What are the characteristics of buildings in old Beijing?

Old Beijing architecture, mainly the royal cabinet of ancient buildings in Ming and Qing dynasties and quadrangles with distinctive folk architectural characteristics.

1. Royal architecture

In fact, Zhu Li, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, built the Beijing Palace in imitation of Nanjing Palace, which is basically the design style of Suzhou Xiangshan Gang.

The architecture of the Forbidden City is a collection of China's traditional architectural thoughts and philosophies, as well as its well-planned layout, palaces with distinct priorities and flexible architectural combinations, which fully embodies the essence and achievements of oriental civilization. The planning of the Forbidden City has a very important guiding ideology, because it is a palace, not for ordinary people. Not only work and life, but also etiquette and authority. Therefore, the design fully embodies the standardized hierarchical civilization, embodies the theoretical thought of the supremacy of imperial power, and is the most concentrated embodiment of imperial power language. It inherited the traditional triple city system of Miyagi, inner city and outer city, and lived in the center of the capital, with the former dynasty sleeping later, the left ancestor and the right society, five doors and three dynasties, which embodied the Confucian ideal and feudal etiquette system.

The big buildings of the Forbidden City generally embody the etiquette system. The ritual system also restricts and affects the single building, and how to reflect it is reflected by the differences in volume, scale, form, and even color and decoration of the building. The Hall of Supreme Harmony is the core of the whole palace area and the whole Beijing. Its specific volume makes it look very dignified and stable, symbolizing the stability of imperial power. The tone of the 30,000-square-meter Hall of Supreme Harmony Square is that it contains flexibility between solemnity and the spirit of a big country.

2. Folk architecture

Siheyuan; siheyuan;?quadrangle?dwellings

Beijing Siheyuan, which started in the12nd century, meets the requirements of patriarchal clan system in feudal society and is a century-old traditional living form in Beijing.

The so-called four in one, there are houses in the southeast and northwest, with neat layout and bright courtyard, which makes people feel quiet and comfortable. Moreover, it is convenient and harmless for all ages to live in their own rooms.