Hanging hilltop
Hanging mountains, that is, hanging mountain roof, the Song Dynasty called "not built two", the Qing Dynasty called "hanging mountain", "pick mountain", also known as "mountain", is a Chinese architectural style of the roof, but also spread to Japan, the Korean peninsula and the Vietnamese, Japanese called his wife made (き り づ ま づ く り). In ancient times, the top of the hill is lower than the veranda and the top of the mountain, only higher than the hard top, only for civil construction, is the most common form of East Asia in the building. Hanging mountain has a ridge, four vertical ridge. It is characterized by: the truss or purlin is not like the hard mountain as in the side of the mountain wall. But directly out of the gable, to support the hanging outside the roof part. That is to say that hanging mountain building not only front and rear eaves, and both ends of the same size with the front and rear eaves eaves. So the two mountain part will be in a floating state, hence the name. ...