How to build Yueyang Tower?

Yueyang Tower in China has experienced many rejuvenating and abolishing since its completion. In the Tang Dynasty, the whole pavilion was rebuilt again.

That was on 7 16. This year, Zhang Shuo, the minister of the Tang Dynasty, was banished to Yuezhou as a secretariat. When he arrived in Yuezhou, his brow was furrowed and he was miserable.

One day, he took a few people out and toured the jurisdiction by the way, but after a long walk, he didn't find a place with good scenery.

When the sun was about to set, Zhang said that he took his entourage to the lake outside the west gate and saw a circular stone platform with a small pavilion and a plaque of "parade platform" hanging on it.

This reviewing platform was built by Lu Su, the general of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, while training sailors in Dongting Lake. Zhang said that when he boarded the parade platform and looked at the endless Dongting Lake, he suddenly felt a lot more open-minded.

An attendant said to Zhang, "Sir, you can see mountains and lakes here. It would be great to build a pavilion on a high place! "

Zhang said that after hearing this, he felt that there was some truth, so he made up his mind to start Gai Lou when there was a good day. Listed immediately the next day, recruiting famous teachers and skilled craftsmen to be project managers.

One day, a young carpenter named Li Luban came from Tanzhou and claimed to be good at civil design. No matter what pavilions, attics, palaces and temples, they can be designed perfectly.

Zhang asked him to take charge of the project and gave him a month to draw a three-story, four-corner, five-staircase, six-door, cornice, bucket arch and helmet-top pavilion.

Li Luban hid in the house all day, drawing and calculating. In 7749 days, he painted many patterns, either a land temple or a crossing pavilion. He was tired and sweaty, but he still didn't draw a satisfactory pattern.

At this time, Zhang was particularly angry, thinking that Li Luban was talking big, so he said to him, "Now so many craftsmen are coming, waiting for your paintings. You're wasting everyone's time! I'll give you a few more days, and if you don't pay by then, I'll never spare you! "

Li Luban broke out in a cold sweat and thought about it, but he couldn't think of any good way. A man sat by Dongting Lake and began to cry.

Woodworkers and masons saw that he was really sad when he cried, and ran over to persuade him, "You are a young man, why are you so serious?" I just don't know if I don't know. Just admit your mistake in front of Zhang. "

Some people also said some sarcastic words: "Since your surname is Lu Ban, you must have Lu Ban's skills. Designing a small castle is nothing! "

After listening to these words, Li Luban sincerely said, "Dear teachers, I have also worked in the countryside for six years, and more than 100 buildings have been built in thatched huts. I didn't expect it to be so difficult to draw a castle. " Now, I have to ask the villagers for help and reward you in the future. "

At this time, a white-haired old man came out of the crowd. No one knows his name, except that he has been wandering around the construction site every day for two months, asking questions.

The white-haired old man said to Li Luban: "I think Zhen Luban's skill was also learned from hard work and hard practice since childhood. It is difficult to draw a good castle if you hide in the house and paint like you do. " Learn from other masters! "

"It seems that you must be a carpenter, too?" Li Luban respectfully said to the old man, "Your old man is well informed, please give me more advice!"

"I didn't draw a picture," said the old man. "It's just that I have some gadgets here. If you like them, you might as well play with them. Maybe they will play some tricks. "

As he spoke, the old man opened the bag he was carrying, which contained many long, short, round and square rafts with numbers written on them. He spread it on the ground and said, "If it's almost anything, just find me upstairs in Liansheng Inn."

Say that finish, white-haired old man walked away and never looked back.

Li Luban picked up the pile of wooden stakes and squatted in the shed, thinking hard and swinging from side to side, even forgetting to eat.

Seeing that he was so fascinated, a young carpenter grabbed some pieces of wood and threw them into the haystack, saying, "Hum, that old man is crazy, maybe he is a braggart." Do we really believe him? "

Several old carpenters nearby quickly said, "Young people are better off being modest. He has crossed more bridges than you. " ! What makes you say that he is bragging? "

One by one, the old carpenters sat with Li Luban, slowly fiddling with the numbers on the wooden tuotuo. They posed again and again, and suddenly, everyone shouted happily in unison: "Come and see, a beautiful pavilion is ready!" " "

The carpenters heard this and ran over to have a look. It was indeed a spectacular pavilion model. After a while, the carpenters gathered around and everyone praised them. But there seems to be a cornice with five arches missing. Check carefully according to the number. No more, no less, five pieces of wood are missing.

Just now, the little carpenter who lost his wood ran over and said casually, "The whole pavilion is ready. What else do you need to worry about?" Just make a few additions when I get here. "

I don't know that he worked for a day and a night, and he cut a hundred pieces of wood. None of them were suitable, either half a point long or half a point short. At this moment, he remembered his lost raft. He felt very sorry and had to say to everyone, "I am really sorry for everyone, but I am too ignorant." The lost raft is the raft I lost earlier. "

"Where is it? Take us back quickly. " Everyone asked in chorus.

"It's in the thatched pile ahead." The young carpenter led everyone to look around in the grass. I finally found four, but I couldn't find any. All the weeds have been pulled out, and there is no sign of that lump in the wood.

Just then, Zhang Zhifu said, I heard that the model of the pavilion was built, so I came to have a look. It's really spectacular He was so happy that he praised him again and again, saying, "It's the first floor in the world!" "

"Your honor, the model of this building is short of a cornice and a bucket arch."

"This building looks like from whose hand? Please come and fill the bucket arch. "

"My Lord, he is a white-haired old man. I don't know his name. I only know that he lives in Liansheng Inn. "

Zhang, the satrap, led the crowd and hurried to Liansheng Inn to find the old man with white hair.

When the innkeeper heard that the prefect had come to look for someone in person, he didn't know what had happened, so he rushed out and said, "Alas, this white-haired old man has been in the store for more than two months. He is never in the house during the day, but at night he cuts and saws upstairs until midnight. I thought he was helping people make furniture, but who knows he was just playing for those children. "

"Open the stair door quickly and let me have a look."

Zhang said that she couldn't wait, which frightened the proprietress. She quickly opened the stair door for him to see.

Zhang said that when he went upstairs, he did not see the shadow of the old man. He only saw a beautifully painted pavilion pattern on the bed and a dozen wooden tuotuo on the table. The old masters carefully turned it over for a while and found a block of wood on the table with missing numbers on it. They quickly took it back and put it on the table, thus forming a complete model of the exhibition hall.

Zhang said that everyone clapped their hands and laughed: "This is the real Lu Ban. We must find him. "

But no one knows where he went. Zhang said that he quickly sent people to visit around Yuezhou City. I didn't find it the first day, and there was still no shadow the next day. Until the early morning of the third day, someone suddenly reported that an old man with white hair had built an arch hole with stones on the lake beach and built a house on it.

Hearing this, Zhang Yi immediately led several people to the beach in the middle of the lake. But the white-haired old man disappeared again. I saw a very beautiful and spectacular pavilion built on the stone arch.

Zhang pointed to a pavilion model on the lake beach and said, "This talent is extraordinary wisdom! It seems unique to use arch holes as building foundations. This is really blessed! "

He looked up and saw an old man with white hair, holding a ruler, measuring the land on the opposite high slope.

Zhang said and quickly asked the crowd, "That's ahead ..."

Li Luban shouted happily: "It's him, it's Old Master Q!"

As Zhang spoke, he hurried forward to salute and said, "I have heard a lot about Master's superb skills. It's an honor to meet him today. Excuse me, is Master surnamed Lu? "

The white-haired old man shook his head again and again and said, "My name is Lu, and Lu Ban is my master."

"Where is the teacher today? I ask for advice and I want something. "

The white-haired old man pointed to many carpenters and masons in front and said, "Look, he is asking the master there!" " "

They looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, a strange old man was talking with the craftsmen cheerfully. Zhang took everyone there and saw busy carpenters and masons. They all looked like the master Lu Ban whom they had just met, but they couldn't tell which was the real Lu Ban.

But when they went back to find the master surnamed Lu, they saw a ruler left on the ground, on which the words "Lu Banchi" were clearly engraved.

Zhang said that he hurriedly boarded the parade platform of Lu Su, and shouted in front of the lake in the 800-mile Dongting: "Master Lu Ban, please come again!"

On the surface of the lake, the words "coming yo ... coming yo ..." are suddenly far away and near.

At this time, there are thousands of rosy clouds in the western sky, as if an old man with white hair was riding a white crane and soaring away at the end of the water.

Carpenters and masons finally built a pavilion according to the style designed by the white-haired old man, and took the arch hole of the west gate as the building foundation. People named the three-story cornice arch "Lubanmen". Therefore, the pavilion is located in the sun of Yuelu Mountain, so it is called "Yueyang Tower".

This pavilion has four columns and three floors, cornices, helmet tops and pure wood structures. The four columns in the building are towering, and the roof is carved with beams and painted with buildings. It is magnificent and looks like a flying Kunpeng from a distance.

Another feature of the building is that the shape of the roof resembles a general's helmet, which is both majestic and unusual. Pure wood structure on the eaves and helmets. The top of the building is supported on the exquisite wishful bucket arch, with smooth curve and steep upturning, which is unique among the historical ancient buildings in China and has architectural characteristics.

In addition, from the "Yueyang Tower Map" handed down from generation to generation and the Yueyang Tower building that later kept its original site in the Qing Dynasty, the overall sculpture of Yueyang Tower presents the characteristics of Jiangnan sculpture art, with exquisite as the main feature.

The intersection of natural scenery and humanistic spirit in Chu makes Yueyang Tower sculpture have a rich nourishing environment. It can be said that the carving of Yueyang Tower is compatible with the heroic and delicate, solid and ethereal, rough and delicate aesthetic characteristics.

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