M3 Period 3Cindy QuanAlvin ChenJeff Cho11/27/03

A r c h i t e c t u r e

This is what they used to plan The Temple of

Heaven out. (The out-line)

Book Source: Chinese Architecture by Laurence G. Liu

http://www.beijing-travel-guides.com/images/temple-of-heaven.jpg

The Temple of Heaven is situated in the southern part of Beijing, about 6 km away from the center of the city. It

is the one of the largest parks in Beijing, built in

1420. The Temple of Heaven was the place where the

emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped

heaven and prayed for good harvests. The emperors visited the temple three times a year. In imperial days, the Chinese people

believed that the sky was in circular shape and the earth was square. On the basis of this traditional concept, the circle was widely adopted in the design of the temple's

main building. It is in accord with people's imagination of

heaven.

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The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi (10,000 Li = about 5,000 km). After subjugating and uniting China, the emperor started to build the Great Wall to stop the foreign enemies from invading China. The Great Wall extends across the mountains of northern China. It’s constructed of masonry, rocks, and packed-earth. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Great Wall was enlarged to 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles) and renovated over a 200-year period. The Great Wall is the largest construction project ever completed in the whole wide world.

Japanese Tea House

http://www.csulb.edu/~jgarden/Tours/tours9.html

The path of a Japanese Tea Garden is flanked by lovely white birch trees. These tea houses are used on special, usually spiritual occasions with hosts and guests. In the front,there are also sliding shoji doors, but the guests of the tea party enter through the left side entrance called the low nijiriguchi, which makes them kneel when they come through the door, showing humbleness.

Chinese Tea HouseShanghai

http://www.tropicalisland.de/index.html

This marvelous work of architecture is one of the most colorful and ancientin the city of Shanghai. Out of all of the old Chinese cities, this is the oldest out of them all. Most Chinese tea houses come in multiple stories and are placed over a body of water.

Chinese Buddhist Temple

Famen Temple

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/architecture/styles/buddhist.htm

Many Chinese buddhist temples are multistoried.

They are also quadrangle, hexangle, ocatagonal, and twelve sided ichnographies. Later they

also added decorationssuch as flower pagodas,

honeycombed shrines, animals, Buddha, and

disciple sculptures.

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Japanese Buddhist TempleThe Five storied Pagoda ofDaigoji Buddhist Temple

Most Japanese Buddhist Temples have at least one pagoda and is usually three or five storied. There is a kondoh, which is the main building where Buddhist images are enshrined, monks and nuns reside, study and train. Through the ground, there is a roomwhich has an altar with a Buddhist image enshrined together with the Buddhist scriptures. As seen on the picture, a Buddhist temple is also very decorative.

Self Reflection

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