Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. architectural elements
7. [surface elements and surface element components]
8. surface elements (architectural)
9. ceilings
10. [coffered ceilings and coffered ceiling components]
11. coffered ceilings

Anotations

Scope note:

Píngqí 平棊, meaning literally “level game board,” is a kind of ceiling in traditional Chinese architecture. The term is used to describe the ceiling of a palatial type hall (dian 殿) in Yingzao fashi 營造法式 (1103). Modern scholars usually use it to refer to the ceilings of buildings constructed in the Tang, Liao and Song dynasties. In the Ming and Qing dynasties the term pingqi panding 平棋盘顶 was used instead of píngqí. The Chinese character 平 (ping) means flat or level, while the character 棊 (qi) means the game weiqi 圍棋 (“Chinese chess” or “Go”) or, by extension, the orthogonal-grid pattern of a game board. The implication is that pingqi is a kind of ceiling with a chessboard pattern. The term pingqi panding 平棋盘顶 has the same meaning.