The Chaoyuan Pavilion site of Tang Dynasty Huaqing Palace is a rare well-preserved royal building site, what is the significance of its excavation for the study of Chinese architecture?

The Chaoyuan Pavilion is one of the main buildings of the Tang Dynasty Huaqing Palace, which is a large-scale building of the Tang Dynasty built on the mountain, and also the largest building on Mount Li, enshrining the portraits of Emperor Xuan Yuan (Laozi), Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty, which in fact is equivalent to the family temple of the Tang Dynasty, and the Xuanzong Dynasty, except for the rituals, it also serves as the place of rest for the ascent of high altitudes, and for the outing of the Emperor.

Since August last year, in order to cooperate with the Tang Huaqing Palace Chaoyuan Pavilion maintenance and protection project, the hospital on Mount Li's largest building - Chaoyuan Pavilion site excavation, the current excavation area of 850 square meters. Cleared out the Tang Dynasty, Yuanming and other periods of large-scale rammed-earth building site, unearthed after fire high-weight devices, columns and arranged stone column bases, lotus pattern tiles, tiles with characters, paving tiles, handprint pattern bricks and so on.

Chaoyuan Ge site is a large-scale rammed earth high-level platform building built on the mountain, rammed earth platform base sitting north-south, rammed earth platform on the north side of the corridor, on both sides of the step corridor. The west side of the stepped corridor retains two levels of square paving blocks, the east ramp leads to the eastern unexcavated area, the west ramp leads to the west side. The archaeological excavation found that the Tang Dynasty Dynasty Chaoyuan Pavilion rammed earth foundation preserved relatively intact, the orderly arrangement of the pillar foundation stone for the study of Chaoyuan Pavilion's architectural structure has an extremely important value. According to the Provincial Archaeological Institute staff, through the excavation, can be initially judged that the Tang Dynasty Chaoyuan Pavilion is a group of structural complexity of large-scale buildings.

Tang Huaqing Palace Chaoyuan Pavilion site is a rare well-preserved royal building site. Xing Fulai said, Chaoyuan Pavilion is one of the main buildings of the Tang Dynasty Huaqing Palace, a large-scale building built by the Sheng Tang Royal Family on the mountain, and the largest building on Mount Li, its architectural style, building structure, etc., on the future generations of pavilion-type or hall-type buildings have an important influence, its excavation undoubtedly provides valuable information for the study of the structure of large-scale buildings in China, the layout and the influence of the future generations.