What is the Nine Dragon Wall? Four questions! ! !

Nine Dragon Wall was built in the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong. It is a tall glass shadow wall, with a length of 20.40 meters and a height of 3.50 meters. The front of the Nine Dragon Wall is made up of 270 pieces of fired glass and plastic, and the zhaobi is decorated with nine dragons, each with a pearl. The background is rocks, clouds and sea water. This is one of the three classical dragon walls in China.

The shapes of Kowloon are dragon, ascending dragon and descending dragon, which roll freely and have different expressions. In order to highlight the image of the dragon, the relief technology is used for modeling and firing, which is full of three-dimensional sense; And use bright yellow, blue, white, purple and other colors; It makes the sculpture of Nine Dragons Wall extremely beautiful and colorful.

The design and decoration of the Nine Dragon Wall contains the figures of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, which symbolizes the imperial power and the respect of the emperor. Because nine is the highest number of yang and five is the middle number of yang, the number of the ninth five-year plan has become the representative of imperial power and the honorific title of the son of heaven. There are nine dragons in the main body of the Nine Dragon Wall, five ridges on the top of the temple and nine Youlong on the main ridge. There are five, nine, four and fifteen dragon pad arch plates between the bucket arches; The plastic blocks used for the whole wall are 270, which is also a multiple of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

On the wall of Kowloon, the belly of the third white dragon from the east is carved and nailed with wood, and the paint has fallen off. Legend has it that when the dragon belly was burned, the craftsmen burned it all, and soon time was running out. Obviously, everyone's fatal disaster is coming. A carpenter risked his life to cheat the monarch, carved the dragon's belly with wood overnight, nailed it and painted it with white paint, making it the same color as the original white dragon's belly. Finally, he deceived the officials who came to inspect and rescued the craftsmen from a disaster.