Building a house is not just about building, it's about creating a space for dreams. Crying and tearing every three years, what is the pocket room? In the process of building a house, it is not only necessary to build a dream with bricks and tiles, but also to lay the warmth of the home with heart. Building a house is not only a technical work, but also a spiritual construction, and it is necessary to engrave the attachment to home on every brick.
A warm home means not only a comfortable environment, but more importantly a quality home. In rural areas, the elderly attach great importance to the construction of houses, such as the orientation of the house to "sit north and face south" and "front light and back".
Such a house not only conforms to the principles of geography, but also follows the principles of scientific architecture. Because from a scientific point of view, a house design that "sits north and faces south, with the front shining and leaning back" makes better use of sunlight.
The importance of the elderly to the construction of houses:
People stand in the house, the house exists because of the people, the people in the house help each other, and the world is sensitized.......
For a house, young people may not care, and even think that as long as they can sleep, it doesn't matter if the house is built in **, and there is not much attention to it. However, for the elderly, there are many particularities in the construction of houses, which are embodied in several aspects:
Avoid building in noisy environments.
A house is a place for people to rest, so its location is crucial, especially if you choose a quiet location. However, some people choose noisy traffic intersections when choosing a location or buying a home, such as near a train station, bus station, etc. Such a location inevitably brings noise pollution.
Avoid building in the shadows.
In some places, because of the choice of geographical advantages, some people place their houses in the "shade", resulting in such houses showing the characteristics of "high in front and low in the back". As a result, buying a home in some crowded neighborhoods can result in a lack of sunlight exposure to the front.
The village elders did not think it was suitable for such a house, because the "yang house" needed sunlight, and the house that could not see the sun was naturally considered not an ideal place to live.
When building a house, you should avoid building some special-shaped houses. There are many ways to say special-shaped houses, such as "pocket room", "big mouth to small mouth", "burden room", "sedan car room", "gun-shaped room" and so on.
The ancestors believed that the law of the universe is that "the sky is round and the earth is round", so only the houses with four corners are considered excellent, not those with alien shapes. In traditional Chinese culture, the eight directions also contain special significance.
The houses referred to below are called "pocket houses". For the "pocket house", there is a saying in the countryside: "If you don't build a pocket house, you will cry every three years", so what is a pocket house?
The pocket room, as the name suggests, resembles a large pocket in appearance, first appeared during the Tang Dynasty. At that time, people built these pocket-shaped houses to store grain.
Therefore, some people are right to think that pocket houses are houses used to store things. Of course, there are two forms of pocket rooms:
The pocket room is built in three floors.
The ground floor is a warehouse, the second floor includes a kitchen and bedrooms, while the third floor is a living area. This kind of house is similar to the three-story house in the countryside, but unlike the small rural buildings, the rural houses of today are all quality controlled, unlike the safety hazards of pocket houses in ancient times.
In addition to being used as grain storage, the ground floor warehouse can also store other miscellaneous items such as firewood, firewood and grass. For this reason, the ancient pocket room was also called the "utility room".
Another type of pocket room retains the traditional architectural style. This kind of pocket room conforms to the pocket room defined by the ancestors. Compared to the main house, we lived in the east and west wings around the main house, and finally the main house was the top.
In appearance, it looks like a large open bag or a bag full of grain. The pockets were filled with grain, and then the pockets were tied with rope, forming the shape of the pockets, hence the name "pocket room".
It seems that there is no problem with the pocket room, but why is there a saying that "if you build a house without a pocket room, you will cry every three years"?
First of all, there are hidden dangers in rural pocket houses. Due to economic constraints, rural houses are usually bungalow structures.
However, there are also some rural people who build some two- or three-story pocket houses because of the cost saving and for the living of a large family. This type of house is known as a "stacked house" in rural areas.
However, due to construction and quality reasons, such houses generally do not meet the standards, and are particularly vulnerable to the invasion of some small animals, which are not only detrimental to the residents themselves, but also pose a threat to the safety of the surrounding neighbors.
Second, the lighting of the pocket room is poor. Of course, the lighting situation of the pocket room is not ideal. Since this kind of house is not a traditional courtyard house, it is directly connected to the main house at the back and presents a dustpan shape.
Therefore, when the west room and the east house are connected, the rooms of the main house cannot enjoy the sunlight, and it is cold and damp, which is especially bad for the elderly living in the main house. The elderly need sunlight to replenish "yang energy" and vitamin D.
So, in the case of poor lighting, it is not ideal to actually build such a house.
Thirdly, the ancestors believed that such a house was a special-shaped house. The ancestors believed that the reason why the house should be square and square is mainly derived from the concept of eight directions, such as:
The northwest is Qian, representing the old father, the southwest is Kun, representing the old mother, the east is Zhen, representing the eldest son, the southeast is Xun, representing the eldest daughter, the south is Li, representing the second daughter, the west is Dui, representing the third daughter, the north is Kan, representing the second son, and the northeast is Gen, representing the third son.
Therefore, our ancestors used to believe that each direction symbolized the good fortune and misfortune of the family members, and the pocket house did not conform to the architectural concept of "the sky is round and the place is round", so it was inappropriate to choose to live in such a house. This view is only the main law of the ancestors, and lacks scientific basis, so we only need to regard it as a traditional view.
Secondly, the construction of pocket houses is no longer in line with actual needs.
In the past, due to the widespread situation of having many children in the family, especially in the fifties and sixties, there were often ** siblings in the family. Therefore, when building a house, you need to consider the number of more rooms, and pocket rooms are the choice that meets the actual needs at that time.
However, nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards, many families have only one or two children. In pursuit of a higher quality of life, it is clear that building such a house is no longer suitable for modern needs. Especially when children get married, living in a pocket house can cause some conflicts, so it is clear that this type of housing is no longer practical.
In general, through the above analysis, it can be seen that the saying that "building a house without building a pocket house, crying every three years" is obviously an exaggeration. With the development of the times, pocket rooms are no longer suitable for practical needs, but this old saying has been preserved and continues to this day.