What are the advantages and disadvantages of ancient Chinese architecture?

1. Load-bearing and enclosure structure with a clear division of labor China's raised beam wooden frame structure as modern frame structure, in the plane can form a square or rectangular column network. The periphery of the column network, between the columns and columns, according to the need to build walls, doors and windows. As the wall does not bear the roof and floor load, which gives the building with great flexibility, can be made into a variety of doors and windows of different sizes of houses, can also be made into four sides of the ventilation, roof without walls of the pavilion, can also be made into a sealed warehouse. Inside the house between the columns, the grid fan, board walls, etc. made of lightweight partitions, can be installed or removed as needed. Chinese history, there are pre-production of structural components shipped to the site of the installation of the record, there are also a number of demolition of the shipment into the batch of palaces to rebuild the record. According to excavations at the Han Mingqi and Tang Chang'an sites, as well as dwellings in certain areas of the Qing Dynasty, there was a method of using beams and columns inside the house and load-bearing walls around it. The raised beam timber frame structure has been practiced for a long time and has become a common structural method in Chinese architecture. As for the wooden frame through the bucket type of column network processing is not as flexible as the beam lifting wooden structure, but in the load-bearing and enclosure structure of the division of labor is still the same.

2. Easy to adapt to different climatic conditions regardless of lifting beams or through the bucket type wooden frame houses, as long as the height of the house, walls and roof materials and thickness, the location of the window and the size of the change, will be able to adapt to a wide range of different climates in various regions of the cold and warm.

3. There is the possibility of reducing earthquake hazards wood frame structure due to the characteristics of wood, and the nodes used in the frame of the arch and mortise and tenon have a number of expansion and contraction, and thus within certain limits can reduce the hazards caused by the earthquake on this structure.

4. Material supply is more convenient Chinese wooden frame building in fire, corrosion, although there are serious shortcomings, but in most of ancient China, wood than masonry is easier to obtain local materials, can quickly and economically solve the problem of material supply, therefore, wood structure is still widely used in general construction, but also used for a variety of beams, cantilevered and arched bridges.