Abstract
The Love Nightfall Pavilion is named after a poetic verse that reads, “Stopping the carriage to sit in the beloved maple wood at nightfall,” which was written by Du Mu (803–852), who was a famous poet and essayist in the late Tang Dynasty (836–907). The corners of the Love Nightfall Pavilion’s roof fly upwards amidst the autumn maple leaves, which expresses the sunset’s atmosphere over the maple woods that are described in the poem.
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Notes
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Translated by Anne Fremantle, who was an American female scholar in the 20th century.
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Shan xing is a poem that translates as Walking on the Mountain and was written by Du Mu (803–852), who was a leading poet, government official and essayist in the Tang Dynasty (618–907).
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Qin Yuan Chun: Xue, a ci (a type of lyric poetry), literally Qinyuan Garden Spring: Snow, was written in 1936 by Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976), a great Chinese Communist revolutionary leader of the People's Republic of China.
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The original version of this part was published in Tourism Planning and Design, 2011 (2): 62–68, in Chinese. Now, its content in this book is improved.
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Log-cabin style is a structure that stacks wood layer by layer as walls without using columns and beams.
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See the case in Volume 3: “11.1 Muleng House by Lugu Lake: Local Wooden House of Mosuo People”.
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Bagua, also named Eight Trigrams, is a basic philosophical concept of ancient China. It is a yin and yang system that can be composed of eight different forms and used to symbolize various natural and human phenomena.
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Divine by the bagua is an ancient way to ask for the future of some events. It is thought to originally come from the I Ching.
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Fengshui (lit. wind and water) is also known as geomantic omen, and is a Chinese philosophy that seeks ways to harmonize humans with the surrounding environment.
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Tea-horse Interchange Trade is a type of classic trade between ancient Zhongyuan (lit. the Central Plain region in China) and the minority nationalities living in northwest southwest China. It began in the Tang Dynasty (618–907) and flourished in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).
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Yongle Encyclopedia (Mandarin: yong le da dian) is a Chinese compilation of information that was commissioned by the Emperor Yongle (reign 1403–1424) of the Ming Dynasty and completed by 1408.
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Wooden beam structure is a structure that uses wooden beams (often also with columns) for load bearing.
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Xuanshan roof is a two slopes roof that is one of the most common ancient forms of roof in the history of Chinese architecture.
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Mantle-like eave is an annex part built under the eaves of a main building.
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Wang, F. (2016). “Halting” Cases. In: Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0483-4_5
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