Why do we no longer build ancient buildings in China to live in?

A few main reasons:

First of all, the ancient buildings, whether they are courtyards or gardens, cannot meet the current density of occupancy. A courtyard house, which may occupy an area of 400 square meters, can only accommodate a dozen or twenty people, and the density in the city is much higher than this number at present.

Secondly, the family structure is different. The original house had a lot of places for servants and subordinates, but now this family structure has changed, and the original building does not conform to the current family structure.

Again, most of the original building materials were wooden and not fireproof.

The explanation of the so-called face-saving project is not reasonable, because even if the leader likes "Chinese-style architecture", as long as the first two items cannot be solved (even if the fire prevention problem can be solved), it is still impossible to build "Chinese-style architecture" in large quantities

First, there were no nails in ancient buildings, and some special means were used, which were more complicated and difficult, and there were not many people who mastered this technology in front of them. Now that there are nails, it's much more convenient than before, and I don't use it the same way before.

Second, no matter how high the ancient buildings are, they can't meet the current needs (there are too many people).

Third, the security of the previous house was not as high as it is now.

There are still a lot of things that I can't remember for a while.

Ancient houses are not as solid as modern ones!

With the continuous development of society. People's minds change, too.

The aesthetic threshold has also changed.

Besides, if the current house is the same as the ancient house. Now the engineer is going to drink the northwest wind.

That's all I have to think about at the moment. I'll tell you about it when I think of it.

It's a process of development. Now I learn more things from Western countries.

The idea of nature will have an impact. By the time of China's ordinary affluence.

The living conditions were met. Naturally, you'll want to get back a little bit of your own culture.

Now it's about economic efficiency, safety, and time saving.

Why don't you pass on the clothes of antiquity?

to the question above.

Think about the question you were in first.

You know why...

This is because most of the ancient Chinese buildings are civil engineering buildings, and their service life is affected by climate and other conditions, so it is difficult to preserve them for a long time.

Civil engineering architecture is characterized by the use of wood as the supporting structure for the perimeter and roof, the walls are filled with earthy bricks, and the roof is made of clay-fired tiles.

Because the supporting wood is subject to humidity and insect damage, it is usually only a few hundred years old at most. Once the timber is eroded, the supporting structure of the house is damaged, and the supporting capacity is weakened, the house will collapse, and such buildings are expensive to repair. Therefore, it is difficult to preserve China's civil engineering buildings that are more than 1,000 years old.

Western architecture, on the other hand, is mostly made of stone, which is less affected by the outside world and can be preserved for a long time.

Most of the ancient buildings are wooden frame structures or stone structures, due to the age, their safety performance has been greatly reduced, and they are no longer suitable for residential use, so they can only be used for tourism.

This is also left to future generations, the ancients lived, either because of the fame of the ancients for future generations to admire, or the building itself has its own characteristics of the times and was appreciated by future generations.

High-rise buildings are built with good load-bearing materials that can carry the overall weight of high-rise buildings. In ancient China, the main materials of construction were wood and stone, which could not meet the load-bearing requirements of high-rise buildings. It was not until 19C that steel bars and concrete began to be gradually used in building materials, and high-rise buildings began to appear.

The reason is that the toughness and load-bearing capacity of the steel bar can meet the load-bearing requirements of high-rise buildings.

In ancient China, there were attempts to build high-rise buildings, and the main manifestations were pagodas and pavilions all over the place. This is the most common high-rise building in ancient times.

In addition, the Colosseum is not a high-rise building, it is only built according to the topography, and the scale is relatively large.

As for the hierarchical distinction, you have seen that in ancient China, there were several commoners' mansions with large official mansions and imperial palaces, which can already be distinguished in terms of architecture.

That's it for my introduction, we can move on to it.

Is the imperial palace of the Qin and Han dynasties still low? That's what an atmospheric building.

In fact, there is not much difference in height. The height of the Taihe Hall in the Forbidden City is 39 meters, the Temple of Heaven is 38 meters, and the Colosseum in ancient Rome is 48 meters high, and the Pantheon in ancient Rome is 43 meters high, and the difference is not particularly big. The height of ancient Chinese buildings is not too high due to the influence of the structural system, and most of the ancient buildings left in the West are brick and stone buildings.

Temple buildings are limited by the maximum height of timber, and therefore in height. The masonry tower and wooden tower in the temple are different from the temple building, which can be stacked and raised, and the maximum height of the wood is not required, so it can be built higher. The tallest wooden tower in ancient times was the Yingxian Wooden Tower, which was 67 meters high.

Wooden buildings can't be built very high, and all European and Middle Eastern buildings are stone buildings, which are relatively tall and easy to preserve in the early days. This is also one of the significant differences between Eastern and Western civilizations.

Chinese architecture has a long history, dating back to the Hemudu culture more than 7,000 years agoHowever, the earliest ancient building we can see is the main hall of the Buddhist temple in the Tang Dynasty, which is only 1,000 years old.

Xiang Yu's burning of the Afang Palace and the excavation of the tomb of Qin Shi Huang are the best proof of thisThe change of dynasties and the chaos in the world made it a bad time for the royal gardens, not just for the Chinese. If you don't believe me, look at the Old Summer Palace. Needless to say.

It's obvious. From the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the ancient city walls of major ancient capitals, and then to the large-scale demolition and construction in recent decades. How many national treasure-level architectural relics have been destroyed in the word "demolition"?

Both Japan and North Korea are learning from the skills of our pastThese two countries have preserved many of the architectural forms that have become extinct. They have more volcanoes and **, and we don't need to reduce the war. However, the ancient architecture of their country is much better than ours in terms of integrity and authenticity.

In addition to the objective defects of traditional buildings in materials,The human factor is also extremely important. In the modern era with the rapid development of material civilization, we should arouse the awareness of national cultural protection, learn more from the successful experience of foreign countries, and not leave too many regrets.

The Opium War and the Northern Expedition, the War of Liberation, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and many wars in modern Chinese history have long blown up and burned ancient buildings. Moreover, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the four old buildings were destroyed, and the ancient buildings were demolished in order to build houses, and there were fewer ancient buildings.

Most of the buildings in our country are mainly made of wood, and the durability of wood is not that long.

The damage is too serious, and the sense of protection is too weak, and the relative building materials are not easy to preserve.

In fact, there are a lot of ancient buildings, but China's history is too long, and the population is large, the consumption is large, under the premise of the rapid development of the current society, some ancient buildings have seriously hindered the development of society, so it is inevitable to be eliminated by history, after all, the ancient buildings are mainly the witness of history and the wisdom of the people at that time, but history is history, if it is always overly constrained by history, I am afraid that the development of modernization can not be talked about.

That is, there are many ancient buildings in the West, hundreds of thousands of ancient castles and churches abound, but there are very few ancient buildings in China.

As for the royal family's construction that has not yet been preserved, we have to look at the next one.

Because they don't have much to think about, they don't have much to leave for future generations.

Due to the large population and large consumption, under the premise of the rapid development of the current society, some ancient buildings have seriously hindered the development of society, so it is inevitable to be eliminated by history.

The Chinese are an aggressive people, because the place is too large, the surrounding area is blocked by mountains and rivers, and there are very few ancient buildings in China.

At present, in the maintenance of ancient buildings, the value of cultural relics possessed by it is often not well understood, and there are often arbitrary replacement of components, new paintings, and even changes the original shape and structure of the building, so as to cause damage to cultural relics, and this damage is called protective destruction. The reasons for this are as follows:

The cultural relics and modern buildings are treated as the same, and it is believed that since they are repaired, they should be thoroughly repaired in order to be completely new and once and for all, so as to make a big move and change the components. This phenomenon is most likely to occur during the repair of ancient buildings used by non-cultural relics departments such as religion (temples), tourism, and gardens; Sometimes it is caused by the unreasonable intervention of the local administrative leaders due to the lack of awareness of cultural relics.

It is believed that the earlier the construction age of the ancient building, the more valuable it is, so the shape, structure, materials and production process of the building are often artificially unified to the condition of the original construction age during the repair, thus causing the damage to the ancient building that was rebuilt later. In fact, this understanding of "the sooner the more valuable" is a complete misunderstanding of the value of ancient buildings. A part that has been rebuilt through many eras has cultural value, but the importance is different.

Superstition of new materials and new technologies, abuse of new materials and new technologies.

During the renovation design, the ancient buildings were looked at with the aesthetics of modern people, and the original building style and unreasonable structure were changed. The above points boil down to a lack of comprehensive understanding of the value of ancient architectural relics. Another is caused by the lack of knowledge and improper protection of relevant personnel, such as the construction of some protective buildings, which changes the original environment of ancient buildings and causes damage such as weathering and corrosion of cultural relics; Planting trees and grass around ancient buildings may also cause a similar phenomenon.

In short, Envision Design and Research Institute suggests that when repairing and protecting ancient buildings, we should keep in mind that we are not only protecting the ancient buildings themselves, but more importantly, the value of cultural relics embodied through this entity. Once the entity is destroyed, its artifact value disappears, and it becomes impossible to reproduce it.

Please cherish the precious historical legacy left by our ancestors.

Poor protection and poor utilization.

(1) Choose a good base site.

Regardless of towns, villages, houses, and ancestral halls, they all investigate the topography, landform, vegetation, hydrology, microclimate, environmental capacity, etc., through "Bu Zhai" and "Xiangdi", and then make a choice.

2) Adapt measures to local conditions.

That is, with the high terrain, the wide and narrow base site, as well as the situation of rivers, hills, and roads, buildings and villages and towns should be arranged as appropriate. Therefore, there are many scattered village masterpieces in the mountains of our country, and the wonderful dwellings of the water towns and rivers are good, and the famous mountains of Buddhism and Taoism have countless miraculous strokes of the buildings that depend on the mountains and the situation.

3) Remediation of the environment.

That is, to supplement and adjust the deficiencies of the environment to ensure the quality of life of the occupants. For example, opening ponds and drainage, building embankments and weirs, planting forests and building bridges, and building buildings and museums can meet the needs of water supply, drainage, transportation, defense, fire protection, sacrifice, and entertainment. In other words, people are not completely passive to the environment, but should be properly processed.

4) Psychological compensation.

In addition to the above-mentioned environmental remediation, literary and feng shui means are also used to compensate. For example, many villages, towns and cities have "eight scenes", "twelve scenes", "twenty scenes" ......Each scene bears a poetic name and is celebrated with various plaques, inscriptions and poems to enhance the attraction and cohesion of the local area; For example, people are driven by the psychology of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, and are at the mercy of feng shui masters, or determine the layout of houses and roads, or add town objects such as "Taishan Stone Dare to Dang" and gossip mirrors, in order to resolve the evil. Both of these measures are designed to meet the need for psychological balance.

The green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the Vermilion Bird in the front, and the Xuanwu in the back. That is, the back is against the mountain, the front is near the water, and the feng shui treasure land.

Ancient Chinese architecture places great emphasis on the relationship with the environment, and the so-called "unity of man and nature" embodies the idea of harmony between man and the environment. In the concept of Feng Shui with witchcraft overtones, there is also a relationship between man and the living environment, and there is a supernatural understanding of the direction of the mountains and the location of the river, so as to make this supernatural thing related to the good fortune and misfortune of man. The so-called "looking up at astronomy, looking down at geography, taking everything from close to the body, and taking everything from afar" is the ideal and belief that people and the environment develop in accordance with local conditions and in harmony.

We can feel the embodiment of this belief in a large number of poems and texts in ancient Chinese literature that praise pavilions, platforms, buildings and pavilions, such as "A Fang Gong Fu", "The Story of Yueyang Tower", "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" and "Dream of Red Mansions" about the Grand View Garden, all of which have left us with a deep impression of the harmony between architecture and the environment, and we can also get on-the-ground confirmation in the temples, palaces, houses and gardens that remain in China.