Architecture is a general term for buildings and structures. It is an artificial environment created by people in order to meet the needs of social life, using the material and technical means they have mastered, and using certain scientific laws, geomantic ideas and aesthetic laws.

 

In order to clearly express the usability, some classifications will distinguish buildings from non-architectural structures that people do not occupy for a long time. In addition, some architectural scholars also deliberately subdivide buildings whose appearance is created by people's consciousness into "buildings" in order to avoid confusion.

 

 

From the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840 to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chinese architecture was characterized by a mix of Chinese and Western styles and a variety of styles. During this period, the traditional Chinese old building system still occupied the quantitative advantage, but the entertainment industry, service industry buildings such as theater park, restaurant and inn, and commercial buildings such as department store, shopping mall and vegetable market generally broke through the traditional architectural pattern, expanded the space for interpersonal activities, and set up a combination of Chinese and Western style stores; Western architectural style is also present in China's architectural activities, in Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Harbin and other concession cities, foreign consulates, foreign banks, banks, restaurants, clubs and other foreign buildings. This period also saw the emergence of modern national architecture, which has achieved a better unity of new functions, new technologies, new shapes and national styles.
 

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chinese architecture entered a new historical period. The large-scale and planned construction of the national economy promoted the vigorous development of the construction industry. Chinese modern architecture has broken through the limitation of modern times in quantity, scale, type, regional distribution and modernization level, showing a brand-new attitude. This period of Chinese architecture has experienced local application DaWuDing as the main characteristics of style restoring ancient ways, represented by 10 National Day engineering construction of the socialist construction period of new style, modern design methods and ethnic connotation of guangzhou style period, since the 1980 s, China building gradually incline to open, compatible, began to develop in the direction of diversification of modern Chinese architecture.