Why does the Grand View Garden have five gates? Is there anything important about the number of gates?

In Dream of Red Mansions, the reason why the Grand View Garden has two more doors than Jia Zheng’s Rongguo Mansion. Mainly because of the difference in status between the owners of Rongguo Mansion and Grand View Garden. Jia Zheng himself was only a prince and minister, and his family could only have three gates at most. The Grand View Garden was built as a palace for the royal family of Concubine Yuan. Concubine Yuan herself represents the royal family. The royal family's requirement for their own courtyard is to decorate their mansion with five gates to express the supremacy of royal power and the nobility of the royal family itself.

The construction of the number of gates in the Grand View Garden was mainly based on the relevant theories on architecture in ancient my country. There is such a saying about architecture in the Book of Changes. It is said that the sky is one, the earth is two... and so on, until ten, the odd number is called the number of heaven, and the even number is called the number of earth. Among the five elements of yin and yang in our country, heaven is considered to be yang, and the earth is considered to be yang. Considered to be Yin.

In ancient my country, people's requirements for their mansions were that the mansion must be a Yang residence, and only mausoleums could be Yin residences. Therefore, during ancient construction, the number of gates used by people in their mansions was generally an odd number.

In ancient times, the emperor was called the Lord of Nine and Five, so the royal family had very unique emotions for the two numbers nine and five, which directly led to the number of gates in the Grand View Garden. Five doors were chosen during construction. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate the power and status of the royal family. On the other hand, it is a kind of blessing with auspicious meaning, and it is also a pursuit of this ancient etiquette.