Terrace

  The terrace was an ancient architectural structure, an elevated terrace with a flat top. In

most cases be built of earth, stone and surfaced with brick, they are used as a belvedere

from which to look into the distance. In fact, however, many well-known ancient Tai today

are not just a bare platform but has some palatial halls built on top. A typical example is

the Round City of the Beihai Park in Beijing. As a terrace five meters high, it has an area

of 4, 500 square meters on its top and a main hall with side corridors.

it is always built with the pavilion, we can provide grey pavilion roof tiles

        The Tai could be built to serve different practical purposes. For example, Jianguomen

in Beijing which dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties is an observatory. It could also

be used for military purposes like the beacon towers along the Great Wall, to transmit urgent

information with smoke by day and fire by night in emergency. Also on the Great Wall, there

is a square Tai at intervals of every 300 to 400 meters from which the garrison troops kept watch.