The China under the roofs

        We can get the shape of roof tiles in the :carapace-bone-scriptRelative explainations.

And we found the clay roof tiles of western Zhou Dynasty(1046BC-771BC) at Shanxi province.

Later we found more roof tiles of this period.

      The clay roof tiles were widely used in Spring and Autumn period, there were many flat

tiles and pan tiles in middle of China at that time. In addition, there were some patterns on

the roof tiles.

     In the qin and han dynasties,  the industry of clay products appeared.  The design also

improved a lot.

     In Song dynasty, the glazed roof tiles developed, the roof tiles began to have different

colors And the roof tiles were produced in standard.

In this period, the roof tiles started ites function: prevent the wooden structure from rain.

      In Ming and Qing dynasty, the roof tiles had been the very important part of the buildings.

The roof had different classes.: the yellow glazed roof could only be used for royal and

improtant temple buildings; the green roof should be the house of princely magnificence

During this time, the roof tiles were made with different sizes

In morden society, the Chinese roof tiles are seldom used for the bridling

     However, more and more Chinese overseas, more and more chinese buildings are built

all over the world.

     In china, the tradtional culture has been pay more attention, the roof tiles will play an

important roles in future China.

                                           ------  reprint news from China Royal Gardens