Meaning of "five ridges and six beasts

Meaning of Five Ridges and Six Beasts

"Five Ridges and Six Beasts" was originally an architectural term. Ancient Chinese buildings, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the highest roof specification is the hipped roof, hipped roofs have a ridge and four ridges, that is, "five ridges", each ridge has a beast at each end, collectively referred to as "five ridges and six beasts".

Some people believe that the "six beasts" refers to the ridge end of the kissing beasts, scops on the back of the back of the beasts, bump ridge end of the bumping beasts (also known as pendant beasts), pendant ridge on the row of squatting beasts (also known as the beasts, running), the set of beasts at the end of the corner of the beams, around the ridge on the horn of the beasts.

Content Explanation

1, northern colloquialisms in the "five ridges and six beasts

In the Northeast, Beijing, North China and other places, often hear the old people say, "Look at him, every day, nothing to do, the whole of the five ridges and six beasts. ". This term is used here to describe the very boring state of a person who has nothing to do, who is so idle and restless.

But again, you won't find a similar inclusion in the Dictionary, only in books by writers of northern dialects.

In other words, this is a colloquialism, which is not an official language, the people saw the ridge beasts on the houses, one by one, grimacing and grimacing, and thought that they must be very difficult to use in the colloquialisms, which is the result of the natural evolution after the folk imagination.

2, the ancient architecture of the "five spine six beasts"

Traditional Chinese ancient architecture, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, large buildings, in the palace, temple on the main hall, often using the spine beast.

The highest specification style of the roof of the ancient buildings have two kinds of styles, one for the Pang Palace roof: one for the top of the mountain: Pang Palace roof is four reputation, and the top of the mountain is nine reputation, these glazed beasts are squatting in the most under the reputation of the house, the people do not understand to distinguish the level of the roof, they will be generalized at a glance over the ancient buildings collectively referred to as the five ridges, and these beasts squatting in the gable end, easy to be found by the people below, but also collectively referred to as the six beasts. collectively known as the six beasts.

In fact, such halls are not only five reputation, squatting beast is not only six.

Five ridge introduction

From the front to the back, they are cunning appearance (counting you), bet on the fish, jockstrap (hostage), the fighting bull, rows of Shi

Fa Maung: ancient exceptionally powerful beasts, rumor has it that they can eat tigers, leopards, the appearance of the exact same as a lion, the head is covered with thick hair is known as the "phi head". "It is very fierce and has the meaning of the leader of all beasts, and is also rumored to be the divine beast under the seat of Manjushri Pusha.

Bet fish: the sea in the beast, feasible clouds and rain, placed in the eaves have the connotation of fire prevention, firefighting.

Jungles: Mr. Lu Xun has described it, is the ancient and lion-like beast. It has a horn on its head, very much like a unicorn in appearance, and is loyal and upright in nature, able to recognize right and wrong in the world, and is one of the ancient gods of litigation, representing the royal uprightness and fairness and justice.

The Bull: is rumored to be a kind of dragon, similar to the Li, gnarled and so on; the difference is that the gnarled (qiu) is a unicorn on the head, (chi) no horn on the head. According to ancient records, it is often hovering over the road or gold whole jade building Fang, eliminating disasters and disasters of the ridge beast.

Xingshi: human body, monkey face, two wings born with wings, holding a vajra mortar and pestle, can subdue the devil; because it looks especially like the Ming and Qing secular novels of Lei Zhenzi, it is said to be placed on the roof to prevent lightning strikes.

In fact, the ridge beast initially fired with pottery, after the Ming and Qing Dynasty, pay attention to the specifications of the platoon, it became glazed material, the original purpose is to protect the roof of the nails and wooden frame, to prevent leakage

With the gradual confinement of the ideas of the feudal dynasty, there is a strict hierarchical significance, evolved 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and so on many kinds of say, corresponding to the different levels of construction, originally is the Ming and Qing literati fictionalized, without excessive interpretation. If you do not believe that Shanxi Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan ancient buildings so much, but there is no such decoration, which is a clear evidence of cultural relics inspection.

Six Beasts Introduction

Six Beasts is an ancient Chinese architectural ridge placed on the beasts. The two ends of the main ridge have dragon kisses, also called swallowing beasts. The four ridges are arranged with five squatting beasts, which are called "six beasts".

Ridge beasts are divided into categories of running beasts, hanging beasts, "immortal" and peng kiss. Among them, the kissing beast or the looking beast is placed on the main ridge, the hanging beast is placed on the hanging ridge, the money beast is placed on the Russian ridge, and the fairy walking beast is placed at the edge of the ridge.

The ridge is located in the forefront of the immortal, that is, riding the phoenix immortal, also known as the immortal riding the phoenix. Behind the beasts, according to the "Qing Canon", these small beasts are: dragon, phoenix, lion, Tianma, sea horse, steed appearance, apish, jingxiongdang, bullfighting, Xingshi.

Ancient construction will ride the phoenix immortal arranged in the first place, said to fly in the air and pray for good luck. Its role is to fix the first tile at the lower end of the ridge.

The last one on the ridge is the peng kiss, it is the Ming and Qing dynasty architecture of the ridge at both ends of the dragon's head shaped tiles placed face in, also known as the "kiss". Legend has it that this beast is good at swallowing, so in the ridge at both ends of the open mouth to swallow the ridge shape, also known as "swallowing the ridge beast". The so-called "swallow ridge beast" is the famous "dragon's nine sons" in the "Peng kiss".