1. Door color

"Zhumen stinks with wine and meat, and the bones on the road freeze to death." Du fu's famous sentences. Wine and meat are smelly, and the note is interpreted as wine and meat; However, many readers prefer to understand that there are endless foods in Zhumen, which are rotten and smelly, which can form a strong contrast.

Bai Juyi's poem "House of Mourning for the Past": "Who started the first house and chased Zhumen Avenue? There are rows of splendid houses surrounded by high walls. There are six or seven halls, and the buildings are connected with each other ... The owner has been a big official for ten years, and the kitchen has rotten meat and the treasury has rotten money. " This can be translated into the interpretation of the word "Zhu Men's wine stinks". After ten years as a big official, the door of the first family naturally won't open in the alley like ordinary people, but open the door and go straight to the street; The color of the door is also unusual-painted scarlet.

In feudal times, the doors of the palace. Zhumen is a symbol of rank. Wei Hong's Nine Meanings of Han Dynasty said: "The Prime Minister" listened to the pavilion and called it the Yellow Pavilion, but dared not open the doors, so he painted it with yellow, so he called it the Yellow Pavilion ". The official department is not painted red to distinguish it from the son of heaven.

Zhu's painted door used to be a symbol of supremacy, so it is very easy to use. As a result, Zhu Hu was included in the list of "Nine Tin". The so-called nine tin, refers to the emperor's highest courtesy to princes and ministers, that is, giving nine kinds of utensils. The biography of Korean poetry says:

The vassal has virtue, and the emperor is tin. A tin chariot and horse, then a tin dress, three tin warriors, four tin musical instruments, five Sinabi, six tin hoops, seven tin bows and arrows, eight tin iron cymbals, and nine tin tools are called Nine Tin.

"Nine Tin" is a thing, so it is not necessarily because princes or ministers have less money and can't afford it. For example, as long as the emperor has this gift, Zhu Hu, who ranks sixth, can be painted red, which is "gift". Those who receive such courtesy are fully capable of strengthening their own doors by themselves. Zhu Hu's gift is a high-standard treatment.

In the Han Dynasty, He Mu commented on The Biography of the Ram, saying "Nine Tin Rites" and ranked Zhu Hu in the fourth place.

As for the yellow gate, it is also very noble. As a result, in the Tang Dynasty, "Huangge" was used to refer to the Prime Minister's residence, and "Huangge" was used to refer to the Prime Minister. According to the system of later generations, "people should be yellow and people should be Zhu." The Qing Dynasty's Tea Room Congchao talked about this situation. The so-called "ancient and modern are different and cannot be unified."

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang affirmed the system of official residences and made clear regulations on the paint color of the gates. "Minghui Temple" contains: In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Qi Huangong "has three rooms and five frames, and the gate is painted with gold animal faces and has tin rings"; An official with one product and two products, "the gatehouse has three rooms and five frames, and the door is a green animal with a tin ring"; Three to five products, "three doors and three racks, black doors and tin rings"; Six to nine products, "three frames and one front door, iron ring and one black door". At the same time, it is stipulated that "the doors and windows of the first official residence are not allowed to be painted. The common people only live in three rooms and five compartments, and no fighting arches or colored decorations are allowed. "

In the old society, black doors were very common, and they were the color of unofficial doors. With the movie "Hanging the Red Lantern High" becoming famous in one fell swoop, the scale and momentum of Qiao Family Courtyard in Qixian County, Shanxi Province are really extraordinary. This yard is painted black because it is a residential building. The gatehouse is the most decorative, and the local residents call it the "gatehouse". Its color, dark gray tile roof, gray steps and gate paint are used.