Terrace: single-layer soil terrace, also known as "altar"
Platform: heavy platform.
Pavilion: a roof, exposed columns and fences built on a platform.
Xuan: A corridor attached to a palace building.
Floor porch: there are corridors on the upper and lower floors of desktop buildings and on each floor of multi-storey buildings.
Que: It is a high-rise building on both sides of the entrance of the palace, used for observation.
Chuyuanluo construction
★ The tower is towering.
High-rise buildings in Chu can best reflect the characteristics and technical level of Chu architecture, and occupy an important position in the architectural history of China.
It would be nice to build a platform for the king of Chu. Among them, the most famous is Zhang Huatai. "Old Things" contains: "The first (successful) king took the stage in the harem, and everyone in the palace looked up." Li Bai also has a poem: "Qu Ping's Ci Fu hangs the sun and the moon, and the king of Chu sets up an empty hill." It can be seen that the palace buildings in Chu are towering, which reflects the strong upward vitality of Chu people.
The reason for the formation of Chu highland is inseparable from its hot summer, abundant rainfall, dense water network, numerous lakes and high groundwater level.
The high-rise buildings in Chu are the first in later generations, which have an important influence on the high-rise buildings after Qin and Han Dynasties. The Qintai, Yuji Palace and Qingchuan Pavilion built in Wuhan in the Song Dynasty are examples.
Chugaotai architecture
★ The architectural style of dry column is unique.
Gan Lan architecture is a famous architectural style of Chu State, which is characterized by overhead on the first floor and residence on the second floor, with bamboo-wood structure as the main structure.
Gan Lan-style buildings are more common in Chu State, such as "evoking spirits" and "sitting on the railing of a hall and facing the Quchi". Because of the developed water system in Chu State, there are mixed buildings with tall buildings and dry fences on the water.
Chuganlan architecture is the main architectural form of Chu people, paying attention to the high coordination with nature and respecting nature, which fully embodies the realm of "harmony between man and nature".
Tujia and Miao people in southern China still use Gan Lan architecture.
Dry column building
★ Like to use wood
In terms of building materials, Chu people like to use wood. Wood gives people implicit and deep natural beauty, light weight, tenacity and easy processing. Just in line with the cultural character of Chu people. In addition, Chu is rich in wood resources, so wood has become the first choice for architecture in Chu.
★ advocate "harmony between man and nature"
Chu architecture pays special attention to the cultural spirit of harmony between man and nature, and the idea of "harmony between man and nature" runs through the design, construction and decoration of Chu architecture.
Taking Chu Museum as an example, the museum is quite open, and the space inside and outside the building circulates and permeates, pursuing the closeness with nature; In modeling, the corridor railings on each floor are surrounded by horizontal eaves, so as to weaken the sense of vertical height in body shape and make them look back at the earth from time to time, as if they have incomparable attachment to the earth; The use of local curves on the roof, the ridge and the decoration avoids the dull and cold shape, and it is beautifully embedded in nature, as if it were a part of heaven and earth, which fully embodies people's yearning and reverence for nature.
The architectural concept of "harmony between man and nature" is the central idea of ancient Chu architecture and the profound embodiment of Chu people's ethics, aesthetics, values and nature.
Chu garden architecture
★ The color is still red and black.
The buildings in Chu are mostly red and black.
Chu people love red because of their ancient totem concept and ancestor worship consciousness. Red is the color of fire, symbolizing the south and the color of life. And black refers to the north, and red and black mean harmony between yin and yang.
In the architectural decoration of Chu, the strong contrast between red and black is the theme tone, and then colorful, gorgeous, colorful and gorgeous are used on this tone to strangely combine the shock of the soul with the enjoyment of the senses.
The typical red and black decorative color of Chu State.
★ Flying personality
The architectural decoration of Chu State is unrestrained and gorgeous, such as the shape of a staghorn crane and the snake-shaped head, all of which show a free and unrestrained artistic charm and are pleasing to the eye.
A unique tomb beast
Weird-looking staghorn crane
The humanistic spirit connotation of Jingchu architecture is "atmosphere, compatibility, publicity and agility", the aesthetic mood is "solemn and romantic, magnificent and delicate, gorgeous and quiet, natural and exquisite", and there are six styles of Jingchu school architecture.
1, Gao Taiji
Hubei is a province with thousands of lakes and a rainy and humid climate.
2. Deep eaves
Jingchu land is hot in summer and cold in winter, mostly in the form of sunshade and rain protection.
Hubei blends east, west, north and south, and all kinds of buildings have an impact on Hubei.
3. Beautiful gables
4. ingenious structure
Hubei people are flexible in the face of complex building structures.
5. Fine decoration
The interior and exterior decoration of the building is the embodiment that Chu people like luxury and enjoy life.
6. Red, yellow and black
Chu people's ancient totem concept, ancestor worship consciousness, and the embodiment of the custom of respecting red, black and Feng Ming.
Jingchu's style is "chic and romantic in solemnity and elegance, rich natural colors of mountains and rivers, majestic and vigorous in straightforward narration, and harmony in the complementary of odd and positive".