Traditional Chinese roofing
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Traditional Chinese roofing refers to the numerous types of roofing, and roofing elements, employed in historic Chinese architecture. Traditional Chinese architecture employed a number of different roofing styles, which utilized different shapes, slopes, and ridges. The types of roofs would vary by historical era, with certain types of roofs gaining particular prominent through the reigns of certain dynasties.[1] Other factors which shaped roofs in traditional Chinese architecture included precipitation and cultural connotations.[1]
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