Is a watchtower a wah-wah in ancient architecture?

The lookout post is not a wah-wah table.

Watch posts, also known as balustrade posts, are short posts between the balustrade and the stop board. There are wood and stone posts. Looking at the column body and head two parts; column cross-section, more octagonal in the Song Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty looking at the column body, cross-section more for the quadrilateral. Lookout column column body often have begonia flowers or dragon decoration on all sides. The decoration of the column head, a variety of patterns, common dragon pattern, wind pattern, cloud pattern, lion, lotus, gourd. Therefore, the Yuanmingyuan nanmu tower railing columns for wood, the column head carved over the lotus Yuanmingyuan Suichenglou Pagoda railing columns, five or six inches high, carved into the Ruyi cloud.

Ancient large buildings and bridges, often with stone balustrades, those supporting the stone balustrades between the stone columns called watchtower. Qing Chongling lookout column lookout column head, often decorated with dragons, phoenixes, lions and monkeys and other animal figures, or grasses, leaves, flowers and fruits and other plants, geometric patterns and other patterns, in the form of rounded and relief, collectively referred to as "lookout column stone carving". Such as the Lugou Bridge on both sides of the pillar on the stone lion round carving and the Forbidden City on the pillar of the clouds and phoenix relief, are masterpieces.

Prior to the Qing Dynasty, the watchtower is generally more simple, such as the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum of the watchtower is simply a top of the stone pillars with ring decorations. The Qing Dynasty stone carving process has been a great development, the carving of the column is more and more exquisite, the two cloud columns on the cloud decorations vivid, very rich three-dimensional, so I'm afraid that only the Royal Palace Gardens can be made of such strokes and temperament.