Chinese Architecture
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Traditional can be classified into four
categories: residential houses, royal palaces, recreational structures, and
temples. The basic feature of the is rectangularity-
shaped units of space joined together into a whole. Their style combines
rectangular shapes varying in size and position accor ....
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.... thousands of years.
Nails are not used when building a structure, which is different from us.
Wood to the Chinese respectes life, and “life” is the main thing in Chinese
culture. This feature has been preserved up to the present. Builders
would apply a lacquer to the wood to preserve it. These lacquers were made
in bold colors, and this became one of the key ways to identify Chinese
architecture. The highly varied color found on a traditional Chinese
building have a symbolic meaning to t ....
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