This is an awesome video -- exactly the information I was looking for. Very clear and thorough introduction. And thanks also for letting us know about Bili Bili - I'm studying Chinese but am still a new learner. Can't wait to try a course once my Chinese language skills have improved!
I loved your use of photos, and comparing each dynasty to the Western architectural style. Would love to see more of your analyses of Chinese architectural styles!
I am glad you found more on Chinese architecture. Thank you for sharing! China is still much of a mystery to the west and especially now when we are declining in culture, knowledge, and worldliness. Bless your efforts.
Thanks for this video. I'm writing an essay about the history of architecture and it is a damn shame that there isn't more material available about China architecture, as it is quite beautiful.
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin are both extremely talented and well-lookin' (from old photos), they are just perfect couple to me XD Besides their academic achevements, they also contributed a lot to the preservation of traditional architecture in Beijing back in 1949. Thanks for sharing your summary notes! :) I'll be sure to check out the course!
Omg wow! I didn't even know about this love story before! Just searched for Lin Huiyin and wow I can't believe I didn't know about her before -- her story is absolutely fascinating!! Thanks so much for pointing me to her! Glad you liked the video -- yes, the actual lecture is so much better hahaha ^___^
@@ninja_whale he would later argue to the american to avoid bombing japanese historical cities: "architecture is the epitome of society and the symbol of the people. But it does not belong to one person, for it is the crystallization of the entire human race. Nara's Toshodaiji Temple is the world's oldest wood-structure building. Once destroyed, it is irrecoverable"
I’ve always wondered about public buildings in historical China. Much of the monumental architecture in the west that survives, the temples, the bathhouses, the arenas and churches, these were all meant to be public spaces. Walk in them today and we can imagine how a regular person could have walked the same steps in centuries past. And I wonder what the equivalent spaces in ancient Chinese cities would have been. What were the spaces that people gathered in? Where did they share experiences? This is the history that really humanizes the past for me.
IAM from India but very much interested in Chinese history and culture so I found this very helpful and also I subscribed the channel for more videos . Please keep on uploading videos.
Aniko, Anige or Araniko (1245AD-1306AD) was one of the key figures in expressions of the human experience of Nepal and Yuan tradition of China, and the masterful trades in these territories. He was conceived in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, during the rule of Abhaya Malla. He is known for building the White Stupa at the Miaoying Temple in Beijing. During the rule of Jaya Bhim Dev Malla, he was sent on an undertaking to construct a brilliant stupa in Tibet, where he additionally started into monkhood. From Tibet he was sent further to North China to work in the court of the ruler Kublai Khan, the organizer of Yuan administration (1279-1368), where he brought the trans-Himalayan creative convention to China. In his later life, he disavowed monkhood and began his family in China. He wedded seven other ladies from whom he had an aggregate of six children and eight girls.
Thank you SO MUCH for this series - I've learned so much from tehse and your presentation is very clear , informative and engaging... I teach an AP equivalent art history survey course and I will absolutely be using your videos to augment curriculum / lectures... I am so excited to share your videos with my students!!!
@@kiralynnharris4159 omg... Thank you so much for enjoying this video. I'm so flattered, but I think I need to put out the disclaimer that I'm not an architecture or history major. I study bioengineering which is completely unrelated, and this is only a summary of an online course that I'm taking for fun~ I'm not sure if the video is of high enough caliber for AP art history, and I don't think I'm qualified enough to give a guest lecture on this topic haha ~ I'm so glad you found the video helpful though!!
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Thank you so much for this wonderful resource! I always love to learn from people who are passionate about a topic enough to research on their own time.
Hey ninjawhale,I’m a architecture student and a completely traditional Chinese architecture nut,if you want to learn more about traditional Chinese architecture,there are some Weibo accounts that I highly recommend: 古建筑bot、鸿慈永祜、黑敀、櫼栌落、新水令、阿诚的小梦想，by following them you can find more relevant accounts that post all these Chinese architecture pics and even academic discussion ,hope it will open up a whole new door for you.
Ahhhh so nice to meet you on TH-cam~~ And omg this is amazing!! thanks so much for these recs!! Now I just have to figure out how to use Weibo.... hahahahhaha ^_____^
At 10:03. Don't downplay or bad-mouth your videos. You were not putting us to sleep! This was fascinating! I wish you had continued! India and Europe also had their "wood-only" epochs of architectural history. India built in stone almost exclusively from around 2500 BC to around 1500 BC, when the Aryan invasions obliterated the stone-based civilizations. Wood was used in Indian architecture almost exclusively from around 1500 BC to around 500 AD, mostly because the Aryans preferred to build in wood. Thus India, like China, has hardly any surviving architecture from this period. It was only from around 500 AD onwards that we start seeing lots of stone ruins in India. With Europe, there was a bifurcation--the Greco-Roman civilizations built in stone from the time of Knossos in 2000 BC onward. But the European peoples outside the Greco-Roman sphere of influence built in wood. Thus the only ruins you see in Europe are either Greco-Roman or post-Roman Empire. The wooden architecture of non-Greco-Roman Europeans didn't survive, just like in China.
The last part is literally not true. Non greco-roman Roman Stone ruins can be found all over Europe like : - nuragic ruins in Sardinia - Ancient Irish Celtic ruins with the oldest being 5000 years old. - Ancient Britonic ruins in Britain - ancient Germanic/Scandinavian ruins and pagan temples and other buildings mostly for astronomical purposes and worship - ancient Hallstatt culture which is very interesting and the site is very massive - ancient iberians (especially Tartesso civilization which flourished around 1000 bc) - ancient Gaulish people (which also had big and impressive settlements and stone buildings) - ancient Scythian-sarmatians - ancient Thracians (lots of their ruins (stone mainly) were found in the black Sea and on the shore of Bulgaria, Thrace (turkey), Romania, - ancient Illyrians - ancient Pannonians - ancient Danube civilizations - ancient estruscans (not greco-roman but it is italic) -ancient Anatolian civilizations (which were built by indo-eurppeans closely related to greeks and Thracians) like Hittites, Lycians, lydians, ... The only wood-only civilization I can think about In Europe is the cucuteni-trypillia, Slavs, medieval Vikings, dacia (ancient Romania), early seljuk/Anatolian Turks
0:50 I would take with a grain of salt what USA and UK says about history on another country since is usually biased and propaganda not based on reality. Study the information in the language and country you plan to know about.
Music seems out of place.....but good video. I think it west that don't know much detail about east asia architecture because not enough English sources. Although alot of westerner I see have lot of respect for East asian style, and use many elements of it
Thank you for this video! Very well presented. I would only mention that the music is somewhat loud and distracts from your lecture somewhat. Other than that it's perfect!
English is not my native language and searching on Google is very difficult for me ,because a lot of things don't make sense to me, but this video was great ,I understood everything.
I wish you could help me read some Shang dynasty oracle bone inscription I have on some old Chinese bronzes, there not easy but you are just the type I think could study and read them , I have 50 bronzes and hope that they could go back to Chinese musuems one day
ahhh sadly i also don't know how to read oracle bones --- i didn't stay in china for long enough to learn it in school..... yes, hoping that artifacts scattered overseas will eventually find their way home :')
Thanks for interesting video. It is also strikes to me, why Chinese architecture had so little changing during all these time in comparison to Euripean architecture, which changed enormously from ancient time to 20th century? P. S. I was surprised when I heard music by Russian composer Tchaikovsky during the video about Chinese architecture, hah.
Great video. I've been running this subject down foe some time, and I like what you said at the end about the Chinese choosing not to build in stone, rather than not being able to. To me, it didn't make sense, since they have always been masterful carvers and sculptors of stone of many kinds. I'm certain they could have built more in stone. That said, I must say that the comparison of structures during the same epochs in both the Chinese and European worlds does show a superlative level of skill in the west. This begs the question: Could the Chinese build their styles and spaces in stone, since there would be much different forces and pressures to deal with. Might it have resulted in vastly different looking structures than we see in wood or even brick/wood. The Romans were able to construct the Coliseum by use of the self supporting arch - a first, as far as I know. All other western structures followed in that model, from bridges, aqueducts, and the lowly garden gate. Those immense cathedrals still standing all over Europe (at least one almost 550 feet tall) are supported by the Roman arch. My take-away is that often, a societies mores and beliefs will influence its monuments. Do you think this might have been the case with Chinese architecture styles/gardens/open spaces, etc.
Thanks so much for your comment! I actually made a second video which is related to your final question :) Feel free to check it out I absolutely agree re: superlative skill in the West, but I do think the question itself is a bit moot. In my Philosophy and Principles video I mention that the Chinese didn't believe in building things to last for generations, so they actually valued convenience, and one reason for preferring timber is precisely that it's an easier material to process. Of course the topic is very very complex, but a very simplified answer is that one reason timber is preferred is because it required "less" skill I also definitely agree re: the vast difference in how wooden vs brick/stone structures look :) In a future video I will be reading an article published in 1941 which showcases 5 Chinese pagodas, 2 of which were built in brick/stone! I have ZERO knowledge in western architecture, so perhaps you can watch the vid and let me know what you think and how the brick/stone buildings compare to western counterparts ^___^ i love your last thought on gardens/open spaces!!! I've also recently been really curious on the philosophy behind courtyard structure/room distribution/garden design etc, found a few nice books and will post some resources in the Community tab of my channel after I check them out ^___^ pleasse update me as well if you gain new insights! So sorry for the late reply; life has been kind of hectic. Thanks so much for such an insightful comment, I'm sorry for not being to match the level of insight, as I am still very very new to the topic of Chinese architecture (before this video, I knew absolutely NOTHING, and the making of this video is actually what led me to Liang Sicheng's books from which I started learning more) and looking forward to future discussion!!!
Only some people knows that some of tallest ancient monuments were located in indian subcontinent. Kanishka stupa in North West india was 400ft to 560ft tall constructed during 2nd century by kanishka the great , Sri Lankan stupa is also very tall around 400ft constructed at same time. Amravati stupa (241ft ) constructed during 1st century BCE.
It was a different skillset. Same in Japan. They were far superior carpenters but inferior masons, and it was a choice due to the climate and weather in the region. In these areas, especially Japan, you have 2 main options. Build without mortar, or build with wood. They chose the latter. And boy were they good at it
@@ninja_whale hey I don't know but did glazed roof tile technology came from nepal correct me if I'm wrong. BTW thank u have been looking for this in many places. Can u make on korea Mongolia and Southeast Asia also plssss Also can u tell me oldest neolithic site in china can't understand anything from Wikipedia
For such a great country, it seems to be very little. Which is sad, I'm trying to find a place in Discord where people might discuss about speculation of all ancient chinese.
I am shocked that Stanford did not have anything, I was able to do a Chinese art history course for my under grad. Are any of the architecture courses in English or online ?
hi! im glad you liked it! Sadly I also couldn't find free pdfs, so I bought both of them... they're both on apple books though, and the price is pretty reasonable (I think around $10)!
@@ninja_whale oh thank you! I just kinda wanna have a copy of it due to a school requirement/project/plates. But it's okay, I've just take down notes from this video of yours for reference. I'm very thankful that you shared this with everyone. And Thank you for responding 😊
中国传统房屋弯曲屋顶的上半部分可以快速的把重力势能转化为动能，下半部分趋于平坦，可以调整雨水的轨道使其抛离屋顶更远，这实在是中国古代匠人的智慧 The upper part of the curved roof of traditional Chinese building can quickly convert the gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy, and the lower part tends to be flat, which can adjust the track of rainwater to throw it further away from the roof. This is the wisdom of ancient Chinese craftsmen 对于雪而言，流动性比雨水差，因此在下雪的中国北方，房屋的屋顶坡度会比南方更大，以致于适应环境。此外，在中国干旱的西北，甚至还有平顶的传统房屋 For snow, the mobility is worse than that of rain so in snowy northern China, the roof slope of houses will be bigger than that in the south, so as to adapt to the environment. BTW , in China's arid northwest,there are even flat topped traditional houses
hi~ thanks for the comment! adding to the response from @HP Qianyi, another reason, quoting from pg 29 of the book "A pictorial history of Chinese architecture" By Liang Sicheng, "the immediate function of raising the roof edges is to permit light to penetrate to the interior of the building despite the wide overhang" -- bright spaces and sunlight penetration were very important to the Chinese! :)
Another well known belief is the curved roof especially in southern China, if demon lands on the roof would be sent back into the sky. Only a small portion of the roof's curve are affected by accumulated snow and posed no danger.
So then where are all those ancient buildings? If China is as ancient as Greek or Rome then there should be just as many ruins?.. But only the Great Wall and Forbidden Palace come up in search..
Hmm yeah since the main building material was timber, not much of it is left (though we can still infer what existed from things like pottery models and wall paintings), but there are definitely structures left besides those two... Some examples are Foguang Si, Nanchan Si, (and a lot of other temples built after that), all the grottoes.... etc etc etc If you go to any province in China and wander around, you'll run into remnants from ancient history, perhaps they don't show up in search because they're not as "monumental" as the great wall and forbidden city But the thing to note here is ancient china wasn't really into monumental buildings -- whereas much of the remains in the west were once built for the "gods on the other side", chinese architecture was more for the "people in this life"~ So again it goes back to what I was saying about how we run into issues if we evaluate Chinese architecture through the western lens, because they weren't focused on the same things :P
I of course have no doubt that there are more monuments then the Great Wall and Forbidden Palace, was just looking for a few pointers to search for in google. Thank you for explaining.
@@ijustwanttogosailing8248 Oooo yeah, if you're interested some good starting places are searching for tombs of chinese emperors, buddhist grottoes in china, and if you search "temple" + any province in China, you can probably find some fun things :) This is another place to start for more "famous" touristy places: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAAA_Tourist_Attractions_of_China Hope it's helpful ~
@@ninja_whale Thank you for pointing to this list. I searched for 'ancient architecture China' on youtube and there was not much besides Great Wall and Forbidden Palace. Your video with 900 views (at the time) was near the top of the list. Below there was a long list of clickbait garbage with tittles like 'ancient mysteries unearthed'. Not many people make videos on this subject. I hope you'll keep on filming.
Tang period was the last of the "great" wooden building, because the anicent forest was exhausted by then, Zhou literally started tearing down Tang building to get the wood for new building. marking a shift in building material option. why later Song building had to look more fancy is because they could never match the scale of Tang, so adding more design features were the only way to show of your wealth. to say they don't last is actually not accurate, the reason old palaces don't exist is really because later dynasty would use them as raw material for their own project. the Qin palaces were repurpose for the Han emperors tomb. in fact alot of the Roman building you see today are also rebuild, they are not the original structure as they too have their material repurposed and had to be restored. it why half the colosseum is missing. some of the "roman" building are modern concrete structure rebuild by the fascist government or the vatican government for propaganda reasons.
. Namaste sister , Indian architecture began in Indus valley civilization (2600-1900BCE) with Most advanced urban planning , drainage system , water management system etc but it declined due to climate change etc Ancient india was also highly dependent on wood and bricks. Our ancient cities like Patliputra entirely constructed by wood but we started using stone from 4th century BCE. Earliest monument is Barabar caves which were curved out from granite mountain with high accuracy (0% error) , walls of caves have mirror like finish. From ancient times majority survived architecture is rock cut caves and some temples
Ancient India is not a modern India. And India does not have detailed historical records. Modern India's culture is a mixed culture of multiple countries and many ethnic culture. Tajili is also an Arab architectural style.
@@barbiebarbie1813 i don't know what is tajili. No , modern indian culture is not mixed culture of multiple countries, influence of others countries on india is true but saying indian culture is mixture of many countries is wrong. Indian culture , religion is still same like it was thousands of years ago. And india have many ethnic groups but majority population comes under only two groups Aryans and dravidians. Ancient indian history is not well documented but we know a to z about ancient indian culture , religion , society because of large literature from that period.
@@utiyamohmmad5721 The British that ruled India created the modern India from multiple kingdoms and independent states. The British indiscreetly or forcefully incorporated them together in 1947. Many of there states still refused to recognized themselves as part of India. So based on 1947 historical happening and assumed they existed collectively pre-British rules are totally wrong. That Indian architecture began in Indus valley civilization (2600-1900BCE) were figures plucked from neighboring countries. The name of Iran(Persia) means "the land of Aryans". It derives immediately from the 3rd-century Sasanian Middle Persian period where it initially meant "of the Iranians". They acquired a regional sense of "lands inhabited by Iranians". India was ruled by Iran for almost two centuries and was given by the name"Hindustan". Many in India still proudly called themselves as Hindustanis. The true Aryans are mainly the Iranian, Afghani, Central Asian, etc. Today you find many of these foreign influenced architecture such as the famed Taj Mahal or the many "Dome" shaped tops found in India.
@@barbiebarbie1813its like saying Yuan, tang , ming, qing Dynasty is not chinese because they were foreigners. Just like they got sinicized, those mighals also got indicized after Akbar who left Islam and iemnrased indic culture to maintain good relation with himdus and muslims
@@jacku8304lol idk what propoganda you are being taught, but both Iranian and Indian culture are sister Aryan culture brought by steppe Aryan both got diverged at 4500+ years ago. While iranians removed aryans cuoture and adopted Mesopotamian gods, Indians continued to practice vedic god. India is multo ethnic all derived from Vedic culture. BTW, we indians call India ARYAVARTA - adobe of aryans\cut out the CCP propoganda
what is more interesting is "Chinese" architecture in Europe... to see what the European think is Chinese in their imagination and how the european kings try to have their own little "chinese themed" estate was rather amusing...
Great video, it's hard to find this kind of detail about Chinese Architecture in English.
Glad you liked it! ^__^ Will try to keep improving!
So glad you included Yonghe Gong - I used to live a ten-minute walk from there. Always loved visiting.
This is an awesome video -- exactly the information I was looking for. Very clear and thorough introduction. And thanks also for letting us know about Bili Bili - I'm studying Chinese but am still a new learner. Can't wait to try a course once my Chinese language skills have improved!
I loved your use of photos, and comparing each dynasty to the Western architectural style.
Would love to see more of your analyses of Chinese architectural styles!
Not only the English and Chinese pronunciations, Your French pronunciation is perfect as well!!! Very Informative video.
Great to see a young scholar able to introduce Chinese culture in such eloquent English. I have tried to do the same with Chinese painting.
I am glad you found more on Chinese architecture. Thank you for sharing! China is still much of a mystery to the west and especially now when we are declining in culture, knowledge, and worldliness. Bless your efforts.
Thanks for this video. I'm writing an essay about the history of architecture and it is a damn shame that there isn't more material available about China architecture, as it is quite beautiful.
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin are both extremely talented and well-lookin' (from old photos), they are just perfect couple to me XD Besides their academic achevements, they also contributed a lot to the preservation of traditional architecture in Beijing back in 1949. Thanks for sharing your summary notes! :) I'll be sure to check out the course!
Omg wow! I didn't even know about this love story before! Just searched for Lin Huiyin and wow I can't believe I didn't know about her before -- her story is absolutely fascinating!! Thanks so much for pointing me to her! Glad you liked the video -- yes, the actual lecture is so much better hahaha ^___^
@@ninja_whale he would later argue to the american to avoid bombing japanese historical cities:
"architecture is the epitome of society and the symbol of the people. But it does not belong to one person, for it is the crystallization of the entire human race. Nara's Toshodaiji Temple is the world's oldest wood-structure building. Once destroyed, it is irrecoverable"
I’ve always wondered about public buildings in historical China. Much of the monumental architecture in the west that survives, the temples, the bathhouses, the arenas and churches, these were all meant to be public spaces. Walk in them today and we can imagine how a regular person could have walked the same steps in centuries past. And I wonder what the equivalent spaces in ancient Chinese cities would have been. What were the spaces that people gathered in? Where did they share experiences? This is the history that really humanizes the past for me.
IAM from India but very much interested in Chinese history and culture so I found this very helpful and also I subscribed the channel for more videos . Please keep on uploading videos.
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Aniko, Anige or Araniko (1245AD-1306AD) was one of the key figures in expressions of the human experience of Nepal and Yuan tradition of China, and the masterful trades in these territories. He was conceived in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, during the rule of Abhaya Malla. He is known for building the White Stupa at the Miaoying Temple in Beijing. During the rule of Jaya Bhim Dev Malla, he was sent on an undertaking to construct a brilliant stupa in Tibet, where he additionally started into monkhood. From Tibet he was sent further to North China to work in the court of the ruler Kublai Khan, the organizer of Yuan administration (1279-1368), where he brought the trans-Himalayan creative convention to China. In his later life, he disavowed monkhood and began his family in China. He wedded seven other ladies from whom he had an aggregate of six children and eight girls.
Thank you SO MUCH for this series - I've learned so much from tehse and your presentation is very clear , informative and engaging... I teach an AP equivalent art history survey course and I will absolutely be using your videos to augment curriculum / lectures... I am so excited to share your videos with my students!!!
PS Is there any chance you might b einterested in / open to giving a guest lecture to my senior high school students?
@@kiralynnharris4159 omg... Thank you so much for enjoying this video. I'm so flattered, but I think I need to put out the disclaimer that I'm not an architecture or history major. I study bioengineering which is completely unrelated, and this is only a summary of an online course that I'm taking for fun~ I'm not sure if the video is of high enough caliber for AP art history, and I don't think I'm qualified enough to give a guest lecture on this topic haha ~ I'm so glad you found the video helpful though!!
This is a great video! I wish my mandarin was better and I could access Chinese resources, thank you for sharing in English.
ahhh thanks so much, im glad you liked it!! :)
Hello sis 💕. How are you? I love your TH-cam channel and I will pray to God 🙏 that your TH-cam channel crooses 1 million and you got golden TH-cam channel button. Lots of ❤️ from India
Thank u, you're too kind~
@@ninja_whale hey could u tell me where the glazed roof tile technology came from
Thank you so much for this wonderful resource! I always love to learn from people who are passionate about a topic enough to research on their own time.
Thank you for sharing this this. It is fascinating to learn about the beautiful architecture of China.
Perfect for our homeschool unit on the history of China. Thanks for sharing!
This video was amazing!! I'm really looking forward for the next one and learning more about Chinese architecture.
Thanks so much for the encouragement! Next one is in prep ~~
I learned a lot from this video!! Thank you for the amazing video :D
Ahhh I’m glad you liked it! Hoping to make more videos about Chinese architecture, thanks for the encouragement :D
I am from Nepal and I got lot of information about China thanks
im glad you liked it! ^__^
Thank you so much for giving European comparisons really help me contextualise the timeline 👍
Wow I found a interesting video channel about Chinese architecture. ❤️
Hey ninjawhale,I’m a architecture student and a completely traditional Chinese architecture nut,if you want to learn more about traditional Chinese architecture,there are some Weibo accounts that I highly recommend: 古建筑bot、鸿慈永祜、黑敀、櫼栌落、新水令、阿诚的小梦想，by following them you can find more relevant accounts that post all these Chinese architecture pics and even academic discussion ,hope it will open up a whole new door for you.
Ahhhh so nice to meet you on TH-cam~~ And omg this is amazing!! thanks so much for these recs!! Now I just have to figure out how to use Weibo.... hahahahhaha ^_____^
At 10:03. Don't downplay or bad-mouth your videos. You were not putting us to sleep! This was fascinating! I wish you had continued! India and Europe also had their "wood-only" epochs of architectural history. India built in stone almost exclusively from around 2500 BC to around 1500 BC, when the Aryan invasions obliterated the stone-based civilizations. Wood was used in Indian architecture almost exclusively from around 1500 BC to around 500 AD, mostly because the Aryans preferred to build in wood. Thus India, like China, has hardly any surviving architecture from this period. It was only from around 500 AD onwards that we start seeing lots of stone ruins in India. With Europe, there was a bifurcation--the Greco-Roman civilizations built in stone from the time of Knossos in 2000 BC onward. But the European peoples outside the Greco-Roman sphere of influence built in wood. Thus the only ruins you see in Europe are either Greco-Roman or post-Roman Empire. The wooden architecture of non-Greco-Roman Europeans didn't survive, just like in China.
The last part is literally not true.
Non greco-roman Roman Stone ruins can be found all over Europe like :
- nuragic ruins in Sardinia
- Ancient Irish Celtic ruins with the oldest being 5000 years old.
- Ancient Britonic ruins in Britain
- ancient Germanic/Scandinavian ruins and pagan temples and other buildings mostly for astronomical purposes and worship
- ancient Hallstatt culture which is very interesting and the site is very massive
- ancient iberians (especially Tartesso civilization which flourished around 1000 bc)
- ancient Gaulish people (which also had big and impressive settlements and stone buildings)
- ancient Scythian-sarmatians
- ancient Thracians (lots of their ruins (stone mainly) were found in the black Sea and on the shore of Bulgaria, Thrace (turkey), Romania,
- ancient Illyrians
- ancient Pannonians
- ancient Danube civilizations
- ancient estruscans (not greco-roman but it is italic)
-ancient Anatolian civilizations (which were built by indo-eurppeans closely related to greeks and Thracians) like Hittites, Lycians, lydians, ...
The only wood-only civilization I can think about In Europe is the cucuteni-trypillia, Slavs, medieval Vikings, dacia (ancient Romania), early seljuk/Anatolian Turks
Thanks for the summary at the end, its a nice one to refer to for europeans
0:50 I would take with a grain of salt what USA and UK says about history on another country since is usually biased and propaganda not based on reality. Study the information in the language and country you plan to know about.
有這樣的科普性影片很好，希望可以繼續做下去，加油
谢谢鼓励，希望可以一直进步～
Music seems out of place.....but good video. I think it west that don't know much detail about east asia architecture because not enough English sources. Although alot of westerner I see have lot of respect for East asian style, and use many elements of it
hahahaha i'll do without the music hahahaha i'm so glad you enjoyed it despite the music!! :)
Thank you for this video! Very well presented. I would only mention that the music is somewhat loud and distracts from your lecture somewhat. Other than that it's perfect!
Great video, interesting and informative. Thanks! Currently doing some research on the building methods used for the great Wall
I am soooo glad I found your channel! Thank you for making these videos! ❤️❤️
ahhhhhh i am so glad you found my videos useful :)
@@ninja_whale hey where did glazed rooftile technology came from? im curious ^ ^
Impressive and informative and has made me want to learn more
awhhhh thank you i'm so glad you liked it!
Really great video
English is not my native language and searching on Google is very difficult for me ,because a lot of things don't make sense to me, but this video was great ,I understood everything.
And its also not mine but do you hear me crying for attention?
Were there used to be any architecture school/ university in Ancient China?
This was an incredible video, thank you so much ❤️ from 🇱🇻
thanks so much, im happy to hear that you liked the video :)
Thanks for putting portuguese subtitles
Thank you, i love China so much. Greetings from Algeria 🇩🇿❤️
I wish you could help me read some Shang dynasty oracle bone inscription I have on some old Chinese bronzes, there not easy but you are just the type I think could study and read them , I have 50 bronzes and hope that they could go back to Chinese musuems one day
ahhh sadly i also don't know how to read oracle bones --- i didn't stay in china for long enough to learn it in school..... yes, hoping that artifacts scattered overseas will eventually find their way home :')
Thank you for the informations
Can you send me the script and other files and the attachments
That's for a research in my university
Thank you for this! I found the same relative lack of meaningful information on the history of Chinese design.
Thank you so much!! Great video
awwww thanks for the comment; glad it was helpful! ^___^
Thanks for interesting video. It is also strikes to me, why Chinese architecture had so little changing during all these time in comparison to Euripean architecture, which changed enormously from ancient time to 20th century?
P. S. I was surprised when I heard music by Russian composer Tchaikovsky during the video about Chinese architecture, hah.
That quote at the end is from 孟子, right?
Very informative thank-you
Thank you so much, I like your videos so much, very informative :D
Great video. I've been running this subject down foe some time, and I like what you said at the end about the Chinese choosing not to build in stone, rather than not being able to. To me, it didn't make sense, since they have always been masterful carvers and sculptors of stone of many kinds. I'm certain they could have built more in stone.
That said, I must say that the comparison of structures during the same epochs in both the Chinese and European worlds does show a superlative level of skill in the west. This begs the question: Could the Chinese build their styles and spaces in stone, since there would be much different forces and pressures to deal with. Might it have resulted in vastly different looking structures than we see in wood or even brick/wood.
The Romans were able to construct the Coliseum by use of the self supporting arch - a first, as far as I know. All other western structures followed in that model, from bridges, aqueducts, and the lowly garden gate. Those immense cathedrals still standing all over Europe (at least one almost 550 feet tall) are supported by the Roman arch.
My take-away is that often, a societies mores and beliefs will influence its monuments. Do you think this might have been the case with Chinese architecture styles/gardens/open spaces, etc.
Thanks so much for your comment! I actually made a second video which is related to your final question :) Feel free to check it out
I absolutely agree re: superlative skill in the West, but I do think the question itself is a bit moot. In my Philosophy and Principles video I mention that the Chinese didn't believe in building things to last for generations, so they actually valued convenience, and one reason for preferring timber is precisely that it's an easier material to process. Of course the topic is very very complex, but a very simplified answer is that one reason timber is preferred is because it required "less" skill
I also definitely agree re: the vast difference in how wooden vs brick/stone structures look :) In a future video I will be reading an article published in 1941 which showcases 5 Chinese pagodas, 2 of which were built in brick/stone! I have ZERO knowledge in western architecture, so perhaps you can watch the vid and let me know what you think and how the brick/stone buildings compare to western counterparts ^___^
i love your last thought on gardens/open spaces!!! I've also recently been really curious on the philosophy behind courtyard structure/room distribution/garden design etc, found a few nice books and will post some resources in the Community tab of my channel after I check them out ^___^ pleasse update me as well if you gain new insights!
So sorry for the late reply; life has been kind of hectic. Thanks so much for such an insightful comment, I'm sorry for not being to match the level of insight, as I am still very very new to the topic of Chinese architecture (before this video, I knew absolutely NOTHING, and the making of this video is actually what led me to Liang Sicheng's books from which I started learning more) and looking forward to future discussion!!!
Only some people knows that some of tallest ancient monuments were located in indian subcontinent. Kanishka stupa in North West india was 400ft to 560ft tall constructed during 2nd century by kanishka the great , Sri Lankan stupa is also very tall around 400ft constructed at same time. Amravati stupa (241ft ) constructed during 1st century BCE.
@@utiyamohmmad5721 wow how do u get all these knowledge from
How did u found it
@@eliotanderson6554 Wikipedia. Simple. ☺️
It was a different skillset. Same in Japan. They were far superior carpenters but inferior masons, and it was a choice due to the climate and weather in the region. In these areas, especially Japan, you have 2 main options. Build without mortar, or build with wood. They chose the latter. And boy were they good at it
Can you help me I have questions about building asian architecture homes
If you like videos about Chinese architectural history, Professor Ronald Lewcock, has some interesting content on Arcnet’s channel.
Hi, thanks for the informative video! Do you have any sources for Liang Sichen's division of China's architecture into the six time periods?
Excellent
this video looks like a presentation of your history class lol
hahahahahhaa so true, i need to learn how to make them less like class projects and more engaging/entertaining 😂
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@@ninja_whale hey I don't know but did glazed roof tile technology came from nepal correct me if I'm wrong.
BTW thank u have been looking for this in many places.
Can u make on korea Mongolia and Southeast Asia also plssss
Also can u tell me oldest neolithic site in china can't understand anything from Wikipedia
For such a great country, it seems to be very little. Which is sad, I'm trying to find a place in Discord where people might discuss about speculation of all ancient chinese.
I am shocked that Stanford did not have anything, I was able to do a Chinese art history course for my under grad. Are any of the architecture courses in English or online
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Great vid!!! Thanks for sharing ^^
heeeey no need to hurry. tell me more. ilove th e chinese ancient architecture. any images that you can share more?
^___^ i will definitely be making more videos on chinese architecture ~ thanks so much for liking this video
my best guess the reason why there so few ancient architecture is wars and wood materials.
Sub-Sahara architecture and wonder monument are amazing too like Rome, Greek, India, Arab and Persia
thank you for thisss! can you help me find a free pdf of Liang Sicheng's book please? :((
hi! im glad you liked it! Sadly I also couldn't find free pdfs, so I bought both of them... they're both on apple books though, and the price is pretty reasonable (I think around $10)!
@@ninja_whale oh thank you! I just kinda wanna have a copy of it due to a school requirement/project/plates. But it's okay, I've just take down notes from this video of yours for reference. I'm very thankful that you shared this with everyone. And Thank you for responding 😊
Gran video me sirvió mucho para mi exposición de arquitectura china para mi clase de chino :)
Is the bgm Nutcracker?
hahhahahhaa it might be, i just picked the first free classical music track that showed up in youtube studio hahahhaa
@@ninja_whale heheee it suits well!🙈
Beautiful great ancient China 🇨🇳 ❤💐
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VERY GOOD. THANK YOU.
Thank you
BGM是大航海时代游戏里的吗？
大航海时代我没玩过，但是有可能真的是哈哈哈，这个音乐就是随便选的😂
BGM是柴可夫斯基的花之圓舞曲
The chose not to argument is pretty strange.
nice video and do you know about indian history....
Why roofs of Chinese traditional houses are bend... curved? This disturbs sliding off snow from the roof.
中国传统房屋弯曲屋顶的上半部分可以快速的把重力势能转化为动能，下半部分趋于平坦，可以调整雨水的轨道使其抛离屋顶更远，这实在是中国古代匠人的智慧
The upper part of the curved roof of traditional Chinese building can quickly convert the gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy, and the lower part tends to be flat, which can adjust the track of rainwater to throw it further away from the roof. This is the wisdom of ancient Chinese craftsmen
对于雪而言，流动性比雨水差，因此在下雪的中国北方，房屋的屋顶坡度会比南方更大，以致于适应环境。此外，在中国干旱的西北，甚至还有平顶的传统房屋
For snow, the mobility is worse than that of rain so in snowy northern China, the roof slope of houses will be bigger than that in the south, so as to adapt to the environment. BTW , in China's arid northwest,there are even flat topped traditional houses
@@hpqiany1475 Thank you for your reply and explenation. I have never seen a traditional Chinese house with a flat roof.
hi~ thanks for the comment! adding to the response from @HP Qianyi, another reason, quoting from pg 29 of the book "A pictorial history of Chinese architecture" By Liang Sicheng, "the immediate function of raising the roof edges is to permit light to penetrate to the interior of the building despite the wide overhang" -- bright spaces and sunlight penetration were very important to the Chinese! :)
@@ninja_whale Thanks for answer and have nice week.
Another well known belief is the curved roof especially in southern China, if demon lands on the roof would be sent back into the sky. Only a small portion of the roof's curve are affected by accumulated snow and posed no danger.
thanks, great vid
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haha thank you, im happy to hear my english didn't bring shame to the Canadian public education system :)
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The Walz killed it all! Ridiculous and redundant choice
Nailed the french pronunciation.
So then where are all those ancient buildings?
If China is as ancient as Greek or Rome then there should be just as many ruins?.. But only the Great Wall and Forbidden Palace come up in search..
Hmm yeah since the main building material was timber, not much of it is left (though we can still infer what existed from things like pottery models and wall paintings), but there are definitely structures left besides those two...
Some examples are Foguang Si, Nanchan Si, (and a lot of other temples built after that), all the grottoes.... etc etc etc If you go to any province in China and wander around, you'll run into remnants from ancient history, perhaps they don't show up in search because they're not as "monumental" as the great wall and forbidden city
But the thing to note here is ancient china wasn't really into monumental buildings -- whereas much of the remains in the west were once built for the "gods on the other side", chinese architecture was more for the "people in this life"~ So again it goes back to what I was saying about how we run into issues if we evaluate Chinese architecture through the western lens, because they weren't focused on the same things :P
I of course have no doubt that there are more monuments then the Great Wall and Forbidden Palace, was just looking for a few pointers to search for in google.
Thank you for explaining.
@@ijustwanttogosailing8248 It sounded more like your smugness had gotten demolished in the kindest way possible.
@@ijustwanttogosailing8248 Oooo yeah, if you're interested some good starting places are searching for tombs of chinese emperors, buddhist grottoes in china, and if you search "temple" + any province in China, you can probably find some fun things :)
This is another place to start for more "famous" touristy places:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAAA_Tourist_Attractions_of_China
Hope it's helpful ~
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Thank you for pointing to this list.
I searched for 'ancient architecture China' on youtube and there was not much besides Great Wall and Forbidden Palace. Your video with 900 views (at the time) was near the top of the list.
Below there was a long list of clickbait garbage with tittles like 'ancient mysteries unearthed'.
Not many people make videos on this subject. I hope you'll keep on filming.
Tang period was the last of the "great" wooden building, because the anicent forest was exhausted by then, Zhou literally started tearing down Tang building to get the wood for new building. marking a shift in building material option. why later Song building had to look more fancy is because they could never match the scale of Tang, so adding more design features were the only way to show of your wealth.
to say they don't last is actually not accurate, the reason old palaces don't exist is really because later dynasty would use them as raw material for their own project. the Qin palaces were repurpose for the Han emperors tomb. in fact alot of the Roman building you see today are also rebuild, they are not the original structure as they too have their material repurposed and had to be restored. it why half the colosseum is missing. some of the "roman" building are modern concrete structure rebuild by the fascist government or the vatican government for propaganda reasons.
can you speak chinese sentences?
Haha, yes, if you are interested, here is my bilibili 😄:
space.bilibili.com/624185424
wow，that's native speaker level, 你可以参加伪装成中国人的外国人的节目了~
China had knowledge of Concrete...because southeast asia is filled with it & china was there to witness the construction of it...
. Namaste sister , Indian architecture began in Indus valley civilization (2600-1900BCE) with Most advanced urban planning , drainage system , water management system etc but it declined due to climate change etc
Ancient india was also highly dependent on wood and bricks. Our ancient cities like Patliputra entirely constructed by wood but we started using stone from 4th century BCE. Earliest monument is Barabar caves which were curved out from granite mountain with high accuracy (0% error) , walls of caves have mirror like finish. From ancient times majority survived architecture is rock cut caves and some temples
Ancient India is not a modern India. And India does not have detailed historical records. Modern India's culture is a mixed culture of multiple countries and many ethnic culture. Tajili is also an Arab architectural style.
@@barbiebarbie1813 i don't know what is tajili. No , modern indian culture is not mixed culture of multiple countries, influence of others countries on india is true but saying indian culture is mixture of many countries is wrong. Indian culture , religion is still same like it was thousands of years ago. And india have many ethnic groups but majority population comes under only two groups Aryans and dravidians.
Ancient indian history is not well documented but we know a to z about ancient indian culture , religion , society because of large literature from that period.
@@utiyamohmmad5721 The British that ruled India created the modern India from multiple kingdoms and independent states. The British indiscreetly or forcefully incorporated them together in 1947. Many of there states still refused to recognized themselves as part of India. So based on 1947 historical happening and assumed they existed collectively pre-British rules are totally wrong. That Indian architecture began in Indus valley civilization (2600-1900BCE) were figures plucked from neighboring countries.
The name of Iran(Persia) means "the land of Aryans". It derives immediately from the 3rd-century Sasanian Middle Persian period where it initially meant "of the Iranians". They acquired a regional sense of "lands inhabited by Iranians".
India was ruled by Iran for almost two centuries and was given by the name"Hindustan". Many in India still proudly called themselves as Hindustanis. The true Aryans are mainly the Iranian, Afghani, Central Asian, etc.
Today you find many of these foreign influenced architecture such as the famed Taj Mahal or the many "Dome" shaped tops found in India.
@@barbiebarbie1813its like saying Yuan, tang , ming, qing Dynasty is not chinese because they were foreigners. Just like they got sinicized, those mighals also got indicized after Akbar who left Islam and iemnrased indic culture to maintain good relation with himdus and muslims
@@jacku8304lol idk what propoganda you are being taught, but both Iranian and Indian culture are sister Aryan culture brought by steppe Aryan both got diverged at 4500+ years ago. While iranians removed aryans cuoture and adopted Mesopotamian gods, Indians continued to practice vedic god. India is multo ethnic all derived from Vedic culture.
BTW, we indians call India ARYAVARTA - adobe of aryans\cut out the CCP propoganda
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While this video is long by TH-cam standards, it is hard to compress a few millennia of cultural evolutions.
haha yeah... im so glad to hear that you enjoyed it :)
always amazed to see the cultural debt china owes to india.
Christianity, then you mean EUROPE CULTURAL DEBT EUROPE OWES to Arabs ?
you actually trust european dates? you know they are known to manipulate their history?
The Chinese University shows skewed information. Bugs
All proven and can be found in many Western museums with documents, prints, paintings, artifacts collected by them.
what is more interesting is "Chinese" architecture in Europe... to see what the European think is Chinese in their imagination and how the european kings try to have their own little "chinese themed" estate was rather amusing...
I am from India , china ,India has the oldest art & culture
Boring architecture that fails to inspire.
what a liars???
Liar like you who got nothing much to do.