Dongting Dongshan, a peninsula in the northeast of Taihu Lake in Wuzhong, has a long history, beautiful scenery and rich special products. It is a national-level scenic tourist area famous at home and abroad. Among the many scenic spots in Dongshan Mountain, the carved building in the Republic of China is famous for its ingenious and well-preserved carving art of "brick, wood, stone and gold", and is known as the "first building in the south of the Yangtze River". In May 2006, it was listed in the national key cultural relics protection unit of China Heritage. "Sculptor" used to be a common name among the people, and there is another name: Spring is in the building, which is quite elegant. "Flowers are still in spring" is a famous sentence of Yu Yuegong, a Suzhou poet in Qing Dynasty. And the owner of the carved building, Jin Xizhi, borrowed his meaning to name the building, carved flowers and painted it, and the flowers and trees outside the building were sparse. It was really beautiful in spring! In order to better continue the cultural heritage of this building in the Republic of China, after Quanshui Building was listed as a "national treasure", the Wuzhong District authorities launched a "national treasure" protection planning and transformation plan with the theme of restoring the architectural culture of the carved building in the former Republic of China and restoring the local natural customs in the water towns and mountainous areas. The newly rebuilt Diaohualou scenic spot has invested a lot of money and has more perfect sightseeing and leisure functions, which will form a tourist scenic spot with comprehensive functions of scenic spot, leisure area and supporting area. The main landscapes in the scenic area include carved buildings in the Republic of China, top buildings and back gardens in the Ming Dynasty, historical and cultural exhibition halls of carved buildings, waterside pavilions, ancient pavilions, lotus ponds, promenades and ancient and famous trees. Leisure areas mainly include standard rooms, leisure clubs, local products shopping malls, carved buildings restaurants and so on. The supporting area mainly has perfect parking facilities. After the transformation, the carved building scenic spot of the Republic of China will become the chief brand scenic spot of Suzhou's grand tour around Taihu Lake, known as "Suzhou with mountains and rivers and Wuzhong with humanities", and will also become a veritable treasure of Wuzhong in Taihu Lake.

"This building should be in the sky. How many times have you heard it on earth? " Almost everyone who walks into the carved building will make such a sigh. Every wood carving and brick carving here is a smart note, which can touch your heartstrings and trigger your imaginary wings. Beautiful! Carved architecture. Every inch is an elf, a creation and an artistic treasure of the Chinese nation! Nearly 100 film and television dramas started shooting here and achieved success. Not only artists can ignite inspiration here and create a gorgeous artistic spring; Countless tourists, from foreign heads of state to all sentient beings, can get happy feelings, sweet smiles and endless reverie from here.

Strolling in the corridor of Zoumalou, a carved building, you have a profound taste, a tortuous taste, a taste of ancient town legends left here, a taste of short history and deja vu life. The master's bedroom, the young lady's boudoir and the priceless mahogany carved bed of the master and his wife are all covered with historical dust. Luxury goods in the past, such as rare yellow paper books, can be studied carefully, but it is not worth imitating and continuing. Philosophers say that history is a mirror. What can people reflect from it? There is nothing in the deep monastery. How many footprints were left here? How much laughter, sadness and even crying are left here? Any love history, unofficial history? Love history? On one side of the corridor, a small window opened. That's what women use to spy on downstairs from upstairs. It is said that most of them are blind dates, and occasionally when it is inconvenient for women to go to the scene, such as ancestor worship ceremony, ladies will secretly see this strange and novel world from here. The window opened silently, the sun and the moon passed away from here, the smiling face as beautiful as flowers and jade passed away from here, and the drama with ups and downs and interesting stories passed away from here. There is no trace of Mo Dao's years, a window, the history leading to the misty and rainy ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River in the Spring and Autumn Period, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, and decades of ups and downs. How many dramas have been staged here? From this window, everyone can figure out the familiar back of the ancient town that is not far away; Everyone can appreciate the charm of love. Mr. Jin, the landlord, made a fortune in business that year, which can be described as a rich man with great pride. Why did he spend a lot of money to build a carved building? Dongshan is a gentle place. Green willows, small rivers, stone piers, wooden boats, arch bridges and red lanterns are used to the luxury of Shanghai Shili Yangchang. Perhaps, I still think this land in my hometown makes people feel warm and practical. So, I built this art palace as my final resting place. I didn't mean to praise the landlord. Compared with some spenders today, Mr. Jin, who built this building in those days, deserves a glimpse. After all, he left this artistic treasure to future generations. Suzhou produces talents, and even businessmen have such artistic taste, which makes people sit up and take notice. Walking slowly along the Zoumalou, you can walk into history, reality and tomorrow. Just open your heart, my friend, and you can hear songs that inspire wisdom everywhere.

Although the garden is small, there are rockeries, winding paths, clear water, arch bridges, pavilions, pavilions, flowers, birds, insects and fish. The most striking artistic feature of this carved building is thinness. Standing among them, I can't help but think of the last words left by an old dramatist to my disciples: be good! China's plays pay the most attention to meticulous work. Every time you gesture, you can speak, sing, recite and speak freely. This is called Kung Fu. The loveliest thing about Suzhou gardens is that every detail can stand people's repeated scrutiny and play. This is especially true for carved buildings. Seeing the big from the small is the essence of art, and tourists like to stand here quietly, hoping that there will be a moonlit night, watching the moonlight flow silently from the wind and fire wall covering the third floor, talking with the sage-like Taihu Stone, whispering with the elegant and noble crape myrtle, small lotus flower and sandalwood plum, silently kissing the paved stone path, and then quietly flowing into the tourists' hearts. A ray of coolness or a trace of sadness is the best. I was lucky enough to ignite the eternal melody of the blind man A Bing's "Two Springs Reflecting on the Moon", so that this small garden full of Suzhou garden characteristics, like a seed of love, spread in the hearts of every tourist and take it all over the country. Therefore, the difficult journey of life has added a lasting nostalgia and comfort, which is also the greatest blessing for tourists.

Architecture is an art. Good architecture can not only make people who live in it adapt, but also make people who look at it smooth. This is the case with the Carved Building, which not only has practical value, but also allows the "viewers" to gain great artistic enjoyment. I didn't go in, but I saw a tall and steep black castle among the green fruit trees. Surrounded by a high wall of wind and fire, everything in the wall is completely covered, which makes people feel dignified, mysterious and quiet. Entering the door, there are two patios inside; Upstairs and downstairs, study, guest room, bedroom, secret room, balcony, garden ... The whole house covers an area of two acres and the plane is polygonal. From east to west, the main building is zhaobi, gatehouse, front building, back building and annex building in turn on the central axis. The front and rear floors are halls at the bottom, and the two sides are connected by compartments. Before and after there is a cloister upstairs, it is commonly known as "going upstairs" and "turning around". The west is connected with the old house of the Jin family-the "Shi Zhuangyuan Mansion" in Ming Dynasty; The back building in the north is the annex building and the utility room; To the east is a small and exquisite garden ... the overall layout is reasonable, ingenious and orderly; In the meantime, it is open and bright, warm in winter and cool in summer, comfortable and convenient. For example, in the small garden in the east, there are beautiful trees such as Taihu Stone, rockery, exotic flowers and exotic trees, doll lotus, ancient crape myrtle and sandalwood, small bridges and flowing water, pavilions and pavilions ... like a concentrated Suzhou garden "bonsai". According to Mr. Jin's memory, the ground at the entrance of the garden was originally paved with glass flowers instead of pebbles. It was rectangular, square and round, with an area of about one meter wide and three meters long. It was colorful, crystal clear and beautiful. The brick carving of Gu Long on the garden wall was his relative. At that time, it was given by Weng Jia, one of the "four big families" in Dongshan, and was carved by famous craftsmen in Ming Dynasty. The famous "Zodiac" rockery was sold by Weng's family to his family, worth 3,000 silver dollars ... There are also hexagonal pavilions and glazed tiles on the Buddha building, and there are colored glass "Four Seasons Windows" in the building, which makes people feel novel and beautiful.

Of course, the most wonderful, important and huge ornamental content is the sculpture art that can be seen everywhere in architecture. There are wood carvings, brick carvings, stone carvings and golden carvings; Carvings are divided into relief, round carving, hollow carving and yin-yang carving. Among them, the highest artistic value is the brick-carved gatehouse in Shikumen. The contents of the clay sculpture on the roof of the gatehouse are bats, auspicious clouds and evergreen; There are "the best", "God bless the people", "Congratulations on making a fortune" and "carp yue longmen" ... as well as Ganoderma lucidum, peony, orchids, chrysanthemums and other flowers. The brick carving of the gatehouse is complex but not chaotic, with many levels and orderly. The Eight Immortals' Birthday Map was carved on the upper part of Hengle according to Travel Notes to the East. It is said that on March 3rd, the Queen Mother of the West held a flat peach banquet, and everyone in the Eight Immortals brought treasures to the banquet. This is a symbol of a woman's birthday, called "longevity". The embossed "Ten Deer Scenery" with ten deer and ten postures, lying, standing, jumping, running, lying, jumping, holding your head, looking down, holding your breath and looking back, is full of soft, meaningful, leisurely and pleasant charm. Deer is the homonym of "Lu", which sustains people's persistent pursuit and bold yearning for a better life and reflects the social psychology of "being an official". The next square carves "a test of longevity and great wealth". This is about the official residence of Guo Ziyi in Tang Dynasty. He has seven sons and eight sons-in-law, all of whom are government officials. Every year, on Guo Ziyi's birthday, seven sons and eight husbands go to the mansion to celebrate their birthdays. This happy scene of children and grandchildren is a symbol of male longevity, which is called "longevity and happiness". This sculpture has a proper and natural composition, vivid characters and strong human feelings, which can give people a gentle and charming feeling. The left and right sides of the gatehouse are embossed with "Yao Shun's abdication" and "Wang Wen's visit to the sage", the former is called "virtue" and the latter is called "sage". There are railings and three watchtowers on the upper part of the platform, which are carved with "Fu, Lu and Shou" respectively, meaning "Three stars shine high and grace lasts forever". "Samsung" is slim but not thin, plump but not bloated. Simple and honest appearance, traditional official dress, immortal demeanor and quiet expression all accord with unofficial history's records. The lower end of the platform is decorated with a Wan Chuan crane. There are six arches under the five-inch eaves of the gatehouse, and the arches are engraved with double happiness, double halberd and good luck, which are called "double happiness, good luck and good luck". Gourd buds are hung on the outside of the two ends below five inches, which is a symbol of endless generations. The Soviet-style lions carved at both ends of the left and right vertical columns are kind-hearted, kind-looking, gentle and charming. The style is quaint and quiet, and the wind rules are far away. The word "Cold Mountain Picking" is embossed on the upper end of the column, and its appearance features are unkempt, smiling, simple and simple, and full of soft charm. One holds a lotus and the other a round box, which means harmony. The south side of the gatehouse is embossed with golden pheasant lotus. The cock is erect today, twisting his neck and glaring, looking directly at the bug on the lotus, posing as a gesture of "waving money to protect his neighbor" and then sticking out his mouth to eat; The relief phoenix on the north side wears peony, which means "wealth and splendor". The whole gatehouse is magnificent and elegant in shape, rigorous and dexterous in structure, broad and unified in subject matter, exquisitely carved and quaint, with the unique style of Soviet art, and can be called a fine brick carving art in China.

The largest number of woodcarvings and the densest carving place are the "Yangji Jingshe Hall" in the downstairs hall. Except for gold, stone and brick carvings, all wooden beams, doors, windows and railings are carved everywhere. Such as load-bearing, joists, porch beams, beam mats, cypress trees, etc., are engraved with auspicious patterns such as "pointing to the rising sun", "Crane and deer in the same spring", "Eight Immortals crossing the sea" and "Phoenix wearing peony". Birds want to spread their wings, flowers want to dance with the wind, immortals hold their feet still, and Swiss beasts hold their heads high. Symmetrical patterns, patchwork and dense, Cai Feng rare birds soar among carved beams, and poetry and painting are formed in the painted walls. There are 48 stories of Romance of the Three Kingdoms carved from boxwood on three sides of Baotou Beam. Martial arts figures are not only majestic, but also mighty. Animals with galloping, turning and jumping horses are in harmony with the dynamic trend of the characters and the plot of the battle. In addition, the story of Twenty-four Filial Piety is a long window and a short window carved in front of the front building and the downstairs building. The most noteworthy thing is that there are six water blocking boards, and the whole board is carved with landscape figures. The content is complex but not chaotic, with many levels and orderly. Although there are a few Gu Song miscellaneous trees in the whole painting, they can be large or small. Although it is carved on the ground, it is particularly ethereal. As the barrier of the front hall, it is a long scroll of landscape, but it is a landscape picture book when it is opened. There is also a hall board in the half window of the front hall, and there is a skirt in the long window, which is embossed with the painstaking efforts of the ancients, such as "paying a salary with a negative angle", "reading at night", "Harle", "ignoring soup", "visiting a sage" and "grinding a pestle on the road". There is a mahogany niche on the gable of the wing, and the door of the niche is engraved with warnings such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Xing Yin respectively. The flying grass is flowing, romantic and chic, the brushwork is curved and stretched, and the charm is smooth. Real calligraphy is amazing and full of energy. The brushwork of seal script is vigorous, profound and peaceful, while Oracle Bone Inscriptions's brushwork is hard and steep, calm and calm. The layout of calligraphy is not white, the density is appropriate, the knife work is stable, accurate, light and heavy, and the stagnation is quite measured, which fully demonstrates the exquisite realm of the carving art of Xiangshan gang artists in the Republic of China. According to Mr. Jin, a descendant of the landlord, there are three sets of original boxwood carvings: Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the lobby of the front building, Romance of the West Chamber in the study of the East Chamber and Twenty-four Filial Pieties in the Second Hall. Now only a set of twenty-four filial piety has been moved to the front hall. All these woodcarving works are highly skilled; The characters are lifelike and the scenery is quite ethereal.

Built in the early years of the Republic of China, the Carved Building is a typical work of Xiangshan Gang in the1920s. In addition to China's traditional Fiona Fang, well-defined axes, balanced and symmetrical three-way courtyards and quadrangles, western-style cement terraces and balconies were boldly introduced, and colored glass, frosted glass, cast iron railings, clear downpipes, western-style closets, open floors, open doors and windows, iron shed windows and marble locks were widely used. It can be seen that this building is a combination of Chinese and western. With its unique artistic style, the building integrates brick carving, wood carving and painting, and becomes the masterpiece of architectural sculpture in Jiangnan area after Kanggan. It has become an important page in the history of modern architectural sculpture in China, which is of great value to the study of modern sculpture history and folk culture in China. Dongshan Carved Building is a precious cultural heritage, which was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit in May 2006.