Ancient Chinese Architecture Structure

Ancient Chinese buildings were constructed with wood, brick and tile as the main building materials, and wooden frame structure as the main structural method. This structure is made of columns, beams, purlins and other main components, and the joints between each component are matched by mortise and tenon, forming a flexible frame. In ancient China, there are three different types of wooden frames: the raised beam, the pierced bucket, and the well stem.

The lifted beam style is to frame the beams on the columns, and the beams are lifted on the beams, so it is called "lifted beam style". Palace, altar temple, temple and other large buildings are often used in this way of structure. Through the bucket is to use through the square to rows of columns through even up to become rows of frame, and then with square, purlin bucket and become, so called through the bucket. Mostly used for residential and smaller buildings. Well dry type is made of wood cross-stacked, because of the space it encloses like a well and named.

Ancient Chinese architectural structure:

1, foundation

Ancient Chinese architectural structure:

1, foundation

Ancient Chinese architectural structure. Department of the ground above the base of the building. Used to support the building, and make it moisture, corrosion, at the same time, can make up for the lack of Chinese ancient monolithic architecture is not very tall and majestic.

2, beams

One of the main wood columns on the frame to form the ridge. Commonly used pine, elm or cedar made. It is one of the main parts of the skeleton in traditional Chinese wooden buildings.

3, arch

is a unique component of ancient Chinese architecture. Square block of wood called bucket, bow-shaped short wood called arch, diagonally placed long wood called Ang, always called arch. Generally placed in the column head and forehead visit (also known as appendage, commonly known as visit, located between the two gable columns, used to support the arch), between the roof, used to support the load beams and frames, picking out the eaves, as well as decorative effect. By the bucket-shaped wood blocks, bow-shaped short wood, oblique long wood, vertical and horizontal layers, layer by layer outward, forming a large under the small bracket.

4, color painting

Originally for the wooden structure of moisture-proof, anti-corrosion, moth-proof, and only later to highlight its decorative, after the Song Dynasty, color painting has become an indispensable decorative art of the palace.