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烧屋地平线
Burned House Horizon
2016 — 2021，它一次次回到首页
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这是维基百科“烧屋地平线”词条：欧洲东南部新石器时代至铜石并用时代的考古遗址中，房屋普遍呈现被刻意焚毁的痕迹，且屋内几乎不见人骨遗骸。为何这些定居社会要周期性烧掉自己的房子，至今仍是未解之谜，词条列举了仪式、迁徙、冲突等多种假说。
为什么经久不衰：一个跨越六千多年、至今没有定论的考古谜题，每次登上 HN 都能引发对“以火更新”这一文化现象的丰富讨论，兼具知识性与思辨乐趣。
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用日本伊势神宫的式年迁宫类比，说明“刻意焚毁/重建”可以是一种文化上对无常与传承的选择
“弑宅”假说让我想到日本历史上对建筑的态度。由于海啸、地震等灾害频发，加上神道与禅宗的影响，日本形成了对无常的偏好——许多“历史建筑”其实是定期从零重建的。建筑的本质不在于物质本身，而在于其整体概念，这是对忒修斯悖论的一种有趣回应。伊势神宫就是典型例子：内宫、外宫的建筑每 20 年重建一次，称为“式年迁宫”，既体现神道对自然生死轮回与万物无常的信仰，也是将建造技艺代代相传的方式。
keiferski查看英文原文
The “domicide” theory reminds me of how Japan historically treated architecture. Because of frequent tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters, plus the influence of Shinto and Zen Buddhism, a preference for impermanence developed. Hence even many “historic” buildings are actually rebuilt from scratch every so often. The essence of the building is not seen to be in its pure material form, but rather its overall concept. An interesting response to the Theseus Paradox, for sure. The Ise Shrine is a good example: The shrine buildings at Naikū and Gekū, as well as the Uji Bridge, are rebuilt every 20 years as a part of the Shinto belief of the death and renewal of nature and the impermanence of all things and as a way of passing building techniques from one generation to the next. The twenty-year renewal process is called the Shikinen Sengū. Although the goal of Sengū is to get the shrine built within the 20-year period, there have been some instances, especially because of war, where the shrine building process is postponed or delayed.[16] The original physical purpose of the Sengu process is unknown. However, it is believed that it serves to maintain the longevity of the shrine, or possibly as a gesture to the deity enclosed within the shrine. Historically, this cyclical reconstruction has been practiced for many years in various shrines throughout Japan, meaning that it is not a process exclusive to Ise. The entire reconstruction process takes more or less 17 years, with the initial years focusing on project organization and general planning, and the last 8 years focusing on the physical construction of the shrine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine I can’t find any links on the concept in general but here is a somewhat related one: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/how-japan-makes-houses/index.html
提出防御性假说：烧屋可能是为了在围攻时剥夺敌人的掩体，也能解释为何屋内无尸骨
维基列出了“攻击”作为假说，但防御呢？我住的镇上有些房子被强制规定只能用木头建造，以便被围攻时能迅速烧掉。这如今成了遗产，一条满是木屋的街道很受游客喜爱。这样做的目的是不给进攻者提供藏身之处，城上的火炮就能轻松清除威胁，当地称之为“火线屋”。如果公元前 6000 年也这么做，虽然谈不上火炮，但烧屋仍可以是快速剥夺敌人庇护的手段——这或许能解释为什么屋里没发现尸骨。
kvz查看英文原文
Wiki lists Agression as a theory, but what about defense? In the town I live in some houses were mandatory to be built in just wood so they could be easily brunt down when they where under siege. It’s now heritage and there’s a street full of wooden houses here that tourists love (and actually so do I). It gave the aggressor no place to hide and shelter while the cannons from the city made light work of removing the threat. It’s called “vuurlinie huisjes”, or: line of fire houses. I guess it may have a double meaning: a line where all houses had to be burned as nothing could not be in the line of fire of the canons, under siege. I guess if it was done as early as 6000 BC then canons are out of the question, but it could still be a quick way to deny an aggressor shelter? That would explain why there are no corpses found in the houses.
从功能与象征两方面解读：烧屋利于技艺传承，也可能象征权力更替时的“重新开始”
定期烧掉建筑能带来什么？它确保建造技艺代代相传、让人们保持熟练，为技艺的迭代改进创造条件，并促使人们执着于建造实践本身而非其成果——考虑到这些建筑的寿命，后者是更有价值的资产。从象征层面看，火意味着硬化、净化与提炼。也许每次领导层更替时他们就烧屋，让新首领治下部落的成败不被归咎或归功于前任——相当于每届政府都有一张白纸。
Mobleysoft查看英文原文
What does burning down your buildings every so often achieve? It ensures the skills of building are passed down from generation to generation, that the people remain well practiced in those skills, creates the conditions for the iterative improvement of those practices, and enforces a detachment from the results of the practice of building in favor of an attachment to the practice itself, the latter of which seems like a much more valuable asset to possess, considering the life-expectancy of these buildings. What does fire do on a symbolic level? It hardens, cleanses, purifies, and refines. Perhaps they did this every time the leadership changed, so the success or failure of the tribe or settlement under the new leader/chieftain could not be blamed on nor attributed to the previous one. A clean slate for each administration, so to speak. On another note, if these structures are essentially what the guy from the neolithic technology youtube channel gets up to, then maybe they just did it for fun. Guy looks like he's having the time of his life playing in the mud.
猜测烧屋具有象征性的“更新”意义，并再次以伊势神宫的重建传统作类比
一个出奇有趣的谜团。我可以想象某种文化会认为“以火更新”具有某种值得珍视的象征价值。日本就有伊势神宫，自公元 692 年起每 20 年拆掉重建一次，设计被精确规定、从不改变，因此永远既古老又崭新。
po查看英文原文
An oddly interesting mystery. I could imagine a culture deciding that there is some worthy symbolic value in renewal by fire. In Japan there is the Ise Grand Shrine which is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years since year 692. The design is unique, specified exactly and never changes so it is always both ancient and freshly new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine
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