circle of friends, I always have an impulse in my heart, and I must take a look. It’s easy to take a look, not far away, and familiar, you can drive or take a bus and arrive in a while. However, at first, I thought that there was something good about this, it was just an old house. I should have been to before, and there were no scenery in familiar places. Gradually, after thirty years, I became more timid in my hometown, so I missed the opportunity to travel again and again.
Chenjia Santai General Office
Things in the world, as long as you have thoughts, it seems that God will help you realize it in the dark. Look, thirty years later, I will actually wander alone on the pebble road that I once dreamed of countless times. How many times have I dreamed of it at midnight? I ran on the long gravel road, with wooden shops on both sides. At the end of the road, there are often a courtyard house with people sitting in the sun doing needlework. That is this Gutai County Road, which now retains the pebble road in the middle and expands the cement road on both sides.
The teaching building to the east of the ancient post road, and the dormitory building to the west is
Winter, in the afternoon, the warm sun, the small station at the foot of the mountain is still as usual. After getting off the bus, I didn’t see the row of striking three-story teaching buildings without walls. Many houses have been built around, and the teaching building has been surrounded by walls. After a long time, I saw that the one who said "Ma'ao Village Cultural Hall " was walking around, and the gate was open, but why did the original two-story dormitory building opposite the gate disappear and turned into a factory? Someone told me that the dormitory house was still there, and that the factory was built in the original yard.
The teaching building of primary and secondary schools that year
Walk into the cultural auditorium, silent, and the stair door was locked. Thirty years ago, this was a teaching building for primary and secondary schools. There were about ten teachers in four classes in junior high school. The office of the junior high school was on the east of the third floor, and the two first-year junior high school classes were on the east of the first floor. When I was studying for myself late, I had to take care of two classes. Because there were no walls, those unemployed young people in the society would make trouble outside the classroom and even throw stones into the classroom. I was so scared that I could only hide in the classroom. Sometimes students are asked to go to the third floor office to call the leader. When the leader comes down, the people scatter into the darkness. As soon as the leader leaves, the people gather outside the window. When I first became a teacher, I came to teach alone in the remote and impoverished mountainous areas at the junction of these three counties, which felt so sad.
There are many introductions on the wall, and they all look so familiar, including Chenjia Santai, Mayuan Cave, Santoucao Ziyun Temple, Jing Ancient Academy, Dashuijing, Huilan Tower, Xianyuan Bridge, etc.
Mayuan Cave is a natural stone cave that can accommodate dozens of people. The waterfall on the top of the cliff in front of the cave is pouring out, forming a beautiful water curtain. On the days of freezing in winter, the waterfall condenses into a magical ice curtain. Shantoucao Ziyun Temple has been a dream-praying destination in eastern Zhejiang since ancient times. On the second day of the second month of every year, there are endless people bringing this dream-praying destination in Ningbo and Taizhou. I have been to these two places more than once, but Chen Jia Santai and others are near the school, and I have never paid attention to it at all at that time. I have been very sorry for many years.
The pebble road between the teaching building and the dormitory building that had been in and out for two years was Gutai County Road, which was historically a major transportation road connecting Taizhou and Ningbo to the south and north. No wonder, when I was teaching in the first-floor classroom, there were often mountain people who picked up water chestnut eggs and sold them. No matter if you were in class, she shouted at you at the door of the classroom, "Teacher, go buy some water chestnuts" and "Teacher, eggs or "," which made people laugh and cry.
Big water well
Next to the ancient post road, behind the teaching building, I saw a large water well and said that there was no well railing and there were stone steps to get close to the water. In ancient times, mules, horses and livestock passed by, and they could stop and drink. In drought, the carriage could be watered, and when there was a fire, water could be fed to save disasters. Nowadays, there are railings and fish swimming. I feel like I am amnesia. I don’t have a little memory of this big well in my mind. It’s so strange.
Walk a few steps north along the ancient road from Dashuijing, and a pebble road to the west, with the intersection sign "Chenjia Santai". Speaking of which, I went there thirty years ago. It was one night. My colleague said he went to chat with Teacher Chen’s house in elementary school. There was a blind man who had a good erhu and could tell fortunes and characterize words, which was very accurate.I followed, and didn't feel that it was an ancient house. The ancient house was so special. I forgot all the words that were measured.
That clean pebble road, the deep alley, said that you could walk the eight-carrying sedan chair in the past and enter through the main gate. It was a gravel road that was as wide as the gate. There was a gravel road leading to north and south at the beginning of the road. There was a row of houses and three real (yards), and the three gates were all facing east and the gates were closed. I thought, I went back after walking outside the wall. An old man saw it and asked me where I came from. He opened the door and said that he lived inside. He enthusiastically introduced me to the "Chen Family Santai". "Tai" is the Ninghai dialect, which means a row of houses, and three platforms means three rows of houses.
During Yongle in Ming Dynasty, the Chen family of Shuiche moved to Maao to establish Chenjia Village in order to avoid Fang Xiaoru's disaster of implicating the ten races. Here the junction of the three counties. Going south over Maaoling, you can reach Sanmen County. Going west is Tiantai County . This is an ancient building in the Ming and Qing dynasties. From east to west, there are three rows of houses in each row. Each row of houses has three real (yards), with a nine-grid layout. It reached its peak during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with a construction area of about 8,000 square meters. In order to prevent bandits, only four gates are left in the entire building complex, southeast, west and north, and are isolated from the outside world after closing. In order to prevent fire, the various corridors are separated by pebble road walls, and there are doors connected.
After years of baptism, although the ancient house has been dilapidated, it can be seen everywhere that it was once luxurious. Generally, five horse head walls are large-scale. The yard here has seven horse head walls, and those carved beams and painted buildings. Unfortunately, the workmanship is exquisite and well-preserved, and the thieves saw it away. A few years ago, the craftsman was asked to repair it and repair it. The wind and fire wall is engraved with "Hairings of Peaks" and "Lings of Flowing Belts", which well describes the environmental characteristics of the Chen family Santai. It is surrounded by green mountains and gurgling streams in front of it.
Every time, every house was full of people, but now, there is no one or two family members who are authentic, and they are just one or two old people, sitting on the eaves of the steps and basking in the sun, quietly. There are a few authentic ones, and no one lives there, General Iron is holding the door. The fortune teller who played the erhu was still sitting at the door, listening with his ears on his side, and there was a "blind artist" sticking to the wall. He was blind at the age of 4, learned fortune telling at the age of 13, fell in love with the erhu at the age of 20, and made his own instruments such as erhu, Sanxian, random piano, and pipa. Now his son has grown up and lived in the city. He and his wife depend on each other and guard this ancient house.
7 horse head wall
stolen carvings are newly inlaid with
blind artist
The westernmost avenue is located in the yard with no gate and no pebbles on it. Someone planted some vegetables on it. This real person was originally built to receive his friend Taizhou Prefecture Tai, but it has not been completed yet. A passerby Feng Shui gentleman said that there will be a fire within three days. The master thought that in just three days, even if you don’t eat, drink or sleep, you must control it. On the third day, a dog ran in and peed on the stone wall at the foot of the pillar. The owner picked up a stone and hit the dog. The dog ran away. The stone hit the stone wall, and sparks splashed, causing a fire. The large rocks on the stairs were burned out and the courtyard gate was burned down. It can be seen that the fire was so fierce that it was like a sky fire.
There is a tree of white plum blossoms coming out through the wall in the backyard, blooming in prosperity, with white petals sprinkled with pebbles, the ancient path is silent, and the ancient house is silent.
There is a authentic head of Chen Family Santai, which is the Jing Gulou Academy, a place where the children of Chen Family Santai study. Because of respecting teachers and education, many capable talents have gone from Santai. The old man has two sons, both of whom are developing in big cities and are very promising. The eldest son is from the city TV station. He once organized a group of knowledgeable people who are enthusiastic about his hometown to protect and renovate ancient houses and develop the tourism industry in his hometown based on the architectural wisdom and artistic value of ancient houses.
Turn around and you will be the world. Thank you for your enthusiastic introduction along the way. He is an owner of the ancient house. He hopes that the ancient house can be understood by more people and can enter the world's vision.
After leaving Chen's Santai and when I arrived at Gutai County Road, I had to walk on this pebble road that I had walked countless times. At that time, students often made mistakes and asked them to take them to visit each other. There is a cross street building at the end of
Street. The two waters in the north of the building form a pool to form a Huilan, because it is called Huilan Building. After leaving Huilan Tower and continuing north, there is Xianyuan Bridge, which was built during the Qianlong period (1736-1795). It has a total length of 14.3 meters, a span of 11 meters, a width of 5.4 meters, and a height of 4 meters. Because the bridge is located in the Mayuan River, it is called Xianyuan Bridge. Green vines are entangled, and the mottled Land Li Bridge stones are revealed, and the stream water is gurgling under the bridge. There is a Xianyuan Temple (commonly known as Qiaotou Temple) in the west of the bridge. It was built at the same time as the bridge, and it is dedicated to Emperor Guan Gong. Believers often come here to pray on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month.
Walked through Xianyuan Bridge and came to the provincial highway Yonglin Highway. There were not as many cars as before. It turned out that the cars were running on the highway.
revisiting the old place without an old friend. After thirty years, there are unforgettable memories in my mind. A familiar and unfamiliar old place will eventually become a passing cloud. What can life last forever? In fact, a few years ago, the students of that year invited me to attend their class reunion and invited more than a dozen teachers from our school back then. Those young and innocent children have become fathers and mothers, and have achieved success in their careers. Most of them live in the same place. The teachers have either retired or transferred, and the schools have long merged. Looking back on the past, I feel a lot of emotion.
When you leave, those things you once thought about seem to have let go, perhaps it is a farewell to the past in this way. Goodbye, the thirty years of past events!
Aerial photos of Chen Jia Santai (from the Internet)
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