The yamen of the three legal departments in Ming and Qing Dynasties refers to the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Duchayuan respectively; The Yuan Dynasty refers to the administration, the Ministry of Punishment and Zheng Xuan Academy; Song Dynasty refers to Dali Temple, Ministry of Punishment and Yushitai; Tang dynasty only refers to Dali temple and punishments; In the Han Dynasty, Ting Wei, Yu and Wei were the captains. In the Qin Dynasty, the book of Shang Jun was divided into three judges and placed in the temple. This is the earliest Three Laws Division in China.
The ancient yamen opened six more doors, showing majesty and style. Later, six doors were used to refer to the government and yamen.
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 Forbidden City also has six gates. Each door of the Forbidden City has three doors, two for each door and six for * *.
In order to highlight the importance of the gate, there is a wall in front of it, with a "splayed wall" 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.
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Enter the gate, follow the brick tunnel on the central axis, bypass the screen wall, and you will reach the second gate "Yimen". Yimen is a lobby courtyard with centralized government functions, so Yimen is also an important gateway. It is said that Yimen was originally written as "Yimen", which was a side door in the former emperor's palace. In Ming dynasty, the official residence was not as good as the palace, so the main entrance of the office area was called by the name of the side door of the palace.
Later, it was mistaken for "instrument door". Supplementary explanation. 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. Convenient 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 was mentioned that "there is a rule that all yamen enter the east and leave the west". Generally, the east gate enters and the west gate exits, which is exactly the same as the rule that we take the right now.
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