What are the traditional roofs of traditional buildings in China?

There are mainly palaces, temples, temples, pagodas, houses and garden buildings. Among them, the achievements of palaces and garden buildings are the most prominent.

Main roof forms, from high to low:

Fairy Hall: Four-slope roof, mostly used for palace-style buildings.

Xieshan: It consists of the upper part of hard mountain or hanging mountain and the Ministry of Immortal Highness, and is basically only allowed to be used by government departments.

Hanging mountain: gables protruding from both sides of the roof.

Hard mountain: Gables do not protrude from both sides of the roof.

Pointed: including round pointed, quadrangular pointed, triangular pointed and octagonal pointed.

Roll shed: A roof without a central ridge.

Secondary roof formwork

Qingshuiji

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Kuiding

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