What kind of traditional door is the hairpin?

We often see this thing in ancient buildings when traveling. So, what exactly does the door hairpin look like? There are all kinds of flowers, flowers, fruits and auspicious words on the door hairpin. What kind of meaning will it have? Follow Bian Xiao and see how it is analyzed in the gate of Feng Shui.

What is a hairpin?

Door bolt is a wooden decorative component on the gate of quadrangle, and it also plays a role in strengthening the door frame. There are four doornails on the gate and two doornails on Ruyi. Peony and gourd are embossed on the front to show wealth. However, most of them are engraved, and each of the four doorpins is engraved with a word, such as "Hui Di Ji", which means to lead me to an auspicious place.

The doorframes of ancient buildings are relatively narrow, not as gorgeous as the door leaves. However, because the door frame and the door leaf are a system, the ancients did not dare to treat the decoration of the door frame lightly, especially the decoration of the protruding door nail. Therefore, the doors of many houses are only set for beauty, and their significance is far less than their decorative significance.

The doornail has various shapes such as round, square, diamond, hexagon and octagon, and decorative colors, mainly four seasons flowers or auspicious words, are carved on it to increase its decorative effect.

There are all kinds of flower decorations on the door, including flowers, flowers, fruits and auspicious words. Only two doornails are often engraved with auspicious words, while the four are engraved with Chunlan, Xia Lian, Qiuju and Dongmei respectively. Auspicious words, such as good luck, keeping morality and world peace, are also common patterns. Of course, sometimes the whole hairpin is carved into an auspicious animal. Comparatively speaking, animal-shaped doorpins are not as round and warm as flowers and letters.

With the oblivion of ancient buildings in time, the door chai also faded out of our lives. But this small hairpin is not only the expression of people's aesthetics in that era, but also contains the cultural color of that era.