page_title: Ancient Chinese wooden architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Ancient Chinese wooden architecture
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context_page_description: Ancient Chinese wooden architecture is among the least studied of any of the world's great architectural traditions from the western point of view. Although Chinese architectural history reaches far back in time, descriptions of Chinese architecture are often confined to the well known Forbidden City with little else explored by the West. Although common features of Chinese architecture have been unified into a vocabulary illustrating uniquely Chinese forms and methods, until recently data has not been available. Because of the lack of knowledge of the roots of Chinese architecture, description of its elements is often translated into Western terms and architectural theory, losing its unique Chinese meanings.
  A cause of this deficiency is that the two most important Chinese government architecture
  manuals, the Song Dynasty Yingzao Fashi and Qing Architecture Standards have never being translated into any western language.
context_section_description: Ancient Chinese wooden architecture is among the least studied of any of the world's great architectural traditions from the western point of view. Although Chinese architectural history reaches far back in time, descriptions of Chinese architecture are often confined to the well known Forbidden City with little else explored by the West. Although common features of Chinese architecture have been unified into a vocabulary illustrating uniquely Chinese forms and methods, until recently data has not been available.  Because of the lack of knowledge of the roots of Chinese architecture, description of its elements is often translated into Western terms and architectural theory, losing its unique Chinese meanings.
  A cause of this deficiency is that the two most important Chinese government architecture
  manuals, the Song Dynasty Yingzao Fashi and Qing Architecture Standards have never being translated into any western language.
caption: Diagram of bracket and cantilever arms from the building manual Yingzao Fashi (published in 1103) of the Song Dynasty
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