Why China and other East Asian countries ancient house (including the royal) are one or two floors, less high-rise, not like the European countries have many layers, is the building technology problem

If the emperor lived in the house only 2 layers, who dares to build 3 layers of the house

China's ancient houses are wooden structure. There are limits to the height of wooden structures, the highest is the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda; you look at the houses of Japan, wood you have seen more than 3 floors?

Wooden structure belongs to the column structure, while the brick structure belongs to the wall load-bearing structure, and the wood has a strong toughness elasticity, so the wooden structure of the house has a strong elasticity, the earthquake, wooden structure of the house even if it is the outside of the brick (wood) wall down, but the wooden columns are still very strong upright; and the same in the earthquake, the brick structure of the house even with the wall with the beams will all fall, which is the Chinese ancient wood This is the characteristic of ancient Chinese wooden buildings. Modern high-rise buildings use reinforced concrete structures for the same reason, the mechanical characteristics of reinforced concrete and wood structure is almost the same, so it is also a kind of imitation of the ancient Chinese way of building!