Table of Contents

01 Introduction
01-1 Dreaming of the Great City
01-2 "Tour of Ancient Buildings"-A Wonderful Plan
02 Ten Questions from Freddie
02-1 Q1:Why Are There So Few Old Buildings in China?
02-2 Q2:Why Do Ancient Chinese Buildings All Look alike?
02-3 Q3:What Are the Pagodas in Temples for?
02-4 Q4:What Are the Rules for the Location of Pagodas in Temples?
02-5 Q5: How Do You Tell the Difference between a Bell Tower and a Drum Tower? The Morning Belland Evening Drum!
02-6 Q6:What Are the Oldest Extant Wooden Buildingsin China?
02-7 Q7:What Are the Characteristics of the Roofs of
Ancient Buildings in the Tang and Song Dynasties?
02-8 Q8:Are the Roofs of Ancient Chinese BuildingsStraight or Curved?
02-9 Q9:Why Is It Called a Dougong?
02-10 QI0: Can You Tell the Approximate Age of an Ancient Building from Its Dougong?
03 Badun's Four Lectures on the Grades of Ancient Chinese Buildings
03-1 Lecture I: Grades of Roofs
03-2 Lecture 2: Grades of Bays and Base Platforms
03-3 Lecture 3: Grades of Front Gates
03-4 Lecture 4: Grades of Decorative Color Palnting
04 Touring the Tallest, the Biggest and the Oldest
04-1 Marching Towards the Liaodi Pagoda
04-2 The Tallest Brick-and-wood Pagoda
04-3 Experiencing the Feeling of Maling Judgmentabout the Enemy from a High Position
04-4 Types of Pagodas
04-5 The Tie-ma (Iron Bells) and the Autumn Wind
04-6 Encountering Bandits on the Road
04-7 Good Examples of Seniors
04-8 East Hall-A National Treasure
04-9 Discovery of the Zhenrong Zen Temple
04-10 Field Trip of Ancient Buildings Is Hard Work
04-11 Nanchan Temple-Freddie's Favorite Temple
05 An Old Pagoda Hunt
05-1 Taking a Break
05-2 Recalling the Unforgettable Memory of theWooden Pagoda
05-3 The Tallest/the Most Beautiful/the Oldest WoodenPagoda
05-4 Secret of Not Falling Down
05-5 Planning the Trip in the Hotel
05-6 We Have Seen All the Three Treasures in YingxianCounty
05-7 Trespassing is Considered Theft
05-8 Odd or Even Numbers
05-9 Return Trip- for Fresh Salmons