The ancient yamen opened six more doors, showing majesty and style. Later, six doors were used to refer to the government and yamen.
Six doors are used as agents of yamen for the following reasons. ...
The yamen is named after the gate, and in this complex, all kinds of portals are of course of first-class significance. But the most important thing is the gate, instrument door and house door on the central axis.
● The origin of six doors
The only entrance to the outer wall of Yamen is the gate on the south side of the central axis. This door is also called the "head door". It is not a simple doorway, but a building with a roof. This kind of curtilage door is a major feature of China architecture, and its shape is strictly restricted by law and etiquette. No matter how big the county is, the gate can only be divided into three rooms (the front room of the building, and the horizontal space between two pillars is one room). Each room has two black painted doors, and there are always six doors, so the county government is often called "six doors". As the saying goes, "the yamen opens six doors, but you can't get in without money." It is commonly known that servants and bookkeepers in yamen are "six activities"
In order to highlight the importance of the gate, there is a screen wall in front of it, with "eight-character walls" on both sides, and a pair of grinning stone lions at the gate. Some counties have upgraded the gatehouse to a two-story or three-story gatehouse, which is also the Drum Tower or the tower that tells the time all over the city. The original meaning of the word Qiao, like the word lo, means hope.
● Rules for going east and west.
Enter the gate, follow the brick tunnel on the central axis, bypass the screen wall, and reach the second door, the instrument door. Yimen is a lobby courtyard with centralized government functions, so Yimen is also an important gateway. It is said that Yimen was originally written in the former emperor's palace as a side door. In the Ming dynasty, the official office was second to the palace, so the name of the side door of the palace was used to call the main entrance of the office area. Later, it was mistaken for "instrument door". Please add a note. It is considered that entering this gate requires dignity, so it is called the instrument gate. The instrument door is also a three-bay room, generally only one depth. Six doors are usually closed, and only when Shangguan comes or the elders of state and county officials come will they be opened when they come to see me off.
The instrument door is usually closed, so to get in and out of the lobby courtyard, you must take the special side doors on both sides of the instrument door. A side door is often just a simple doorway, also known as "foot door" and "corner door". In the novel "Awakening the World" in the Ming Dynasty, it is mentioned that "every yamen has the rule of entering the east and leaving the west". Generally speaking, the rule that the east gate enters and the west gate exits is exactly the same as the rule that we take the right now.
● Where does the back door come from?
The residence of local state and county officials is at the northernmost part of the central axis of yamen. It is their right to live here for free, but it is a strict obligation. The house they live in is called "Inner House", or "Official House", "Private House", "Middle House", "Rear House" and "Private House" and so on. The entrance and exit of the inner hall is the northernmost "government gate" of the central axis of the yamen complex.
Zhaimen is one of the most heavily guarded portals in the whole yamen. The house door is always locked and closed all day, and the key to the house door is often kept by the county magistrate himself. The officers and scribes in the yamen only serve the officials at the gate of the village, which is served by private servants brought by the officials. Unless absolutely necessary, officials and scribes in the yamen are not allowed to enter the inner yamen.
The house door is also a house door, and the studio is still limited to three rooms. There is a concierge in the gatehouse, guarded by the official's cronies. There is a promising hole in the door leaf on the east side of the house door, and there is a rotating bucket on the door leaf, half of which is exposed outside the door and half of which is inside the door. When a guest comes to visit, or letters or official documents are delivered to him, the thief at the door knocks on the banger and puts the guest's business card or official documents, letters and the like into the rotating bucket. The concierge at the government gate can see the people through the observation hole, turn the bucket, turn the outside half in, and take things out to the officials.
It doesn't matter whether the inner courtyard door of the yamen is increased or decreased, but it is not allowed to open another door on the outer wall outside the gate, especially outside the government door of the inner yamen, which leads directly to the outside of the yamen. There is a special violation item in the assessment, which is called "opening another door". For example, the Qing Dynasty's Notes on Six Idioms. The official department owns this article: "if you open another side door, provincial officials will open another side door next to their official positions, so that they can cheat in private." It can be seen that opening another door is associated with cheating, and what we used to call "opening the back door" today may come from this.
The Forbidden Area of Wulin in Six Doors
Beijing: Buyi Houfu? 6? 1 God Hou Zhuge Xiaohua Zhuge Hou, known as "God Hou in Cloth" commander in chief of six doors.
Seymour: A mirage? 6? The old man of Haiyunlou in the main building 1 is known as the deputy commander-in-chief of six doors.
East China Sea: Shihailan Island? 6? 1 The owner of the island, Huozi, is the deputy commander of Liumen, and is known as the "cold-faced sniper".
Beilin: Carrying Jade Taoist Temple? 6? 1 Master Long Xiaotian, Master Long Lao, a saint who is known as "Three Whips Shake the Tiger" and captures six doors.
Nan: childe villa? 6? 1 The master's son, Master Leng, is called "the son of an iron fan", and the Six Doors God catches hands.
Four famous arrests of six doors
Big Brother: God on Wheels is the heartless son of Broken Moon? 6? 1 is a legend and is loved by people.
Second Brother: "Iron Tiger, Wei Long", the iron hand of Shenyang's son? 6? 1 is a life, and people are willing to lead it as friends.
Brothers chasing after life: "Quick legs flash", the son of heaven chasing after life? 6? 1 is a story and people are laughing at it.
Cold brother: "Rogue Knight" Yinshan childe cold-blooded? 6? 1 high-spirited, frustrated, missing each other.
Xiao Mei: Luo Cha with a Thousand Faces is the son of Ao Yue, the immortal sword? 6? 1 is a relationship, and people are willing to * * *
The capture of six doors and nine sons
Capture boundaries: holy, divine, immortal, spiritual, human, ghost, secluded, demon, corpse. Nine roads, each with another leader. They are sage wild childe (holy city wild) and Shenyang childe (iron summer tour? 6? 1 iron hand), xianjian childe (Li Xiaoyu? 6? 1 Aoyue), Wuji Gongzi () Canyue Gongzi (Cheng Yayu? 6? 1 heartless), Tian Ming childe (Cui Lueshang? 6? 1), butterfly childe (Yan Shuangfei), Yinshan childe (Leng Lingxiao? 6? 1 cold-blooded), Yinhe Gongzi (Huo Tianxing). There are thirteen churches in each road, and the leaders of each church lead 3,000 arresting officers and hundreds of informers all over the country. Among them, the fairy sword childe of Xiandao and the butterfly childe of Youdao are girls. All the above nine people were captured by six doors, namely, China, East, South, West, North, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest and Northeast.