Chapter 1281 The British Prince
Zhou Zhi said before that this courtyard is not as good as a house with a water view as it is by the lake. In fact, he is just humoring himself in future generations. The courtyards along the Yindingqiao Hutong street, even if you can't see the lake through the door, you can put it in It will only be a sky-high price in future generations.
However, now that Mr. Qiao reminded her, Zhou Zhi took a closer look at the area and found that the gatehouse was indeed somewhat different from the general courtyards in the capital. The gate was a head higher than the courtyard wall, more like a " Gatehouse".
On both sides of the gatehouse, under the illumination of the street lights, you can see the bluestone pillars on both sides of the gate that has taken off the red and pink wall covering, on which a couplet can barely be made out:
Tianzhu Walking down the river, you will feel refreshed when you see the clear blue sky;
Yunshan has been washed by the rain, and the nodding of the strange rocks is still thinking about the spirit.
"I'm going! Jesse has been tricked by others!" Zhou Zhi slapped his forehead: "Is this a temple?!"
"It's a nunnery to be precise." Mr. Qiao laughed. A bit gloating : "Haichao Temple, also called Guanyin Temple."
In the couplet, the two allusions "Tianzhu" and "Stubborn Stone Nodding" were used, making it clear that it was a Buddhist place, which made Zhou Zhi feel a little unlucky.
"Who is it?" The door creaked open, and an old man stood inside. When he saw Wei Yi, he smiled and said, "Hey, my boss is here?"
"Hello, Uncle Ge! I'm not the boss, this one is." Wei Yi smiled and introduced to Zhou Zhi: "This is Uncle Ge. He used to rent here. Now he is arranged by the street office to look after the yard here. By the way. , the sub-district office said you have to control Uncle Ge’s salary from now on.”
"This is easy to talk about. Hello, Uncle Ge. My name is Zhou Zhi."
"Quick forward, fast forward." Uncle Ge smiled and said: "They are all rare people!"
Everyone walked into the yard, and Zhou Zhi realized that it was actually very big.
Although the residents here have been divided into small rooms to live in, the big rules can still be seen. The sutra room, meditation hall, incense plot, and abbot are all still there, but the walls were plastered later. It's just a wooden board sandwiched between the wall.
Such a small house will not be soundproofed. Zhou Zhi can imagine how frustrated the residents who lived here were.
However, when Uncle Ge led everyone through the corridor next to Guanyin Hall to the backyard, they discovered a large and empty house.
“Hey! What a great place!” Zhou Zhiyi clasped his hands and said, “It turns out Jesse is not stupid!”
“That’s right, the Feng Shui here is great!” Uncle Ge said, “We are here Oh, that's the famous Jingxi Yinding Bridge. Just across the alley is Nanguanfang Hutong. What is Nanguanfang Hutong? The people living in that alley are foreign officials who have come to the capital to serve, so it is called Nanguanfang. Do you think the feng shui can be worse?" It happened later. In the early years, this place was a property owned by the British government in the Ming Dynasty. It’s getting old!”
"The British Duke?" Zhou Zhi asked: "Zhang Fu? Or Zhang Weixian?"
The two British Dukes are relatively famous in the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Fu was originally the eldest son of Rong Guogong and Hejian King Zhang Yu. Later, because of his meritorious service in the battle of Jingnan, he wrote to An Bo and was granted the title of Marquis of Xincheng. In the sixth year of Yongle, he was granted the title of Duke of England for his conquest of Annan.
The most important thing is that the title has the word "hereditary" in front of it, which is extraordinary. From then on, the bones and tendons of the royal family are broken, and the formal title should be called "Xunqi".
It spread all the way to Zhang Weixian, the British prince. At that time, he controlled the military power in Beijing. When Tianqi died, he secretly entered the palace on the order of Queen Zhang, came out to support Chongzhen, and easily killed Wei Zhongxian's "eunuch". "The last time I came here to listen to Uncle Ge telling a story, I went back to check it out." Mr. Qiao said: "In ancient times, there was a Guanyin Temple south of Yinding Bridge. There is a record in "The Scenery of the Imperial Capital", 'In the deep winter of Chongzhen and Guiyou years, U.K. I rode on an ice bed, crossed the North Lake, and crossed the Yinding Bridge to see the Guanyin Nunnery. I was shocked when I saw the site. I hurriedly bought half of the nunnery and built a pavilion, a pavilion, and a terrace in it."
"Then I checked the genealogy table of honorable ministers in the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the British Duke was no longer Zhang Weixian, but the eighth British Duke Zhang Shize."
"Can you two shut up? Listen to Ge first. Tell me.”
“Oh, Uncle Ge, go on.”
“Well, I don’t know which British man it is, anyway, this place is the Ming Dynasty. You can't go wrong with the landing." Uncle Ge continued: "Yinding Mountain was originally one of the Eight Small Scenic Spots in Yanjing. In the past, there were no houses from here to Yinding Bridge. The water in Shicha Lake was also large, and the land in front of the nunnery has not yet been withdrawn. Come, this is right next to Qianhai.”
“It is said that when the wind is quiet at night, you can hear the sound of waves crashing on the shore from Guanyin Nunnery, so it is commonly known as Haichao Nunnery.”
"When looking at a mountain with a silver ingot, are you looking at Jingshan?" Zhou Zhi asked.
"No." Mr. Qiao said: "It's Xishan. "Rixia Jiuwen Kao" cited "Yandu Tourist Chronicles" has a description: Yinding Bridge is to the north of the three Haizi bridges in Bei'anmen. It was the capital of the capital at that time. The most beautiful place to see Xishan is by the water.' There is water on the east and west sides of the bridge, with lotus leaves and wild cattails covering the ripples. Looking to the south is the palace, to the north is the blue sky, and to the west are the thousands of peaks outside the city. They are exposed in the distance, not like the obstacles of Jingye Lake. "
"Really?" Zhou Zhi looked to the west: "Have you?"
"That was the scene in the old days. Now when you look to the west, you can only see the inpatient building of Jishuitan Hospital!"
"It was different before. , "The Scenery of the Imperial Capital" is about the British public In the section of New Garden, it is also written here: "To the east, the smoke is green in spring and summer, and the clouds are yellow in autumn and winter, and the rice fields are also there; to the north, there are hundreds of millions of farmhouses, and the smoke wisps are connected to the Western Mountains in the west, and the layers are curved." , dawn is green and dusk is purple, as close as you can reach.'"
"It's very beautiful, but it's all literati embellishment." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, this was a rural area separated from the capital by a lake!"
"That's actually what happened. "Uncle Ge said: "The water surface was very big at that time, and there were ten lakes surrounding it. There is a saying about the famous temple, "Jiu'an, one temple, three bridges, the eye of the sea is on the golden wire". This is how the name Shichahai came about."
"By the way, old man, this is it. How did the name Yinding Bridge come about?" Mr. Qiao asked, "That bridge looks like an ordinary arch bridge. Does it have anything to do with silver ingots?”
“The current arch bridge was probably built in 1984,” Uncle Ge recalled: “The original bridge shell was not what it is now. It was built in the Ming Dynasty. When it was built, it was not an arch bridge, but a flat bridge."
" There are many theories. One is that the bridge looks like an inverted ingot; the other is that the stone slabs on the early bridge deck were connected with iron curiums, which were in the shape of a figure 8. The iron curiums were polished by cars and pedestrians until they shone brightly, and their shape and luster were similar to Silver ingot; San said that the cypress pile foundation under the bridge is connected with iron ingots, which are in the shape of silver ingots. ”
"No matter which way you say it, in short, this bridge was finally called Yinding Bridge."
"It seems that the second option is the most reasonable. If it were me, a foreigner, entering the capital, I would see the seams connecting the stones on the bridge. There are bright silver iron ingots in the place, and I will be surprised for a long time." Zhou Zhi nodded: "It can only be said. The Xi Bridge has been replaced, and the old scenery can no longer be seen."
Uncle Ge pointed to a place and said: "There are still two tablets here, which seem to be poems about the old scenery. You are all scholars. You can take a look.”
(End of this chapter)