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Covered Corridor
The covered corridor represents a typical architectural style in Chinese landscape gardening.A long,bell-like structure,it is a roofed walk with low railings or long side benches.Providing people with...
Water Vat
In the courtyards of palaces and imperiral gardens water vats are seen standing not far from the main buildings.In their time they were filled with water against the emergency of a fire.In winter they...
Screen Wall
Foreign visitors may have noticed the isolated wall either outside or just inside the gate of a traditional Chinese house to shield the rooms from outsider's view.Known as a screen wallin English,it i...
Stupas and Pagodas
Stupas appeared in China with the import of Buddhism and,during a long history of well over a thousand years,have become a valued part of the national Buddhist art. Stupa,a word from ancient Sanskrit ...
The Chinese Quadrangle
Traditionally most urban Chinese used to live in quadrangles called siheyuan orfour-side enclosed courtyards.These courts,as the name implies,are formed by inward-facing houses on four sides,closed in...
Grand Canal of China
The Grand Canal,which cuts a 2,700-kilometre-long course from Beijing in the north to Hangzhou in the south,is extolled as a great water conservancy project of ancient China.It is also one of the long...