Abstract:As for the historical division of Chinese traditional architecture, the academic circles (architecture and history) at home and abroad have not reached a unified opinion. Mr. Liang Sicheng in his "History of Chinese Architecture", Japanese scholar Ito Kiyozo in his "History of Chugoku Architecture", and Mr. Liu Dunzhen in the "History of Chinese Ancient Architecture" ,they all has viewpoint of divided the history of Chinese traditional architecture. Some of them are divided according to the history of social development, that is, the stage of political history, and some are divided according to the level of productivity and the condition of buildings. The author thinks that the development stages of traditional Chinese architectural history should not only take into account the influence of social development process on architecture, but also summarize the architectural characteristics of a certain stage and its position in architectural history.