the origin of the name of the parapet
an ancient bricklayer was busy with work and had to take his young daughter with him. One day, while building on the roof, my little girl accidentally fell down and died. The craftsman was heartbroken, so that the tragedy would happen again, and then he built a low wall on the roof, and later people named it "parapet"
, which was a joke.
The real origin:
Song Dynasty's "Building French Style"-"Words are humble, compared to the city, women are to their husbands", which is the part that rises above the edge of the city wall.
parapet is an architectural term, which refers to a low wall with the external wall higher than the roof, which we often see in Ming and Qing dynasties.
Attachment: A news item
Continuous rain has caused the parapet of Ming Dynasty in Xi 'an to be suspended
Due to the continuous rain for more than ten days, the nearly 1-meter-long section of the Ming Dynasty wall in Xi 'an was wet with soil or sank, and six or seven parapets were suspended. Xi' an cultural relics department used the sunny weather on the 7 th to carry out emergency protection. The city wall of Xi 'an was built in the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (AD 137), with a total length of 13.7 kilometers. The four gates, east, west, north and south, each have a tower, an arrow tower and a gate tower for fighting and defense. The whole city wall is magnificent, which is the only intact and largest ancient city wall in China so far. Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Guoshe
This is a nearly 2-meter-long "bare wall" of the Ming City Wall in Xi 'an, where a large amount of soil falls off and a large section of parapet hangs in the air (taken on September 7)
There is no parapet on the roof of the rented house, and a woman's building fell to death in bask in the quilt
This newspaper reported that on December 4, a woman accidentally fell down on a five-story house in Hutun, Dongguan, Zhengzhou.
There is no parapet on the roof
At 11: a.m. that day, the reporter went to the top floor of the house and saw that there was no parapet around the roof. The distance between the private house and a building on the west side is only about 4 cm. Looking down from the roof, it is very scary. There is a wire hanging on the edge of the roof to dry clothes. Residents nearby said that the woman in bask in the quilt fell from this wire.
Zhang, another tenant of the house, has been reading on the roof that morning. She said that at 1 o'clock, she turned to see a woman in her twenties preparing for bask in the quilt. "At that time, a lot of my wet clothes were hung on the wire, and I moved my clothes to make room for her in bask in the quilt. Then, go on reading. I don't know when the woman in bask in the quilt has disappeared and I haven't heard any sound. "
foaming at the mouth and screaming cold when falling
Later, in the emergency room of the Provincial People's Hospital, the reporter met Wang Xiuxi, the husband of the woman who fell from the building.
Wang Xiuxi said that their hometown is Hebi and they came to Zhengzhou to do business. At 1: 4 in the morning, when he came home, his 8-month-old son was crying in bed. He thought his wife should have gone out or gone to bask in the quilt on the roof.
"She has always liked bask in the quilt and warmed the quilt. There are no protective measures on the roof, and my wife has always been very careful. I didn't think she would fall! " Wang Xiuxi's voice choked, and she paused and said, "I heard from my neighbor in the street that my wife fell downstairs. I ran to the scene and saw that she was lying in a narrow alley, throwing a quilt next to her. Her arms and legs were probably broken, and she was foaming at the mouth. She also told me that she was sore and cold all over ... "< P > At 12 noon, Pei stopped breathing after being rescued.
who should be responsible for her death?
The reporter consulted Xie Wenping, a lawyer of Henan JinXueyuan Law Firm, about Pei's death when he fell from a house without any protective measures.
She said that according to the first paragraph of Article 6 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in the Trial of Personal Injury Compensation Cases: "If a natural person, legal person or other organization engaged in business activities such as accommodation, catering, entertainment or other social activities fails to fulfill its security obligations within a reasonable range and causes personal injury to others, the people's court shall support it."
She said: "The houses built by landlords in urban villages are mainly used for accommodation and business activities, and should have basic facilities to ensure the safe living and use of renters. There are no protective safety measures on the roof, causing Zou to fall from the roof and die. The landlord should bear part of the liability for compensation. "
The story of the "parapet"
In ancient times, there was a story of Mulan joining the army for her father, and in the Qing Dynasty, there was also a legend of Hu Qiaoyun repairing the wall for her father. This' wall' is the' parapet' of Deshengmen in Shenyang City.
In those days, after the old Han King Nuerhachi moved his capital from Liaoyang to Shenyang, he immediately wrote a letter to expand the new city. When the new capital was rebuilt, the theory of' Zhouyi Eight Diagrams' was adopted. The number of gates has increased from four to eight, and a tower will be built on each gate, and 651 piers will be built around the city. Later, Nuerhachi died before the completion date, and the city was continued to be completed by his son, Emperor Taiji of the Qing Emperor Taizong.
Surprisingly, of the 651 cribs, only 6 cribs on Deshengmen (South Gate) Tower are shorter than those on the other seven gates by a layer of blue bricks, which is more than two inches shorter. What's going on here? It turned out that Nurhachi suspected that the wall was being built too slowly, so he ordered Ding Zengfu to be arrested everywhere. As a result, all the men in Fiona Fang, the capital of Shengjing, were arrested to repair the city. There is a father and a daughter 6 miles south of the city. The father is in his sixties, old and weak, and has been ill in bed for many years. My daughter Hu Qiaoyun lost her mother in her early years and only lived with her father. She relies on her father's diet and daily life every day, carrying excrement and urine. She never complains, and is a filial girl in a million. On this day, the notice of recruiting Ding suddenly reached the Hu family. A man had to go to repair the city. The father and daughter were stunned. The old man has been ill for many years, and his life is still worrying. What about repairing the city? There is only one girl in Qiaoyun's family, and there is no male. What can we do? Looking at his father's sighing, Qiaoyun secretly made up his mind: to repair the city on behalf of his father. She solemnly entrusted her father to an enthusiastic neighbor for the time being, disguised herself as a man, pretending to be the son of the Hu family, resolutely joined the ranks of repairing the city, and was assigned to the crib on the Deshengmen rostrum to specialize in plastering. At first, everyone didn't doubt this' young man' with a pretty face, but it was strange that he had a' sissy' and acted strangely, never undressing at night. A few days later, Qiao Yun thought of his father in the hospital bed while plastering, and he felt uneasy and shed tears unconsciously. This scene happened to be discovered by the supervisor who had been standing beside her. The supervisor has been observing her for a long time. Looking at her figure and manner, she feels suspicious more and more. When she found that she looked up and wiped her sweat, and there was no J knot in her throat, she suddenly became more and more upset. Qiaoyun saw that she was caught. She had to tell the truth about her disguised as a man. The supervisor leader quickly reported to the director. The director didn't dare to neglect, and he quickly made it clear to the emperor. Hearing this, Huang Taiji was very surprised and immediately praised her filial piety. But at the same time, Huang Taiji thought it was unlucky for women to build cities, so he said to the director,' Remove a layer of brick from the top of the 6 battlements of Deshengmen, and call it a parapet.' Since then, the name of' parapet' has spread. People also made up a xiehouyu; "The crib on South Gate City-it's a little short."