The beams of the lintel are all made of heavy solid wood. It is a regular hexagonal square wood or log embedded in the lintel, commonly known as the door hairpin. The basic explanation of lintel is the beam at the upper part of the door frame. I also used Liang Weijia's quotations to explain it. The lintel is often used to express people's yearning for power and wealth intuitively.
There are also differences in lintels, generally according to the number of two, four and twelve. To put it simply, there are two doorposts on the lintel, corresponding to officials of grades five to seven; There are four doorposts on the lintel, corresponding to officials above level 4; As for the twelve doorways, they can only be used at the level above the prince. In other words, even if it is not the king's relatives, he dare not build three doorways and embed twelve doorways.
Introduction of lintel style:
1, the bucket arch lintel is a kind of coupon door, which refers to the lintel stone or lintel, and is connected into a whole by the arc of the bucket arch (the arch between the door arch and the lintel). Bucket arch lintel is common in ancient buildings in China, with unique and beautiful form and complex and rigorous structure. It is one of the unique lintel forms in ancient buildings in China. Bucket arches and lintels are mainly used in temples, palaces, ancient pagodas and other ancient buildings.
2, the round arch lintel, as the name implies, is to make the lintel into a round arch and use curved stone strips or wood to make the beam. The circular arch lintel not only has a good decorative effect, but also can enhance the structural stability of the door and avoid the shaking when the sliding door is opened and closed.
3. Beam lintel is a common form of lintel, which is often used in residential buildings because of its simple structure. Beam lintel is generally composed of a wooden beam, which spans two walls above the door and reaches both sides of the door frame, so a beam lintel is formed above the door frame. Lintel is a very important structure, and the quality of lintel is closely related to the service life and safety of doors.