Why is it called "eight-panel door"?

"Eight-panel screen" is short for eight-panel screen. Screen is the Qing Dynasty official family in the hall wind or as a barrier to the furniture, generally hardwood frames silk mounted core, a **** eight children, each fan is painted with stories of historical figures, or write poems and songs. Eight panels" use "slam" technique, by a brief introduction to the main events of certain historical figures on the screen, deride B can not be compared with the ancients, and find out the joke. Each paragraph of Guanquan has both positive and negative comments, for example, Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, is a "jerk" with courage but no strategy; Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty is a "reckless person"; Lu Su, the doctor of the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, is a "loyal person"; Lu Su, the founder of the Song Dynasty, is a "loyal person"; and Lu Su, the founder of the Song Dynasty, is a "loyal person". "; called Miao Guangyi, the military advisor of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, a "jianghu man"; called Zhou Yu and Kong Rong, who were young and promising in the Three Kingdoms, and Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo in the Song Dynasty, "good little children"; and called Yuchigong, the founding general of the Tang Dynasty, a "countryman". The founding general of the Tang Dynasty, Yuchigong, was called a "countryman"; Jiang Ziya, who supported the Zhou Dynasty, was called a "fisherman"; and Wang Zuo, a staff member of Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, was called a "bitter man". All of these characters are from popular classical novels, and they are also the images that the storytellers enjoy so much. Since the 1940s, due to time constraints, when comedians performed "Eight Panels of Screen", they could only start with the characters of "jerks", "reckless people", and "bitter people", "children", "jianghu people", "five kinds of stories," choose three to play.

The actors who excelled in this program included Zhang Jieyao and Ou Degui, Chen Zizhen and Guangquan, and Gao Yufeng, Liu Baorui, Zhao Chuntian, and so on. The Central People's Broadcasting Station had live recordings of the performances of Liu Baorui and Guo Quanbao, and of Zhao Zhenduo and Zhao Shizhong, which were included in the 1957 collection of comedies Crooked Criticisms of the Three Kingdoms by the Shanghai Culture Publishing House.