Review
In the costume drama, the city gate we see is generally opened towards the inside, which is completely different from our modern concept, the door in our daily life is basically open to the outside, such a situation makes us have to ask: Why did the ancient city gate open inside?
Driving out, isn't it easier for the enemy to crash away? Didn't the ancients have this bit of wisdom? In fact, the door that opens inward is the embodiment of the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients.
Better protection of soldiers
The ancient city gates must have been open in peacetime, and if the enemy came, the soldiers who guarded the city needed to close the gates as quickly as possible.
If the gates were to open outwards, the soldiers who closed the gates had to leave the gates and the walls of the city, unobstructed under the enemy's bows and arrows, and run outside the city to pull the gate back.
In this way, the city gate can not give the soldiers shelter, they have become the enemy's living target, the probability of casualties is extremely high, which will lead to the soldiers guarding the city for their own life and safety and unwilling to bear the responsibility of closing the door, the city gate is not closed, then the success of the city is not even more fantastical?
But if the gate is opened from the inside out, the soldiers must be standing behind the city gate, and with the city gate as cover, the soldiers are not only safer, but also can close the door faster, which also relieves the fear of the soldiers who close the gate, and minimizes the casualties of other soldiers.
At such critical junctures, every soldier is very important, and this can even become a key point to turn the situation around.
Doors that open inward are easier to defend
We always think that the gates that open inward are not easy to defend, but in fact, when defending the city, if the door is opened outwards, after closing the gate, because the direction of the enemy's opening is outward, the defenders of the city can not make it strong at all, and can not do anything except pray that the door is hard enough.
Otherwise, if the soldiers were spending time pulling the gates inward in order to guard the gates, who would block the attacks from other places? After all, the defensive battle is not a tug-of-war, and it is not counted by which side's strength will break the city gate.
If the door is opened inward, after closing the door, you can quickly use sandbags, wooden stakes, railings and other heavy objects to meet the city gate, and be fully prepared to make the sieger's attack more difficult.
And if we make some observations of the city gate openings, we can find that the design of the ancient door openings is bounded by the city gate, the inward side is more spacious, and the outward side of the door opening is narrower, because the city gate switches are rotated by a pillar called "Hu hub".
Compared with the strong gate, the household center is a fragile device: its role is to ensure the proper functioning of the city gate. If the city gate is opened outward, the hushu must be designed outside the door, exposed to the enemy's eyes, and the enemy only needs to attack the hushu, which can paralyze the entire city gate and make his attack become like a fish.
And if the household hub is designed to be included, it can be better understood, and the normal operation of the entire city gate can be better guaranteed, and all enemies who commit crimes in the future will be turned away.
At the same time, the city gates that opened outward were more likely to be secretly destroyed, and in the Battle of Pingyin in which the State of Qi attacked the State of Jin, the State of Qi adopted the tactic of fire attack, allowing people to secretly burn down the gates of Linzi City, the capital of the State of Jin, when the defenders were not paying attention, and then enter the capital of the State of Jin with a big swing. Thus it can be seen that the door that opens inward is indeed easier to defend.
Film and television dramas mislead us
In some TV series, the siege soldiers can open the city gate after hitting the door many times, and the door lock is scrapped, but in fact, in the real defensive battle, even if the engineering siegeman really breaks the door, it is not necessarily to let the door really open, and with brute force can only knock on the door.
Therefore, the opening of the city gate inward does not mean that it is better to crash open, and the artistic processing of the film and television drama to knock the door open is only to make the defensive battle more dramatic.
Doors that open inward are better maintained
Ancient city gates in peacetime are basically kept open, and if the city gate is opened outward, it is bound to suffer wind and rain, such a consequence is that the city gate will easily rot, because most of the ancient city gates are wooden, and long-term wetting will make the gate vulnerable. For the defending side, this is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger.
However, if the city gate is opened inward, it can be wrapped tightly by the thick city wall, and there is no longer a need to worry about bad weather will affect the quality of the city gate, which greatly reduces the wear and tear of the city gate and improves its service life and safety factor.
Embody Chinese culture
As a country of etiquette, China's various cultural transmissions are naturally reflected in architecture, and the design of the city gate opening inward is like an outstretched arm: the sea is full of rivers, and there is tolerance and greatness. This design has its own greeting intention and can make people feel very comfortable.
In ancient times, china had diplomatic relations with other countries all year round, and the design of this kind of city gate could easily bring a sense of home to the envoys, thus reflecting the country's demeanor and long-term culture. In the eyes of the visiting envoys, such a kind design is naturally a big plus, and they are more willing to cooperate with China to promote the common economic development of both sides.
epilogue
In the splendid history of 5,000 years of Yangyang Huaxia, such a design of a city gate that opens up naturally has its own reason, a small city gate contains the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors, behind every ingenious design and small changes, it may be a bloody lesson.
In modern times, the wooden city gate can no longer prevent the copper gun and iron cannon, backwardness has given us a century of humiliating history, and the design of the city gate has gradually stepped off the stage of history. Fortunately, now our nation is standing up again!
In the era of peace, it is naturally difficult for us to understand the different design of the city gate that opens inward, because the comprehensive strength of our country has become stronger, and we no longer need to pin the safety of the whole city on a wooden door.
The ancients left their footprints in history, when walking through the ancient city gate, we may as well stop and feel the traces of time, the real history is something that needs to be experienced, for us, we only need to use our limited eyes to try our best to understand, it is enough.