A brief description of the architectural pattern of cities and towns in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods

During the Spring and Autumn Period, due to the use of iron tools and plowing oxen, the level of social productivity was greatly improved, the private land of the nobles appeared in large quantities, the well-field system of the slave society increasingly collapsed, and feudal production relations began to appear, and then the handicrafts and commerce developed accordingly, and the construction technology also developed greatly, especially the application of iron tools-axe, saw, awl and chisel, which contributed to the wooden frame. Building construction quality and structural technology greatly improved. Tiles and tiles were widely used in palace buildings, and there was the practice of painting vermilion color on the tiles. Bricks for decoration also appeared. Particularly prominent in the underground built in the chamber, with a length of about 1 meter, about 30 to 40 centimeters wide large hollow bricks for the tomb wall and the bottom of the tomb, the top of the tomb is still using wood as a cover.

1, Spring and Autumn period, the architectural development is the universal use of tile and the emergence of high platform building as the vassal's palace (or Taishe). Palace rooms are mostly Taishe-style buildings, with stepped rammed earth platform as the core, leaning on the platform layer by layer to build wooden houses, with the help of the platform, in order to polymerization of single-storey houses, forming a similar multi-storey large-scale building appearance.

2, China as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period has begun the history of brick. Example: from Shanxi Houma Jin old capital, Henan Luoyang East Zhou old city, Shaanxi Fengxiang Qin Yongcheng site, but also unearthed a 36 cm X 14 cm X 6 cm brick as well as hard texture, the surface of the patterned hollow bricks (both for the greenish gray bricks)

3, Spring and Autumn period, the vassals for the sake of political and military domination and the life of the need for enjoyment, the construction of a large number of high platforms official room; example: (generally) In the city rammed several meters high to more than 10 meters of earth platform several, above the building of halls and houses). Such as Houma Jin old capital of Xintian site in the rammed earth platform, an area of 75 meters X 75 meters, more than 7 meters high, high platform on the wooden frame building no longer exists.

4, with the increasing pursuit of the lords of the palace ornate, architectural decoration and color is more developed, such as the "Analects of Confucius" described as "mountain section algae clubs" (bucket on the painting of the mountains, beams on the short columns painted algae text), the "Zuo Zhuan" recorded Duke Lu Zhuang "Dan carpet" (red columns) The "Zuo Zhuan" records that Duke Lu Zhuang "Dan pillar" (red pillar), "carve jue" (carved rafters), is an example.

It is rumored that the famous carpenter Gongboban (Lu Ban) was the master craftsman who emerged during the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Warring States period, the further improvement of social productive forces and changes in the relations of production, promoting the development of the feudal economy. Crafts and commerce developed further, cities prospered and grew in size, and there was a climax of urban architecture.

More cities and palaces appeared in the Warring States period. Warring States capital city generally have a large and small two cities, the big city, also known as Guo, is a residential area, which is closed for the coccyx and centralized city; small city is the palace city, built a large number of Taipai. At this time the roof has been a large number of the use of green tile cover, late began to appear ceramic railings and drainpipes, etc..

According to archaeological excavations, the former capital of Qi during the Warring States period, Linzi City, north-south length of about 5 kilometers, east-west width of about 4 kilometers, the big city scattered with iron smelting, iron casting, bone-making workshops and the longitudinal streets. The southwest corner of the city has a small city, in which the rammed earth platform up to 14 meters high, there are also many workshops around.