Standing on the Qingming Bridge and looking to the southeast, the Jiangnan dwellings with white walls and tiles are green, green trees and lush foliage.
Or extend along the road, or rise and fall along the hillside, or fall green along the river.
In this cluster of green, there are traces of past kiln piers, perhaps the remains of ancient kilns are fertile, trees and flowers are particularly lush and plump, locust trees are towering, willows touch people's faces, and each tree is like a tower, full of meditation, and then gradually spread its branches and leaves, rolling up clouds of green smoke, and drifting straight into the sky with the vicissitudes of time.
This is the landscape of "ancient kiln covered with green".
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the needs of the government to build cities and walls and the people to build bridges and houses, the brick-making industry in Wuxi came into being.
Dayao Road, where the ancient kiln is located, is adjacent to the ancient canal in the west and Dubo Port in the north. Rivers extend in all directions, with flat banks and convenient water transportation.
The soil nearby is excellent and suitable for making bricks and tiles. People dig and build kilns on the spot, and make adobe to dry, which increases year by year and forms a scale.
By the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 200 "inverted-flame kilns". At that time, it was said that the kiln site was clustered in Fiona Fang for 23 miles, and it was the only one in southern Jiangsu, which could be described as "kiln to kiln, smoke curling up".
The kiln drying industry at that time was the pioneer of Wuxi handicraft industry. During the prosperous period, there were 10 thousand workers directly and indirectly engaged in kiln furniture production.
There has been a slang among the people, which is called "Eighteen Lines Kiln Shortage". When the kiln industry flourished, eighteen industries flourished and the kiln industry declined. It can be seen that the kiln industry was important in Wuxi at that time.
The kiln drying industry at that time was the pioneer of Wuxi handicraft industry. During the prosperous period, there were 10 thousand workers directly and indirectly engaged in kiln furniture production.
There has always been a slang among the people, which is called "Eighteen Lines Kiln Shortage". When the kiln industry flourished, eighteen industries flourished and the kiln industry declined. It can be seen that the kiln industry was important in Wuxi at that time.
Ancient kilns witnessed the development of handicraft industry and social culture in Ming and Qing Dynasties and even in modern times. Shaxiang No.3, a kiln site built in the middle of19th century, is now well preserved. The wall of this Shikumen structure is as thick as a castle, and its style is majestic and dignified. If we can build a museum of the history of kiln bricks and tiles here and reproduce the grand occasion of "hundreds of kilns and nearly 10,000 kiln workers", it is worth seeing.
I'm afraid everyone knows how big an ordinary tile is, but it's almost as big as a coffee table and weighs more than 150 kg. Have you ever seen a tile that only two or three people can lift? As one of the important nodes of Qingming Bridge historical and cultural block, Wuxi Yaoqun Site Museum is about to open to the public. During the exhibition, the museum collected more than 65,438+020 pieces of brick and tile cultural relics showing the history and culture of Wuxi kiln industry. Among these "treasures", two huge tiles are particularly eye-catching, which can be called the "treasure of the town hall" of the museum.
These two "giant tiles" were seen in the kiln group ruins museum.
One of the tiles has a size of 70cm× 64cm× 10cm and a weight of over 150kg. The other is 47cm× 64cm× 10cm, and its weight also exceeds 100kg. The words "Yuan Hengsheng" are engraved on the surface of both tiles.
Huang Shoulin, director of the kiln site museum and descendant of Huang, a kiln owner in Dayao Road, told the reporter that the two tiles were donated by the Yin family, who is also a kiln owner in Dayao Road. When they were found, the tiles were covered with moss.
According to experts' research, these two tiles have a history of at least four or five hundred years and were used in the palace. It is really rare to speculate that they are probably samples of this type of tiles and can be preserved to this day.
How can the roof bear such heavy tiles? Huang Shoulin told reporters that these two tiles are not "cover tiles", but "bottom tiles" at the bottom of the sloping roof, which are used for drainage, and the buildings in the palace are unusually atmospheric and solid, so it is possible to use building materials with such a large volume and such a heavy weight.
In the exhibition hall of the Museum of Kiln Ruins, in addition to these two "giant tiles", there are various types of brick products including bricks, city bricks, tomb bricks, brick carvings, water stamps, etc., involving building materials and daily necessities.
Huang Shoulin told reporters that from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty to the early days of liberation, the kiln industry of Dayao Road flourished for hundreds of years. There used to be more than 0/00 ancient kilns of all sizes/kloc, and the bricks produced were well known. "Kiln goods" are well known, and even products are exported to Nanyang.
Although there are only 16 and 7 ancient kilns out of more than 100, and only 6 or 7 are well preserved, these ancient kilns, and all kinds of brick and tile products they have produced and preserved so far, are the historical witness of Wuxi kiln industry, which once flourished along the ancient canal.
Therefore, in the process of protecting and restoring the historical and cultural blocks of Qingming Bridge, it is an important content to build a museum of kiln group sites and display the history and culture of Wuxi kiln industry.
It is reported that the museum will complete the restoration of the three kiln sites on the back, which will be integrated with the museum and become an effective display part.
In addition, the collection of cultural relics in the museum continues. In addition to the 120 pieces of brick and tile cultural relics that have already entered the museum, the reporter saw more than 20 pieces of brick and tile making tools collected by Huang Shoulin in his office, some of which are imitations, but more of them are physical objects left over from that year.
Huang Shoulin told reporters that these tools will soon enter the museum and cooperate with the theme sculptures in the museum to vividly reproduce the process and technology of brick making for tourists.
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