《清明上河图》虹桥建筑的结构和艺术特点

Full-dressed Housetop——the Housetop Culture of Traditional Architecture

我国古代木桥建筑,或以首创独特的构造,或以精致优美的艺术造型闻名于世界。但古代木桥建筑保存不易,不可能留存下来。《清明上河图》的虹桥,添补了这一空缺,表明我国木桥建筑结构技术在九个世纪前同样达到了一个很高的水平。虹桥以其各方面的成就,为我国桥梁建筑史增添了光辉的一页.

As a traditional civilization country, China＇s timber frame architecture format develops a school of its own in world architecture history. Because the ancients of China advocated nature and sought the cosmic view and nature view with the concept of the harmony between nature, earth and people, housetops played a very important role in China＇s traditional architecture. The Chinese ancient architectures had a very daintily restriction on the decoration of housetops. With the influence of traditional Confucianism, the housetops have the following characteristics： fixed shape restriction, highly formatted and with deeply cultural connotation.