The dark road agency in traditional furniture (1)

The dark road agency in traditional furniture (1)

Li Yunkun/Wen

The basic function of the furniture is to use it directly for people's daily life. For example, chairs are allowed to sit, beds make people sleep, and cabinets are stored.

But in the past, the furniture of the rich family has other functions, which is the hidden function.

At that time, people needed to hide their money, yellow and white things, jewelry, and important documents such as house deeds, land deeds, and rendering, which had to use furniture.

Hidden these belongings is not just the people who are not willing to be rich, but also the meaning of being low -key, mainly to prevent thieves, robbers, bandits and soldiers.

Moreover, they need to solve the problem as soon as possible. After all, they do n’t have a lot of time to leave them. They generally do n’t squat on the ground to study the structure of the furniture carefully. They know that if the delay is long, it may cause trouble.

Therefore, if the furniture can achieve the hidden function of the property, it can protect the property to the greatest extent.

Figure 1 is an elm stool in a rich household in Qinghai. In addition to this stool for people, it is also a tool for Tibetan Ocean. Usually put it on the corner, and a lamb skin on it will never attract the attention of the thief.

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Haining's Qinglou Museum has a stuffy cabinet (Figure 2). There are three gods above the stuffy cabinet, the protector of the blue building in the middle, the white eyebrow god, the god of wealth on the left, and the Guanyin Bodhisattva on the right. Therefore, this stuffed cabinet is very sacred in the Qinglou.

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Of course, this sacred place is also where cash is stored.

This stuffy cabinet is divided into two layers, and the upper layer is two drawers, which can be opened at any time and stored some fragmented money. The following is the space box that can be stored, also known as "stuffy warehouse". Generally large silver and valuable property are stored here.

However, the stuffy warehouse cannot be opened casually. It needs to be pulled out of the drawer before it can be stored or removed.

But if you want to pull out the drawer above, you need to put your hand into the drawer and move a card. This outsiders don't know. Once a stolen or robbery is encountered, at least the crushed money in the drawer is at most, and the stuffy warehouse below cannot be opened. The main property inside is still safe.

Figure 3 is a walnut wood money cabinet used by a Jin Shang.

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The frame of the cash cabinet is made of 10 cm square wood. It looks very thick and strong.

The cash cabinet is divided into two parts. Save the money above, and other items are stored below.

The access to the cash cabinet is square (Figure 4), which is sealed by one cover. Cover the copper ring so that it can be pulled up and opened the cooler.

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This square cover is also very special, and a tenon tongue is extended in front (Figure 5) to insert below the front panel. Behind the lid, there is a semi -circular tongue panel that is consistent with the square hole wall (Figure 6).

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After opening the lid, you can see the money cabinet warehouse (Figure 7), and the silver money is placed inside.

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This Jin merchant is generous, and the cash cabinet is not locked, and everyone can open it.

Other merchants will drill a hole on the semi -circular tongue panel on the lid. This hole corresponds to the frame and lock in front of the cash cabinet. When you need to lock the cash cabinet, insert it. Lock (Figure 8). If you don't open the lock, you can't open the money cabinet.

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There is also a way to lock directly on the square cover to control the copper tenon tongue that can be scaling (Figure 9, 10). There is a pull -up bracelet on the key, the key is locked, the copper tenon tongue is extended, and the other end of the square cover is fixed. The wooden tongue tongue, the two tenon tongue firmly stuck the square cover. Unable to pull out the rear cover, there is no handle, and it cannot be opened at all.

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However, the Jin merchant did not do it, and he didn't want to lock on his cashier.

This Jin merchant's cash cabinet locks his cash cabinet is exactly what he is ingenious.

After opening the lid, put your hand into the cash cabinet and touch the left side, and you will find that there is something in it, dragging it out, it is a small wooden box (Figure 11, 12).

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The wooden box can slide around the slide (Figure 13, 14) installed in the money cabinet warehouse. This wooden box is a place to hide big silver.

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Judging from the wear of the left and right sides of the wooden box, the owner of this cash cabinet is right -handed. He used his right hand to push the wooden box to the left end of the money cabinet warehouse. It is also possible to push the left hand to the right, and it is also possible to push the right end of the cashier warehouse. Both ends of the money cabinet warehouse can be placed and hidden wooden boxes.

After opening the Qian cabinet warehouse cover, I looked at it from the mouth mouth, and I could only see the fine silver in front of me, and this small wooden box could not be seen at all.

This place at the bottom of the cosmetic warehouse is just the place where the fine shattered silver is stored.

Once you lock on the cash cabinet, encounter a robbers, bandits, or soldiers, especially the defeat of soldiers. The most afraid of the people is the defeat. The soldiers wins. But when they were defeated, they were different. Without the constraints of the chiefs, they had a gun in their hands, and they could really do it. If they can't open the money counter, they will not get anything, which will anger them.

Can a lock stop them? They will split the cosmetic cabinet with an ax.

This is called "the thief does not go empty!"

At that time, not only the money was gone, but the money counter was gone.

But without locking, after the Qianqian lid was opened, these people took the fine silver and ate the sweetness. Seeing that there was nothing else to take, they would give up.

In this way, the small money is gone, the big money is still there, and the cash cabinet is still there.

It should be noted that these gangsters remember only property, and they generally do not destroy furniture to find property. The small wooden box in this money cabinet warehouse is very clever. The bottom plate of the wooden box is extended back and forth to form a tongue panel (Figure 15), which is put on the slide so that the wooden box can slide left and right on the slide.

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In order to make the small wooden box fall from the slider, the bottom plate of the wooden box, including the total width of the tongue panel with the front and rear, is compatible with the width of the cash cabinet.

It can also be seen from Figure 15 that one corner of the front and back of the tongue panel and upper left, which is designed to facilitate removing the wooden box. When removing the wooden box, you only need to rotate the wooden box 45 ° along the clockwise direction. In this way, you can remove the wooden box from the slide and put it directly to the bottom of the money cabinet warehouse. Then put the wooden box from the warehouse. In this way, the silver two in the wooden box can be removed.

Save a piece of land and take it out!

Once the stealing and looting incident are encountered, the thieves will go straight to the cash counter. They most hope to obtain money in this way, and pour silver two into the cloth bags they prepared in advance, saving time and effort.

But they don't know the mystery here.

Sometimes, it seems the most secure, but the safest.

This Jin merchant is really talented!

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