Chinese traditional culture, pavilion and pagoda

Pavilion

Pavilion, stop also, also people stop collection also. Pavilion is a kind of traditional Chinese architecture, originated from the Zhou Dynasty. Mostly built on the roadside, for pedestrians to rest, cool or landscape with pavilions are generally open structure, there is no wall, the top can be divided into hexagonal, octagonal, round and other shapes. Lightweight modeling, selection of materials, flexible layout and is widely used in garden architecture.

Lanting is located in shaoxing, zhejiang lanting town of lanzhu under the mountain, is a piece of Chinese calligraphy in the history of the holy land. The existing lanting for the qing dynasty reconstruction, layout to goblet as the center, surrounded by goose pool, goose pool pavilion, goblet pavilion, goblet pavilion, small lanting, jade tablet pavilion call wang, ink hua pavilion, right army ancestral temple and other architectural exquisite and simple, is a rare garden masterpiece.

Goose Pavilion for a triangular pavilion, there is a stone monument, engraved on the goose pool, the word, goose, the word iron scratch silver hook, rumored to be wang xizhi's own book; pool, the word is his son wang xianzhi fill in the writing. A monument and two characters, father and son together, the townspeople rumored as a beautiful story. It is a four-cornered pavilion with a stone tablet with two big characters of Lanting written by Emperor Kangxi. Ai evening Pavilion is located in Hunan Province, Mount Yuelu under the Qingfeng Gorge, was built in 1792, the name comes from Du Mu's seven-word stanzas, "mountain line".

Far up the cold mountain stone path slanting, white clouds born where there are people parked sitting love maple forest evening, frost leaves red than February flowers." Drunken Master Pavilion is located in the southwest of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, next to Mount Langya, was built in the Northern Song Dynasty Qingli seven years (1047), by the Tang and Song Dynasty, one of the eight great Ouyang Xiu named and compiled the Drunken Master Pavilion Records of the article and famous.

Pai Fang

Pai Fang originated from the table columns connected to the gate that is "Wu Tou Gate" its direct genealogy can be traced back to the Tang and Song Li Fang Fang Gate. Tang Dynasty, China's cities are used in the Rifang system, the city is crisscrossed by the checkerboard road is divided into a number of square neighborhoods, these neighborhoods, the Tang Dynasty, called Fringe Shelter for the "Square".

Fang is the basic unit of the residential area, "Fang" and "Fang" between the wall, Fang wall in the center of the door, in order to pass and the family boy, known as Fang door. Later, because the door did not serve much purpose, it was left in its present form, and the people gradually called it Paikou.

Every pagoda contains rich connotations and symbols, and these connotations and symbols are mainly through the pagoda on the carving and painting of a variety of patterns with a metaphorical approach to show. In addition, there is a "Square Eye". In order to show that the construction of the building object and the reason for the construction of the arch, otherwise the construction of the meaning and value of the door of the dragon is lost. This is the Chinese feudal society, people's concept of life and feudal rites, traditional moral concepts of the centralized expression.