Ming and Qing imperial palace fengshui

In ancient buildings, doornails are only used on wooden doors and are generally made of copper. The doornail has several functions, one is decoration, the other is expression of grade, and the other is reinforcement. Later, the doornails were made more and more neat, and the number of nails became a sign of grade.

Don't underestimate the doornail on the palace gate. The doornail on the palace gate shows the royal power and majesty.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a clear system for the number of nails on the palace door. According to the system of the Qing Dynasty, the palace gate must be "the golden nail of Zhu Fei, with nine in vertical and horizontal directions", because nine is the pole of yang number, the largest of yang number and the pole of numbers, and 998 1 doornail symbolizes the highest position of the emperor. So there are nine doornails in the south (Wumen Gate), north (Shenwumen Gate) and west (Xihuamen Gate) of the Forbidden City, that is, nine rows and nine columns, and eighty-one doornails are * * *, but it is puzzling that they are also the palace gates of the Forbidden City. Why are the doornails of the East (Donghuamen) of the Forbidden City eight rows, nine columns and seventy-two doornails * *? Why use even (female) doornails instead of odd (male) doornails here? There have been many interpretations of this for a long time.

1, Donghuamen is a "gate of hell", so the number of nails also counts.

Originally there were 865,438+0 doornails in Donghuamen, but after Li Zicheng captured Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty, fled from Donghuamen and hanged himself in Jingshan Park. Therefore, the royal family of the Qing Dynasty considered Donghuamen unlucky and decided to enter and leave the royal spiritual materials through this gate, calling Donghuamen "the gate of hell". Moreover, in order to win over the Han people from all walks of life, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty accused Donghuamen of failing to stop Zhu Youjian from escaping, so they reduced the doornails on Donghuamen by one row, from eighty-one doornails in Yang to seventy-two in Yin, while the doornails in other palaces were still eighty-one in Yang.

2, feng shui reasons.

The whole construction of the Forbidden City pays great attention to geomantic omen. According to geomantic omen, in order to bring good luck, the designers of the Forbidden City changed the number of doornails in Donghuamen from nine vertical and nine horizontal to nine vertical and eight, and the number of doornails changed from 8 1 to 72. This changed the fear of Menke's haunted house.

3. Close to the uterus.

Donghuamen is close to the uterus, and the daily affairs are paid by the prince. The prince is Chu Jun, but his rank is much lower than that of the son of heaven. Because of etiquette, the number of doornails has decreased.

4. The courtier's door.

Another explanation is that Donghuamen is the gate for courtiers and scholars to enter and leave the palace, which is lower than the emperor's supreme.