Stone Que in Han Dynasty, referred to as Han Que for short, is a tower-shaped decorative building in Han Dynasty, which is usually built on both sides of roads as a sign of the entrance of cities, palaces, temples, yamen and tombs. To strengthen the grand sense of the whole building complex.
Que, the Eastern Han Dynasty explained: "On both sides of the door, the central que is the Tao." The Book of Songs is the first record in literature. In Han Dynasty, the imperial tombs prevailed, including city tombs, palace tombs, mansion tombs, temple tombs and tombs. It is the earliest and best preserved ancient surface building in China, with a history of nearly 2,000 years. It can be called a national treasure. Hanque, known as the stone "Hanshu", is a "living fossil" of ancient architecture in China.
Dahan Dynasty is a distant and mysterious dynasty, and its vague figure always leads to numerous speculations and associations of modern people. The Han dynasty was integrated with the world, closely related to the people, and the productivity developed rapidly. As an epic of ancestors in Han Dynasty, architecture has also written an unprecedented brilliant chapter.
Que is an extremely important architectural image in the ancient architectural system of China. Que belongs to the form of "palace gate", that is, a symmetrical building built in front of buildings such as palace gate or mausoleum, and the open space between the two que is the road leading to the building behind Que. Its structure is that there is no door leaf in the middle, "que" and "que" are interlinked, and there is a section of "que is Tao" between them, which is also the origin of its name.
The Han Dynasty was the heyday of building Que, and capitals, palaces, tombs, temples, government offices, official residences, cemeteries and people with certain status can all build Que according to certain grades. The East Que and the North Que of Weiyang Palace in Chang 'an City in the Western Han Dynasty, and the Phoenix Que and the Round Que of Zhangjian Palace are all famous in history. Legend has it that the Phoenix Que is more than 20 feet high. Except for the rammed earth site in Fengque, these giant tombs have been destroyed, except for some small stone temples and tombs in the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Western Jin Dynasty, the highest of which is only 6 meters.
Han que generally has three parts: abutment, que body and roof, which have decorative and dazzling effects. According to its location, the que can be divided into palace que, altar temple que, tomb temple que, city que and national gate que. They are located in palaces, temples, tombs, city gates and ancient country gates.
Among the existing caves, 25 are basically intact, including Sichuan 16, Henan, Shandong and Beijing 1, all of which are carved from stones. Four of them are temples, and the rest are official tombs. From the shape point of view, there are two kinds of single eaves and side eaves, each of which is divided into single eaves and double eaves. Double eaves are better than single eaves, and mother and son are better than single eaves. These structures can be divided into wood-like structures and earth-rock structures.
The concentration of the Han Que group is a symbol of the grandeur of the Han Dynasty, the power of local giants and the physical witness of the brilliant culture of the Han Dynasty. These majestic Han Que not only solidified the beauty of this era, but also brought people's memories back to that magnificent era.