Which craftsman wrote "Building the Source of Law"?

The author of The Source of Construction Law is Yao, the head of Xiangshan School.

Primitive laws of architecture

Monographs on Ancient Architecture Construction in Jiangnan Area of China. Yao's original work, supplemented by Zhang Zhigang (Zhang Yongsen), reviewed. This book introduces the construction methods of floor, wood, folding, stone, wall, roof, work limit, garden and miscellaneous furniture, with pictures.

Brief introduction of the author

Yao (1866- 1938), whose name is Hanting,No. Buyun,No.. Cultivate laymen. Today, I come from Shuli Village, Xukou Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou. He was another architect after Kuai Xiang in Ming Dynasty. The National Palace Museum in Taipei has a picture of the Forbidden City in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, which shows the architecture of the Forbidden City (the Forbidden City in Beijing) in the Ming Dynasty. At the bottom right of the screen, there is a picture of an official wearing the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty. He is Kuai Xiang, the designer of the Ming Palace, the oldest palace in the world, and the founder of Suzhou "Xiangshan Craftsman". Kuai Xiang, whose real name is Ting Rui, was born in a carpenter's family in Xiangshan, Suzhou in the early Ming Dynasty. Because of his outstanding performance in the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing, he won the reputation of "Fast Luban" and was appointed as assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Yao was also born in a carpenter's family, and his grandfather Yao Canting wrote a suicide note. He studied at home since he was a child, and finished reading Hundred Family Names, Thousand Characters, University, The Doctrine of the Mean and so on. /kloc-dropped out of school at the age of 0/6, and went to Suzhou to build houses and temples with his uncle all the year round. Before he was 20 years old, he stood out in the architectural world. 19 12 years, Suzhou luban club was established at his initiative, and he was elected as the president. Yao knows the importance of cultural knowledge in the construction industry, so he set up "Ziyi Primary School" next to Suzhou Xuanmiao Temple and "Shufeng Primary School" in his hometown to enroll the children of construction craftsmen for free. He was the first Xiangshan craftsman to walk on the platform of colleges and universities. He is known as a generation of architectural masters. He designed and built thousands of temples, pavilions, temples and gardens in his life, but there are few records and it is impossible to check them. There are four famous buildings known to the world at present: First, during the reign of Tongzhi and Guangxu, three towers were built for the "Yiyuan Garden" in Gu Wenbin, which was divided into two halls, north and south, with "Hoe Xuan Yue" written in front and "Champs Elysees" written later, which was the essence of Yiyuan Garden. Second, in the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), Yan Jia Garden in Mudu was rebuilt together with the famous sculptor Zhao Zikang. Third, 1923, Meihua Pavilion was built in Dongpo, Ma Guangfu. Fourth, in 1937, Zhao Zikang cooperated to rebuild the Lingyanshan Heroes Temple. In his later years, Yao built a "Buyun Xiaolou" in Suzhou Lane, which was also an extremely beautiful private garden, but it was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.

The Original Architectural Law is "the only monograph that records the representative traditional architectural practice in the south of the Yangtze River" (Zhang Zhigang's Introduction to the Original Architectural Law, reprint), which is known as the treasure book of southern China architecture. This paper systematically expounds the shape, structure, composition, work limit and other contents of traditional buildings in Jiangnan, and also discusses the layout and structure of garden buildings in Jiangnan, which is very rich in content. At that time, Mr. Zhu Qiqian, the president of China Construction Society, once said: "There are no official books on the laws of houses, temples, pagodas, berths and wooden fences compiled in the book" Building the Original Law ",which fully convey the truth of southern folk architecture ... Although it is limited to a corner of Suzhou, the practices it contains are inherited from the Northern Song Dynasty, starting from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and today's Beijing craftsmen are used to it. Those who are wrong and can't understand it will get its correctness in this book. " But I have studied the evolution of architecture in Ming and Qing dynasties, and made great contributions to this book, not only to the folk architecture in Suzhou and Hangzhou. The meaning of this passage shows that the original "Building Law" is not only a biography of folk architecture in southern Jiangsu, but also plays a great role in studying the cultural development history of China architecture and has high academic value.

Influenced by his ancestors, Yao loved the construction industry since he was a child. He devoted himself to studying the traditional architectural techniques of Xiangshan craftsmen and wanted to compile a book. So in his spare time, he paid attention to visiting skilled craftsmen to explore architectural skills, and then compiled them into books according to family secrets and atlas. This is the "primitive construction method" passed down from generation to generation.

1929, after 67 years of hard work, Yao finally wrote the manuscript of the Building Law. After the manuscript was published, he handed it to Professor Liu Dunzhen of China Architecture Society in Beijing for his review. 1932, Liu Jiaoshou was busy introducing this book to the Architectural Society. Mr. Zhu Guixin, the president, personally reviewed it, but because the terminology used in the book is different from that of Beijing official buildings, it was not printed several years later. 1In the autumn of 935, Professor Liu Dunzhen handed the manuscript of the Building Law to his student, Mr. Zhang Zhigang, at Nanjing Institute of Technology. Mr Zhang Zhigang is also a native of Suzhou, where people and land are suitable. He added the book at once.