Ancient Chinese garden architecture plays a decorative and beautifying role in the window is called what

It is an ancient Chinese garden architecture, window of a form of decoration and beautification, both with practical function, but also with decorative effect.

Flower window refers to the complexity of the imagery, clever composition, carving exquisite works. Mostly seen in classical Chinese architecture, in modern architecture is still widely used, but more retro style, to reflect a certain cultural heritage window, from the architectural sense, refers to the roof or wall construction of the holes to allow light and air into the interior.

The original "window" is called "chimney" is the human cave age in the cave roof or wall cut to stay in the small hole, can be light, ventilation, smoke. Later, human beings out of the cave to build houses, open window holes in the wall, called the lattice, the Eastern Han Xu Shen "Shuowen Jiezi" said, "in the wall is said to lattice, in the house is said to chimney. Window, or from the cave." We often see in the ancient architecture of the book "Households and lattices", that is, refers to the doors and windows.