dougong

Chinese architecture

Also known as: tou-kung

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In Chinese architecture: The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 bce)
…create traditional Chinese brackets (dougong) or to achieve extension forward from the wall. Roof tiles replaced thatch before the end of the Western Zhou (771 bce), and bricks have been found from early in the Eastern Zhou.
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In Chinese architecture: The Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties
The bracket cluster (dougong) has become more complex: not only is it continuous between the columns, often including doubled, or even false, cantilever arms (or “tail-rafters,” xia’ang), which slant down from the inner superstructure to the bracket, but also a great variety of bracket types may be used…
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