What is the difference between ancient Chinese architecture and modern architecture?

1, building materials are different

Ancient Chinese architecture: the main materials are nothing more than natural or hand-prepared materials such as earth, wood, bricks, tiles, ash, sand and stone.

Modern architecture: nowadays, buildings are mainly constructed with iron, steel, reinforced concrete structures and so on.

2, different development history

Ancient Chinese architecture: as early as half a million years ago in the Paleolithic era, Chinese primitive people have known the use of natural caves as a shelter, Beijing, Liaoning, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hubei, Zhejiang, and other places have been found in the cliffs where primitive people lived.

By the Neolithic Age, clan tribes in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, utilized layers of loess for walls, and constructed semi-cave dwellings with wooden frames and grass and mud, which in turn developed into buildings on the ground and formed settlements. The Yangtze River Valley, because of the humidity and rain, often flooded with animal damage, and thus developed into dry-fence architecture.

Modern architecture: the 19th century saw these changes in the field of architecture, both in terms of depth and breadth, unprecedented in the history of architecture. It was an architectural revolution caused by the industrial revolution. The changes continued into the 20th century and spread to more parts of the world. It was this architectural revolution, unprecedented in the history of architecture, that gave birth to the modern architecture of the 20th century.

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3, structural construction of different

Ancient Chinese architecture: ancient Chinese architecture is a frame structure courtyard group layout, courtyard group layout has a concise organization of the law, by a number of single building and some of the corridors, walls and so on around the courtyard and composed of a courtyard.

Modern architecture: China's modern architecture is designed to meet the functional requirements of modern people's production and life for the purpose of design, the building's external shape is simple, bright, fresh, generous, mostly occupies a small amount of high-rise buildings.

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