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The origin of Hua Biao in Tiananmen Square

A pair of China watches in Tiananmen Square is called "Looking at the monarch" to remind the emperor that he should go out of the palace and observe the people's feelings. A pair of China watches outside Tiananmen Square are called "Wang" watches, which call on the emperor to return to the palace as soon as possible to handle state affairs. The ideological system of "seeking the monarch's departure" and "seeking the monarch's return" is somewhat similar to the original meaning of "slandering wood" in Huabiao-

There are two pairs of beautifully carved China watches in front of Tiananmen Square. Huabiao has a long history. According to legend, Yao and Shun paid attention to erecting wooden signs on the main roads so that people could write admonitions on them, which was called "slander wood", or "huabiao wood" for short. According to the ancient book "Huai Nan Zi Zhu Muxun", "When I heard about Yao Shun, I slandered Li Mu in the DPRK."

In the Han Dynasty, "Hua Biao Mu" developed into a symbol of thoroughfare. Because this symbol looks like a flower from a distance, it is called "Hua Biao". In the Han dynasty, a Chinese watch was erected in the postal kiosk to prevent the messenger from getting lost.

Later, huabiao gradually developed into a small decorative building set at the bridge head and cemetery. In the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan, a great painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, there are two pairs of tall Chinese watches at each end of the Hongqiao in the capital of song dynasty, with white cranes standing on the top, which is vivid. There are four Chinese watches at both ends of Lugou Bridge, which are 4.65 meters high. The upper end of the stone pillar spans the cloud plate, and there is a lotus plate at the top of the column, and the stone lion is carved on the plate, which is solemn and beautiful and extraordinary. The stone pillars and China watches decorated in front of Li Yuan's tomb in Tang Gaozu and Li Zhi's tomb in Gaozong are exquisitely carved and beautifully shaped.

Two pairs of China watches built during the construction of Chengtianmen (now Tiananmen Square) in Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty ingeniously adorned the entire exquisite Forbidden City complex, enhancing the overall sense of ancient architecture art. Now, the two pairs of China watches inside and outside Tiananmen Square are carved out of white marble, with huge towering columns as the main body, Yunlong winding around the columns, and a beautiful cloud disk crossing between the columns, as if clouds were inserted in the clouds. The crouching beast on the top exposed plate is lifelike. A pair of China watches in Tiananmen Square is called "Looking at the monarch" to remind the emperor that he should go out of the palace and observe the people's feelings. A pair of China watches outside Tiananmen Square are called "Wang" watches, which call on the emperor to return to the palace as soon as possible to handle state affairs. The ideological system of "seeking the monarch out of the mountain" and "seeking the monarch back" is somewhat similar to the original meaning of "slandering wood" in Huabiao.