1. Related issues of screen wall: Modern (A) is equivalent to the "screen wall" in traditional houses.
A. screen.
B, balcony.
C. storage room.
D. cloakroom
Second, the introduction of screen wall:
1. Shadow wall, also known as zhaobi in ancient times, or Xiao wall, is a wall used to block the line of sight in traditional buildings in China.
2. The screen wall can be located inside or outside the door. The former is called the inner shadow wall and the latter is called the outer shadow wall. Shapes are zigzag, splayed, etc. , usually made of bricks, consists of three parts: seat, body and roof. There is a sumeru on the seat.
3. The central area of the wall is called the shadow wall center. The wall center of China Shadow Wall is usually composed of square bricks placed at a 45-degree angle. A simple screen wall can be without any decoration, but it must also be polished and sewn neatly. Luxury screen walls are usually decorated with many brick carvings with auspicious patterns.
4. The brick carvings on the screen wall mainly have four corners in the center and the central area, and there are also mixed owls and Julian at the intersection with the roof. The top surface of the central square brick is engraved with the central flower, and the brick plaque with the word "birthday" is embedded in the center of the screen wall, or the brick carving with auspicious words is engraved.
5. Some relatively simple screen walls may not have three parts, some have no base, and some have no roof. The simplest is only the wall, and there is no boundary between the outer edge of some walls and the center of the wall. For example, some shadow walls in Ryukyu architecture are just simple stone walls.
6. The famous screen walls are the Nine Dragon Wall in the Forbidden City and the screen wall of Serving the People in xinhua gate, Zhongnanhai.