Characteristics of Xi 'an Ancient Buildings

The ancient buildings in Xi 'an are represented by the Ming City Wall, taking the Bell and Drum Tower and the Big and Small Wild Goose Pagoda as examples, with wooden bricks as the main building materials and wooden frame structure as the main structural mode.

Mainly in civil engineering, it is related to the artistic conception of "love wood" in China's traditional ancient buildings. Even if the ancient buildings left behind are masonry structures, a considerable part of them are imitation wood, such as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi 'an. With the passage of time, civil buildings are prone to decay and moth-eaten, and are flammable and have poor water resistance.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Jinchangfang (now southwest of Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province) in Chang 'an in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "Ci 'en Temple Pagoda". In order to preserve the Buddhist scriptures that Tianzhu brought back to Chang 'an via the Silk Road, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built. At first, it had five floors, with a back cover of nine floors. After several changes in floors and heights, it was finally fixed as the seven-storey pagoda seen today, with a total height of 64.55438+07 meters and a bottom length of 25.5 meters.

The construction of Wild Goose Pagoda is the result of the introduction of Pagoda, an architectural form of ancient Indian Buddhism, into China with the spread of Buddhism. The Wild Goose Pagoda is one of the symbols preserved in Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty.

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Xi is the first batch of excellent tourist cities in China, and its cultural remains are characterized by high resource density, good preservation and high level. In China 155 basic types of tourism resources, Xi tourism resources account for 89.

Around Xi 'an, there are 72 imperial tombs, including Qin Shihuang Mausoleum, Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Capital Ruins, Western Han1mausoleum, Tang1mausoleum, and more than 700 ancient buildings, such as Wild Goose Pagoda, Bell and Drum Tower and ancient city walls.

The west and south walls of Xi 'an City are basically the same as those of Chang 'an Imperial City in Tang Dynasty, and the east and north walls expand outward by about one third. The wall is 12m high, 12- 14m wide at the top and 15m wide at the bottom. The city is rectangular. The south wall is 4255 meters long, the north wall is 4262 meters long, the east wall is 1886 meters long, and the west wall is 2708 meters long, with a circumference of about 13.7 kilometers.

There are gates on all sides of the city, and the tower of each gate has three floors: the tower is outside, the arrow tower is in the middle, and the main building is at the innermost, which is the main entrance of the city. The watchtower and the main building are connected by fences to form an urn. Build a turret at every corner of the city wall. There are 98 enemy platforms (horse faces and piers) on the city wall every 120 meters, and enemy towers are built on the platforms for soldiers to shelter from the wind and rain and store materials.

There are 5,984 spies (battlements) on the outside of the top of the city wall, with battlements and mouths for archery and lookout, and a female wall without battlements on the inside to prevent pedestrians from falling. There is a moat around the city.