Yingzao Fashi
To spread and share his understandings and appreciation of Chinese architecture, and most importantly, to help save its diminishing building technologies, Liang published his first book, "Qing Structural Regulations" in 1934. The book was on the study of the methods and rules of Qing architecture with the 1734 Qing Architecture Regulation and several other ancient manuals as the textbook, the carpenters as teachers, and the Forbidden City in Beijing as teaching material. Since its publication, for more than seven decades, this book has become a standard textbook for anyone who wants to understand the essence of ancient Chinese architecture. Liang considered the study of "Qing Structural Regulation" as a stepping stone to the much more daunting task of studying the Song dynasty "Yingzao Fashi" ("Treatise on Architectural Methods"), due to the large number of specialist terms used in that manual differing substantially from the Qing dynasty architectural terminology.