The appearance of bricks
In China, bricks appeared in the late slave society and early feudal society. From the architectural sites of the Warring States period, there are many kinds of bricks, including square bricks and railing bricks, which are mainly used for paving floors and building walls. Bricks and square bricks are pressed and shaped, decorated with decorative patterns, and animal patterns are engraved on both sides of the railing brick. The animals crouched, bowed their heads and cocked their tails, and their shapes were simple and vivid.
Brick prosperity
The real large-scale use of bricks began in the Qin Dynasty. After Qin Shihuang unified China, a large number of bricks were burned to build capitals, palaces, tunnels and tombs.
The famous Epang Palace in Qin Dou in history is paved with blue bricks. There are various decorative texture patterns on the blue bricks, and even gold still has precious artistic and historical value.
In 2 14 BC, Qin Shihuang used a lot of labor to build the world-famous "Wan Li Great Wall" with bricks and stones in order to prevent the northern Xiongnu nobles from invading south. Wan Li Great Wall is magnificent, the project is arduous, and the amount of bricks used is huge. After thousands of years of wind and rain, the Great Wall of Wan Li is still basically intact.
The emergence of brick towers
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced into China, and the prosperity of Buddhism brought epoch-making changes to brick and tile buildings in China.
During the popularity of Buddhism, brick pagodas built with bricks appeared all over China, thus becoming a symbol of brick architecture.
Built on the Dengfeng Line in the Northern Wei Dynasty (520-524 AD), Songyu Temple Tower is the oldest existing brick tower in China. The towering Songshan Temple Tower is surrounded by beautiful Songshan mountains, and its shape is natural and harmonious, giving people a beautiful and profound feeling as a whole.
"BRIC" in Ming and Qing Dynasties
The Forbidden City in Beijing is a large-scale palace group built in 14 years from the fifth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1407).
When Judy built the Forbidden City, she wanted a material stronger than stone and metal. He thought of "bricks". So, he ordered to use clay produced in Dezhou, Shandong Province to make bricks, burn them continuously with high-temperature kiln wood for 130 days, and soak them in tung oil for 49 days after leaving the kiln. Tung oil is so foamy that it glows when ground. The bricks laid on the ground are constantly worn through, and they are still intact today after 500 years.
The square bricks used in the Forbidden City are hard in texture and have a golden sound when struck, so they are called "golden bricks".