Returning home for the Spring Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation. Among the 100,000 peasant households in Fengxian, most of the old houses were built in the 80s of the last century, and many of the houses have the problem of being old, old and dilapidated, and most of the children in the family rarely go out of the countryside and live in the urban area all the year round. How to make them willing to spend the New Year in the old house and get back the flavor of the New Year in their memory?
Feng Kaimin, a young villager at No. 418 Changdi Village, Fengxian District, made up his mind to renovate his old house and rebuild his home for the New Year. After a long period of preparation and transformation, this year's Spring Festival, the 40-year-old mansion finally took on a new look, and also ushered in a happy moment of reunion after a long absence. Gathering of relatives and friends, three generations in the same house, this year's festive and warm.
This cottage is the back room of the Feng family's old house, which was converted from a dilapidated thatched house. At this moment, Feng Kaimin's relatives and friends gathered together, singing, playing guitar, talking and laughing, and were very happy.
The front room is the reception room of Feng Kaimin's parents, where her mother, Sun Huijuan, and her old sisters are gathering together, making wontons and pancakes in the kitchen, and enjoying themselves.
Sun Huijuan said: "Like our rural life, the small vegetable garden is tinkering, you can make dumplings by yourself, you can also make your own wontons if you want to eat wontons, and it is also good to call a few good old sisters or villagers and neighbors to make dumplings and wontons together, which is very warm and harmonious." ”
There is also a vacant lot between the front and back rooms of the Feng family's old house, adding up to 288 square meters. Through the connection of the small garden in the middle, the two spaces interact frequently, and the freshly baked collapse cake immediately comes from the front room to the back room.
The renovated 40-year-old house is not only scattered, but also flowing with the smell of fireworks, which is particularly warm and comfortable.
Feng Kaimin said: "After this renovation, the whole family lives here most of the time, and they will feel the temperature between the neighbors when they were young, and they will also retain a lot of the original things in the old house." Neighbors next door, including friends and relatives, will not feel inhibited when they come over. ”
In fact, renovating an old house will encounter both invisible and tangible limitations. For example, the local ** hopes that the style of the houses in the countryside can be unified, so that it is easy to form an overall aesthetic. Performing large-scale surgeries in white-walled Daiwa lattices will inevitably drive up the cost and exceed the budget. Through a friend's introduction, Feng Kaimin met a group of old house renovation designers, and then with their experience, while retaining the original appearance, the pattern of the old house was reshaped with a relatively affordable **, so that it meets the needs of three generations.
Feng Kaimin said: "When I was a child, we could find the stairs in the house in the dark, the switch was in, and my room was in. I think the New Year only tastes good when the whole family is together. ”
At present, there are more than 100,000 rural households in 175 villages in Fengxian, and most of the old rural houses were built in the 80s of the last century. On the one hand, the old, dilapidated and old are becoming more and more prominent, and more and more young people are leaving the countryside to live a life in the city and countryside with their parents. On the other hand, with the continuous deepening of rural revitalization, the rural living environment is becoming more and more beautiful, and a large number of young villagers are eager to go home and return to the time when they were children.