作为中华文化的一个象征,牌坊的历史源远流长,在周朝的时候就已经存在了,《诗·陈风·衡门》:“衡门之下,可以栖迟。”《诗经》编成于春秋时代,大抵是周初至春秋中叶的作品,由此可以推断,“衡门”至迟在春秋中叶即已出现。衡门是以两根柱子架一根横梁的结构存在的,唐代,我国城市都采用里坊制,城内被纵横交错的棋盘式道路划分成若干块方形居民区,这些居民区,唐代称为“坊”。坊是居民居住区的基本单位,“坊”与“坊”之间有墙相隔,坊墙中央设有门,以便通行,称为坊门。后来因为门没有太大的作用, As a symbol of Chinese culture, Arch has a long history and existed in the Zhou dynasty. “Poetry · Chen Feng · Heng Men”: “Under the threshold, you can habitat later.” “The Book of Songs” In the Spring and Autumn Period, it is probably the works from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. From this we can conclude that “Heng Men ” has appeared in the middle of the Spring and Autumn. Hengmen is a two-beam structure of a beam there, the Tang Dynasty, China’s cities are used in the system, the city was criss-cross the board of the road into a number of square blocks of residential areas, these residential areas, the Tang Dynasty called “Square ”. Square is the basic unit of residential area, “Square ” and “Square ” separated by a wall, the central wall with a door to access, known as Square door. Later, because the door did not have much effect,