What are the manifestations of classical architecture? What are the main design materials?

Classical architecture refers to typical ancient architecture. Classical architecture in China includes royal buildings, temples, tombs, mansions, post stations, ancient cities, ancient towns and ancient villages.

Classical architecture in China refers to the typical architecture in ancient China. China's classical architecture takes the architectural style recorded in ancient typical architectural remains, ancient paintings and artifacts as the cognitive model. Yuan Jing Design Institute pointed out the architectural styles of these architectural remains, paintings and cultural relics, including royal buildings, palaces, temples, tombs, mansions, post stations, ancient cities, ancient towns, ancient villages, folk houses, garden buildings, and independent bridges, pavilions, monuments, towers and other architectural forms. China's classical architecture represents the highest achievement of various ancient buildings in China, and fully embodies the characteristics and demeanor of various ancient buildings in China.

China's 1,000-year feudal history has deeply influenced China's classical garden architecture by Confucianism. They emphasize the concept of "harmony between man and nature", pursue quiet, elegant, simple and comfortable architectural methods, perfectly unify life, philosophy and nature, and pay attention to the perfect integration of modern and nature.

The classical gardens in China deeply explored the feudal cultural life. The embodiment of political history and art, the architecture of royal gardens represents the essence of classical architecture in China, while the architecture of private gardens in China is unique in expression. By using the methods of concealment, leakage, opening, opposition, separation and borrowing in garden landscape, people's personality, pursuit, communication, cultivation and even the darkness of human nature are fully expressed through garden landscape. The application of plants and natural landscapes in China classical gardens has reached a superb level. Such as "Bamboo Path in Seclusion" and "Rain in Longan".

China classical architecture design takes wood as the basic material, and has made full use of wood structure since ancient times. Coupled with China's humanistic thought, the wooden structure system comes down in one continuous line, while China's garden design makes full use of these applications, such as bridges and window frames, to make garden buildings quiet and elegant.