Simple pagoda handbook

Simple pagoda handbook:

Pagoda, similar to the house of cards, one of China's traditional architecture. The earliest seen in the Zhou Dynasty, initially used to flag festival filial piety monument, and later in the garden, temple, palace, mausoleums and streets are built, Beijing is China's largest number of pagoda city. Beijing is the city with the most pagodas in China. It is a kind of door-shaped structure with columns, generally taller. In the old days, there are mainly wood, stone, wood and stone, brick and wood, glazed several kinds of pagodas, mostly set up at the entrance to the main road. Pai Lou has been used as the facade of the Chinese Pavilion in many World Expositions, attracting the world's attention.

Architectural features:

In fact, there is a significant difference between the pagoda and the pagoda, the pagoda does not have a "building" structure, that is, there are no arches and roofs, while the pagoda has a roof, which has a greater atmosphere. But because they are used for recognition, commemoration, decoration, marking and orientation of a building in ancient times in China, and more built in the palace, temples, mausoleums, ancestral halls, government offices and street intersections, etc., coupled with a long history of ordinary people on the "Square", "Building" The concept of unclear, so in the end the two become an interchangeable title.

Architectural role:

Generally speaking, the pagoda is nothing more than: as a decorative building; to increase the momentum of the main building; recognition, commemoration of someone or something; as a demarcation of the area of the streets and lanes and so on. Beijing has more pagodas than other cities, hundreds of years the capital of the country, Beijing's halls, temples, large complexes, as well as the need to commemorate and recognize the events and people relatively more, as decorative pagodas are also more. The Yuan Dynasty, the city was divided into 50 workshops, the Ming Dynasty, four cities (districts), 36 workshops, the Qing Dynasty, five cities (districts), workshops remain the same. This is one of the reasons why there are so many pagodas in Beijing.

Architectural form:

From the form of points, there are only two types of pagodas. One type is called the "sky-rocketing style", also known as the "columns out of the head" style. As the name suggests, this type of pagoda between the column is higher than the roof of the building. Another type is "not out of the head" type. The highest peak of this type of pagoda is the ridge of the building. If divided into more detailed, can be based on the number of rooms and the number of buildings of each pagoda. Whether the column out of the head or not, there are "a two columns", "three four columns", "five six columns" and other forms. The number of buildings on the top, there are one floor, three floors, five floors, seven floors, nine floors and other forms. In Beijing, the largest pagoda is "five six columns and eleven floors". Most of the pagodas within the palace are not out of the head style, while most of the pagodas on the street are sky-high style.

Architecture:

The pagoda consists of so many parts of the first is called the base. Because the overall weight of the pagoda is loaded on the top of the columns, in order to the stability of the columns, there should be a pedestal to fix.

Second, there are columns. Pai Lou is up by a few columns, this column to stand, there should be clamping rod stone. Stand this pillar as a pole, and there are stones on both sides to clamp it. It's not the same as when we build a palace. Sometimes the palace is gone, but it has a stone mortar and pestle underneath, that is the foundation of the pillar. A pagoda is not like that, a pagoda has a stone on one side that holds this pole. Then there is a beam, what is a pagoda for, there is a square, there is a place for inscription, there is the roof of the building. The reason why this is called a building, called pagoda, because it has a roof, and the roof is a symbol of rank.

Yellow glazed tile pagoda highest grade. The upper side is three buildings, the lower side there are four buildings, we call this kind of pagoda as "seven floors, three openings, four columns, seven floors of the pagoda". There are seven floors, the highest is nine floors. The original also wanted to design a higher eleven buildings, more than it, so very rare in the country, the highest general feudal emperor to nine buildings.