What patterns are commonly used in ancient buildings to express specific ideas?

Auspicious patterns express their ideological content in the following ways.

Symbol: According to the natural attributes of some flowers, fruits and trees, such as ecological shape, color and function. , expressing a specific ideological content, such as pomegranate fruit with many seeds, symbolizing many seeds; Peony flowers are brightly colored, symbolizing wealth; The vines of melon seeds continue to grow, blossom and bear fruit, symbolizing the reproduction of future generations; Ganoderma lucidum is a tonic, which can prolong life and symbolize longevity.

Moral: Using some people's favorite myths and legends, literary allusions and other themes, including specific ideological content. For example, The Story of Hanwu recorded the myth that Dong Fangshuo ate Xiantao and the Empress Dowager lived forever, so the peach symbolizes longevity.

③ Analogy: endowing a subject with personification. For example, plum blossoms bloom the earliest in a year and are compared to the best among flowers; "Confucius' Family Language Eritrea" said that orchids were born in deep valleys and were compared to gentlemen because they were "not fragrant and not human".

Table number: treat some topics as symbols representing a close-up meaning. For example, the eight patterns of "Dark Eight Immortals" are items held by the Eight Immortals, and the gourd represents the Li Tie monster of the Eight Immortals. Hemerocallis, also known as grass suitable for men's growth, expresses women's desire to have boys and is also a symbol of their mothers.

⑤ Homophones: Use homophones of subject names to spell some auspicious words. For example, bats and bergamot symbolize happiness, deer symbolizes wealth, and goldfish symbolizes gold and jade.

⑥ Words directly express meaning: such as directly using words such as "Fu", "Shou" and "Xi".