Wood Pavilion and Stone Pavilion

Wooden Pavilion
Chinese architecture is a wooden structure system, so most pavilions are also made of wooden structures. Wooden pavilions are most common in two forms: wooden frame glazed tile roof and wooden frame daiwa roof. The former is unique to royal architecture and altar temple religious architecture, magnificent and colorful. The latter is the dominant form of Chinese classical pavilions, either simple and dignified, or elegant and elegant, covering the north and south of the Yangtze River, and is a representative form of Chinese classical pavilions. In addition, wooden pavilions are also made into stone roofs, iron roofs, and lime soil roofs, but they are generally rare and belong to a relatively special form.
Shiting
Building pavilions with stones is also quite common in China, and the earliest existing pavilions are stone pavilions. Most of the early stone pavilions were modeled after wood structures. arch of wooden architecture, Yueliang, Ming, Queti, and Jiaoliang were carved from stone. For example, the Luban Pavilion on Po'e Mountain in Huangmei, Hubei, built in the early Tang Dynasty, was all made of stone, imitating the arch of wooden architecture beam frame with a wooden structure. The same applies to the two stone pavilions in front of Xiufeng in Hushan, which were built during the Song and Yuan dynasties respectively. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, stone pavilions gradually broke away from the form of imitation wood structures. The characteristics of stone materials became prominent, and the construction methods were correspondingly simplified. The design was simple and heavy, with flat and short eaves and simple details. Some stone pavilions are even as simple as using only four stone pillars to lift a stone pavilion cover. This kind of stone built pavilion is simple and rustic, expressing a solid and rugged style. However, some stone pavilions, in order to pursue the colorful and gold engraving, exquisite and gorgeous effect, still use stone imitation wood to carve arch of wooden architecture and hang it, and the roof is made of stone slabs to make Xieshan, Fangnenenebb Cunjian and hexagonal pyramidal roof, etc.
Some stone pavilions in the south are also made into double eaves, even reaching four layers of double eaves, with exquisite carving and rich Jiangnan lightness and lightness.