Introduction to East Asian architectural styles in "Minecraft"
Introduction to the East Asian architectural style in Minecraft. East Asia includes China, Japan, Ryukyu, North Korea, and South Korea. Their architectural styles continue the style of ancient China, with various roof shapes, cornices, and brackets. Color paintings and garden scenes are a challenge for players.
1. China’s Ancestral Temple
It is the ancestral temple of the ancient Chinese emperor. The Imperial Ancestral Temple was called "Shishi" in the Xia Dynasty, "Chongwu" in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, "Mingtang" in the Zhou Dynasty, and "Ancestral Temple" in the Qin and Han Dynasties. At first, the Ancestral Temple was just a place to worship the emperor's ancestors. Later, the shrines of empresses and heroes could also be enshrined in the Ancestral Temple with the approval of the emperor. The Taimiao Temple is rectangular in plan, 475 meters long from north to south, and 294 meters wide from east to west. It has triple walls at the center and a three-story enclosed garden composed of the front, middle and back halls. The main hall stands in the center of the entire Taimiao complex, with eleven rooms in width and four rooms in depth, with a construction area of 2,240 square meters; the roof of the verandah with double eaves, the triple white marble xumizuo-style platform, and the surrounding stone guardrails; the main beams in the hall It is covered with agarwood, and other building components are made of precious golden nanmu.
The front hall was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. It was slightly modified due to the change of temple system in the 15th year of Jiajing. It was destroyed by lightning in the 20th year of Jiajing and rebuilt in the 24th year of Jiajing. It suffered damage in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, but the main wooden frame was relatively well preserved and was still the original Jiajing structure. It was restored during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. The main hall has eleven couplets, four deep, with double eaves and ridges. On the forehead of the hall is the inscription "Ancestral Temple" written in Manchu and Chinese. The three-layer platform base outside the hall is surrounded by white marble stone railings. The front of the platform's royal road is engraved with dragon font stone, lion pattern stone and sea animal stone in sequence. The beams in the hall are made of agarwood, and the rest are made of golden elm; the floor is paved with "gold bricks"; the ceiling and four columns are all pasted with red gold leaves. The temple was originally enshrined in a wooden and gold-lacquered throne, with the emperor's throne carved with dragons and the back seat carved with wind. There are offerings, incense tables and copper stoves placed in front of the seat. The auxiliary halls on both sides are equipped with tablets for the royal family and heroes.
The middle hall was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. It is nine couplets wide and four deep. It is connected to the front hall through a stone terrace. There are two stone lanterns on the left and right under the stone steps outside the hall. The central room in the hall is dedicated to Taizu, and the other ancestors are dedicated to each other in separate rooms. Outside the shrine are displayed the same number of sacred chairs for emperors and queens as the number of sacred tablets. For the sacrifice of the queen, only the first wife was worshiped in the Ming Dynasty, and the second wife was also worshiped in the Qing Dynasty. Also known as the middle hall, it is the place where the emperor’s ancestors’ tablets are enshrined. It was first built in 1420, with yellow glazed tiles on the top of the verandah with a single eaves. It is nine rooms wide (62.31 meters long) and four rooms deep (20.54 meters wide). The ancestral tablets in the hall are in the same hall and in different rooms. Each room is furnished with sacred chairs, incense tables, beds, mattresses, pillows and other items. The tablets are placed on the mattresses, symbolizing the ancestors' daily life and sleep. In the late Qing Dynasty, the memorial tablets of eleven generations of emperors and empresses including Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, Fulin, Xuanye, Yinzhen and Hongli were enshrined. Every day before the ceremony, the tablets are moved to the Xiang Hall and placed there, and then returned after the ceremony.
The back hall, also known as the temple, was not built when the Imperial Ancestral Temple was first built in Yongle. It was added in the fourth year of Hongzhi. It is surrounded by red walls, with five couplets for the door and nine couplets for the hall. The stone steps outside the hall are carved with dragon patterns, and inside the hall are the sacred tablets of emperors and empresses who were posthumously named before the founding of the Qing Dynasty. Also known as the Temple Hall, the place where sacrificial supplies are stored has become a part of everyday life.
2. Byodo-in Temple
Located at No. 116 Renge, Uji City, a suburb of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, it is a temple garden with a pond and boat tour style during the Heian period. Its location can be described as a geomantic treasure, with the Uji River in front and Mount Asahi in the distance. During the Zhenguan period (859-877), Emperor Saga's son and minister of the left garden, Ia Genrō (822-895), founded a villa accordingly. Later, Emperor Yosei, Emperor Uta, and Emperor Suzaku built villas here successively. In the fourth year of Nagatoku (998), Regent and Taizheng Minister Fujiwara Michinaga was able to reconstruct the garden here. The cherry blossoms, azaleas, and lotus flowers in the garden every year Fragrant and beautiful, Byodo-in Temple was listed as a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1994.
Japan’s early wooden buildings, built along the Uji River in Kyoto, are said to be the ancient Japanese’s ultimate concrete realization of the Western Paradise. The temple was built in 1052 AD. The Byodo-in Temple, which is equivalent to half the area of Uji today, was built to introduce water from the Uji River. According to the realm of the end of Buddhism, the Amida Hall was built to the west of the pond, and the worship hall to symbolize the present life was built to the east of the pond. It was a representative building that created the metaphor of "Pure Land Garden", and its specifications became a reference for later Japanese gardens.
The most representative building of Byodo-in Temple in the ancient temple was built facing the Aji Pond. In the early days, it was named "Amitado Hall" because it housed "Amitabha Tathagata" and 51 "Yunzhong Bodhisattva Statues". Later, it was named "Amitabha Hall". It looks like a bird about to flutter its wings, and there are two golden and bronze phoenix statues on the ridge of the nave, which are symbols of dignity. Therefore, it was renamed "Phoenix Hall" in the Edo period.
3. Shuri Castle
It is a Ryukyu-style castle located in the southern part of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands, east of Naha City. It was the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom from the 15th to the 19th century. The seat and royal palace, Shuri Castle was originally built in the late 13th to early 14th centuries and was the political and power center of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
It is an important historic site in the Okinawa Islands. It is a Tang Dynasty-style building copied from the prototype that remained after the war. Shuri Castle is a palace building of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was the place where the king handled state affairs, received envoys and held important celebrations. It combines the architectural features of China, Japan and Okinawa. It has been destroyed four times. The restored castle has been Reopened in 1992. Today's castle includes North Palace, South Palace, Shuri Gate and many city gates.
Shuri Castle was built in the mid-14th century. It was later destroyed by fire during World War II and rebuilt in 1992.
The main hall, the most eye-catching building in Shuri Castle, was originally the place where the Ryukyu king conducted official business and held important ceremonies.
4. Bulguksa Temple
Founded in 752 AD, its courtyard layout is very unique, retaining the corridor-style plan layout and spatial form. The stone monuments of Bulguksa Temple are all built of granite. Their shape and construction methods are the essence of civil construction technology at that time. They are gorgeous and magnificent, showing a kind of balanced and harmonious beauty. They are a treasure house of Korean stone art. Bulguksa Temple is known as the most exquisite Buddhist temple in South Korea and is one of the few temples with constant incense. In December 1995, Seokguram Grotto was included in the United Nations World Heritage List as a site.
It is located on the mountainside of Toham Mountain in the southeast of Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Tohamsan Mountain is located 13 kilometers southeast of Gyeongju City. It is known as Dongyue among the five mountains in Korea, with an altitude of 745 meters. About 2 kilometers southwest of it is the famous "Hwayan Bulguksa Temple", also known as Bulguksa Temple.
5. One Pillar Temple
It is a historical site in Vietnam, located southwest of Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi City, Vietnam. It was built in the Li Dynasty in 1049. The temple got its name because it was built on a large stone pillar in Lingmao Pond. The Lingmarsh Pond is square in shape, with brick railings around the pond. The One Pillar Temple is a wooden structure, also square, 3 meters on each side, with corridors on all sides. It is said that Li Taizong dreamed of Guanyin Bodhisattva standing on the lotus platform with a baby in his hands. Soon after he had a son, he ordered the construction of a temple imitating the water lotus, so the One Pillar Temple looks like a water lotus. The stone pillar with a diameter of 1.25 meters and a height of 4 meters above the ground symbolizes the flower stalk. The four wooden supports around the stone pillar are like flowers. The temple body and the slightly tilted eaves on the four sides form the petals. There is a plaque hanging under the eaves of the front of the temple with the title "Lotus Terrace". Due to several repairs, the existing temple is smaller than the original one, but its artistic style is still preserved.
6. The North Korean People’s Great Study Hall
Located in the center of Pyongyang, it is a majestic and elegant 10-story building composed of 10 buildings. The clear walls, round columns, patterned marble decorations, and patterned floors paved with jade in the hall are harmoniously blended together, fully demonstrating the artistic beauty of the national architectural form. The Korean-style green tile roof, composed of 34 roofs, looks majestic and elegant, and looks like a flock of geese spreading their wings in the sky. With a total construction area of 100,000 square meters, it was opened in April 1982.
The People’s University Study Hall has more than 5,000 seats and can accommodate more than 10,000 people. It has a collection of 30 million volumes and more than 600 rooms for readers to read books. The book delivery devices installed in 10 reading rooms can quickly deliver the books they need to readers. 17 recording studios can record and play foreign books translated into Korean, and readers can borrow tapes to study.
7. Prince Karaqin's Mansion
It is the residence of Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty and the former residence of Gongsang Norbu, an outstanding Mongolian thinker, politician and reformer. It was established as the Karaqin Banner Palace Museum. Founded in the 18th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1679), it is located in Wangye Town, Kalaqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, 150 kilometers northeast of Chengde and 70 kilometers southwest of Chifeng. Twelve generations of Mongolian princes from the Haraqin Banner have ruled here. It is the oldest, largest, highest-grade, best-preserved, and most famous ancient building complex among the existing palace buildings in Inner Mongolia. It is a key cultural relics protection unit. .
The mansion originally covered an area of more than 300 acres, with more than 490 houses and a two-story courtyard. The main building is divided into the lobby, the second hall, the Yimen, the hall and the Chengqing Building. The green pines and cypresses in the courtyard are elegant and tranquil, and the pavilions and halls complement each other. , is an indispensable witness for the study of ancient Chinese history and Mongolian culture.
The Prince's Mansion has five courtyards in front and back. On the north-south central axis, from south to north, there are the lobby, the second hall, the main hall, the meeting hall and the Chengqing Building. Each main hall has side rooms on both sides. , there are east and west wing rooms in each of the five courtyards.
Outside the main building complex, there are cross-courtyards on the east and west sides, which are symmetrical from left to right. Each cross-courtyard has several quadrangles connected by hanging flower doors and cloisters.
The east cross courtyard is the living quarters of Prince Fujin, which is divided into inner chamber, bedroom, study room, Yanyitang hall and living service facilities such as dining room, grinding room, mill, warehouse, stable, etc.
The west cross courtyard has a book school (Zhai), a square pavilion with four corners, a Yirang Hall, a practice ground, a Confucius Temple (Confucian Temple), a Guandi Temple (Martial Temple), an ancestral hall (ancestral hall), and a Buddhist hall.
Behind Chengqing Tower is the Wangfu Garden, which is adjacent to the Beishan Natural Scenic Area. There are pavilions, corridors, stone bridges, ponds, rockeries, teahouses, theaters, and temples in the garden. Plant flowers and trees extensively, raise poultry and fish, and raise reindeer in captivity.
On the bank of the Xibo River south of the vestibule (square), there was once a green felt-like pasture. Thirteen Aobaos were lined up from east to west. Every July, a grand ceremony to worship Aobao was held here.