Let's first look at the ancient "door" traditional italic writing, note that the lower right corner is hooked, and there is almost no hook writing:
Look at the "door" character writing of the line book, which is also with hooks:
It can be seen that the way the door character is written with a hook is a standard specification from ancient times to the present. Curiously, a large number of plaques in the Forbidden City with the word "door" do not have the hook in the lower right corner. From ancient times to the present, it is not standardized that the "door" of the letter does not write a hook, and if modern students write homework or examinations, the "door" does not write a hook, and may be wrongly judged. So, why has this "mistake" of the Forbidden City not changed for hundreds of years?
Is it because of calligraphy? Because there are fewer constraints in calligraphy, there is no strict requirement in calligraphy to bring a "hook", and it is not a mistake to write a door word without a "hook" in a calligraphy work.
But in fact, the "door" on the plaque of the Forbidden City does not have a hook because of historical allusions.
It is said that during the Southern Song Dynasty, the palace caught fire, after the investigation of the other party, did not find the cause of the fire, the emperor at that time Zhao Shuo interrogated the eunuch on duty at the time, the eunuch was afraid of taking the blame, he casually said that the cause of the fire was the word on the door with "fire hook", and the "vertical hook" on the door inscription was really like a pillar underground lit a fire, Zhao Shuo was also very superstitious, and ordered that all the hook paintings on the door be removed.
According to Zhao Ruzhen at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, most of the inscriptions on the plaques on the doors during the Qing Dynasty were without hooks, including the Forbidden City and folk plaques. But in modern times, many ancient building plaques have begun to be hooked, mainly because these buildings were later rebuilt, and the characters are also written by modern people.
The custom of the plaque "door" not to write a hook, starting from the Song Dynasty, followed by the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had his own unique ideas, he believed that the hook on the door was unlucky, and the hook painting was very sharp, easy to stumble, hindering excellent talents from entering the room, and also removed the hook paintings on the palace. It's also kind of interesting.
During the Qing Dynasty, the Qianlong Emperor thought that the hook on the door was easy to scratch his own dragon scales, and felt that he was a true dragon tianzi, and he did not allow the door character on the inscription to be hooked.
In fact, whether the door character is with or without a hook, it was not a typo at that time, and we cannot measure the products of history by the standards of chinese characters today. In modern times, the door writing hook is of course excusable, and it can also be said that it is "crooked and straight" - "wrong" for hundreds of years and finally written correctly. But this incident also shows that classical culture and customs are badly broken.
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