Door: Why does the word \”door\” only include door frame? Where are the door panels?

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Hello everyone, welcome to Chinese Character Decryption, I am Wang Zhun.

As for the word \”men\”, we still have to start with the ancient glyph of the word \”men\”. Door is a pictographic character with a very early origin. It is written like this in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty. The middle of the word \”door\” looks like a door leaf that can be pushed open, and the two sides are probably door frames that fix the door leaves.

The original meaning of door is the door of a house. Later, it included walls and entrances and exits of cars, boats, etc. because there are similar doors that can be opened and closed. devices, so they are called doors.

The glyphs of the men character in Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscriptions, the men character in the Warring States script, and the men character in the small seal script of \”Shuowen\” have not changed much.

Han Dynasty official script In the regular script of the Tang Dynasty, the shape of the door is just that the strokes become more horizontal and vertical, and there is no major structural change. After the Chinese characters are simplified, we can no longer see the pictogram of the door leaf.

Friends who have been to the Forbidden City must be deeply impressed by the various gates of the Forbidden City.

Its city gate is very majestic, often with two door leaves, each often 0.8 meters to 1 meter wide. On the door panel, there is a whole 81 door nails in unison

As for the doors of ordinary homes, they are often made of wooden boards. It is called a \”board door\”. Only the buildings used by the emperor can use ninety-nine and eighty-one door nails. In order to protect the wooden door leaf, it has to be painted, but the powerful people in the early days were very particular. The family would use red paint, so the poem \”The wine and meat in the Zhumen smelled bad, and the road was frozen to death\” was used in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Common people are not allowed to use red doors, and private houses can only use black door leaves. Because the production of early doors is not so fine, there is still a gap in the middle of the door leaves, which is the door gap. Sunlight and moonlight shine in through the cracks in the door, thus creating the word \”between\”.

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The door frame is used to fix the door leaf, so it is relatively strong in structure. There is often a whole wooden bar connecting the left and right sides under the door frame, which is called the threshold or sill. It is used to block the bottom of the door. When opening the door, people need to lift their legs to cross this threshold, thus distinguishing the inside and outside of the door.The more powerful the family, the higher the threshold, which means they cannot enter easily. This is where the “high threshold” we often talk about today comes from.

There is also a story about the word \”men\”. It is said that Wang Anshi, a famous thinker and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, returned to Jiangning after being dismissed as prime minister in his later years. , at that time Wang Anshi hired a local carpenter named Lu Hui to design a house for him. Carpenter Lu Hui showed the designed drawings of the house to Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi kept nodding and praising them after reading them. However, carpenter Lu Hui vaguely felt that Wang Anshi was not satisfied with the design of the house. Wang Anshi finally wrote in the blank space of the drawings. Four lines of poetry:

I borrowed the opportunity to go to Lord Dongjun, and in an instant the red sun set in the west. The lights are shining and no one is seen, and there is no close friend in the mood.

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Since the door was created, it has been used to control entry and exit, and to distinguish between inside and outside. In the eyes of ancient people: outside the door is a noisy and bustling world; inside the door is a quiet space. Therefore, doors not only have a practical function, but also serve as boundaries for dividing living spaces. Therefore, derived from the original meaning of gate, it refers to different people and groups behind different doors. For example, \”family status\” refers to the social status of the family behind the door. Those with high status are called \”high families\” or \”famous families\” or \”rich families\”, while those with low status are called \”humble families\”.

If he can pass the Jinshi examination, people will praise him as \”brilliant on the lintel\”, which of course does not mean to add luster to the doorframe, but to make the whole family Guangzong Yaozu. When a student studies and takes a teacher as his teacher, he becomes that teacher\’s \”disciple\”.

In martial arts novels, apprentices learn skills from their masters, and when masters and apprentices get together, they become a \”sect.\”

Perhaps because the groups gathered behind each door have different opinions and characteristics, the door has gradually evolved the meaning of \”category\”. Produce idioms such as \”category\”.

For requests from outsideFor people entering a house, the door is not only an entrance and exit, a necessary way, but also a starting point. You have to go through a journey later before you can enter the hall. Therefore, people call those who have just started to come into contact with a certain industry and have mastered a certain foundation \”entry-level\”. Those who have no chance to come into contact with this industry are called \”laymen\”.

Source Hubei TV Education Channel