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Meaning literally “well” “structure” (Kroll 2015, 218; 128) Jinggan originally refers to the wall of a wooden well or the railing of a well, but also indicates a construction technique, known as “jinggan method” (jinggan shi 井幹式). According to textual descriptions, archaeological discoveries, and surviving images, the jinggan method involved stacking layers of timbers to form the wall of a building, in which the ends of the timbers were fit together with mortise and tenon joinery. The jinggan construction method is still being used in some areas of northeast and southwest China that are rich in timber.
The first appearance of the term jinggan 井幹 is in
One of the most famous references to the jinggan method describes the architecture of the Jinggan Pavilion (Jinggan lou 井幹樓) in Jianzhang Palace (Jianzhang gong 建章宮) of the
After jinggan-style buildings in Yunnan province were first studied by the Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture (Yingzao xueshe 營造學社) in the 1940s, jinggan, as both a method of construction and architectural style, began to attract the attention of Chinese architectural historians. Since then, it has been considered representative of architectural technology before the Han Dynasty. Jinggan was listed as one of the three major types of Chinese wooden structures together with
井幹本意是木製井壁或井欄。作為一種建築構造,根據文獻描述、考古發現以及圖像,井幹的構造方式是用木料層層累疊,構成房屋的壁體,在轉角部位可以通過榫卯將木料卡接在一起。這樣的構造方式,在中國的東北和西南等一些盛產木材的區域仍在被繼續使用。
井幹一詞最早出現於