shàliǎngtóu
Nota de aplicación
Shaliangtou 厦兩頭, usually understood as “with a mansion on either end”(Kroll 492, 458), only appears as a technical term of architecture in the literature of the Tang and Song dynasties. Here it refers to a roof form used on a tingtang 廳堂 (mansion hall) building. It is similar to the xieshan roof in the Qing dynasty, which is commonly translated as “hip-gable” or “hip-and-gable” roof, or a roof composed of four slopes and two…