"Master Bagu's comfortable courtyard, what does this mean? I thought about how comfortable it was before I wrote my courtyard on the plaque." Yue Erpao glanced at the plaque and asked with curiosity on his face.
Keli obviously knew what was going on. He shook his head and explained to everyone: "This is not to say how comfortable the courtyard is, but to directly translate it in Uyghur language. Without considering the beauty, of course it is more beautiful. The simpler and more straightforward the better.”
He paused and his tone became serious: "If someone who is proficient in Chinese can help them beautify it, it will probably be translated into Bagu Residence or Bagu Inn."
"Let's go, I'll take you in to have a look, and just settle down here first."
After talking, Klee led Yue Guanchao and the others into the gatehouse and into the courtyard. It was obvious that the place was getting cooler, as if the heat and heat of the outside world were completely separated. There was no trace of stuffiness anymore, and there was still a hint of coolness in the coolness. .
The space on the first floor protrudes from the stone wall, and the top is completely elevated and covered with transparent glass. There are climbing green vines clinging to the roof, which can absorb heat and cool without making the room look dull and dark.
Along the four walls, there are many long bar counters at the huge arch windows. Behind the bar counter, you can see the long wine cabinet standing against the wall. There are many bottles, cans, wine pots and jars, vegetable jars and urns. These counters are on the four sides. The wall forms a circular space that completely separates guests and waiters.
Looking further to the center, there are more than a dozen square tables and benches on the square area surrounded by the bar. The walls are covered with various dishes they serve. The bar to the north has a door that swings back and forth. You can open the door and walk towards In the middle of the hollow grotto, there is a staircase that can be walked up and down. The walls on both sides are covered with dish names and recipes.
Although the climate in Xinjiang is hot, local people still like to eat various barbecue delicacies, such as grilled fish, roasted beef and mutton, roasted lamb legs, roasted quail, roasted green peppers, roasted eggs, as long as they can be burned. Desktop charging menu.
As for the local delicacies in Moyu, they are countless.
Spicy hoof flower soup, spicy salt-baked peanuts, salt-baked broad beans, sheep head braised pork, cold beef tendon, red oil beef tendon, yogurt cake, ice porridge, marren candy, spicy fried skewers, red date rice dumplings , Spicy belly pork, braised lamb intestines, lamb kidneys, grilled lungs, grilled mutton buns, grilled mutton naan, tendon and balsamic pot, mung bean cold cake, delicious seasonal vegetables, Tibetan butter tea, salty milk tea, Chinese meat cakes , minced pork noodles, mixed sauce noodles, boiled pastries, southern Xinjiang fried chicken... It seems that there are no famous dishes, but they are all real dishes for traveling, with strong taste and sufficient portions. If you are a merchant or pedestrian on the road, the taste will definitely not be the same. It will feel bad.
There is another board behind the bar. A huge wooden sign draws the floor plan of the entire seven floors. All the rooms on each floor are drawn in the prints. You can see the room specifications, housing status, and floor orientation at a glance. .
At this moment, some locals were sitting in front of the bar, drinking wheat wine brewed with Kashgar water. The alcohol content was not high, but the taste was really good. A few bearded travelers were guessing at each other and chatting non-stop.
There were many diners sitting in other places in the hall. The aroma of the unique food from the territory wafted into their nostrils. They explained their purpose to the waiter and asked the waiter to choose a room with a wide view. After counting the money and taking the room keys, the store owner took them up the stairs and directly to the rooms on the fifth and sixth floors.
As mentioned earlier, most of these earth-building dwellings have rooms connected to each other, buildings connected to each other, and courtyards within courtyards. The guest rooms at the top are also in this pattern!
Pushing open the courtyard, you can see that there are guest rooms on the front, back, left and right. You can go to the back of the house through the corridors on both sides of the door. You can see two aerial courtyards behind the house. This is both the roof of the lower floor and the garden of this floor. The courtyards are full of Various types of grass, surrounded by wooden frames supporting the roof, can be seen densely woven with rattan and verdant crawling, blocking most of the hot daylight.
Under the flower and fruit room is a set of round tables and low stools covered with Hotan blankets. There are several clay pots with teapots and cups on them. The furnishings are very ordinary.
They walked into the courtyard through the cloister and carefully observed the decoration style of the courtyard.
The rammed earth-yellow walls are hard and smooth, the curtained doorways are mostly arched, and the periphery is decorated with white lines of flowers and plants. The windows are mostly decorated with colored glaze windows, and various colored glasses spell out the gorgeous patterns unique to southern Xinjiang.
The courtyard is divided into primary and secondary. The room to the north is the main room, which is usually occupied by the owner or parents of the family. The two rooms on the left and right are the living rooms for the children of the family. The two rooms at the back are under the front porch. It is specially used for servants or guests to live in. There are at least seven or eight houses in a courtyard.
Verandah trellises extend from the doors of all rooms, and grapevines can be seen climbing on them, providing both cooling and beauty.
Walking into the main room, you can see that the furnishings in the room are close to those in the courtyard building in Dunhuang. All the furnishings are complete, but the color of the room is much richer than that in the courtyard building. You can see flowered windows, colored glass, carpets, and colorful silks everywhere. The colorful style of the Western Regions.
Yue Guanchao felt the coolness in the room: "I thought the top floor would be hotter, but I didn't expect the top floor to be cooler. It feels cool and comfortable inside and out. What's going on?"
Buildings are the easiest to absorb heat!
Places like Southern Xinjiang are close to the desert and have a dry climate. Even if they are in an oasis, they are still covered in dust when walking on the road. As long as they are close to the desert, the sand in the desert will continue to be blown in and fall silent in the city. Everything that was thrown up was dusty.
When absorbing enough heat, the earth building located at a high place should be in a sweltering state. This cool and comfortable physical environment actually made them suspicious.
Klee didn't seem to doubt this, and continued to explain to them: "The kind of heat-absorbing houses you said are mostly earth buildings that appear in the desert. This is in the Hotan Oasis, and the vegetation has absorbed part of the heat. The earth walls are thick and hard, filled with straw and stones, which absorb heat quickly and dissipate heat quickly. This building material ensures that the temperature only stays on the building instead of being absorbed and stored in the earth building."
"The most important thing is that these raised dwellings have a unique heat dissipation structure. The qanat is different from the niche well. The karez is for drinking water, while the qanat is for ventilation and heat dissipation."
Later, Klee took Yue Guanchao and the others to a place near the northern stone wall. There was a window made of a fence for unknown purposes. It looked like a porous mat spread on the Kang. The surface was loose and porous, and the material was similar to Bamboo wood chips, inlaid on the wall, are stiff and tough.
When they got closer, they could feel a cool moisture blowing out from between the fences, which was exactly the same as the coolness they felt when they entered the house.
When Guan Chao looked at this thing, he understood why the room was at a high place and could still be cool and comfortable.
However, precisely because this decoration was so strange, it aroused their suspicion and curiosity - why is moisture blowing out of it? Where does it lead?
Keli understood the idea and opened the four corner fixing rivets. He removed the entire grille plate. He turned on the flashlight and observed carefully. Behind the grille plate was a one-meter-square passage, just like a widened chimney. There were passages on all sides. You can feel the air flowing out of the chimney, and the whining sound is very clear.
Probably, it is this passage extending in all directions that brings a steady stream of cool air to the room.
Keli continued to explain: "When building this kind of niche well, the cellar has been dug behind the house in advance. When the house is built, the cellar will be sealed, leaving only the entrance and exit porch and the upward opening. Due to these The walls of the house are very thick, and hollow niches can be easily created. As long as the niches are sealed and the walls are opened in the house, a passage for wind in and out can be formed.
Under such a structure, no matter how many houses are built, the passages on each floor can be connected to form interconnected and extending niche chimneys for the ingress and egress of cold wind and moisture.
In practical terms, these hollow niches are actually chimneys, with air outlets at the top and air inlets at the bottom of the building to achieve moisture circulation in the niches.
If you follow the alcove and enter the ground floor, you will see that the wellhead will be dug tens of meters downward in the cellar to form a manhole for drawing water downwards. At the same time, there are nearly ten air inlets near the cellar. In this way, water will emerge from the ground. The incoming water vapor and outside air will be blown directly throughout the entire alcove through the air inlet.
If there were wealthier merchants, they would dig more wells and hire servants to pump bellows in the cellar to draw outside air into the cellar and into each alcove.
From this point of view, this kind of niche well is not affordable for poor people. This kind of structure alone will cost a lot of silver coins. If you add in the well digging and hiring of domestic servants, the cost will be even more. countless.
Those who have such niche wells can be regarded as wealthy households in southern Xinjiang. Ordinary people also have their own methods. They often find the well head in the room and do not use the moisture blown from the well head to bring moisture to the room. To cool down, you can also plant vines or ivy all over the house to block heat from entering the house.
"What about winter?" Song Siyuan asked.
Keli nodded: "If it is winter, it will basically not be affected. Southern Xinjiang is not very cold in winter. When the temperature difference between day and night is large, these thick earth walls can also keep heat. If it is colder, they can be placed in the cellar. Burn wood to make a fire, and the heat will flow down the cellar into the niche well and reach every room.
"However, when it comes time to actually light a fire, you definitely don't use this kind of board with a grille. Under normal circumstances, you use a tight wooden board with hoops and bone glue to directly seal the hole, allowing only heat to conduct in and remove the excess The smoke is completely discharged through the flue, preventing indoor smoke from causing danger.”
"Hey, look, it looks like they are the same people who were performing today."
While they were looking at the wind duct in the house, Yue Erpao was wandering alone in the garden. His voice spread into the room, making everyone curious.
