Ancient traditional residential door "door pier", what are the mysteries?

Door pier is an important part of China's ancient traditional architecture, especially for the courtyard this building is playing a vital role . The house, the residence also? This is what the ancients said, you can see the impact of a home on people's lives, is the place where people can settle down. Even this sentence affects to this day, modern people also still in order to buy a house a lifetime of dedication and hard work. Door piers mainly play a role in supporting the overall framework in the building, mostly set in the bottom of the courtyard, can stabilize the door frame and door axis, so as not to make the whole door easy to be pushed over the situation occurs. In addition to providing a practical role, it also has a decorative role in the beautification of the gate , can make the house as a whole in line with the traditional Chinese architectural aesthetics, but also a branch of traditional folk culture. Although the door pier for the whole house building is just a small two piers, but its design is also very careful. The most common shape of the gate pier is the box type and hold the drum type of these two, but the lion type and horizontal type is relatively common type of gate pier. The overall structure of the gate pier consists of the Sumeru seat, the baggage angle, the turban, the climbing lion, the threshold groove, and the sea nest. Ancient people for the type of door pier has a strict distinction between the use of the type of grade, traditional culture there is a strict hierarchy , the corresponding level of the use of the pattern is also very elaborate . Can be placed in the style of the door piers of the people are generally not ordinary civilians, such as the lion type door piers is the royal family to use; senior civil officials are generally used to hold the drum type or a lion box type; military officials use is to hold the drum type of the door piers with the head of the animal kisses; and the ordinary people and merchants are mainly to be trimmed with door pillows city or wood. carving patterns of different styles can also represent the owner's vision , the shape of the lion and tiger is a more common choice, because ? The lion and the tiger are the more common choices, because the lion is the most important part of the wood. The lion and the tiger are more common choices, as the lion is the symbol of the world. The lion and the tiger are more common choices, as the lion is the symbol of the world. The lion and the tiger are more common choices because they are the most common form of lion. Nine lives together? Representing the owner's vision of family reunion and living together in the same house. Carving pattern also contains a lot of harmonic symbolism , such as? Fish? The same? Yu? which symbolizes the meaning of "year after year" and "good fortune and prosperity".