Tower-Photography Feeling-ccnpic


	Tower is a kind of common Asia has specific forms and styles of Oriental traditional architecture. Is a sacrifice or collect Buddha shariputra (Buddha statue, bone), the buddhist monk remains high, such type building, also called "the marshalling stupa" and "pagodas". In Chinese, the article also refers to high Tower building (i.e., the Tower in English, German Turme) this concept with this item description of the Oriental Tower (namely the pagoda) and English without too much, such as the Eiffel Tower, the leaning Tower of Pisa, Tower, etc, please refer to Tower (western). Besides, in the translation ZhongDa was different from above the concept of vocabulary pyramids, lighthouse. The architectural form tower derived from ancient India, called the proceeding wall slope (Sanskrit), is the buddhist our building. As Buddhism spread in the east slope of the wall, and proceeding in eastern architectural form spread, to develop the tower this extremely Oriental characteristics of traditional architectural forms. As Buddhism in China with the proceeding of the middle wall slope with heavy floor, after the experience of development and some of the areas near, and exchange architecture system, gradually formed in tower, eaves tower, pavilions tower, tower, transformer, Qie throne tower type, print 5-wheel pagoda, pagodas, seamless tower etc. Various forms of different structure, from the tower of building plane gradually became early square, BaBianXing and round, hexagon during tower building technology progress, use more reasonable structure of the material from the traditional rammer earth, expanded wood, ceramic, glass, brick of metal materials. Since the 14th century, the world religion tower gradually from the world, and therefore, according to the law system of tower can be divided into the stupa and wenfeng tower. In architecture, tower is a very unique Oriental building materials, its volume, high in different areas varied geological condition, the construction technique of different is different also, the architecture of research involves material mechanics, mechanics, soil science, geology, and other aspects. In eastern culture, not only confined to the significance of architecture. The history of the east tower of bearing, religion, aesthetic, philosophical, many cultural elements is to explore and understand the eastern civilization is an important medium. [Back]