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Near Linjiang ancient temple, what comes into our view is the beautiful mountain gate of two floors, surrounded by the colorful painted tiles and brims, cardinal pillars, and elegant colorful paintings. They are simple and unsophisticated and novel, solemn and elegant, giving off the thick cultural sense. What a distinctive and excellent work in the architecture history! On both sides of the gate, there crouch a couple of two-meter-height and vivid stone lions, the engraving of which is so delicate. |
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The chapiters below the brims look in complicacy but in order. The recorded information read that these wooden structures also named as bracket. The bracket of Piludian Hall is in the shape of five shops, dual copy closer made. Tween brackets were single copy closer made, the Aung was bamboo cutting style, and the nose and down-aung were nearly the same as the Chinese traditional wooden timberwork building. The framework supported the whole building and brackets supported the brims, such structure originally appeared in Qin and Han Dynasties, being used most in Tang and Song Dynasties and stopped to be used in Ming and Qing Dynasties. |
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Pavilion is the most distinctive ancient architecture in China. In Song Dynasty, so many people built pavilions in gardens. As for the specific location of the pavilion, national landscape would be taken into consideration to demonstrate different landscapes. Simple pavilions are bamboo pavilion, thatched pavilion, trunk-made pavilion and others, might built out of the reason that many writers got together there, or out of the national powers in Tang and Song Dynasties. The sorts of pavilions in Song Dynasty have been increased, even there emerged bridge pavilion, whose ridge was shaped like a word, covered by the glazed tiles, splendid and charming. |
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Due to the structures of the ancient architectures in China, the windows are of more aesthetic functions rather restricted. Limitation of people's sights is skillfully took advantage of to increase the changeable space and to be of misty poetry. When people look from one side they can look through to the other side, forming a parallel but implicit scene. Illusion of people's sights is took advantage of to expand the scene coverage. Open one window, the sunlight fall though and in, casting down spotted pictures on the floor and inter-projecting with the wavy bamboo shadow. As a result of that, the feeling of being shut from the outside world will disappear away with the beautiful scene. Such enchanting landscape in garden is of infinitude charm to be lingered on. |
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