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Taoist temples and monasteries: 觀 guàn or 道觀 dàoguàn; and; Chinese Buddhist temples and monasteries: 寺 sì or 寺院 sìyuàn; Temple of Confucius which usually functions as both temple and town school: 文廟 wénmiào or 孔廟 kŏngmiào. Temples of City God (城隍廟), which worships the patron God of a village, town or a city.
The Temple's historical architectural complex, standing out for its great aesthetic value and its profound cultural connotations, has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Apart from its contribution to the development of Chinese Buddhism, as well as for its historical, cultural, and artistic heritage, the temple is famous for its ...
[1] [5] Temple may have picked up the term from a Dutchman who once lived in the East Indies. [6] Horace Walpole associates the term with irregularity, asymmetry, and freedom from the rigid conventions of classical design; by the time it was used by Walpole it had become a common term in the lexicon of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory. [7] [8]
In 2014, the city of Datong started to rebuild the Datong ancient city wall and buildings in traditional architecture, although received skepticism and opposition by citizens by then, many praised the mayor for bringing back traditional Chinese aesthetics later on. [13].Starting with the Northern Wei dynasty 1,600 years ago, Datong was a ...
Yiu Ming Temple (Chinese: 要明廟) is a heritage-listed Chinese temple at 16–22 Retreat Street, Alexandria, New South Wales, an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia.Built in 1908–1909, Yiu Ming Temple is one of the oldest surviving Chinese temples in Australia and a globally rare intact example of the traditional Chinese village temple form.
Apart from stimulating the development of urban areas, temples and religious buildings featured a number of unique aesthetic and structural features. The Temple of the Saintly Mother (圣母殿) and the Hall of Sacrifice of the Jin Temple (晋祠), located in a southeastern suburb of Taiyuan City, Shanxi province, are extant examples of early ...
The Longxing Temple — built in 1052 and located at present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province, China — has a hip-and-gable xieshan-style roof with double eaves. [1]The East Asian hip-and-gable roof (Xiēshān (歇山) in Chinese, Paljakjibung (팔작지붕) in Korean and Irimoya (入母屋) in Japanese) also known as 'resting hill roof', consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides ...
A Chinese pavilion (Chinese 亭, pinyin tíng) is a garden pavilion in traditional Chinese architecture. While often found within temples , pavilions are not exclusively religious structures. Many Chinese parks and gardens feature pavilions to provide shade and a place to rest.