An Overview of the Tree Species and the Changes Used in the Timber Architectures of the Forbidden City through the Ming and the Qing Dynasties
Based on the large amount of tree species identification data for wood components gathered in recent years by the Palace Museum in cooperation with the Institute of Wood Industry of the Chinese Academy of Forestry,this paper summarizes the tree species used in the timber structures of the Forbidden City,and introduces the uses of several major woods such as nanmu,hardwood pine,and larch in the palace buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties.In addition,it takes the specific cases with relatively definite construction dates as specimens to analyze the material patterns of buildings trying to find out the law of changes in the woods used in the palace buildings through the Ming to the Qing dynasties.It intends to use the properties of the woods as a supplementary perspective to recognize the construction age for better aware of the historical messages and important value embodied in the historical architectures of the Forbidden City.
the Imperial Palacehistorical buildingswood species identificationchanges of the architecture timbers
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