What are the two green circles on the gate of the ancient house in southern Fujian

In Hokkien language, building a house is called "starting a house", and moving into a new home is called "entering a house". For the Hokkien people, "starting the house" is equivalent to "Jianye", which is a major event that cannot be overlooked, and "entering the house" in the eyes of the Hokkien people will be closely related to the fortune of the family after that, and it is also extremely important. Therefore, when "starting the house" and "entering the house" in southern Fujian, there are many interesting exquisiteness and customs.

Bouldering stones.

The drum stone is a traditional dwelling of the Han nationality, especially the bottom of the gate of the courtyard is located at the entrance of the house, and the shape is like a round drum of two artificially carved stone components, which belongs to a kind of door sleeper stone, because it has a form like a drum to support the stone seat, so it is named.

There were two small symmetrical round wooden stakes above the doors of the old houses, what was it for?

There are two wooden pillars on the left and right of the door panel of the ancient folk building, a horizontal wood on the top forms the door frame, the door leaf is installed in the frame, and there is a simple roof above the door frame, which can shade the sun and prevent the rain, and the small roof on the door is called the door head. Later, the function of the door head to shade the sun and rain gradually faded, the roof of the door head protruding part became smaller and smaller, and the upper and lower components of the roof became more and more complex, becoming a special decoration on the gate, also known as the door cover. The decoration on the door is mostly traditional motifs, such as dragons, lions, and bats; Among the plants are peonies, lotus, and chrysanthemums; Among the utensils, such as Bogu, qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, longevity, 10,000 characters, etc., some even show the traditional opera content in the form of carving.

Copper nails. In the old days, nine was the greatest, so the royal door would have these eighty-one nails that were horizontal and vertical. The lower the grade of civil and military officials, the fewer copper nails on their own doors, and ordinary people cannot have copper nails on their doors, and there can only be two knockers for knocking on the door, which is the origin of "white nails", which may slowly evolve into "white ding".

This is a Qing Dynasty building. The little golden balls on the door are dragon balls, and people will get good luck if they model it. The above 4 are open doors to win 4 party visitors, which illustrates the meaning of hospitality.

The Green Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Xuanwu These four are the guardian gods of ancient dwellings.

To ward off evil spirits, it is said that the four gods of wind, thunder, lightning and rain are in place, the gods avoid it, and the little ghosts dodge.

It's a status symbol!

The shape simulates the gossip mirror, which is used to ward off evil spirits.

It means that demolition is not allowed! I'm a tough nail household.

The dot you mentioned should be called a door nail. In the past, the city gates were made of wooden planks, and the outer bread was made of iron sheets, which could be stronger by nailing them with iron nails. Later, it slowly became an ornament and made a large round nail out of brass, and the doors in the palace were gold-plated in brass, and the palace was made of brass, and ** was iron.

The common people are not allowed to use it. As for row 9, it's because upstairs says 9 is the biggest number. Only the royal family can use the Nine Palaces, all of which are decreasing.

Keep in mind that not all doors can be nailed with 9 rows of nails.

The villas you see are all relatively ** and high-grade house types. The lobby that enters from the main door is generally designed with a double ceiling. In order to let in the light and to avoid looking at the large wall on the door from the inside of the house, a window was left for light.

The lobby ceiling has this height (6-8 meters) and is also more imposing. If the room type is small (less than 300 square meters), this "lobby" is also where the stairs go up to the second floor. But as I mentioned above, the window will not be very small, its width should be the same as the width of the gate, and the height should be more than a meter.

It should mean to be demolished! You can go to the neighborhood office or neighborhood committee to ask the reason.

The upper right is Tuan Xiwen, and the lower left is Tuan Shouwen.

Hope it helps.