《說文解字》에서 본 중국고대 건축의 구성요소 — 기둥을 중심으로

Abstract

Although there are a large number of papers on architecture and space in ancient Chinese architecture, they rarely mention the elements that constitute architecture. Ancient Chinese people, with doubts about what were the elements of architecture at that time and how to make them, wanted to find the answer from 《Shuowenjiezi》, a collection of Chinese characters in ancient China. Among the building’s constituent elements, it is generally divided into roof, column, wall, etc., which are mainly related to the stability of the building and are the most important factors to support the roof. Therefore, as the first work to study the elements of ancient architecture, I engaged in the study of roof. From the perspective of archaeology, we can find traces of Yangshao culture and Liangzhu culture, and Erlitou culture. After Xia and Shang Dynasties, with the appearance of large palaces, the application of beams was also extensive. Pillars and beams were one of the most important elements of ancient architecture. Most of the characters related to pillars were formed by following the “木 radical” and adding sound characters. In 《Shuowenjiezi》 “the equivalent of building pillars to 楹、柱、栋、极、桴、楣、杗、梁” such as words, give priority to with these Chinese characters, understand the relevant content of ancient Chinese architecture components pillar.