Why cannot you touch the 81 doornails on the gate of Yigong? Will anything really happen if you touch them?

It won’t be a big deal if you touch it. The reason why you are not allowed to touch it is to protect the cultural relics. If everyone who visits the Forbidden City has to touch the doornails, they will be damaged, so it is better not to touch them. There are also different opinions among the people about why they cannot touch the doornail. The specific analysis is as follows: 1. The more superstitious saying is that a boy will be born after touching the doornail, and unmarried women cannot touch it.

As my country’s great material cultural heritage, the Forbidden City has had endless mysterious legends about it for thousands of years. Even a small doornail has many theories. When visiting the Forbidden City, the tour guide will usually tell you not to touch the door nails, saying that something will happen if you touch them. As for the reason why the accident happened, there was a theory circulated among the people in the past, which is indeed superstitious and absurd in modern eyes.

The general meaning is that because the word "nail" on a doornail is a homophone to the word "ding" on a male, it has been passed down from generation to generation that a married woman can give birth to a boy by touching the doornail. It is said that because of this, in the Qing Dynasty, a custom of touching doornails to ask for wishes was formed on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The no touching mentioned here is mainly for women who are not yet married, otherwise they may be laughed at. Secondly, there is another saying that the door nails of the Forbidden City can be touched because they have the effect of exorcising evil spirits and curing diseases. Obviously, this statement has no scientific basis and is purely superstitious. 2. In fact, we are worried about damaging the cultural relics, and constant repairs will also require a lot of expenses.

As part of the gate of the Forbidden City, door nails are also a type of cultural relic. And according to relevant information, when the door was designed and built, the setting and number of door nails had special significance. According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, only the gates of the imperial palace could use eighty-one doornails, with nine in the horizontal row and nine in the vertical row. Obtaining it means the return of ninety-nine to one and the honor of ninety-five. A lower-level palace can use 63, and a lower level can use 49, and so on for the rest.

There are two main reasons for installing door nails. The first is to use the homophonic meaning of doornails to bless the prosperity of the descendants in the palace. The second is to use door nails to strengthen the door's solidity so as to better resist foreign enemies. Therefore, the cultural relic door nails on the palace gate are also objects that the staff of the Forbidden City need to protect and cannot be touched by tourists. Otherwise, if the paint peels off or is damaged, the cost of repairing the door nails will be high. 3. In addition to the door nails that cannot be touched in the Forbidden City, the Cold Palace is also not open to the public.

In addition to not touching the doornails casually, tourists are also not allowed to enter the cold palace area of ??the Forbidden City. First of all, the reason is definitely not what many people think. It is that the yin energy is too strong and it will be haunted. There are three main reasons for not opening the Cold Palace. First, the Cold Palace was a place for concubines who made mistakes in ancient times. Usually, not many people pay attention to it in the palace. It is normal for no one to maintain and repair it all year round, so there are certain safety risks. If tourists accidentally touch a fragile place, there may be a risk of collapse.

Secondly, the environment of the Cold Palace is poor and there are no precious objects left, so it does not have much value for visiting. Thirdly, the cold palace is relatively humid and dark, in order to prevent tourists from thinking of some bad pictures and causing discomfort after entering. In short, for a historical relic of important value like the Forbidden City, we must have a heart of awe and feel the ingenuity and great wisdom of the ancient people. Instead of doing whatever you want and using your hands and feet, that is, all actions are subject to command.