The base, for burying Buddhist relics, usually took the form of an underground chamber or underground hole attached to a tomb in ancient China. This kind of pagoda structure was recorded in ...

Ancient Chinese architecture ... recorded in early documents of Chinese history. Pagodas, however, appeared relatively late in China. A Chinese term for pagoda did not exist until the first ...

Wang Yongxian, born in 1950 in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, never imagined his videos about dougong, a traditional construction method, would rack up over 20 million views and ...