What are the four steps in ancient China called

You want to ask is the ancient steps of the four types of it Ancient building steps, also known as the treadway, is up and down the steps of the foundation, there are usually stepped tread and ramp two types.

These two types according to the form and combination of different can be divided into

1: the Royal Road stamping (ramp is also known as the carriage road, the Royal Road, the ah stone is a very gentle slope used to travel the ramp, usually pre-steps shaped step combination used together, known as the Royal Road stamping. Generally used in palaces and temple buildings.)

2: pendant tape tread (in the tread on both sides of the set pendant stone tread, the earliest seen in the Eastern Han Dynasty's portrait bricks.)

3: Ruyi stomp (the practice of stomping without pendant stones is called Ruyi stomping, and it is generally used in residential and garden buildings).

4: ramp or slow road (is the use of masonry exposed edge side masonry to form a ramp, can be effective anti-slip, generally used for outdoor height difference is small place, the "construction method" in the provisions of the city of diffuse road height and length of the ratio of 1:5, hall diffuse road for the 1:4.)

from the level of the Royal Roads step on the high than the non-Royal Roads step on the high, pendant step higher than the Ruyi step