After a long period of efforts, Chinese ancient architecture has absorbed the characteristics of other traditional Chinese arts, especially plastic arts such as painting, sculpture and arts and crafts, created rich and colorful artistic images, and formed many characteristics in this regard. Among them, the more prominent are the following three aspects.

1. Roof: Ancient Chinese craftsmen made full use of the characteristics of wood structure to create roof lifting and folding, roof warping and out warping, forming eaves and corners extending like bird wings and soft and beautiful curves of all parts of the roof. At the same time, the ridge ends of the roof ridge are properly carved, and the eaves tiles are also decorated.

After the Song Dynasty, glazed tiles were widely used to add color and luster to the roof. In addition, many other roof styles and various complex shapes with artistic effects formed by the combination of these roofs have made ancient Chinese architecture gain rich experience in using roof forms to create the artistic image of architecture, It has become one of the important features of ancient Chinese architecture.

1. Color: Ancient Chinese craftsmen were the most daring and good at using color in architectural decoration. This feature is inseparable from the wood structure system of Chinese architecture. Because the wood cannot last long, Chinese architecture has long adopted the method of painting and tung oil on the wood to protect the wood and strengthen the connection of wood components with tenon and mortise, and increase the beauty, so as to achieve the combination of practicality, firmness and beauty.
2. Setting off architecture: the application of setting off architecture is a common artistic treatment method in ancient Chinese palaces, temples and other high-grade buildings. Its function is to set off the main building. The earliest applied and artistic foil architecture is the "Que" built in front of the main gate of the palace since the spring and Autumn period

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