Abstract:There are many forms of traditional Chinese architecture, among which the ‘gable and hip roof’ architecture is a common one. The ‘gable and hip roof’ architecture has fixed features from the outside, but its internal structure has many special treatments, resulting in a variety of structural forms. This paper studies and analyzes the common structural forms on the gable wall of the ‘gable and hip roof’ architecture, and tries to find the regularity among them.