What are the main features of traditional architecture in China?

The main feature of traditional architecture in China is the quadrangle-style group layout.

From the images of ancient buildings in ancient documents and paintings to the existing ancient buildings, the plane layout of ancient buildings in China has a concise organizational law, that is, every building such as residence, palace, government office and temple is a courtyard surrounded by several single buildings, some cloisters and walls.

Generally speaking, most courtyards are connected in series, reaching the backyard through the front yard, which is the product of China's feudal society's thought of "orderly aging, different inside and outside". The main characters in the family, or people who should be isolated from the outside world (such as girls from aristocratic families), often live in courtyards far from the outside door, forming a deep spatial organization of courtyards after courtyards.

The ancients used "the door is as deep as the sea" to describe the residence of big bureaucrats, which vividly illustrated the important features of the layout of China architecture.

Extended data:

Traditional architecture in China is not static. With the improvement of building materials and technology, various types of buildings will have different changes in different periods, and these changes are closely related to political, economic, cultural, aesthetic and other ideologies in different periods.

From the architectural form, the buildings in China can be roughly divided into: city walls, palaces, sacrificial altars and temples, gardens, houses, tombs, temples, Taoist temples, towers, archways and bridges. Most of these architectural categories are ingenious in structure and beautifully decorated, forming their own unique forms and styles.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Architecture

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