中国历史文化灿烂辉煌,一脉相承。中国建筑为东方独立系统,数千年来,继承演变;流布极广大的区域。民舍以至宫殿,均由若干单个独立的建筑物集合而成;而这单个建筑物,由古代简陋的胎形,到近代穷奢极巧的殿宇,均保持着三个基本要素;台基部分、柱梁或木造部分、屋顶部分。三个部分中,最庄严美丽、迥然殊异于西方建筑、为中国建筑博得最大荣誉的,自是屋顶部分。而屋顶的特殊轮廓, The history and culture of China are splendid and brilliant. Chinese architecture is an independent system of the East. For thousands of years, it has inherited and evolved; The houses and even the palaces are made up of a number of individual and independent buildings. The single building, from the archaic form of the ancients to the modern minimalist temples, retains three basic elements. Parts, pillars or wooden sections, roof sections. Among the three parts, the most solemn and beautiful ones, which are totally different from Western architecture and have won the greatest honor for Chinese architecture, are themselves part of the roof. And the special contour of the roof,