Ancient palace roof four beasts are what?

Ancient Chinese palace building roof cornice decorations used in general more than four, the order of dragons, phoenixes, lions, Pegasus, seahorses, bet the fish, mythical beasts, Xiezhi, bulls, rows of Shi, more than symbolic meaning of the legend of the beasts.

The symbolism of the beasts:

1, the dragon: ancient beasts, can rise clouds and rain, is considered a symbol of auspiciousness.

2, the flying phoenix: the image of a holy virtue. Its appearance is an omen of peace in the world, and people live a happy and fulfilling life.

3, line lion: in Buddhism for the protection of the king, is a symbol of courage and majesty.

4, the heavenly horse: legend has it that the heavenly horse can chase the wind and chase the sun, over the sky and illuminate the ground, which is very miraculous.

5, seahorses: seahorses are loyal and brave beasts in ancient mythology. Heavenly horse, the sea horse symbolizes the royal authority through the sky and the sea.

The setting of the beast is a rule. In the Qing Dynasty official building, only glazed tile roof can be glazed immortal ridge pieces placed at the front and rear ends, and the number of small beasts installed behind the immortal officials can only be three, five, seven, nine a kind of singular, the opposite of the Song Dynasty.

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Ancient Palace roof beasts decorative techniques:

1, brick carving: brick carving in the ancient ridge decoration used more. Both the north and the south have brick carving to decorate the ridge of the craft. The southern ridge brick carving is delicate and subtle, the northern ridge brick carving deep and heavy.

2, grey plastic: grey plastic in the southern ridge decoration used more, it is made of lime or shellac as raw materials for the grey lambs, and then add color, in the ridge depiction or shaping, to form a strong decorative effect.

3, color depiction: color depiction is a form of plane expression with gray plastic, focusing on color to "depict" and "paint". The process of color tracing is to use mortar base and batch surface, and then use the gray lambs to draw the outline, and then fine coloring.

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