Figures & data
Figure 1. XiJing Bank House in ChangShu Historic District of SuZhou.
Figure 2. DongYan Garden House in GuangFu Town of SuZhou.
Figure 3. Zhang’s Residence in XinChang Town of ShangHai.
Figure 4. ShangDe House south of JiShan Mountain in ShaoXing.
Figure 5. Three Wells House in XiangShan Road Historic District of NanChang.
Figure 6. Restoration of a Typical Ancient Roman House in Pompeii.
Figure 7. Impluvium in an Ancient Roman Residence.
Figure 8. Impluvium in the Ruins of Pompeii.
Figure 9. Section View of the Iwan Hall in an Islamic Residence.
Figure 10. Frame Form of Courtyard and TianJing.
Figure 11. Three Halls in a TianJing Architecture Prototype.
Figure 12. Ring Groove: Earth-Shaped TianJing.
Figure 13. Square Pool: Water-Shaped TianJing.
Figure 14. Pit Pool TianJing in ZouJiaXiang, WuYiShan, FuJian.
Figure 15. Drainage Structures in Some TianJing.
Figure 16. Basic combination modes of traditional architecture.
Figure 17. Physical analysis of a TianJing residence (ChongShun Hall, GaoAn, JiangXi).
Figure 18. Over-white method of architecture construction in GuangDong (Lu Citation2003).
Figure 19. Plan of the FengChu building foundation in the Early Western Zhou dynasty in QiShan, ShaanXi (Fu Citation1998).
Table 1. Comparison of differences between TianJing and courtyard.
Figure 20. Geographical distribution maps of TianJing and courtyard architecture types.
Figure 21. Plane figure I of Yao ChengZu drawings in YingZaoFaYuan (Chen Citation1979).
Table 2. TianJing scale statistics from the drawings in YingZaoFaYuan (Chen Citation1979).
Figure 22. Investigation and distribution map of construction rulers in JiangNan region.
Table 3. List of construction rulers found in the field investigation of JiangNan region11 (Unit: cm).
Table 4. Statistical table of TianJing scale data of some dwellings in JiangNan region.
Table 5. Statistical table of TianJing scale situation in JiangNan region.12
Figure 23. Distribution of the depth-to-width ratio of TianJing in JiangNan region.
Figure 24. Analysis of TianJing over-white in JiangNan region.
Figure 25. variation rule of the depth-to-width ratio of courtyards in North China.
Figure 26. Variation rule of the depth-to-width ratio of TianJing in JiangNan region.
Figure 27. Schematic diagram of the TianJing scale distribution in JiangNan region based on the historical map of the Southern song dynasty.
