The architectural features of China include several aspects.

The basic features of China architecture can be summarized as the following nine points:

1. A single building generally consists of three main parts: the lower abutment, the middle house itself and the upper wing roof.

2. As far as the surface layout is concerned, the house called "Suo" by China is composed of several such buildings and some related buildings, such as cloisters, mansions, compartments, ears and halls. , built around one or several courtyards or patios.

3. The system is mainly constructed by wood structure. In other words, the main body of the house takes wood as the column and beam, which becomes the beam frame. Each beam frame has two rows and more than two layers of beams. Between every two beams, purlins ([lǐn] are used to support rafters or roof panels of roof trusses or gables. Also known as truss or purlin. ) and other cross bars pull them together and become the main frame of the "room" to support the weight on it. Wall is also commonly used between two columns, but it is not load-bearing, just like a "curtain" to partition the inside and outside, or to divide the internal space.

4. Bucket arch: On a pair of beam frames, at the junction of columns and beams, a layer of short arch wood called "arch" is added to the stigma, and a bucket-shaped square block called "bucket" is used as a buffer between the two layers of arches. This kind of unit composed of arch and bucket is called "bucket arch"

5. Folding lifting frame: the beams on the beam frame are multi-layered; The upper layer is always shorter than the lower layer; Low column (or [tuó]) between two floors: the roof of the room, and the large beam between the front and rear columns of the room frame. The pier always rises gradually. This is called "lifting the frame". With this lifting frame, the slope of the roof gradually increases from the gentle slope of the lower eaves to the steep slope near the roof ridge, becoming a gentle surface.

6. The roof has always occupied an extremely important position in the architecture of China. As mentioned above, its tile surface is curved. When the roof is tilted around, the four corners of the roof are also tilted. Its gorgeous decoration has long been discovered and utilized.

7. Boldly use vermilion as the main color of the roof of large buildings, use it on columns, doors, windows and walls, and decorate the upper structure of wooden frames with colorful painting patterns; Such as forehead, beam, stigma and bucket arch, both inside and outside. In the use of color, China architecture is the boldest among all kinds of architectural systems in the world.

8. In a wooden structure building, most of the connecting parts of all components are exposed, and they are slightly treated in the external shape to make them decorative parts of the building itself.

9. In building materials, a large number of colored glazed tiles are used; Make full use of the decorative potential of various coatings. Woodcut flowers, stone decorative relief, brick wall carving. These are also the characteristics of China's architectural system.