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Chapter 1870 Yunlong Stone Carving, Kowloon Pill

For a long time, folk kiln porcelain has received enthusiastic response to the "Fish Transforming into Dragon" decoration, and there are many paintings and good paintings.

In addition to the influence of the imperial examination story itself, this may have something to do with the government's ban on the use of dragon patterns by the people in the early Ming Dynasty.

The standard dragon pattern with long horns and claws is not dared to be used by the folks, but the general fish-turning-dragon pattern appears in large numbers on various porcelains, wood carvings, stone carvings, and jade carvings, which meets the psychological needs of the folks to use dragon patterns.

For thousands of years, everyone has different understandings about the fish turning into a dragon.

In fact, dragons are often used as a kind of belief and live in people's hearts.

As a mythical auspicious sign, no matter whether it really exists or not, people always feel its existence and beauty in people's hearts.

In the final analysis, the love and admiration for the fish-dragon culture originate from the deep cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.

Now Chen Wenzhe has seen our cultural heritage, and he never imagined that there are so many dragon-shaped stone carvings in China.

Of course, some fragmentary dragon-shaped stone carvings, that's all.

However, Chen Wenzhe was really surprised when he saw the Yunlong stone sculpture placed in the final place.

Stone is a natural treasure endowed by nature to human beings, everyone knows this.

Since the birth of the earth, it has experienced a long and complicated evolutionary history of more than 45 billion years.

It is not only a "place for standing cones", but also provides basic materials for human clothing, food, housing and transportation. People's lives are inseparable from stones.

From ancient times, Nuwa quarried stones to mend the sky, and Jingwei carried stones to fill the sea, to everyone in modern life collects beautiful jade and stones;
From the ancient emperors using various Tianhuang, Shoushan, and chicken blood stones to engrave seals and publish documents, to ordinary people pounding rice and milling wheat, building houses and walls.

Stones bring us too many surprises, and ancient stone buildings or carvings also contain many meanings.

But those stones can be famous through the ages?Needless to say, the "strange" stone "Yunlong Stone Carving" in the Forbidden City is definitely indispensable.

The Forbidden City, formerly known as the "Forbidden City", was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Then as the imperial palace, everything in the palace must symbolize imperial power.

As for the Yunlong stone carving, its location is very conspicuous, it is behind the Hall of Preserving Harmony, and it is very "huge".

The whole body of Yunlong stone carving is 16.75 meters long, 3.07 meters wide, 1.7 meters thick, and weighs more than 200 tons. It can be called a giant among stones.

It is carved from a whole piece of moxa leaf bluestone, with nine dragons carved on it, tumbling in the sea water and river teeth;

At the same time, five mountain peaks are engraved, and the combination of "nine" and "five" means "the respect of the ninth five".

According to historical records, there was a place called "Dashiwo" in Fangshan, the capital of God, which was rich in stone materials at that time, and this "Yunlong Stone Carving" came from there.

In the era when there were no trucks, craftsmen used their ingenuity to "drag" this huge stone into the Forbidden City by a method called "dragging and transporting by dry road".

The specific method is: wait until the cold winter, dig a well every other mile along the road, and then sprinkle the well water on the road to freeze it into ice;
Finally, put this boulder on the frozen road and let it "slide" to the Forbidden City.

From this point, we really have to admire the wisdom of the ancients!
There are stone steps on the front and back sides of every palace in the Forbidden City.

In the middle of the steps is a slanted long stone, carved with various patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, sea water and river cliffs. This thing is called "Lingchi".

There is one of the largest coffins in the Forbidden City. Behind the Hall of Preserving Harmony, this is the Yunlong stone sculpture carved from a single piece of stone.

This is the largest stone carving in the Forbidden City. It was originally carved in the Ming Dynasty and re-carved during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

In the pattern, among the cliffs, sea water and flowing clouds, there are nine swimming dragons with mouth-playing orbs. Their images are dynamic and full of vitality.

The stone carvings are engraved with intertwined lotus patterns on all sides, the lower part is Haishui Jiangya, and the middle is carved with flowing clouds setting off nine panlongs and Zhoulong.

The image of Yunlong is vivid, the carving is fine and meticulous, and has a high artistic value.
Outside the Hall of Preserving Harmony, there is also a design of Qianlong spitting water.

Qianlong refers to more than a thousand stone dragon heads protruding from the bottom of the hope column.

Whenever it rains, the rainwater is discharged from the dragon mouth, so that the practical function of diverting rainwater and the ornamental function of architectural art are organically combined.

The spectacular scene of thousands of dragons spitting water comes from the three-story platform on which the three halls of Taihe, Zhonghe and Baohe stand.

The "Three Terraces" cover an area of ​​about [-] square meters and are made of large pieces of white marble.

There are Xumi seats carved around the base of each platform, and on the Xumi seats, large rectangular stone strips are placed horizontally, called ground burdens.

These are all related to the dragon-shaped stone carvings in the Forbidden City, and it is said that tens of thousands of dragons are "hidden" in the buildings of the Forbidden City. Where are these dragons hidden in the Forbidden City?

The Forbidden City used to be the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and 24 emperors successively lived and corrected here.

The emperor has been called the "true dragon emperor" since ancient times, so the Forbidden City is also the world of dragons.

There are too many dragons in the buildings of the Forbidden City. It is said that there are 13844 dragons in the Hall of Supreme Harmony alone, which is actually almost the same.

According to the literature and materials released by the Palace Museum, there are 12654 dragons in the dragon decoration of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The total area of ​​the Hall of Supreme Harmony is more than 2000 square meters, supported by 72 large pillars of nanmu.

The interior and exterior of the Hall of Supreme Harmony are magnificently decorated, and many dragon patterns are carved and colored painted inside and outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, which is the highest level of architectural form in feudal society.

Each of the three steps outside the main hall is surrounded by carved stone railings. Under the pillars decorated with dragon and phoenix patterns, there are 1142 white jade chi heads (dragon heads) protruding out for drainage.

In addition, there are 19 golden lacquer carved dragons on the emperor's throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

There are 79 dragons carved on the screen behind the throne, plus the golden lacquered wooden platform and other decorations under the throne, there are a total of 590 dragons.

On both sides of the throne, there are 6 golden pillars of Panlong.

On the top of the throne is a caisson well, in the middle of which is a huge dragon with a pearl in its mouth, and 16 golden dragons are flying around the deep well.

The ceiling of the main hall is covered with golden dragon patterns, a total of 3909 colorful dragons, dazzling.

There are 40 gates in the front and back of the main hall, and each gate has 5 woodcarved and carved dragons.

Counting the dragons painted on the doors and windows, there are 3504 dragons in total.

If the carved dragon patterns on the stone railings outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony are added, there are a total of 14986 dragons and dragon patterns inside and outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The "Jiulong Danbi" stone in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony best reflects the skills and wisdom of ancient craftsmen.

Of course, this is actually talking about the Yunlong stone carving, which is honored as the "Jiulong Danbi" stone.

In addition to these dragons, I wonder if you have noticed the roof ridge of the palace building when you go to the Forbidden City?

On every roof of the Forbidden City, there are many mythical beasts.

Two of them are the sons of the legendary dragon.

One is called Chiwen, which has a thick mouth and throat and is easy to swallow, so it became the spine-swallowing beast at both ends of the ridge of the hall, and took it to extinguish the fire and eliminate the disaster.

(End of this chapter)