Marble Carving Fireplace-Stone lions in front of the role of the door

Marble Carving Fireplace-Stone lions in front of the role of the door

Folk flow has four said: one, avoid evil Naji. Marble lions can be exorcist evil in people's minds of the animal, also known as "evil". In people's folk life, stone lions not only used to guard the door, used to town house, evil. So, with the stone lions to the door to avoid fierce Naji, against those demons and ghosts and the like to bring people against.

Second, highlight the power. Ancient in the palace, the palace, the government, the mansion with stone lions gatekeepers, showing the owner of the power and honor,

Third, the art of decoration. Stone lions or ancient buildings indispensable decorations.

Stone lion use way

The gate of the stone lion is placed in the rules. In general, are a male and female, in pairs, and are generally left male right female, in line with the traditional Chinese male left female right yin and yang philosophy. The lion on the left side of the door are generally carved into the right front paw playing the hydrangea or two forepaws between the side of a hydrangea; the right side of the lion is carved into the left front paw strokes the cubs or between the two paws lying between a cub.

Stone lions placed on both sides of the door are people from the door out of the direction of reference. When a man comes out of the gate, the lion should be on the left side of the man, and the lion is on the right side of the human being. When entering from the door, it is just the opposite. Some of the buildings inside and outside the door have a pair of stone lions, the door outside (that is, the direction of the door) is the lion on the right, lion on the left; inside the door (that is, out of the direction) is the lion on the left Lion on the right side. In other words, if you come out from the door, the door inside and outside the left and right sides must be lions, the right must be a lion.

The situation described above is universal, but there are some exceptions. For example, Jiayuguan inside the temple of the temple before the lion, Qufu hole in front of the stone lions, Drum Tower Donghua Gate Street on both sides of the north and south of the stone lions. The shape of these lions is more special, claws without hydrangea and cubs, it is difficult to distinguish between male and female.

In addition, Taishan "Confucius boarded the" four-post three square front and rear sides of the two pairs of stone lions, but it is left female right male, and the usual situation is just the opposite, the meaning is unknown.

The stone lion usually takes the mattress as the base, the base has a jint (shop in the plum seat, the four corners hang in the platycladus). Lions of different shapes, in China and after a landscaping modification, the basic form is full of curly hair, mighty majestic.