Hello I'm the leader of Asia Empires mod,this post was originally written by one of our member: dragon-legend who learned architecture in the university and created some of the settlements in the mod(Such as Forbidden city,Indian settlements and so on)
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Hello,everybody,I am one of the Chinese domod team (which is famous for "The Road to Luoyang","Imjin war of korea" and "Sigh of Empire"),I am pleasure to bring some more detailed pics about the different kinds of buildings of different regions in Asia in mid 17th Century(more infos about the mod: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/s ... n-0-8%26%2365289%3B).
Regionalization of traditional residence is a kind of obvious characteristic of Asia. If you have been traveling across the Great historic cities in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, India, ancient coutries in Indochina and Western colonies in pacific. You would be shocked by the diversity.If you have never set foot in those mysterious places,never mind,I will show you here.
The progress in the late September(we decide to finish the first mod which has different settlements for different factions):
Settlements
1.Northern China(Qing dynasty,Qin Army,Guanning Army,Shun Dynasty) 100%
2.Sorthern China(Ming dynasty,House of Zhen,Jianghan Army) 100%
3.Southwest China (Xi Dynasty,Duke of Qian) 100%
4.Southeast China (House of Zhen) 5%
5.Western China (Yakant Khanate) 100%
6.Tibet area of China (Oirat Khanate) 100%
7.Mongolian Areas (Khalkha Mongols,Khoshot Khanate) 100%
8.Kingdom of Joseon 100%
9.Tokugawa Bakufu 95%
10.Later Lê dynasty 3%
11.Mughal Empire 50%
12.Maratha Confederacy 20%
13.Kingdom of Ayutthaya 60%
14.Taungoo Dynasty 40%
15.Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam,Kingdom of Sulu Darussalam 0%
16.Russia Empire 0%
17.Dutch East India Company,Spanish East Indies,Portuguese East Indies 60%
Places of historic
1.The Forbbiden City in Beijing 100%
2.The Forbbiden City in Nanking of the early Ming 100%
3.The Tenshuokaku of Osaka 100%
4.The Tenshuokaku of Himeji jo 100%
5.The Fujiyama 100%
6.The Dayan Tower in Xian 100%
7.The Gyeongbokgung Palace of Seoul 100%
8.The Great Wall of China 40%
9.The Zeelandia 20%
10.The Potala Palace in Lhasa,Tibet,China 100%
11.The Ayutthaya Conurbation 60%
12.The Taj Mahal and Red Castle in Agra 100%
13.The Quanzhou harbour 5%
14.The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa,Tibet,China 100%
15.The Salad temple in Lhasa,Tibet,China 100%
16.The Temple of Heaven in Beijing 100%
17.The Barabudur 0%
18.The Angkor Wat 0%
19.The Forbbiden City in Shenyang 10%
20.Batavia 20%
Thanks to everyone of our forum for their support and historical resource,especially wolflance and gudkha4050 for their historical informations
Thanks to All under Heaven mod team for their resources, we will work together in the future
Thanks to 1648,With Fire and Sword 2 and Shizoku no Sensō mod team for some resources,you can use any part of our mod that we did in your mods
We use some vegetations from EB2 without explicit consent. But we have not publish this version yet.If the members of EB2 team don't permit us to use these resources,we will delete them when the English version finishes.
OK,without hesitation,I will show u some screenshots below.
1.we now come to the show of Chinese cities:
Almost all the contries in Asia digs city moat around the wall.
The wall of huge city.
The wall of large city in northern China
The city gate
After Song Dynasty,people in China can sell stuff on the streets(Before Song Dynasty,governors prohibit citizens from walking on the streets freely.)
Bell tower(The one with green roof) was used for timing in ancient China.(Based on Bell tower in Xian)
Drum-tower(The one with grey roof on the left side) was used for calling the public in ancient China.(Based on Drum-tower in Xian).
The Zongdu Yamen(The entrance with a red wall on the right side) is the administration building of 2 or 3 provinces in Ming Dynasty.
Siheyaun is a kind of courtyard Dwelling in northern China.(Which is famous for old Beijing Siheyuan.)
Xitai was the cinema to ancient Chinese,actors played Opera(such as the famous Peking Opera) on the stage in the middle.
The tower was common in the temple.(Based on Dayan tower in Xian)
The Jiulong wall and stone lion were the symbol of power in ancient China,9 dragons could only be used by brothers of the emperor.
The blue glazed tile was also the symbol of power in ancient China.
The stone bridge to the entrance of Ningyuan Fortress.(Ningyuan Fortress was built in early 17th century,which was used to prevent the centre of Ming from invasion of Manchu)
The Ningyuan Fortress is the only city which can allow you to put the cannons on the wall.(U see the slope?)
The Shanhai Pass was called the greatest pass in China.It means an extended enclosure with wall for defence outside a city gate.
The holes on the wall were used for shooting.
Now let us have a glance at the large city in southern China.
Gardeners plants beautiful trees beside the road since slave society in China.
Living in the bustling metropolis like Nanking,Hangzhou,Suzhou and Yangzhou,people often settled in the riveside of city moat,because there was less wars.(we had found some evidences in the old drawing by Chouying, a famous painter in Ming Dynasy)
Towers,bridges,rockery are important elements of classical Chinese garden.
Paifang(honorific arch) was build for commemorating important things.(Based on torii in Nanking.)
The river passes through the cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.(You can see the scenery in Wuzhen,Xitang today in China.)And citizens here lived on the bank of river.
A small wooden boat could be better than a horse in a water city.The same as Gondola to Venice.
Towers,temples,dyeing factory,silk workshop and brothels were here and there in a prosperous city in southern China.
The Xunfu Yamen is the administration building of the province in Ming Dynasty.
A typical garden of rich person in southern China.(Literatus loved lotus flowers.)
This is the entrance of the city.(typical style of Song)
Houses of citizens were constructed by the wood and brick.Bamboo was also a symbol of respectable morality to Chinese intellectuals.
Farmers prefered to live out of the wall because of the short distance from their fields.
The pass
Here we come to the southwest of China(many models are from World Of Tanks) :
On the top of mountain we can see the city.(large town)
Village of aboriginal in southwest China.(Minority like the Yi,Tujia,Miao and Dong.)
Thatched cottages of aboriginal.
"Diaojiaolou" is a kind of house which is build near the moutains and rivers,there is a distance between the first floor slab of Diaojiaolou and the ground in case of snakes and vermins.
Wetland.
Tower of Dong minority.
Wind and rain bridge is a bridge covered by a roof in case of the sudden rain.
At last, I will show you some more details about the Fobbiden City in Beijing.
Chinese emperor started to construct the Fobbiden City since 15th century.The Fobbiden City is the royal palace of both Ming and Qing Dynasty.There are more than 8600 houses in the huge palace.
There are 5 stone bridges in the middle of the square between Wu Gate and Huangji Gate(renamed Taihe Gate by Qing dynasty).We call them "Golden Water Bridge"
Huangji Palace(Renamed Taihe Palace by Qing dynasty) was the conference hall for emperor and ministers discussing the important policies.
Qianqing Gate(up) and Qianqing Palace(down) were the emperor's resting places.
Mei Mountain located behind the back of the Fobbiden City,In 1644 AC, the last emperor of Ming,Youjian Zhu,committed suicide on a pagoda tree here.
In the south of Fobbiden City,you can see the famous Temple of Heaven.
2.OK,let us come to the settlements of Mongolia.
The gate.
The watch tower.
The tents (the 3 yellow ones) of Khan.
The dawn on the grassland is very charming!