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2. Ancient Chinese wooden architecture - Wikipedia

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   This is considered China's major contribution to worldwide architectural technology. However, it is not known how the builders got the huge wooden support columns into position. Unlike western architecture, in ancient Chinese wooden architecture, the wall only defined an enclosure, and did not form a load-bearing element.

3. Traditional Chinese house architecture - Wikipedia

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   Notable exceptions to the ubiquitous use of wood include the Yaodong, the traditional homes of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces which were cut into soft loess rocks into mountainsides, [9] Lingnan architecture, which is generally of green brick construction, [7] and the Tulou, traditional Hakka walled villages in Fujian and Guangdong which were ...

4. Chinese Cabinets in Schönbrunn Palace - Wikipedia

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   This inspired them to redecorate the Schönrunn's Chinese Cabinets. In the second phase of reconstruction (1755–60) both cabinets received their current appearance with the white painted wooden panelling, the so-called boiseries, and the thin wooden gilded Rococo ornaments. On consoles on the walls, porcelain figures, vases and vessels were ...

5. Chinese furniture - Wikipedia

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   Hong suanzhi wood: 紅酸枝木: Dalbergia: Reddish coloured woods that have a sour/acrid smell when freshly cut. The woods are typically from Dalbergia bariensis, D. cearensis, D. cochinchinensis, D. frulescensvar, D. granadillo, D. oliveri, and D. retusa: Hei suanzhi wood: 黑酸枝木: Dark coloured woods that have a sour/acrid smell when ...

6. Cabinetry - Wikipedia

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   Cabinets are typically made of wood (solid or with veneers or artificial surfaces), coated steel (common for medicine cabinets), or synthetic materials. Commercial grade cabinets usually have a melamine-particleboard substrate and are covered in a high-pressure decorative laminate commonly referred to as Wilsonart or Formica.

7. Tang dynasty art - Wikipedia

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   The Tang dynasty saw the maturity of the landscape painting tradition known as shanshui (mountain-water) painting, which became the most prestigious type of Chinese painting, especially when practiced by amateur scholar-official or "literati" painters in ink-wash painting. In these landscapes, usually monochromatic and sparse, the purpose was ...