My name is Wengke Liang, 74-year-old native of Beijing Tongzhou. My father called Wengshi Lu, the mother called Wengchen Shi. My father was a small early trading, before I died when 6 years old, and my family to me an only child. After the father died, his family was poorer, because the money to go to school, so my mother found a Trustee of the school woodworking teacher, that I was 16 years old.
Study with master carpentry skills, that is, scraping, chopping, cutting, the assassination of four basic skills. My teacher called Hou W, never been seen in the construction of factory work. I followed the master to give the construction of houses everywhere. Are the wave of wave master Shoutu, and will not give special treatment, the master gave the disciples along the way, follow their own learning by understanding. When the disciples pay attention to the three ground, that is, the eye ground, Shouqin, Tuiqin, do not have to suffer the master play, sometimes it is doing the living, just a wander behind the master readily picked up a plank in the ass to give about.
At that time, learning carpentry skills are generally three years and an apprenticeship, the so-called three years and one, that is, after three years, and then chatting away with an annual festival, craft even if the school has become.
Palace did seven five square meters house temporary shelter capital
Division into, I did a few years in the home. 1952, introduced by someone else, I found a carpenter in the Forbidden City live, be temporary, a statement a day wages, the morning work was done in the evening give fat pay, Well done also to come tomorrow, so that we can ta to you leave. Earn money over two dry day can basically feed their families. But one day a temporary job, not the day, the income is not very fixed.
I am 19 years old married. After the National Palace temporary dry, and I love to move around the house from the Tongzhou Beijing, in a small pit lane 6, rented a room. It was a small courtyard. At first we rented a penthouse yard minimum width of 1.5 meters and 3 meters long will a total of 5 square meters will, enough to put a bed, legs extended does not open, 3 dollars a month rent. Slowly, after some savings, but also the larger rented a penthouse, and only sixty-seven square meters. And then later for the three facing the South, more spacious, under which rent is 3 blocks from the month rose to five.
The little hospital had no running water, every day we have to buy a car brings water to the water stall the water with a pick 5 cents. There are very good neighbors get along, my son was born there. The small courtyard is still in it, every time we pass by that place, and always looked at the door.
By 1961, we moved to the National Palace hostel is near to Tiananmen Square 3 cottage, where we lived for nearly 30 years.
Repair over three decades initiates two generations of four turrets Wu Yingdian
Carpentry job with the general court in different houses, into the Forbidden City, but also by learning from scratch with the old-timers, a little bit of accumulated experience. I worked 50 years at the National Palace, where the maintenance of large and small, I almost have participated. Our repair department where the earliest known engineering team, changed in recent years, the Ministry called the ancient building repair, I am here until 1992, until retirement.
Palace of the four turrets repair I have participated in the 1951 revision is the northwest corner of the building, repair the northeast corner of 1959 House, 1981 revised the southeast corner of building, repair the southwest corner of the 1984 building. The first two are the older generation with a turret repair, repaired, two turrets, I have a head of wood, and can personally presided over the renovation of two large wooden turret. Turret structure is particularly complex, it is generally said to be 9 72 ridge beam 18 column, in fact, is more complex than this, up and down three, with 20 pillars, 28 out of angle, angle of 16 nests.
The southeast corner of building repairs, my right thumb when the planer to plane off accidentally, and now, leaving only a small fraction short. Dry wood is dirty work, is often a matter fingers were injured. However, all involved in the Forbidden City in the repair of the four turrets few people, so I thought, I feel I was very lucky.
Universal Music Court in 1979 when the revised plan, a Phoebe wanted something big across the beam to the change to climb down, but so go the discovery of large climb wooden beams are bad, do not change down, so to switch to Canadian steel beam reinforcement approach. The sure way is very effective, and now the big climb smooth sound beam Court has been relatively stable, and nothing have taken.
I participated in 1954, Wu Yingdian repair work the first time, my second son Weng Guoqiang Wu Yingdian 2003 in the second repair, it would be us two generations of a Meditation hall.
To reclaim a large color TV in Hong Kong Shanhaiguan exposure to cold months
In 1987, I was assigned to the Ministry of Culture, Hong Kong, China Resources Company to help pick out a two-story office building ancient-style eaves. Eaves of the production is done in Beijing, and then container shipped to Hong Kong, where the command of local workers to install. Two or three months that I went, very smooth completion of the works, which I also got a two-months salary. We came, CRC has also sent a National Taiwan University, one TV for us. Eighties, reclaim pieces of a color TV can be considered uncommon.
In 2000, I Shanhaiguan cultural relics protection units should be invited to help repair the world off of some ancient building and the old leader. Summer is tourist season, so the timing of repair work in the winter, the construction of cold, most of the time to stay outdoors, the cold to freeze for five months, and so on warm days, the project is over.
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