Compare And Contrast Tang And Song Dynasties

The Tang, Song, and Ming Dynasties were all very innovative. The Tang focused more on something that would last. The Song Focused on a lasting, but more convenient building. The Ming Dynasty wasn’t going for anything very tall, but they wanted to make everything very beautiful, with colors and statues. Architecture shows more continuity then change in the Tang and Song Dynasties while the Ming Dynasty had radical change. This is because both the Tang and Song Dynasty are similar where they are more conscious about the strength of their buildings then the Ming.

The Tang dynasty used architecture while building their pagodas in the City of Chang’an, the pagoda is a leveled tower that was originated in South Asia and spread throughout Asia. “T’ang period pagodas usually had a square base…”The Tang dynasty made their pagodas squared and sturdy. They made many of these, almost every building was a pagoda, the library, the Buddhist temples, even living spaces. They used bricks and stones for building and made few wooden pagodas. We do not know the exact number of wooden pagodas because wood erodes more then stone and

They were made of stone with wooden lattices around it. The buildings were taller and thinner with high spires. “The tulou in the picture has 53 rooms on each level… These apartment houses were popular because they were efficient to build and heat, using very little wood…” Therefore, the Song may not have been as sturdy as the Tang’s pagodas but the Song Dynasty did create apartment Complexes similar to Pagodas called tulou’s, which seems very intelligent. “Palaces and temples were at first designed in the Tang tradition, sturdy and relatively simple in detail though smaller in scale… however, became progressively more complex.” The Song Dynasty is similar to the Tang because it kept progressing and becoming more of a complex advanced