You can't get out of the gate without going through the second door.

If you don't go out of two doors, you don't get in touch with outsiders. It's from Tao Cheng's memoir My Family. Tao Cheng dictated, He Jiadong and Zhao Jie wrote, published in 1959. ?

Mainly wrote * * * producer Ouyang Meisheng's family. In the ninth chapter, he wrote: "I belong to the woman's family, and I can't get to know her without leaving home." The gate can't get out without two doors, in which the gate refers to the largest door in an area, that is, the outer door, and should not be understood as the gate; The second door refers to the door inside the gate.

As a historical and cultural heritage, quadrangles are closely related to this folk custom. Siheyuan is an independent courtyard composed of the main room, the east wing and the west wing, and sometimes there are the east wing and the west wing next to the main room.