What does "upper room" mean in ancient times?

Meaning:

1. The room located at the front of the traditional courtyard building.

"Dream of Red Mansions," Book 3: "The five upper rooms on the front side are all carved beams and painted buildings, and on both sides of the rooms through the mountain corridors are hung with parrots of various colors, painted eyebrows, and other birds."

The Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦)第七回："Who knows that Mrs. Wang is not in the upper room, and when I asked the maids, I realized that she had gone to Aunt Xue's side to gossip." It is also known as the "main room".

2, the upper room. For example: "Xiao Er! Prepare two upper rooms!"

Expanded:

< p>The main house, the upper house and the compartments:

The courtyard has a fixed set of specifications in architecture:

The main house is on the north side, the compartments on the east and west, the inverted seat on the south side, and houses on the east, west, south, north and south sides, with a patio in the center, and the whole is connected by the corridor.

When an old-fashioned Chinese family lived in a siheyuan, the elderly lived in the north room (the upper room), with a large living room in the center (the center hall room), the eldest son lived in the east room, the second son lived in the west room, the servants lived in the inverted seat room, and the daughters lived in the backyard, without interfering with each other.

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