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Jun 11, 2018 · The Dougong: A nailless Chinese construction method. June 11, 2018. Marco. Hernandez. Even today it sounds a near impossible task: build an earthquake-resistant wooden building, strong enough to...
Dougong is part of the network of wooden supports essential to the timber-frame structure of traditional Chinese buildings, widely used by the ancient Chinese during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–476 BCE) and developed into a complex set of interlocking parts by its peak in the Tang and Song periods. Dougong serve as a
Dougong 斗栱 and zaojing 藻井 are two important architectural elements that were constructed in the great halls of China’s royal palaces, major temples, as well as in the underground tombs of social elites. The former consists of dou (block) and gong (arm) that form a structural unit as bracket set.
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This book focuses on two significant architectural elements in traditional Chinese buildings, that is, dougong and zaojing. Dougong is a bracket set often sitting above columns and beams as a key component in the great buildings and tombs of imperial China.
Dougong (Chinese: 斗拱; pinyin: dǒugǒng; lit. 'cap [and] block') is a structural element of interlocking wooden brackets, important in traditional Chinese architecture for both its structural capacities and cultural implications.
In the essay titled “The Origin and Development of Dougong,” Han Baode ponders over the early forms of dougong. Through inquiring about the physical remains and literature related to dougong, mainly from the Han dynasty, he challenges one theory that dougong was derived from the stone
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This book inquiries about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220), with an aim to remind people the rich cultural meanings embodied in these two important architectural elements in early China. PDF, 138 Pages. ISBN: 9781785279430.
