Flying eaves in the wheat field

Author: Qin Li
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Look, look, look at me, the grassy rooftop, with sunlight gliding over, and dragonfish staring above. Look at my vermilion window lattices, hidden under the big willow trees, look at my stone steps, my wooden posts, my gray old wall bricks, look at my slopes. And the empty fields all around, I am ancient, I am young, I am a child of a thousand armies, I am a sturdy old man with a hunched back. Flowers spread or rain gathers, I am the flying eaves couple seen from afar in the wheat field. As pure tourists, they are fond of visiting ancient Chinese buildings preserved in various places. Their entire travel process is like collecting stamps, gradually collecting all four existing Tang Dynasty buildings, all four Five Dynasties buildings, all eight Liao Dynasty buildings, dozens of Song and Jin buildings, as well as some representative Yuan Dynasty buildings. Among the over one hundred and forty ancient buildings preserved before the Yuan Dynasty in the country, they saw about seventy of them. This book is a summary of more than three years of travel and a treasure map for alternative tourism. From the perspective of tourists, with simple language and naive but natural lenses, it records the simplicity, depth, and tenacious persistence of Chinese ancient architecture. Research and verification before and after the trip add a pleasant and charming joy to this record. The ancient buildings scattered in the countryside are like vivid fragments of Chinese history. The ancient yet uplifting life force they represent is called "Flying Eaves in the Wheat Field." Look, look, look at me, the grassy rooftop, with sunlight gliding over, and dragonfish staring above. Look at my vermilion window lattices, hidden under the big willow trees, look at my stone steps, my wooden posts, my gray old wall bricks, look at my slopes. And the empty fields all around, I am ancient, I am young, I am a child of a thousand armies, I am a sturdy old man with a hunched back. Flowers spread or rain gathers, I am the flying eaves couple seen from afar in the wheat field. As pure tourists, they are fond of visiting ancient Chinese buildings preserved in various places. Their entire travel process is like collecting stamps, gradually collecting all four existing Tang Dynasty buildings, all four Five Dynasties buildings, all eight Liao Dynasty buildings, dozens of Song and Jin buildings, as well as some representative Yuan Dynasty buildings. Among the over one hundred and forty ancient buildings preserved before the Yuan Dynasty in the country, they saw about seventy of them. This book is a summary of more than three years of travel and a treasure map for alternative tourism. From the perspective of tourists, with simple language and naive but natural lenses, it records the simplicity, depth, and tenacious persistence of Chinese ancient architecture. Research and verification before and after the trip add a pleasant and charming joy to this record. The ancient buildings scattered in the countryside are like vivid fragments of Chinese history. The ancient yet uplifting life force they represent is called "Flying Eaves in the Wheat Field."