Three stages of the development of ancient architecture in China

About half a million years ago

Primitive people in China already knew.

Use natural caves as shelters.

Used to shelter from the wind and rain and avoid the pursuit of wild animals

▲ Neanderthal site

Neolithic Age (about 8000-2000 BC)

The architecture of this period can be basically divided into two parts: the north and the south.

Nesting in humid places in southern China.

Developed into an overhead dry fence

The earliest found remains were 7,000 years ago.

From Hemudu Site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province

Tenon-mortise combined dry rail building

▲ Later carpenter's tools

▲ dry column building for nesting in the south.

▲ Diaojiaolou is one of the dry fence buildings.

And houses in the loess area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in the north.

It has developed from semi-burrowing to semi-burrowing.

Wooden bones and mud walls on the ground, round houses and square houses

Such as Banpo site in Xi 'an.

And then it developed into

The kind of dahe village site in Zhengzhou.

At most, two houses with horizontal slopes.

▲Xi An banpo village Site Restoration Map.

▲ Restoration map of Dahe Village site in Zhengzhou

Pre-Qin period (2070 BC-65438 BC+0600 BC)

The city ruins of the Xia Dynasty have been around for more than 4000 years.

Erlitou site in Yanshi, Henan Province has been discovered so far.

The earliest wooden rammed earth building of quadrangles in China,