1. In the early days, buildings and pavilions were different. Early buildings refer to heavy houses, while pavilions refer to buildings whose lower part is overhead and the bottom is high. The specific differences are as follows:

Morphological differences: the pavilion is generally square in plane, with two floors, sitting flat, and the building is long and narrow.

Location differences in architecture: pavilions can occupy the main position in the buildings, such as Guanyin Pavilion in Dule Temple, and pavilions are the main ones in Buddhist temples. Buildings are often in a secondary position in buildings, such as the Buddhist temple, the back building in the palace, the balcony building and so on. And it is in the last row or left and right positions of the buildings.

There is no strict difference between these two roles. However, this principle of distinction is still maintained in the naming of buildings. For example, in several royal opera gardens in the Qing Dynasty, the main stage buildings are called pavilions, and the long and narrow buildings for viewing and playing are called pavilions.

Extended data:

1. Architectural form and use of the exhibition hall

The pagoda appeared in the Warring States Period. The towers in the Han Dynasty all reached three floors. Quelou, Shilou, Wang Lou, etc. They are all pavilions and pavilions widely used in the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed in the magic of immortals and thought that building a high pavilion could become immortals. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the shaft building was as high as "50 feet".

After Buddhism was introduced into China, a large number of pagodas were pavilions. The wooden tower of Yongning Temple in Luoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty is "more than forty feet" high and can be seen hundreds of miles away. Saga Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province was built in Liao Dynasty, with a height of 67.3 1 m, and it is still the highest existing ancient wooden structure in China.

Some buildings used for hiding in history are also called pavilions, but they are not necessarily tall buildings, such as Shiqu Pavilion and Tianyi Pavilion (see library building). Scenic buildings that can climb high and overlook are usually named after pavilions, such as the Yellow Crane Tower and Wang Tengting.

2. Architectural form of the pavilion

The pavilions in ancient China were mostly made of wood and had many kinds of frames. The high-rise building formed by overlapping squares in the shape of well site is called well dry type; Single-storey buildings are stacked layer by layer, forming a whole building and weighing the house.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, a layer of platform structure has been added between floors, with its inner eaves forming a concealed building and floor, and its outer eaves protruding out to form a platform. This form was called equal sitting in the Song Dynasty. The upper and lower columns of each floor are not connected, and the structural connection mode is complicated. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the pavilion structure has connected all layers of wooden columns into long columns, and overlapped with beams to form a whole frame, which is called columns. In addition, there are other changes in the framework of the pavilion.

Baidu encyclopedia-pavilion