Forest house

Forest house

Linzhai is located in Zijin lane, Zhenming Road, Haishu District, Ningbo City. It faces south in the north, zijinjuan in the west, Sanzhi street in the back, Zhenming road in the East and folk houses in the West. It's at 30 Zijin street, Haishu District. The residence of Lin Zhongqiao and Lin Zhonghua in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty.

brief introduction

The whole house, facing south, covers an area of 3100 square meters. The building area is 2000 square meters. It is composed of head door, screen wall, second door, screen wall, sedan hall, front floor, middle floor and back floor, with wing rooms on the left and right. There are exquisite carvings in the gatehouse, screen wall and shadow wall. Now there are more than 170 brick carvings, and more than 50 stone carvings and wood carvings. There is a small garden in the southwest of the house, which is called "Orchid Pavilion". It contains Dong Qichang's book of Ming Dynasty and the preface to Orchid Pavilion written by Chen Jiru.

Architectural features

Lin's house was built by Lin Zhongqiao and Lin Zhonghua in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty (1862-1874). On the central axis, there are some buildings, such as the car hall, the main building, the back building, and so on.

The head gate is located on the east side of the building, facing south is a high-rise archway brick carved gate tower. In the middle of the book, "Qingyun chongye" is written before, and "Chunfeng and his younger brother" is written after. The story of characters in high relief. On the wall of the entrance are brick carvings of "eight Phoenix steeds", "Tai Shi Shao Shi Tu", "two lions playing Hydrangea" and "Danfeng Chaoyang". The carvings are rich in themes and exquisite in craftsmanship.

Facing east, Yimen is a wooden structure building, cornice, Dou Gong and ang. It is exquisitely made, with dragon, lotus, Ruyi, bat and "Yuquan Yuyue" carved on the columns. It has unique modeling action.

In front of the entrance is a tall and gorgeous screen wall. The upper part of the screen wall is carved with "high relief", "deep carving" and "through carving" techniques, such as "Eight Immortals", "fortune, longevity", "harmony immortals", "nine old pictures" and "24 filial sons". Surrounded by Ganoderma lucidum, orchid, Narcissus and other exotic grasses and flowers, plus buildings, platforms, pavilions, pavilions, mountains and rivers, bridges, cirrus flowers and plants, these rich and colorful contents are gathered in the picture of about half a square meter, with a blend of feelings and scenes and ingenious layout.

In the small garden opposite to Yimen, there are Lanting, rockery, pool and pavilion garden, which are modeled on the poem "there are lofty mountains, luxuriant forests and bamboo trees here, and clear currents, reflecting the left and right" in the preface to Lanting collection written by Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of Jin Dynasty. Although they occupy a small area, they have the feeling of mountains and rivers flowing, and the music is quiet. On the wall is a preface to the Orchid Pavilion collection written by Dong Qichang, a famous calligrapher and painter of the Ming Dynasty, and a postscript by Chen Jiru, a writer and painter.

The sedan hall is a hard hilltop building with three bays. There are sculptures inside and outside the middle doorway and beams, mainly for dragons and bats. The brick walls under the eaves between the East and the West are carved with "grazing map" and "farming weaving map". On the forehead, cornice, window decoration and horse head wall, there are themes and decorations such as "Ladies bury flowers", "squirrels steal peaches", "cloud bat play Tour" and "auspicious fortune". The brick windows in the second and third rooms have regular patterns and are unified and generous. The pattern cake on the wood components of the main building and the back building is the same as the carving decoration on the roof. The two opposite shadow walls between the main building and the back building are carved with the opera story of "Tang Bohu doting on autumn fragrance" under the eaves. The plot is rich and vivid, full of interest.

Other related

Linzhai is one of the most concentrated, exquisite and rich buildings in eastern Zhejiang. These precious carving works have important reference value for the study of carving art and architectural decoration art.

Address: No.30, Zijin street, Zhenming Road, Haishu District, Ningbo

Longitude: 121.54504853487

Latitude: 29.862433642097

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