cǎojià
Nota de aplicación
As an architectural term, caojia (literally “draft frame,” Kroll 2015 34, 194), primarily appears in technical manuals such as the Yingzao fashi(1103), Yuanye 園冶 (1631), and Yingzao fayuan 營造法原 (1959). It refers to the roof frame between the interior ceiling (the pingqi 平棊 in Yingzao Fashi and the xuan 軒 or juan 卷 in mansion-hall style architecture of Jiangnan area in Ming and Qing dynasties) and the roof, which is left ro…