What does a house beam mean?

The house beam, or crossbeam, is one of the most dominant pieces of wood erected on wooden columns to form the ridge of the roof.? Its section is mostly rectangular and round, made of pine, nanmu or shirataki. It is one of the main pieces of the skeleton of traditional wooden buildings in China.

Attached Roof Beam Pictures:

Ancient Chinese architecture uses wood and masonry as the main building materials, and wood frame structure as the main structural method

This structural method is built by the main components such as columns, beams, and parapet purlins, and the junctions between the individual components are matched by mortise and tenon to form a resilient frame.

Related components:

(A) the foundation is called the base. Department of the ground above the base of the building. Used to support the building, and make it moisture-proof, anti-corrosion, at the same time can make up for the lack of Chinese ancient monolithic architecture is not very tall and majestic.

(ii) wooden columns, commonly used pine or barrel wood made of cylindrical wood. Placed on the stone (sometimes copper) for the bottom of the platform. Multiple wooden columns, used to support roof purlins, forming a beam frame.

(c) Opening. The space surrounded by four wooden columns is called "room". The number of spaces facing the building is called "open space", or "face". The depth of the building is called "depth". Ancient China to odd numbers for auspicious figures, so the majority of the plan combination of openings for the single number; and the more openings, the higher the grade. The Imperial Palace in Beijing, Beijing, Taihe Temple Hall for eleven openings.

(4) beam, that is, beam, erected on a wooden column of one of the main wood to form the ridge. Commonly used pine, elm or cedar made. It is one of the main parts of the skeleton in traditional Chinese wooden buildings.

(E) arch, is a unique component of ancient Chinese architecture. Square blocks of wood called bucket, bow-shaped short wood called arch, oblique long wood called Ang, always called the arch. Generally placed in the column head and forehead visit (also known as appendage, commonly known as look visit, located between the two gable columns, used to support the arch), between the roof, used to support the load beams and frames, picking out the eaves, as well as decorative role. By the bucket-shaped wood blocks, bow-shaped short wood, diagonally placed long wood composed of criss-crossed layers, layer by layer to the outside, forming a large under the small bracket.

(F) color painting. The original wooden structure is moisture-proof, anti-corrosion, anti-moth-eaten, and later to highlight its decorative, color painting after the Song Dynasty has become an indispensable decorative art of the palace.

(VII) roof (the ancient name of the roof)

(VIII) mountain wall, that is, the upper part of the two sides of the house into a mountain-tip-shaped wall. Commonly, there are also wind volcano wall, which is characterized by the two sides of the wall above the roof, with the slope of the roof in the shape of a ladder.

(IX) Zaojing, a kind of decoration on the ceiling in traditional Chinese architecture. The name "algal well", containing the five elements of water and fire, the meaning of fire prevention. Generally in the temple on the throne or the throne of the palace above. Is the concave part of the flat roof, square, hexagonal, octagonal or round, carved or painted, common "Double Dragon Playing with Pearls".