People in the Renaissance thought that music was superior to architecture, so it was the architect's goal to give architecture a harmonious proportion as accurate as music. Mr. Liang Sicheng, an architectural theorist and architect in China and the founder of modern architecture in China, believes that the rhythm, rhythm, form and feeling of architecture are similar to music.
He once pointed out: "Almost all buildings, whether horizontal or vertical, have their own rhythm and rhythm. If we analyze it, we can see that the rhythm and rhythm of architecture are sometimes very similar to music.
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Architecture reflects people's activities in a certain time and space.
Compared with the masonry structure system of western ancient buildings, the biggest feature of ancient buildings in China is the wood structure system. One of the advantages of this wood structure is its strong earthquake resistance. The wooden pagoda in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province was built in the second year of Liao Qingning (1056). It has a history of more than 900 years. Despite so many earthquakes, it still stands, which fully proves the seismic capacity of the wood structure.
As far as architectural form is concerned, the most prominent feature of ancient architecture in China is the unique big roof and bucket arch in China.
Roofs have different structures and forms, including four types of roofs, namely, hall type, two-part mountain type, hanging mountain type and hard mountain type, which respectively represent houses of different levels from high to low.
The hall roof of the Forbidden City can be decorated with cormorants. The residence of officials above level 5 can only use the top of the mountain normally, and the residence of officials below level 6 and the residence of civilians can only use the top of the mountain normally. The main hall of the meridian gate adopts the roof of hip hall and Taihe gate.
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