What was the name of the ancient gate?

Question 1: What was the name of the ancient gate? Now it means: windows are usually installed at the openings in the walls or roofs of houses, vehicles and ships for light transmission and ventilation. In ancient times, it only referred to skylights. Say "you have" on the wall and "window" on the house. Duan Yucai Note: The house is on it.

Another: the window. When Niu Yi was ill, his son asked him and held his hand.

So it means skylight in ancient times.

Refers to the window (on the wall)

For this answer, please refer to Notes on Chinese and Chinese Characters.

Question 2: What was the name of the door of the ancient ladies' room? Fan.

Question 3: What was the name of the big nail on the ancient door? These nails are not only decorations, but also reflect the feudal hierarchy. Door nails have a long history. In ancient China, in order to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, the gate was made very thick, wrapped with iron plates and nailed with doornails with caps. This method has been used for thousands of years. The doornails of the Forbidden City in Beijing are all made of copper and plated with a layer of distilled gold, which is dazzling and even more splendid. There are eighty-one doornails at the entrance and exit of the emperor. Take the number nine, which means the emperor is supreme. The number of doornails of other emperors, county kings, princes and other officials decreased in turn, such as vertical nine horizontal seven, vertical seven horizontal five and so on. The doornails of low-ranking people are made of iron. Interestingly, why is there only 72 doornails at the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing, 9 fewer than the Xihua Gate and the Wumen Gate? Here is a story: Li Baicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, captured Beijing, and Ming Sizong fled from Donghuamen and hanged himself in Jingshan Park. Therefore, the royal family of Qing Dynasty considered Donghua Gate unlucky, and decided to enter and leave the royal spiritual material through this gate, and at the same time reduced its doornails to 72, while the doornails of other palace gates were still 8 1 door.

Question 4: What are the two iron rings on the gate of the ancient mansion, which seem to be used to knock on the door? Shop head, commonly known as "knocker". Accurately speaking, the paving is only the base of the knocker, and the paving ring is the complete knocker. Just as door clips are used to fix doors, door nails are used to fix door panels, and door knockers are used to open and close doors and knock on doors. They are practical objects. In ancient times, the punishment class had a very clear hierarchy for the knockers of houses. "Ming History" records: "The main entrance of the four cities of Prince Mi is painted with gold nails and copper rings; Green oil copper ring at the entrance of Gongwangfu; Gold lacquer animal face tin ring for the back door of Guanbai No.1 Middle Palace; One or two products official door green oil animal face tin ring; Black oil tin ring of three to five official doors; Six to nine products official door black oil iron ring

Question 5: What were the ancient city gates of China made of? What you ask is called paving head. The following is a detailed introduction:

The animal's face bit the head of the ring shop.

The door handle is installed on the door leaf to facilitate the opening and closing of the door. Metal doors can be used for this purpose, which is a kind of decoration. The knocking is audible, that is, a pair of knockers are cast on the knocking door.

Door knockers with practical value are often equipped with decorative bases, that is, paving heads-traditional door ornaments with exorcism significance. Hanshu? Mourning for Ji Di: The first smell of the bronze tortoise and snake shop in front of the temple. Yan Shigu's Note in Tang Dynasty: The shop of the door is the first, so it is also called the ring.

Most paving heads are made of copper and iron. A nursery rhyme in the emperor's era of the Han Dynasty talked about the copper-green pavement: the wooden door was surging, the swallow came, and the emperor's grandson pecked ... This ballad alluded to the favor of Empress Zhao. As a result, Ban Gu, who wrote Hanshu, said,' The wooden door is the root of surging waves', which means the bronze cymbals of the palace gate, and his words will be honorable. Covering the wooden doors of the palace with bronze implies that Zhao will become a queen. Yan Shigu explained: The color of copper is blue, so it is called Canglang. Pave the first bit ring, so it is called root. The three-character canglang root has both forms and colors, especially the usage of the root word is excellent. These three words were passed down by later generations as different names for paving heads.

In ancient times, the temple gate of Hanna Courtyard was filled with a turtle-shaped shop head, which was one of the four elephants-Xuanwu in the north. The image of South Suzaku is also embedded in the door. In recent years, the selected Han Dynasty patterns have been published, including Suzaku, Shuangfeng and Yangtoupu. Tigers, lions, stingers and other wild animals opened their heads, glared and bared their teeth, bringing a majestic atmosphere to the door. In the early days, there were bronze castings of Xianyang Palace site in Qin Dynasty, which looked like a deformed tiger's head, with wide eyes and smooth casting lines, and were already fine products.

Spread a dignified head to denounce this vision. In this form of door decoration, there are rich cultural contents. It is evil to use doors to ward off evil spirits. As Zi Gu said in Qing Dynasty, doors are made of steel and attached to doors, so they are ominous and defensive.

Paving the head of an animal is about the evolution of a spiral shape. Its invention right was recorded by the ancients in the name of Lu Ban, the founder of the construction industry. This seems to be a routine practice and it is not difficult to understand. Gao Cheng's "Things of the Era" in the Northern Song Dynasty lists two statements:

"Once"? "Etiquette Chronicle" said: Give the door, act as decoration for others. The merchant's water virtue is carefully blocked with a screw head to make it like a screw. "Hundred Books" says: When water is lost, it is called: seeing the shape at the beginning. When I made my debut, I drew it with my feet, so I couldn't open it when I closed the door. Because of the effect, it is located in the portal, so it needs to be so dense. Two is different. "Popular Literature" said: The decoration of door leaves is called the bedding of the head.

Merchants choose snails to decorate their doors because of its virtue, that is, to pull the five flags for businessmen. The story of the first story of Luban's painting creation was later than that of Shang Dynasty. By the weekend, it was an era later, but it was more popular. Loop, also known as snail. Although the two theories are different, they reach the same goal, not only taking the snail, but also paying attention to its shielding and careful hiding, with the same emphasis.

In the works of people in the Yuan Dynasty, there are also descriptions of the eight pepper maps of households. At the end of Wang Shifu's "The West Chamber", the lyrics of selling wine are: The door is facing the Hummer, and every household has eight Chili pictures. They are married to a prime minister with four virtues and three obedience. They are willing to be satisfied all their lives and rely on all their relatives and friends. Sima Che and Ba Jiao Tu describe dignitaries. Bai Renfu's Immediately Climbing the Wall: You have been appointed as a third-level official and listed eight pepper maps. Same usage. It is worth mentioning that there are a lot of materials about paving in Riluwen written by Li Zhen in Yuan Dynasty, but it is not as good as pepper map.

What is a pepper map? Lu Rong's Miscellanies of Wild Gardens in Ming Dynasty tells different names of ancient artifacts and quotes fourteen kinds. For example, it looks like a turtle and is good at carrying loads, so it is used to carry a flat plate and kiss it like an animal, so it looks good, so it stands in the corner, and * * * looks like an animal and is good at prisoners, so it stands on the prison door and kisses animals. Speaking of pepper maps:

The map of pepper looks like a snail, and it's quiet. It's standing on the door, and now it's barking. ..... There are doors to welcome cars and horses, and every household lists eight pepper maps. No one can understand the eight pepper map. Today, in the name of pepper map, there are also some.

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Question 6: What are the names of ancient curtains?

It is said that when the curtain was lifted, a general came in from the outside. . . . . . . .

Question 7: What was the name of the wood used to attack the city gate in ancient times? Is the name of the tool. Rush to the car, hit the hammer of the city,

Question 8: What is the threshold of the wooden fence under the ancient gate?

A crossbar, stone or metal strip at the lower end of a door frame.

Question 9: What does the ancient master mean? As a symbol of aristocratic status and wealth, the door guest first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, when the wind of raising guests prevailed. Children of every vassal state have a large number of public guests, such as Chun Shen Jun of Chu, Xin Lingjun of Wei and Qi. They are people who grew up in the homes of ancient dignitaries. Some of them have real talent and practical knowledge, and they can work for their sons at critical moments, but some of them exist in name only, stealing food and drinking. Their status is different from that of domestic slaves. They usually don't have a fixed job and don't have to do chores, so they eat, drink and get paid. Only when the host needs them to do something do they arrange work with them. It was during the Warring States period that gatekeepers were the most popular, and the four sons of Warring States were famous for their gatekeepers.

Question 10: What's the name of the knock on the ancient door, commonly known as the "knocker"?

The shop head is the door decoration of traditional Han architecture, which has the significance of exorcism. Most of the ornaments on the door are in the shape of animal heads. Take gold as it, and call it a gold shop; Call it a silver shop with silver; Take copper as it, and call it a copper shop. Its shape, there are smelting elephant, smelting animal kiss, smelting elephant, covering its goodness and keeping its economy. Others smell turtles, snakes and tigers to ward off evil spirits. The melting of the inscription ring of the animal head has long existed on bronze ornaments in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It is an animal face pattern with many shapes, and there is a ring under the mouth for decoration embedded in the door. Generally metal, there are tigers, snakes, turtles and so on. In the Han Dynasty, temples were decorated with human heads to ward off evil spirits. It is also widely used in the folk doors of the Han nationality. In order to avoid disasters and seek happiness, I hope that the gods will bravely protect the human and financial security of their families like wild animals.