Antique drum stone (door pillow stone), courtyard gate decorative ornaments.

Hugging the drum stone is the traditional Han residence, especially the courtyard gate at the bottom of the entrance to the house door, shaped like a drum of two artificially carved stone components, belonging to a kind of door pillows, because it has a form as if holding the drum resting on the stone seat, so it is named. Holding the drum stone is a symbol of the symbols of the hierarchy of ritual architecture, but also "either noble that is rich" symbol of the family, holding the drum stone is by no means detached from the political and economic basis behind its owner and independent existence. Holding the drum stone Han folk name more, such as: stone drum, door drum, round drum, stone dowel drum, stone mirror and so on. Hold the drum stone and the door hairpin because in the house door facade up and down echo, in the Han folk have the so-called "door to door" said.