This Deshengmen inner street, in fact, is sandwiched between two pieces of water, about a piece of north and south six or seven hundred meters long, east and west two or three hundred meters wide such a piece, the west is the pond, here later called the West Sea - and the east is Shichahai, now Shichahai has not been divided between the front sea and the back sea, is a large piece of water, collectively known as Shichahai.

At this time, the area around Jishuitan is still very desolate, and around Shichahai in the east, it is just the opposite, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it was already a very prosperous and developed commercial area.

There are many shops on the street, and high-profile households can be seen everywhere. And the courtyard where ordinary people live is mixed in, but it also has a flavor.

After entering the Desheng Gate, walk south along the street for about half a mile, and you can see a fork in the southeast direction diagonally, this street is called Guanghuasi Street.

Guanghua Temple Street is naturally named after the Guanghua Temple on the street.

There are many temples around Shichahai, known as the saying of nine nunnery and one temple, which is also the reason for its name "Shichahai". Guanghua Temple boundary, the choice is particularly good, it is located on the north shore of the Shichahai Houhai, the east is the silver ingot bridge that separates the Shichahai Houhai and the Qianhai, in the prosperity of the red dust world, it is actually the tranquility and coolness of the Buddha country.

It is quite a god hidden in the city.

Guanghua Temple was founded in Yuan, "The Old News of the Sun" quoted "Liujin Diary": "Guanghua Temple is on the chicken head pond in the middle of the day. There are monks living in the Yuan period, reciting the Buddha's number every day, each recitation, counting with a grain of rice, where 20 years, accumulating to 48 stones, because of the construction of the temple. But the specific age is unknown, and according to the inscription of the "Records of Guanghua Temple" in the Ming Dynasty: in the first year of Yuan Tianshun, the Lingji boat went to live in Qingning Temple, and lived in this temple for four years...... Ten years later, it became a great brake.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was abandoned, and it was rebuilt during the period from Tianshun to Chenghua. Due to the financial support of Su Cheng, the eunuch of the inner government, the scale of the rebuilt Guanghua Temple is very large. The inscription of the 27th year of Wanli Mi Hui contains: Guanghua Temple became the Pure Land Sect Dojo, and the abbot Huanhuan led the people to hold a very grand Buddha Mi Festival, which was unprecedented.

The environment of Guanghuasi Street is quite elegant and quiet, the street is not very wide, but it is enough to accommodate three horse-drawn carriages in parallel, which is very good in the non-main road in the city of Beijing. The streets are paved with bluestone, and the bluestone paving is very smooth, which gives people a clean and clean feeling. And it looks very brand new, so it can be seen that the paving time is not long.

On both sides of the street were exposed sewers, and beside the sewers, every one foot away, there were large elm trees, which had been growing for a long time, tall and stout, with many branches. It is conceivable that in spring and summer, it will be shaded by green trees and cool in the shade.

Some of the big trees are already the thickness of two people hugging each other, but now it is winter, and there are no leaves on the trees, so it is not clear whether the tree is dead or alive, whether it has been growing here all along, or whether it has moved from another realm. If it has been growing here, I am afraid that this tree will have to be left over from the previous dynasty.

Residential buildings especially depend on feng shui, and Chinese people attach the most importance to this, but there are different sayings, and even there are many contradictions.

Peach willow is planted in the east, elm is planted in the west, plum jujube is planted in the south, and apricots are planted in the north. And "there is a locust in the middle door, the third generation of wealth, and there are elms and hundreds of ghosts behind the house", "the front of the courtyard likes to plant double jujubes, and there are bamboo trees on the four sides to enter the wealth".

And the more widely spread is: do not plant mulberry in the front, do not plant willows in the back, and do not plant ghosts in front of the door to clap their hands. Mulberry is homophonic with the word mourning; "Willow" refers to the willow branches used as "mourning sticks" and "soul flags" for funerals after the death of parents; "Ghost clapping" refers to the poplar tree, whose leaves make a sound in the wind, like a person clapping his hands. There is also the saying that "the back of the house is not planted with locust", it is said that in ancient times there was the custom of respecting the locust tree, and the locust was a symbol of auspiciousness, longevity and official position in ancient times, so it was forbidden to plant locust behind the house. There is also a saying that the word Huai is "wood" and "ghost" when it is disassembled, so Huai is a ghost of wood, and it has become a ghost, where can it be planted? Moreover, locust trees are more susceptible to insect infestation, and on the trunk and branches, the things that flow out after the insects burrow are ugly.

Either way, it's always a good idea to plant elms. The elm tree grows quickly and has lush foliage, which is good for protection from wind and cold. And people in this era do not know that elm has a strong ability to adsorb poisonous gases and smoke and dust, and can purify the air and protect the environment when planted in the house, so there is a saying that "a hundred ghosts are not close" in this era.

Behind this row of big elm trees are the mansions with high gates.

If you can live on this Guanghua Temple Street, there are almost no small households, and as far as the eye can see, all of them are Gaomen compounds.

The tall gatehouse extends out of the courtyard wall on both sides, and there are still light walls and stone steps in front of some doors. The distance between the gates is quite far, and at a glance, there are more than 270 zhang long Guanghua Temple Street, and there are not 50 households.

Those who can live here are either rich or expensive. This Guanghua Temple Street, according to later generations, is a luxury residential area.

How so?

Bottom line: good location.

It is not far from Desheng Gate, and it is convenient to go out of the city to play or to inspect your own Zhuangzi. This is a very prosperous business district, if you want to buy something, it is fast, you have to go out to eat or feast friends, go to a green house or something like that, that is, walk two steps. And here is a very quiet and elegant place in the downtown area, clean and tidy.

Of course, the most important thing is that this Guanghua Temple Street is close to Shichahai.

Shichahai rippling blue waves, weeping willows on the shore, the distant mountains are beautiful and beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, it is one of the beautiful scenery of Yanjing since the Yuan Dynasty.

Shichahai Houhai, Shichahai Qianhai, Jishuitan, among the three water surfaces, the Houhai where Guanghua Temple Street is located, the scenery is the most.

Weeping willows are planted along the embankment, and in summer, the shade covers the sun, and the breeze comes. The lake pond is full of lotus roots, water chestnuts, in the middle of summer, near the water a tender green. The lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the lotus fragrance is overflowing, which can be smelled at home. It can be said that the rhyme strikes people, and the dust atmosphere is extinct. Where the shallow water near the embankment is overgrown, the reeds are clustered, and the leaves cover the bank. When autumn arrives, it is full of bleak and sober feelings.

And around Shichahai, there are many tea sheds, all of which are located between the willow banks and lotus bushes. Use reed mats to erect sheds and pavilions that are higher than the embankment, and below are solid wooden supports, inserted in the river mud, laid with wooden planks, and covered with reed mats, like high platforms near the water. The edge of the high platform, stretching out to the water surface, and the fish swimming in the lotus pond are all under the eye.

This tea shed was originally run by someone, but later there were more and more dignitaries living here, and there were fewer and fewer people who dared to come, and many tea sheds were abandoned. As a result, some large households occupied a high gate, wrote their own signs, and repaired them. In leisure time, three or five friends, enjoy the moon with wine, and enjoy the lotus near the water, which is wonderful.

This Guanghua Temple Street is actually the Ya'er Hutong of later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called Guanghua Temple Street, in the early Qing Dynasty, because the alley was located along the north edge of Houhai, it was called "Yan'er Hutong", and then it was falsely rumored to be the duck alley, and then "the duck was changed to the crow", which was called the Ya'er alley. The whole can be seen from the geographical location of Guanghua Temple Street, Guanghua Temple Street winds along the north shore of Shichahai to the hole, parallel to the north edge of Houhai, in fact, it is the entire north coast of Shichahai Houhai, this piece is occupied.

This is called Lakeside Heights.

There are water and trees, and the scenery is not bad, this is a gimmick.

Water is scarce in the north, and in northern cities, water is even rarer. The more rich, powerful and tasteful people are, the more they advocate the proximity to nature - the development to the extreme, that is, mountain dwellings. In fact, the choice of the yang house and the selection of the yin house also have certain commonalities, the so-called back to the mountains and water, it is very good.

But if you want to live in the mountains of Beijing, you can only go to Jingshan - this is a head-killing business. Is it crooked? Rush to the emperor's courtyard to build a villa? Don't die!?

Since you can't turn your back on the mountain, the water on that side is also good.

Based on this alone, the land price and housing prices here in Guanghuasi Street are not cheap. Not to mention, there are other tangible benefits as well.

It is just facing Shichahai, with a wide field of vision, on the pavilion, as soon as you open the window early in the morning and push the door open, you can see a large area of water, and the mood is naturally extraordinarily comfortable. And with such a large area of water, it is very cool here in the hot summer in Beijing. In the evening, when you open the window, the cool breeze blows, the shadows are sparse, and the fragrance of flowers is overflowing, which is really a pleasure.

Among the houses on Guanghua Temple Street, there is one that is particularly conspicuous.

Not to mention anything else, there are six steps in front of the door, which not only has to be used by officials, but also generally can't be used by officials, and it must be a big official!

In this era, all those who are officials pay attention to the door is higher than the road, so there must be steps in front of the door. But this step cannot be repaired casually, but must be done according to the system. According to the customary rules of the Ming Dynasty, the steps in front of the door of the sixth- and seventh-grade officials cannot be higher than the second level, and the steps in front of the five-grade officials cannot be higher than the third-level, and so on, but the number of steps cannot exceed the eighth, and if the number exceeds the eight, it is nine, and nine is the extreme number, which is the number that represents the apex, and no one can use it except the emperor. If you use it, you are trespassing, which is a big crime of killing your head and stealing your family.

As officials are promoted, the number of steps in front of the door will slowly increase, and the word "step of entry" that scholars often talk about is from here.

Six steps down, including the foundation at the bottom, which rises above the street, is six or seven feet high, much taller than the average adult man. At this threshold, it is already higher than other people's heads, and if you want to look at people's doors when you walk on the street, you have to tilt your neck and look high!

At the top of the six stairs, there is a bright gate.

This Guangliang Gate, in fact, the real name is Guangliang Gate, but later it was called Guangliang for good sound. This kind of gate is second only to the palace gate in terms of rank, and higher than the golden pillar gate, which is a form of house gate that can only be adopted by eunuchs of a considerable grade. The Golden Pillar Gate and the Guangliang Gate are deep and wide, but there can only be one, no matter how big an official you are, as long as you are not a prince, you can only have one! There are no lions in front of the gates, nor lions on the piers of the gates, which are far less than the three or five gates of the king's house, nor lions on the piers. However, only one room can be opened, which does not mean that it is shabby.

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