Baiyu Palace, main hall 白玉宮正殿

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Names

  • main hall (English)
  • 正殿 (Traditional Chinese)
  • 正殿 (Simplified Chinese)
  • zhèngdiàn (Pinyin)
  • cheng-tien (Wade-Giles)
  • Baiyugong zhengdian (English)
  • 白玉宫正殿 (Traditional Chinese)
  • 白玉宫正殿 (Simplified Chinese)
  • zhengdian

Location

  • Coordinates:
    • Lat. 35.65815° Long. 113.2410667°

    • Building Information

    The main hall (zhengdian 正殿) of Baiyu Palace is built on a 0.8 m high stone podium. The hall has a front façade of 3 bays wide and depth of 4 rafters. It has a single eaves hip-gable roof, with a roof frame composed of a three-rafter beam facing an anterior single-rafter tie beam joined into to the eaves, with three columns in cross-section. The column tops support four-layer bracket sets with a single cantilever, and there are single intercolumnar bracket sets. The original doors and windows are no longer extant.2
    Date 1212
    Dynasty Jin 1115 - 1234 1

    Works Cited

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    • 1 WILKINSON. 2000. Chinese History: A Manual, 12.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 国家文物局. 2006. 中国文物地图集. 山西分册, II:513; 23-C10.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record

    Contained in Place

    Architectural Features


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    “Baiyu Palace, main hall 白玉宮正殿 ” in Architectura Sinica last modified September 25, 2020, https://architecturasinica.org/place/000128.

    Bibliography:

    “Baiyu Palace, main hall 白玉宮正殿 .” In Architectura Sinica, edited by Tracy Miller. Entry published March 21, 2018. https://architecturasinica.org/place/000128.

    About this Entry

    Entry Title: Baiyu Palace, main hall 白玉宮正殿

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    • Tracy Miller, editor, Architectura Sinica

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    • Website coordination: Yuh-Fen Benda
    • Initial translation 2010: Lydia Ohl
    • Translation 2011: Cole Garrett
    • Translation modified 2017: WONG Pui See
    • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision: Tracy Miller
    • Citation updates, romanization updates: Melanie Lu OGIHARA Waka

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