Can anyone explain the specific meaning of Xidan

Xidan's name ** in an archway, the archway is inscribed "Zhanyun". There is also an archway at the intersection of Dongshan Road in Dongcheng District, which is titled "on the day". Because they are all single archways, and the east and west are opposite, they are commonly known as Xidan archway and Dongdan archway, referred to as Xidan and Dongdan.

There is an intersection of four archways in the north of Xidan and Dongdan, so it is called the West Fourth Archway and the East Fourth Archway, referred to as the West.

Fourth, East Fourth. These archways were demolished after 1949 in the process of transforming the city's transportation.

According to the research of Lu Sixian's "Mythological Archaeology", the word first appeared in the oracle bone inscription, which is a pictograph, similar to a sheep's horn. There are four orders on the periphery of the Shang Dynasty capital city Yin: Dongdan, Xidan, Beidan and Nandan.

Hu Houxuan explained that "single" is the flat land in the suburbs, and "single" is a platform in the province, thinking that it is a high platform made of soil, and Dingshan is an altar. "Shan" is to build an altar, that is, a high platform, on an open field that has been leveled to serve as a place for sacrifice and dancing. The "Water Scripture Note" says that Nandan Zhitai is a different name for Lutai, and the "Chinese" says that Tai is looking forward to the atmosphere and preparing for disasters, and explains the nature and use of "Shan" as "Taiwan".

"Lutai" is marked by a deer, should stand a deer head pillar, this is the characteristic of Nandan platform, in this "Wangxiang", that is, to observe the celestial phenomena and meteorology, equivalent to the Lingtai of the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, the divination says "Zhan Nandan", and "爰" is the "war" of "Tai Hui Zhan Guo" in Jianmu mythology, describing the position of the sun in the middle of the sky, indicating that the "single" of the Shang Dynasty is the proper name of the shadow measuring rod. Bu Shi said again:

Xidan Lei", and clearly observe the weather here. This is the main purpose of the "dan", and of course festivals and dances are also held here.

Therefore, in ancient writing, the rod alone is a tool for measuring the shadow of the sun in ancient times, that is, the later sundial. The sundial is the shadow of the sun, the earliest way to measure the shadow of the sun is "immediate effect", "Zhou Li Kao Gongji" said that the wooden pole is vertically standing on the horizontal ground with a rope hanging weight, and then the rod is the center of the circle to make a circle, and the sun is observed on the shadow of the rod cast on the flat ground. The two points of the sunrise and sunrise intersect with the circumference of the two points that connect the line, and the positive east-west direction can be obtained, that is, "with the positive morning and evening".

The ancients set up a benchmark on the open flat land, which was used to observe the shadow of the sun, measure the time, direction and determine the solar terms.

The so-called Dongdan is the meaning of the sunrise in the east, and in ancient times, the east symbolized spring, that is, the "single" was used as a pole to determine the position of the sun at the vernal equinox. Lu Sixian said that in the Jin text, "Xidan" is a combined character, and the word "Xi" is in the shape of a bird's nest and placed on the branch of the single word, which means that the bird's nest is built on a tree; Or add the word bird in the middle, only the word, which means that the bird returns to the west for the nest, implying the sunset. The word "目" is added on one side of the word, which means to observe the celestial phenomena of the sunset.

The autumnal equinox is determined here.

The place names of Dongdan and Xidan in Beijing City are the names of Dongdan and Xidan in Yindu, which are the names left by the ancient "Vertical Rod". But why is the crossroads called Dongdan and Xidan?

According to Jin Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Notes", Huabiao, also known as table wood, is used for vertical measurement, and it stands at the crossroads: "The intersection of the main road (that is, the crossroads) is all shiyan, or called the surface wood......Today's Xijing is called the intersection of noon wood. The so-called "Jiaowu", refers to the noon sun on the middle of the sky when the shadow is due north and south, after this moment, the sun moves westward, the sundial shadow turns to the east side of the column, the ancients called the "reverse scene" that is, "the west single scene", indicating that the ancient ancestors had used the pillar pole to measure the shadow, the sun's rays are called "Hua", so this rod is called Huabiao.

In the golden text, there is the word "line single", that is, the four-cornered diamond-shaped symbol is drawn on the top of the single word, which means the direction of the four corners; The two sides of the word "single" are combined into "line", which means that there is "single" in the center of the cross street, indicating four positive directions; Taken together, it is the use of "single" to determine the four corners of the four directions.

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Analysis: When it comes to the architecture of the ancient capital of Beijing, in addition to the tall city walls, towering city towers, magnificent palaces and temples, it has to be said to be archways. According to today's Beijing city, Dongdan and Xidan are in the east, and the east is in the west.

Fourth, the front door is a relatively prosperous street. Dongdan and Dongsi are the names of these places, if you ask young people nowadays, why is it called Dongdan and Dongsi? What's going on with "single" and "four"?

What is the meaning? Eighty percent of young people will not be able to answer. In fact, these place names are related to archways.

And the young people can't tell what these place names are about, and they can't blame them, because when they were born, the archways in these places have long been demolished, leaving only a place name.

There is an archway at the mouth of the main street and alley of the old Beijing city, the archway can be said to walk on the street of the compound, you can see it as far as the eye can see, or how to say, the archway is a major feature of our Beijing city. Pai Bang Menglou is also called the archway, in the early years, it was also called the wedge, the wedge, the Huabiao and so on. Speaking of which, the archway does not have any practical value, is to look at the pomp, it is the decoration in front of the ancient building, in the old Beijing saying:

It's used to prop up the façade.

If the old Beijing praises and disparages individuals, they often say: "Hey, you have to be good, and Ming'er will set up a memorial arch in front of your house." "Standing the archway, the general people dare to pick it up and say, is it too common?

In fact, in addition to decorating the building, the archway also has a bit of "tree monument erection" meaning, such as commendation, commemoration of someone or something, etc., in the ancient saying, there is not a memorial arch for the martyr's chastity festival? In addition, the torii is also a demarcation mark for the street area.

Usually the ancient capital of China or the city with a long history can leave some archways, because the tradition of erecting archways is left from the ancestors of our Chinese nation. However, with such a large territory in China, no city has as many archways as Beijing. Why?

First, Beijing is the ancient capital of the six dynasties, especially the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties that have preserved relatively complete palaces, temples, imperial gardens, and ancient building groups; There are many events and characters that need to be commemorated and commended in modern times; The third is the most important one, from the time of the Yuan capital, the streets and alleys of Beijing are built according to the square system, the Yuan Dynasty, the capital is divided into fifty squares, the Ming Dynasty is divided into four names, thirty-six squares, the Qing Dynasty is divided into five cities, thirty-six squares. A square, you have to erect an archway, you think about it, just these squares, how many archways have to be erected?

The meaning of Dongdan and Xidan in Beijing is as follows:

1. Dongdan: Dongdan is an area in Beijing, which is located at the intersection between Chang'an Street, Dongdan North Street and Jianguomen Nei Street in Dongcheng District. Because there was a torii there in the past, it was named Dongdan.

In the past, the form of the Dongdan archway and the Xidan archway is the same, it is built in the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty with three four-pillar three-floor cupola wooden archway, located at the south end of the Dongdan crossroads, that is, on the east side of the Dongdan Stadium today, north-south.

2. Xidan: Xidan is a commercial neighborhood in Xicheng District, Beijing. Xidan got its name from the Xidan archway commonly known as the old Beijing city. Xidan is centered on the intersection of Xidan Road, and there are many commercial facilities along Xidan Cultural Square and Xidan North Street.

Xidan's business focuses on youth and fashion elements, so it attracts more local young people in Beijing to go for leisure and shopping, and has the reputation of a shopping paradise for young people.

The East Fourth and West Fourth Yuan Dynasty were called Dashi Street, which was lively and prosperous. It has been formed as a prosperous business district in the Yuan Dynasty, and after the establishment of the Yuan capital, this place is called the "Old Privy Council Corner Market", which belongs to the Ming Zhaofang. At that time, there were many shops and shops in the "Privy Council Corner Market", which was one of the three major commercial centers in the city.

There is a cupola-style archway of "three rooms, four pillars and three floors" at the east, west, north and south four street entrances of the East Fourth Crossroads, which are called "Sicheng Fang", "Renshou Fang", "Baoda Fang" and "Mingzhao Fang" respectively. And the four archways of the West Fourth Crossroads face the north and south of each book "Dashi Street", the archway on the east side is named "Xingren", and the one on the west side is called "Performing Yi". Later, these four archways have a new name:

Jin Cheng Fang", "Ming Yu Fang", "Jiqing Fang" and "Anfu Fang".

After the East Fourth and West Fourth have four separate archways, the common people do not say "big market street", and simply call the East Fourth Archway and the West Fourth Archway. In the future, it is more trouble-free, and it is called "four archways". By the time of the liberation of Beiping, these archways were still alive.

In the 50s of the 20th century, the road was demolished to expand the road. The archway is gone, and the name is also trouble-free: "East Four", "West Four".

Dongdan and Xidan also came about in this way. This "single" word, that's because the archway here is a single collapse. The archway of Xidan is called "Zhanyun", and the archway of Dongdan is called "on the day".

In this way, the east single archway and the west single archway are called. Similarly, in the 50s of the 20th century, the road was expanded, and the archway was demolished, so there were only "Dongdan" and "Xidan". You see, it is called such a concise and smooth boundary, and it turns out that it is still the family foundation left by the archway.

There were many archways in ancient Beijing. In ancient Xidan, there is an archway, called a single archway, and because this place is located in the west of Beijing, it is called Xidan archway, and later referred to as Xidan.

The name of Dongdan is the same. As for the West Four, there were four archways in the place of West Four in the past, and because this place is in the west of the capital, it is called the West Fourth Archway, and later referred to as the West Four, and the name of the East Four is the same.

The East 40 is because the 10th alley of the east and west at that time was relatively wide, and the bus was passed, and the name of the bus station was referred to as East 40 Street, and later this place name spread and was used.

The name of Xidan ** is an archway, because there is an archway in the roughly symmetrical place of Beijing, so it is called Xidan archway and Dongdan archway. There are four archways in the north of Xidan and Dongdan, so they are called West Fourth Archway and East Fourth Archway, so they are named Xidan, Dongdan and West.

Fourth, East Fourth. Reference.

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