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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 ...
Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilized in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand-year-long period, significant innovations and variations of homes existed, but house design generally ...
A fundamental achievement of Chinese wooden architecture is the load-bearing timber frame, a network of interlocking wooden supports forming the skeleton of the building. 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 ...
The four buildings of a siheyuan are normally positioned along the north–south and east–west axis. The building positioned to the north and facing the south is considered the main house (正房, zhèngfáng). The buildings adjoining the main house and facing east and west are called side houses (廂房, xiāngfáng).
Category:Chinese architectural history is the history of Chinese architecture. Seven thousand years ago, people in south China were using mortise and tenon to build wood frame houses. The oldest sites are at Hemudu in Zhejiang In the Neolithic period (6000 – 2000 BCE).
The Yunyan Pagoda, 47 m (154 ft) in height, built in 961 AD. The Liaodi Pagoda of Hebei, 84 m (276 ft) in height, built in 1055 during the Northern Song. Following the reign of the Han dynasty, (202 BC–220 AD), the idea of the Buddhist stupa entered Chinese culture as a means to house and protect scriptural sutras.
Paifang come in a number of forms. One form involves placing wooden pillars onto stone bases, which are bound together with wooden beams. This type of paifang is always beautifully decorated, with the pillars usually painted in red, the beams decorated with intricate designs and Chinese calligraphy, and the roof covered with coloured tiles, complete with mythical beasts—just like a Chinese ...
Zhu saw this archive as one of the keystones in research of the ancient Chinese architecture design, as well as the Song Treatise on Architectural Methods (Yingzao Fashi) and Qing Official Manual of Constructional Engineering, due to its large scale and coverage on each step of building design. Research in the stage first catalogued the ...