by Chinese architectural art has a long history, with four cornices cocked up, or fluttering to fly, or standing to float, making solidification seem ready to move.
Such beauty has amazed the whole world! Today, from the perspective of far to near, I will share with you the exquisite construction of ancient buildings 01 Chinese ancient architecture 𞓜 if you want to say that Chinese architecture is nothing, there is no doubt that it is the Chinese door.
The ancients said that “the house takes the door as the crown belt”, and the door is the place where a family can breathe.
“It is necessary to enter and exit”.
The door symbolizes the status and prestige of the head of household and records history and culture.
As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people, and housing is the most secure.
The elements of living are inseparable.
No matter how big the world is and how self-cultivation and family unity are, it is the starting point that will never change.
The delicacy of the door and the height of the threshold silently state that this nation once attached so much importance to family relations.
Guangliang gate as the name suggests, Guangliang gate should mean relatively spacious and bright, so it is also called Guangliang gate.
It is a kind of house gate of ancient Han architecture, which is second only to the palace gate and higher than the Jinzhu gate.
It is a house gate form adopted by officials with considerable grade.
In order to be conspicuous, this room of the gate is larger than the houses on both sides.
It has its own gable, the roof is raised, the ridge wall is prominent, the door is wide and bright, and there is a high platform.
The ground of the gate is 35 inches higher than the street.
When you come out of the quadrangle, you have the tendency of being condescending, and when you enter the quadrangle, you have the feeling of climbing up step by step.
Jinzhu gate: Jinzhu gate is the gate with the door frame installed on the Jinzhu.
Although the Jinzhu gate is not as profound and solemn as Guangliang gate, it still does not lose the style of officials.
It is an evolution form of Guangliang gate.
Manzi gate the biggest feature of Manzi gate is that the door leaf is more outward than the golden pillar gate, and its door frame and leaf are installed on the eaves column.
As for the origin of its name, there is a saying that the Manchus who immigrated to Beijing in ancient times specially installed the door leaf on the outermost eaves for the sake of safety, so as to avoid providing stealth and crime conditions for thieves.
Therefore, it was named Manzi door.
Ruyi door the Ruyi door is named “Ruyi door” because it is often decorated with Ruyi shaped flowers at the corner between the door and the brick walls on both sides, implying good luck.
The number of Ruyi doors is the largest, because they are used in ordinary folk houses.
Due to the large number, there are many forms of Ruyi door, which can be complex or simple.
The wall door, also known as the wall door, is to open the door on the wall of the residential yard, and slightly decorate the walls above or around the door.
In ancient times, the wall door was used by rich people without officials.
They pay attention to keeping a low profile and not leaking money.
But there are also more luxurious small gatehouses.
The flower pendant gate is the door inside the courtyard of ancient Chinese residential buildings.
It is a very exquisite door in the quadrangle, It is an inner house and an outer house The dividing line and the only channel of the (front yard).
Because the eaves column does not fall to the ground and hangs under the eaves, it is called the vertical column.
There is a hanging bead under it, which is usually painted in the form of petals, so it is called the vertical flower gate.
The whole building occupies the sky and does not occupy land, which is one of the characteristics of the vertical flower gate.
Because there is a lot of space in the vertical flower gate.
Among the doors of Southern buildings, the garden door is the most representative of The full moon gate is the most common round gate in gardens.
The round door is built to imitate the full moon, which is the materialization of moon worship.
It gives people a sense of fullness, liveliness and balance.
Chinese people like the full moon.
The full moon represents integrity or perfection in the whole cycle, so people always associate the full moon with reunion.
The full moon in Buddhism is also a symbol of beauty and serenity.
The moon is like water, which is more in line with the poetic complex of the Chinese people.
Octagonal gate: Chinese design the octagonal gate in the garden is a combination of round and square.
In Chinese style garden design, “eight ways can also be empty doors”, “simple and large diameter round cave doors and octagonal cave doors are often used on the courtyard wall separating the main scenic spots to facilitate passage”, which reflects the combination of practicality and aesthetics.
Chinese culture advocates “eight”, and the four images generate eight trigrams.
“Eight” is homonymous with “Fa”, which means to make a fortune.
The digital model of “eight” contains great and infinite meaning.
Plant symbol doors} in the garden, there are many doors built with plant symbols as the design inspiration.
The plant shaped cave doors are inlaid with gray cyan square bricks to form a simple, soft, quiet and elegant Suzhou garden tone style with white walls, gray tile roofs and chestnut brown doors and windows on buildings.
▲ shell leaf door ▲ plum blossom door ▲ gourd door.
The vicissitudes outside the door and the past inside the door.
Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer Chinese doors full of historical charm.
These historical classics, with their own eternity and independence, seem to have become people’s spiritual home in downtown and seclusion.
02 Chinese ancient architecture 𞓜 mendun Shuowen: “drum, drum also.” In ancient China, drum rising and drum changing have formed the behavior characteristics of the official system, and drum has become the symbol of the official government.
Placing the drum stone has become the gateway symbol of power and status.
Similarly, because the drum is a special instrument for Dharma, it is logical to place the drum stone in front of temples such as Buddhist temples and ancestral halls.
In addition, making the upper part of the door pillow stone into a circle can form a modeling relationship of “round sky and place” with the lower square base.
Some traditional Chinese auspicious patterns are usually carved on the pier, so it is a stone carving art to understand Chinese traditional culture.
“Lion” is homonymous with “world”.
The pattern of carving nine lions is “nine generations living together”, indicating the wishes of family reunion and harmony.
Peach is a symbol of longevity.
It is said that the queen mother of the West did not die because she ate Xiantao.
“White apes steal peaches” is carved on the gate pier.
Its origin is as follows: it is said that the mother of white apes in Yunmeng Mountain is sick and wants to eat peaches.
The White Ape was very filial to his mother and secretly went to pick peaches in the immortal peach garden.
Unexpectedly, he was caught by immortal sun, who guarded the peach garden.
White Ape begged immortal sun to cure his mother’s disease.
Immortal sun was moved by his filial piety and let White Ape go.
The mother of the White Ape recovered from illness and asked the White Ape to present a military book to sun Zhenren.
Since then, “White Ape stealing peach” has become a symbol of wishing old-age life for thousands of years.
This legend is widely spread among the people, and there are also Qu Ci of the same subject in folk drum CI.
“Fish” is homonymous with “Yu” and “Yu”, which symbolizes auspiciousness, wealth and beauty.
The carved patterns of “Lotus” and “fish” symbolize “surplus in successive years”.
The carved carp leaped in the flowing water between the two mountains, indicating that the carp jumped the dragon’s gate, symbolizing the rise of official career.
03 Chinese ancient architecture door ring a home, a door, a pair of rings, always make people feel that the opposite side of the door seems to hide an ancient and long history, engraved with rich historical stories.
Early in the morning, the sun falls on the red brick, green tile door, and the doorknob on the door is majestically fastened on the facade.
It is the first messenger to announce the arrival of guests.
Green bricks and tiles give people a sense of elegance, calmness, simplicity and tranquility, while the old door ring gives people a feeling of solemnity, majesty, mystery and silence.
The door ring, which has lasted for thousands of years in China, is a ring-shaped metal ring buckle on the door leaf of folk houses.
It is also called “shop head” in some places.
Its most direct function is for people to open the sliding door and knock on the door, but because it is the focus on the door and has the function of making the finishing point, the decorative significance of the door ring has been strengthened.
Chinese craftsmen skillfully turn people’s expectations for a beautiful and safe life into various styles of door rings and display them on the facade.
On the shop head, flower patterns, auspicious animals, geometric patterns, animal head and dragon face are often used as decoration methods.
For example, decorating “bat” means “many blessings”; “Sunflower” means “many children”; Decoration “lion tiger” means “town house”; The decoration of “Li” (Li is one of the nine sons of the dragon, stubborn and good at water) means “fire prevention”; the decoration of “hexagon” means “Liuhe”, that is, “deer and crane prolong the year”, and so on..
