Constructional Culture Based Analysis of Social Strata of China's Royal Palaces

The China's Royal Palaces have obvious differences in the social strata viewed from Construction Culture. According to the record from the Old Chinese Book "The Regulation of Rites", there should be differences in the Palace area, height and roads based on the Palace owner's social titles. These differences are reflected typical in the aspects such as the area, the name, the color and the layout. The paper analyzes the embodiments of the differences and discusses the reasons by means of case study in order to give some implication of designing today's construction and its cultures.