Chinese ancient residential wood carvings

Author: Xu Huadeng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Strolling through the ancient streets of the old town, wandering in the deep lanes of the ancient village, you are greeted by row upon row of serene residential old houses. The towering, majestic horse-head high walls, the curling-upward eaves with upturned corners, the weathered and mottled brackets and roof tiles, the dilapidated yet elegant wood, stone, and brick carvings. The book's compilers, with exquisite text rich in aesthetic perspective, complemented by over 600 carefully captured precious photographs, vividly showcase the wood-carving techniques on the architectural components of Chinese ancient residential buildings, such as doors, windows, beams, purlins, through-beams, brackets, corbels, ceilings, and coffered ceilings. Those intricately carved latticed doors and windows, those magnificent and radiant beams and pillars, those corbels worn by the passage of time. Facing this splendid scenery under the setting sun, the past seems like smoke, evoking countless thoughts and reveries.