How to understand the differences between Chinese and western architectural aesthetic values?

Fundamentally speaking, the difference between Chinese and western architectural art comes from the difference of materials: traditional western architecture has long been dominated by stone; Traditional oriental architecture has always been framed by wood. Different building materials provide different possibilities for their own architectural art.

Before the emergence of modern architecture, all mature building systems in the world, including Indian buildings belonging to oriental architecture, were basically built with masonry as the main building material, belonging to masonry structure system.

Different building materials, different cultures and societies make Chinese and western ancient architecture have different artistic expressions. Different nationalities have different cultures and show different emotions; Different materials create different buildings and show different beliefs. The artistic style of western classical architecture focuses on the beauty of confrontation between man and nature.

Stone, concrete and other building materials are hard and cold in texture, rational in color and lacking in human touch. China traditional architecture pays special attention to "linear beauty", pays attention to the smoothness, flow and rhythm of lines, and is good at modeling with lines and expressing feelings with lines.