Beijing courtyard house entrance will have shadow wall, shadow wall has what role?

Shadow wall, also known as the wall, built on the opposite side of the courtyard gate or the gate to the door, the shadow wall is to cover the gate outside the opposite side of the clutter of buildings, so that people stand in front of the gate feel broad, neat, but also shows the courtyard inside and outside the difference. According to ancient feng shui scholars, the shadow wall in front of the door, and the shadow wall in the courtyard, is in order to make the air flow around the shadow wall and line, gathering gas is not scattered, and another Dragon Scriptures recorded in the straight straight loss of the people's sayings.

Blocking the role of the Crushing Fury killing gas. But because the size of the courtyard is different, the owner of the residence of different status and the size of the door is different, so the shadow wall in the construction of certain rules. General is a word shadow wall, more built in front of the official residence or rich businessmen, shadow wall of its building is divided into three parts, on the installation of tiles, in the wall with rectangular bricks out of the frame, the frame heart and corners plus brick carvings, the middle of the engraved with the words blessing, wealth, Hong, under the Shumi, there is also a kind of called wild goose wing shadow wall, masonry is fine, grinding bricks on the seams, carved with flowers, shadow wall wall corners are also engraved with flowers, grass, and so on.

The whole building of the goose wing shadow wall fully embodies the solemn, beautiful. general goose wing shadow wall more built in the Yamen, the House, mansion, in front of the door in addition there is another in front of the gate on both sides, known as the eight shadow wall is also known as the eight powder wall, laying the eight shadow wall wall to the gate of the gate, legs, gables to become the angle of 130 degrees or so, in the main door of the two sides of the shadow wall wall, carving symmetrical patterns and large-scale brick carvings, so that in front of the gate there is an open space, the original is to be put on the horse stone and the dismounted stone used, now used to put on the horse stone and the dismounted stone used, now used to put on the horse stone. Dismounting stone used, now not used.

Ancient China shadow wall construction has a strict hierarchy , for example, the earliest in the Spring and Autumn Period, the "Records of the Rites" recorded: "the son of heaven outside the screen, the vassals within the screen, the great doctor to curtain, the scholar to curtain," meaning that the son of heaven can be constructed outside the door of the shadow wall, the vassals can be constructed inside the door of the wall, the great doctor can use the curtain to cover, and the great doctor can use the curtain to cover, and the great doctor can use the curtain to cover. The meaning is that the son of heaven can build a shadow wall outside the door, the vassals can build a shadow wall inside the door, and the great masters can cover it with curtains, while the soldiers can only use cloth curtains. So not everyone can build the shadow wall, to the Ming and Qing dynasties common people can build. Ancient Chinese use of shadow wall level can be roughly divided into, the first level, the door in the center, outside the door to place the shadow wall, are princes and generals of the residence. The second level is the door in the center, the door placed inside the shadow wall. The last level is the typical door in the southeast, the door placed inside the shadow wall, typical of the old Beijing courtyard house.