What are the artistic features of traditional Chinese architecture

What are the artistic features of traditional Chinese architecture are the application of liner architecture.

The application of the liner architecture is one of the main features of the ancient Chinese palaces, temples and other high-level buildings, and its role is to set off the main building. The earliest application of the liner building, is from the spring and autumn period has begun to be built in front of the main gate of the palace que. By the Han Dynasty, in addition to palaces and tombs, ancestral temples and large and medium-sized tombs were also used.

One of the main features of ancient Chinese architectural art is monolithic modeling, which means that a building consists mainly of three parts: the foundation, the body and the roof. For example, Taihe Temple of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Tiananmen Square and the Temple of Heaven are typical monolithic buildings. Monolithic architecture expresses a strong cultural atmosphere and historical value through its unique shape. Ancient architectural works include not only the general environment, but also individual houses and internal spaces, as well as aspects such as color decorations and accessory arts, each of which is indispensable.

Traditional Chinese Architecture

Western architecture is outside the courtyard, that is, the courtyard surrounds the house, Chinese architecture is the opposite, the courtyard is inside and outside the house, that is, the house surrounds the courtyard. Houses, walls, etc. are enclosed into courtyards, with the courtyard as the center. Or to the main unit as the center, the second unit (i.e., two compartments) around the main unit, a positive two compartments, and connected to the coping corridor, composed of a building. Such as in residential homes around the quadrangle space.

It is characterized by the courtyard as part of the architectural plane, indoor and outdoor space into one, with the room corridor as excessive space, rich in the flavor of life. The buildings around the courtyard are not independent of each other and are interconnected. But the courtyard building is not a group, but just a building. From the courtyard house to the Great Wall of China although the space level is different, but all belong to the same space form. That is, the inward-looking outer closed space form, **** the same embodiment or service to a social system.