Hello everyone, I am a star brother said farmer, rural building has a lot of exquisite, after all, this house is our people live in a lifetime, there is a good location, living comfortably, if you can then rely on the mountains and water, the front door is open, living comfortably, it is a beautiful thing, building a house has a good feng shui, Wangjia Wangren, naturally everyone pursues, in addition to the layout structure, in fact, people in order to mean beautiful, the materials for construction are also exquisite, today we talk about the colloquialism "jujube ridge elm beam apricot wood door, mulberry wood door pillow out of the nobles", What does this mean? What do they mean?
1. Jujube ridge
In the past, rural buildings, mostly civil structures, roof ridge refers to the back of the roof ridge of the bracket, play a role in supporting the roof, wood requires hard flexibility, and can not be mothed, otherwise the house is very dangerous, jujube wood is a perennial plant, the texture is hard and dense, jujube trees grow slowly, the trunk of the bowl mouth needs to grow for decades, the material is heavy and hard, with the characteristics of corrosion resistance and wear resistance, insect moth resistance, often used to make high-grade flooring and furniture.
And the jujube tree is also a folk meaning of auspicious tree species, jujube means early birth of noble children, early rich, very common in the vicinity of rural courtyards, with it as a ridge, the family natural good luck is often present, rich and glorious from generation to generation.
2. Elm beam
The beam is the purlin, supported by the support, supporting the entire weight of the components and roof in the upper frame of the building, is the most important component of the upper structure of the building, considering the bearing weight of the house, it is not easy to replace it with jujube wood, because the beam will be deformed by force, so the elm wood, elm tree is tall, is the precious material for making furniture, its texture is straight, the pattern is clear, the wood elasticity is good, moisture resistance, corrosion resistance, not easy to deform, not easy to crack, and elm means that the family has surplus grain, surplus money, eat and wear, before not enough to eat, Yu Qian is a treasure.
Third, the apricot wood door
The wood of the apricot tree is bright in color, the texture is clear, the planing surface is strong in luster, the brightness after painting is very good, and the wood is dry, the nature is corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant, the processing is easy, the glue is also convenient, using it as the door, the atmosphere is graded, it is not easy to damage, and the apricot tree represents the apricot altar of the holy land of education, the apricot forest of Chinese medicine and the apricot garden feast when the gold list is named, using it as the door, such a family will be noble in the future.
4. Mulberry wood pillows
Mulberry tree because of the meaning of "mourning", and not loved by people, but mulberry wood heavy, high strength, good elasticity, more suitable for the production of floor and joinery products, the old times usually make weapons, agricultural tools, so it can be used to make thresholds, due to high strength, you can directly drill a nest at one end of the threshold to undertake the door shaft, before the old house is mostly made of wood or stone, durable, and mulberry wood represents the evil villain, suppressed with apricot doors, implying that no one will gossip behind their backs, move right and wrong, such a family can produce nobles.
In short, the rural saying "jujube ridge elm beam apricot wood door, mulberry door pillow out of the noble", is people's desire to pursue a better life, borrowing the folk meaning of beautiful tree species to enhance family fortunes, which is also the ideal life vision of ordinary people.