What Does a Bricklayer Do?

In fact, the mason is simply a construction worker who is engaged in the construction of bricks, tiling, bridges, railways, and highways. The job of a bricklayer is a work with a long history.

Bricklayer: ní w jiàn

Bricklayers are generally called masters. In the past, the master masons in the countryside went to the same house as the sellers to see the western houses. Which one would build a house or renovate the house and earthwork. Generally speaking, the construction business in rural areas is relatively strong in winter. Most people focus on building new houses at this time, and they will be busy until the spring of the following year. The owner usually picks an auspicious day and asks the master masons to carry the tools to carry out the work. They eat and live in the family and finish the mud work of the family. Take a week or more. As for the work of rural bricklayers in the old days, people who grew up in the countryside know that in the countryside decades ago, whether it was adobe houses, brick houses, or even small houses built by individual people, they would not go like today. What experts, scholars, or surveyors have to engage in any demonstration and measurement? The construction team is not a certain construction company. At most, it is a mason who was temporarily brought together in Shili and Baxiang, plus a few laborers, and started with a few firecrackers. Building construction. The local wood, stone, and soil are used. The bricklayers make the mud as uniform as possible, and the smoother the seam, the better. The locals are generally called "plasterers".

A great writer in the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu, once wrote a biography for a person living at the bottom of society, entitled "Biography of Wang Chengfu, the Slayer". The so-called "slayer" is the mason. In Han Yu's eyes, the bricklayer named Wang Chengfu was humble and laborious. However, looking at Wang Chengfu's look, he seemed to be at ease, which made Han Yu somewhat puzzled. Through contact with Wang Chengfu, he found that what Wang Chengfu said was concise and reasonable, and even full of philosophy, so he gladly passed on it.

Wang Chengfu said: "The husband is easy to be able to do, and he is capable. He is sincere and successful, and it is straightforward. Although he is worthy of work, I feel at ease." It means that the job of a bricklayer is a simple skill that can be done with only effort. it is good. Once I have achieved the results, I can get paid. Although I worked hard, there is nothing to be ashamed of. I feel safe in my heart.

Wang Chengfu's remarks revealed the reason for his leisurely contentment. The next paragraph he spoke made Han Yu's emotions even more. Wang Chengfu said that he had worked many times at rich people's homes, some once, some two or three times, and later passing there again, he found that the house was in ruins. Ask their neighbors, they said, "Hey, they were killed for breaking the law." So Wang Chengfu believed that those who knew not to do it and insisted on it, and who forgot their morality for ill-gotten gains, were not only rich and hard to keep, And they will lose their lives.

Han Yu believes that Wang Chengfu is "the so-called one who is good at himself". He affirmed Wang Chengfu's words and severely criticized the social phenomenon of "poor merits followed by greed" and "corruption and death". At the same time, Han Yu realized that he was also an official, and Wang Chengfu's words were also a warning to him, so he passed on Wang Chengfu's biography and learned from it. ^[1]

In the very period M of the 1950s and 1960s, people interpreted the "eight-level masons" as "excellent and thin mud masters". Applying this analogy to political life, derogating to be a mediator of contradictions, sympathizers of class enemies, unsettled political stance, and then classified as a political alternative.

In fact, the bricklayer is only a classification in the construction industry. The so-called eighth grade is to show his technical proficiency. As for the thinner, it is a basic skill of the bricklayer. When referring to it in resolving contradictions, it can be understood as using skilled and slim methods to buffer opposition, reconcile contradictions, and finally resolve contradictions. This article tries to discuss some of the effective ways to resolve contradictions. ^[2]