Six characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture

Six characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture are as follows:

1. Wood, brick and tile are the main building materials.

2. Wooden frames were the main structural method for buildings.

3, courtyard layout, pay attention to symmetry, feng shui, specifications.

4. Decoration, carving and painting.

5, the use of perspective, symmetry, levels, borrowed scenery and other architectural techniques.

6, pay attention to the cultural connotation of the building, living in the building.

Ancient Chinese architecture has a long historical tradition and glorious achievements. China's ancient architectural art is also an important object of art appreciation. And to appreciate the art of architecture, in addition to the need to understand the main features of architectural art, but also to understand some important features of ancient Chinese architectural art, and then through the more typical examples, specific analysis and research.

The characteristics of ancient Chinese architectural art are manifold. Architecture is not only a technical science, but also an art. Ancient Chinese architecture, after a long period of effort, absorbed at the same time other traditional Chinese arts, especially painting, sculpture, arts and crafts, and other plastic arts, to create a rich and colorful artistic image, and in this regard formed a number of characteristics.

The structure of ancient Chinese buildings are mainly the following forms:

1, beam lifting frame: put beams on the columns, beams on the short columns, short columns on the short beams, layers stacked up to the ridge, each beam and then purlins on the head to support the rafters in the form of the gable columns to support the high-ranking beams, i.e., the gable pillars supporting the four high-ranking beams, medical devices, and then set up a two children's columns to support the flat beams The practice of the high-beam high-security medical devices is not suitable for a high-security medical device. The complexity of the high-beam structure requires careful processing, but it is strong and durable, with a large internal space for use.

2, through the bucket frame: the column distance is more dense floor columns directly undertake and become, this floor columns will not be set along the depth of the house in the direction of the overhead beams.

3, well dry structure: this structure it is not with the structure of the columns and beams, but the use of logs, or some square rectangular section of wood stacked on top of each other, in the corners of the wood ports and cross-bite each other, constituting a ledge.

4, the dry rail frame: this structure is the first post in the ground floor to make a high platform, the platform to put beams, paving boards, and then build a house on it.