Chinese Architecture

The Forbidden City layout was inspired by which of these traditional house design?

• Tu Lou

• Shikumen

• Yaodong

• Siheyuan

Imperial Temples and Altars were used to worship whom?

• Heaven

• Earth

• Stars

• Imperial Ancestors

Which Ancient Chinese Architecture by function has mostly yellow roof tiles & red walls?

• Buddhist Temples

• Altars and Sanctuaries

• Imperial Palaces

• Storeyed Pavilions

Which ONE of these following dynasties begins to introduced Sinicized

• Han Dynasty

• Tang Dynasty

• Ming Dynasty

• Northern & Southern Dynasty

Which of these dynasty featured a rock-cut tomb design?

• Qin Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

• Tang Dynasty

• Ming Dynasty

Figure above shows the bracket system of the Song dynasty model. Component with label Y refers to

• dou

• gong

• ang

Which group of people built the Great Wall?

• Ancient Egyptians

• Ancient Chinese

• Powhatan Indians

• Americans

Dougong is a unique structural element of interlocking concrete brackets, one of the most important elements in traditional Chinese architecture.

• True

• False

A terracotta army were placed to guard the mausoleum of the first Qin Emperor in the afterlife.

• True

• False

Zhou Dynasty was the longest ruling dynasty in the history of China

• True

• False