Dry goods of ancient Chinese architecture|Characteristics of ancient building materials and structures
Ancient Chinese architecture is mainly wood, combined with earth, brick, stone and other main building materials, combined with geographical conditions, local materials, local conditions, according to local conditions. Therefore, in terms of structural form, there are mainly wooden structures, mixed structures (brick-wood structures, civil structures, stone-wood structures), and a small number of pure masonry structures that do not use wood, such as bridges, mausoleums, underground palaces, beamless halls, etc. There are also purely raw earth structures, such as the caves in the northwest.
In the northern plains, wood, earth and brick mixed structures are mostly used, and in the southern hilly areas, wood, brick and stone mixed structures are mostly used. In areas where timber is abundant, some of them are made of all timber. In the Loess Plateau area, there are pure earth structures of raw earth buildings - caves.
The structural forms mainly include beam lifting type, bucket type, well dry type, dry type and so on.
