The spatial consciousness of China traditional architecture is also closely related to the cosmology. Why?

The spatial consciousness of China traditional architecture is closely related to the world view. The "architecture" recognized by China people is a man-made "universe".

China's simple world outlook in ancient times came from the house where they lived. It is conceivable that the ancient people in China gradually formed a sense of time and space in the process of building houses or living houses. In the farming era, it is impossible for people to live in a big house, and it is impossible to imagine the universe as a big house. The universe perceived and imagined by ancient people is actually the house they live in, just imagining it as huge and boundless. Then, from the infinite space where the light beam reaches, the imagination of time is triggered, and the infinite space where the light beam reaches is infinite time. In the understanding of ancestors, the universe is the amplification and expansion of architecture, and architecture is the style and mode of the universe.

At least since the Qin and Han Dynasties, China's architecture has a cultural mind that imitates the natural universe. Therefore, once the economic conditions, building materials and technical level permit, people will pour their knowledge of the natural universe into the construction of palaces and build as grand a building as possible to symbolize the size of the natural universe.

The original meaning of "universe" refers to architecture. "Yu": eaves. Go up to the next building and wait for the storm. From the perspective of the natural universe, heaven and earth are a huge house, that is, Huainanzi said: "The universe is everywhere, and the past is the mainstay."

For generations, people have lived under the protection of this big house, both physically and mentally protected by it. China's architectural culture clearly embodies the grand and profound concept of time and space that "the universe is architecture and architecture is the universe".

The ancient world outlook is inseparable from the ancient architecture in China. The universe that the ancients in China knew and realized was derived from ancient buildings, and their own world view was established from man-made buildings.