Traditional Chinese ancient architectural features?

Ancient Chinese architectural layout is always a house surrounded by space, or space surrounded by two kinds of houses, with the central axis as the basis for the courtyard as the center of the architectural concepts have always existed, and play a role in practice, the basic is still the "courtyard" layout method. This is the Western architecture does not have, but also the ancient Chinese architecture is unique to a prominent feature.

China since ancient times, the art of architecture has a long history. Different regions and nationalities have different styles of architectural art, but the traditional architecture of the group layout, space, structure, building materials and decorative arts and other aspects of the **** the same characteristics, different from the West, renowned around the world. There are many types of ancient Chinese architecture, mainly palaces, altars, temples, temples, pagodas, residential and garden buildings.