China's ancient architecture is mainly divided into which categories

1. Palace buildings: such as palaces, government offices, temples, mansions and so on. Are some of the larger buildings, these court buildings, although built in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but they still influence many modern buildings.

2. Defense buildings: such as walls, towers, battlements, village fortresses, passes, the Great Wall, beacon towers and so on. These buildings used to defend against foreign invasion. For example, the Great Wall, also known as the "Great Wall of China", is the ancient Chinese in different periods of time in order to resist the invasion of nomadic tribal alliances in the northern part of the country and the construction of the vast scale of the military project of the collective name.

3. Memorial and embellished buildings: such as the city building, bell tower, drum tower, street building, square, shadow wall. To commemorate the meritorious or prominent people or major events, as well as in the historical or natural features of the place to create the building or architectural works of art. This type of building is mostly ideological, permanent and artistic.

4. Mausoleum architecture: such as stone que, stone workshop, cliff tomb, altar, and the emperor's mausoleum palace and so on. Mausoleum architecture is one of the grandest and most massive architectural complexes in ancient Chinese architecture. These mausoleum buildings are generally built against the mountains by utilizing the natural terrain; there are also a few built on the plains. The layout of most Chinese mausoleums is to build walls around them, open doors on all sides, and build corner towers at the corners.

5. Garden buildings: such as the imperial garden, the palace, gardens, villas and so on. China is one of the world's earliest gardening activities, the earliest gardens are the royal courts. Accumulation of wealth, so that successive emperors in the construction of beautiful palaces, outside the construction of a variety of gardens, paddocks, opened into the royal family's exclusive use of the imperial garden. Royal Court to meet the emperor's home of the piano, chess, shooting, riding and other feasts and tours of music, in the mountains between the water, constructed a beautiful temple, its decoration and painting, are not a countless amount of money of the magnificent building, is the ultimate performance of Chinese garden architecture.

6. Ritual buildings: such as Temple of Literature (Confucius Temple), Temple of Martial Arts (Guandi Temple) Ancestral Halls and so on. Sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth and the gods of the ancestors of the ritual buildings, the public or a certain class of feudal society for *** with the sacrifices to the sages and the construction of the building complex, the patriarchal system of the same clan offerings and sacrifices to the ancestors of the place. It is also a place for family deliberations and the fulfillment of clan and family laws.

7. Bridges and water conservancy buildings: such as stone bridges, wooden bridges, dykes, harbors, piers and so on.

8. Religious buildings: such as Buddhist temples, nunneries, halls, courtyards, Taoist shrines, palaces, temples, view, Muslim mosques, Christian chapels.

9. residential buildings: such as kilns, huts, haylofts, houses, courtyards, courtyards and so on.

10. Entertainment buildings: such as music building, dance building, theater, terrace, grandstand and so on.

Expanded Information

From the development of square and round shallow cave houses unearthed at the Half-slope Site in Shaanxi Province, there has been a history of 6,000 to 7,000 years. Constructed in the lofty mountains, winding miles of the Great Wall, is a miracle in the history of human architecture; built in the Sui Dynasty, Zhao County, Hebei Province, Anji Bridge, in science and technology and the perfect combination of art, has long been in the forefront of the world's bridge science; the existing up to 67.1 meters high in Shanxi Yingxian Fogong Temple Wooden Pagoda, is the world's tallest surviving wooden buildings; Beijing, the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Forbidden City, is the world's largest surviving, The Forbidden City in Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties is the world's largest, beautifully constructed and well-preserved large-scale architectural complex.

As for China's classical gardens, its unique artistic style makes it a pearl in China's cultural heritage. This series of existing buildings of high technology, exquisite art and unique style, which are self-contained and unique in the world's architectural history, are an important part of China's ancient splendid culture. They are like a stone-carved history books, let us revisit the history and culture of our motherland, inspire our patriotic fervor and national self-confidence, at the same time, it is also a kind of art that can be viewed, giving people the enjoyment of beauty.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia - Ancient Chinese Architecture