Why is the most mysterious family in China's architectural history called Style Thunder?

Because at the end of the 17th century, Lei Fada, a southern craftsman, came to Beijing to take part in building palaces. Because of his superb skills, he was quickly promoted to design. From him to the end of Qing Dynasty, major royal buildings such as palaces, imperial tombs, Yuanmingyuan and Summer Palace were all in the charge of Lei. This hereditary family of architects is called "Style Thunder".

Leijia's ancestral home was in Yongxiu, Jiangxi Province. From the first generation of Leijia developed from Jiangning (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) to Beijing in the Kangxi period, to the death of the seventh generation of Leiting Tingchang in the last years of Guangxu, Leijia had seven generations to design and build palaces, gardens, tombs, offices and temples for the royal family.

For generations, the Lei family was the chief architect of the Qing Dynasty-style houses (in today's words, the chief architect), which was honored as "Style Lei" by the world, and also known as "Style Lei" in colloquial language. Extended information

The Style Lei family is of great significance to the protection and research of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City

They corrected the traditional concept of "pure experience" of the craftsmen of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City. In the traditional concept, the beautiful shape and exquisite structure of the ancient buildings in China, including the Forbidden City, are purely due to the rich experience of craftsmen, and it is not believed that craftsmen also have the ability to organize and express words and images.

A large number of hot samples left by the Style Lei family provide rich drawings, drawings and hot samples of the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City from design to construction, which shows that China ancient architects not only have good construction skills, but also have the ability to express drawings and three-dimensional models.

Style thunder has changed the disadvantage of "seeing things but not people" in China's ancient architectural tradition. Due to historical reasons, there was no systematic monograph on architectural theory in ancient China, and its exposition was scattered in various literary and historical classics. When introducing the great achievements of China's architecture, architects were rarely mentioned.

The scalding model preserved by the Style Lei family gives people clear information, which is convenient for people to understand and study the design concepts of the Forbidden City, Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace and the Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty. Seven generations of the Style Lei family presided over the design of various royal buildings in the Qing Dynasty, which reflected rich architectural ideas and was called the most powerful royal design family. Their stories have become legends.

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