Editing China (section)

=== Architecture ===
{{Main|Chinese architecture|3 = List of World Heritage Sites in China}}

[[Chinese architecture]] has developed over millennia in China and has remained a vestigial source of perennial influence on the development of East Asian architecture,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goodrich |first=L. Carrington |title=A Short History of the Chinese People |date=2007 |publisher=Sturgis Press |isbn=978-1-4067-6976-0 |edition=Third}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Formichi |first=Chiara |title=Religious pluralism, state and society in Asia |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-1345-7542-8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Robin W. Winks |title=Historiography |last2=Alaine M. Low |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1915-4241-1}}</ref> including in [[Japanese architecture|Japan]], [[Korean architecture|Korea]], and [[Architecture of Mongolia|Mongolia]].<ref name="Cartwright-2023">{{Cite web |last=Cartwright |first=Mark |title=Ancient Chinese Architecture |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Chinese_Architecture |access-date=19 February 2023 |website=World History Encyclopedia}}</ref> and minor influences on the architecture of Southeast and South Asia including the countries of [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]], [[Indonesia]], [[Sri Lanka]], Thailand, Laos, [[Cambodia]], [[Vietnamese architecture|Vietnam]] and the Philippines.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bandaranayake |first=Senake |title=Sinhalese monastic architecture: the viháras of Anurádhapura |date=1974 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9-0040-3992-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Nithi Sathāpitānon |title=Architecture of Thailand: a guide to traditional and contemporary forms |last2=Brian Mertens |date=2012 |publisher=Didier Millet |isbn=978-9-8142-6086-2}}</ref>

Chinese architecture is characterized by bilateral symmetry, use of enclosed open spaces, [[feng shui]] (e.g. directional [[Hierarchy|hierarchies]]),<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tuobin |title=Bu lu ke lin = Brooklyn |last2=托宾 Toibin |first2=Colm |date=2021 |publisher=Shang hai yi wen chu ban she you xian gong si |others=Bo,Li, 柏栎 |isbn=978-7-5327-8659-6 |edition=Di 1 ban |language=zh}}</ref> a horizontal emphasis, and an allusion to various cosmological, [[myth]]ological or in general symbolic elements. Chinese architecture traditionally classifies structures according to type, ranging from ''[[pagodas]]'' to [[Chinese palace|palaces]].<ref name="Itō-2017">{{Cite book |last1=Itō |first1=Chūta |title=Zhongguo jian zhu shi |last2=伊藤忠太 |date=2017 |publisher=中国画报出版社 |others=Yizhuang Liao, 廖伊庄 |isbn=978-7-5146-1318-6 |edition=Di 1 ban}}</ref><ref name="Cartwright-2023" />
[[File:Tian'anmen from the square (20200825114150).jpg|thumb|[[Tiananmen Square]], a [[Town square|city square]] in the [[city center]] of [[Beijing]]. [[Tiananmen]] is the [[Gatehouse|entrance gate]] of the [[Forbidden City]].]]
Chinese architecture varies widely based on status or affiliation, such as whether the structures were constructed for emperors, commoners, or for religious purposes. Other variations in Chinese architecture are shown in vernacular styles associated with different [[Geography|geographic]] regions and different ethnic heritages, such as the [[stilt house]]s in the south, the [[Yaodong|Yaodong buildings]] in the northwest, the [[Yurt|yurt buildings]] of nomadic people, and the [[Siheyuan|Siheyuan buildings]] in the north.<ref>{{Cite book |last=徐怡涛. |title=Zhong guo jian zhu |date=2010 |publisher=Gao deng jiao yu chu ban she |others=Xu yi tao, 徐怡涛. |isbn=978-7-0402-7421-9}}</ref>