The first choice for many people to travel is often those places of interest with a long history, compared with the bustling modern city, the places of interest will be more humanistic, such as ancient buildings, which are much more profound than modern buildings with high-rise buildings.
Although modern architecture is magnificent and huge, it will bring people a sense of depression, while ancient buildings can make people have an inexplicable sense of intimacy, this difference is probably because modern architecture pursues a sense of design and visual impact, while ancient buildings are based on cultural and historical precipitation of a kind of life art, such as pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, corridors, are aesthetic buildings that combine culture and art.
Among all kinds of buildings, stairs are the most common building component. When human beings first started to build houses to live in, they built the house directly on the dirt floor, but it was too damp, and then people deliberately raised the foundation of the house to prevent moisture.
Then the original steps are not actually called steps, but called "Thai steps", in the period of astrological worship, Thai steps refer to a constellation called three stars in the sky, it is composed of six stars, two by two opposite each other to form three steps, so the ancients called the steps in the building Tai steps.
In ancient buildings, the number of steps is very particular, such as the steps of the main hall of the palace in ancient times, which are for the exclusive use of the emperor, and the number of steps is nine, because nine is a supreme number in the traditional concept, implying the supremacy of imperial power, so it is forbidden to use nine steps in the homes of ordinary people.
The steps of the main hall of the palace are divided into three layers, the middle layer is called "Your Majesty", under the floor of Your Majesty, there are the emperor's guards, according to the etiquette at that time, the courtiers can not speak directly to the emperor when they tell the matter, but must let the guards tell them, but many courtiers from other places do not know the names of these guards, so they are called "Your Majesty", and when they want to play things, they will shout: Your Majesty, I have something to report to the emperor. After listening to this, the guards went up the steps to tell the emperor.
Obviously, such a etiquette is too cumbersome, and it will cause errors in the transmission of information, so the process of passing the message was later canceled, and the courtiers were allowed to report directly to the emperor, but this etiquette in the middle could not be ignored, so the courtiers still had to pretend to shout "Your Majesty" first, so as to retain respect for the etiquette, and over time, Your Majesty simply became the emperor's honorific title.
Then in the private buildings of the common people, the number of steps is also very particular, one of the most important is the number of steps, must be singular, such as the number at the end of three, five seven, and even if it is a private public building, the number of steps must still be singular, for example, the number of steps in Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie is 999 steps, which is also singular.
Why does the number of steps have to be singular? It is still related to our traditional culture, the ancients had two important references when building buildings, one is the various standards and taboos handed down by Luban, and the second is that the ancients paid attention to public opinion.
So whether it is Luban or Kanyu, it is based on Zhou Yi's theory, everything has yin and yang, singular is yang and even yin is yin, as long as it is a building for the living, it must use yang, so the number of steps is naturally singular, and the steps like a cemetery or a yin house are generally used in double.
However, the higher the modern building is built, the more people consider the number of steps, more about practicality, and do not pay so much attention to the ancients, whether it is singular or even, as long as the design is reasonable, there are no taboos, but at the same time, some traditional cultural attributes will slowly disappear.
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