What are the artistic characteristics of architecture?

The four specific ideas of ancient Chinese architecture are the concept of the unity of heaven and man; the ritual concept of honoring heaven and sacrificing to ancestors; the hierarchical concept centered on imperial power; and the family idea centered on the patriarch.

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.

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The monolithic body of an ancient Chinese building can be roughly divided into the foundation of the house, the body of the house, roof. All important buildings were built on top of the foundation of the pedestal, which was generally one-story, and large halls, such as the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Ming and Qing Forbidden City in Beijing, were built on top of a tall, triple pedestal.

The plan form of a single building is mostly rectangular, square, hexagonal, octagonal, circular. These different plan forms play an important role in constituting the fa?ade image of the building monolith. Due to the use of wood frame structure, the treatment of the roof to be very flexible, doors, windows, columns and walls are often based on the use of materials and parts of the different to be disposed of and decorated, greatly enriching the image of the roof.

Ancient Chinese building roof forms colorful. As early as in the Han Dynasty, there are hipped, hiatus, overhanging mountains, hoard roof, save the tip of several basic forms, and there is a heavy eaves roof. Later appeared in the hook and lap, single slope roof, cross slope roof, pelvis roof, arched roof, vaulted roof and many other forms. In order to protect the wooden frame, the roof is often larger eaves.

But the eave is an obstacle to light, as well as the roof of the rainwater leakage is easy to wash away the foundation, so the later use of reverse curved roof or roof lifting, corner warping, so the roof and the corner of the roof appears more light and lively.