guāzǐgǒng 瓜子栱

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Terms

  • guazigong (Pinyin without tones)1
  • 瓜子栱 (Traditional Chinese)
  • 瓜子栱 (Simplified Chinese)
  • guāzǐgǒng (Pinyin)
  • kua-tzu-kung (Wade-Giles)
  • guazi gong (Pinyin without tones)2

Note

    Guazigong is a Song dynasty term for one type of bracket arm (gong 栱) placed parallel to the wall plane. Meaning, literally, "melon-seed bracket arms," it measures between the linggong 令栱 and nidaogong 泥道栱in size. When used in in chonggong zao 重栱造, it is placed atop the end of the huagong 華栱 (tiaotou 跳頭) or slanted bracket arm (ang 昂). Longer bracket arms, called mangong 慢栱, are typically place above the guazigong, these, in turn, support a beam parallel to the building plane (Li 2009, 4.3a) .

    Some scholars who debate the origin of the names of the five important types of bracket arm discussed in Yingzao fashi (1103) believe their differentiation is primarily related to their length and location (Ho 1983, Li 2011, Feng 2012).3

    宋式斗栱构件名称。平行于屋身的栱的一种，用于重栱造斗栱，置于各跳華栱端頭或昂上，其上用慢栱 (李 2009，4.3a)。4

Related concepts

    重栱 chónggǒng

    栱 gǒng

    華栱 huāgǒng

    慢栱 màngǒng

Works Cited

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  • 1 FENG. 2012. Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual, 187.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; FU. 2017. Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays, 356.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 GUO. 2002. A Visual Dictionary of Chinese Architecture, 40.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 李. 2011. 中国古建筑名词图解辞典Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; FENG. 2012. Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building ManualLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record; HE. 1983. 万栱与慢栱新证——古代大式大木构件名称研讨Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; 李. 2009. 營造法式 (1103; 故宫藏抄本), 4.3a.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 李. 2009. 營造法式 (1103; 故宫藏抄本), 4.3a.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record

Broad Match: bracketing

How to Cite This Entry

ZHUGE Jing 諸葛淨 et al., “ 瓜子栱 guāzǐgǒng” in Architectura Sinica last modified May 20, 2024, https://architecturasinica.org/keyword/k000259.

Bibliography:

ZHUGE Jing 諸葛淨 et al., “ 瓜子栱 guāzǐgǒng.” In Architectura Sinica, edited by Tracy Miller. Entry published June 10, 2023. https://architecturasinica.org/keyword/k000259.

About this Entry

Entry Title: 瓜子栱 guāzǐgǒng

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • Tracy Miller, editor, Architectura Sinica
  • ZHUGE Jing 諸葛净, associate editor, Architectural Terminology
  • ZHUGE Jing 諸葛淨 and LIU Lin 劉琳, entry contributors, “ 瓜子栱 guāzǐgǒng”

Additional Credit:

  • Website coordination: Yuh-Fen Benda
  • Peer review: ATTCAT 2023
  • English proofreading: Aurelia Campbell Tracy Miller
  • Chinese proofreading: ZHUGE Jing 諸葛净 ZUO Lala 左拉拉
  • Preliminary research and revision: LIU Lin 劉琳
  • Entry of revised data and links: ZOU Yuyang 鄒宇洋
  • Data entry: YAN Yiyang 嚴一洋

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