What are the characteristics of China architecture?

What are the characteristics of China architecture?

1, grouped and distributed, with clear priorities and full sense of rhythm. Take a horizontal composition on the central axis, with important buildings arranged on the central axis and minor buildings symmetrically arranged on both sides of the central axis. The structure takes the "house" as the unit to form a single building, and then the single building forms a courtyard, and then the courtyard is combined into various groups.

2. Pay attention to color matching. China's architecture has strong regional characteristics, but no matter where it is, it pays great attention to color matching. For example, the white walls and black tiles in the south of the Yangtze River are integrated with the beautiful natural environment. The buildings in the north are colorful and in sharp contrast, such as the Forbidden City in Beijing, with red walls and yellow tiles, red courtyard walls and glittering roofs, which leave a deep impression on people with the blue sky as the background.

3. Diversification of decoration: The windows of China buildings are the focus of decoration. The shapes of windows are square, round, oval, flower-shaped, fan-shaped and polygonal. And the lattice patterns and types on the window are countless. For example, Xidi Village, yi county, Anhui Province, which is known as the "Museum of Ancient Dwellings", is full of leaking windows or flower windows carved with cyan stones, which are colorful and decorated with simple and elegant mobile buildings.

4. Buildings have obvious grading regulations: they can generally be distinguished from the roof style and eaves of buildings.

Temple architecture: the highest level, only used for important royal buildings, palaces or halls. It has four slopes, one positive ridge and four inclined ridges. The roof is slightly curved, and the corners and eaves are inclined upward.

Inclined mountain building: four slopes and two slopes are combined, that is, the upper part of the roof on the east and west sides becomes a vertical triangle, and the lower part is still a slope.

Pointed building: the plane is round or polygonal, and the roof is conical. More common in altars, pavilions, pavilions and towers.

Suspended mountain architecture: the roof has a double slope and gables protrude on both sides. There is one positive ridge and four vertical ridges.

Hard mountain building: the lowest specification, with gables on both sides flush with the roof or slightly higher than the roof. The roof is the same as the hanging mountain type.