What are traditional materials and new materials? Their application in engineering practice is briefly described.

Traditional materials, as the name implies, are the most common building materials and are widely used. Typical representatives of this traditional material are reinforced concrete and brick. In addition, another definition of traditional materials is non-modern materials, in other words, it refers to the continuation of ancient materials, such as wood, bamboo, stone and so on. These materials have been used for thousands of years, from the earliest wooden architecture in China to the brilliant maturity of the wooden architecture in Qing Dynasty, from the stone architecture in the period of western mythology to the last glory before the global industrial revolution.