Safety Rail

Railings are safety features on bridges and buildings. Railings play the role of separation and guidance during use, making the boundaries of divided areas clear and clear. Well-designed railings are of great decorative significance. There are railing-like components on the Zhou Dynasty ritual vessel seats. In the Han Dynasty, horizontal lattice railings were the most common. In the Six Dynasties, hook pieces and hooks were popular. The corner pillars on the railings or the cane-shaped ones can be seen in the Yungang Grottoes and Dunhuang murals. The wooden railings of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties were relatively slender, while the stone railings gradually departed from the shape of wooden railings and became thicker. After the late Qing Dynasty, Western classical railing forms with proportions, scales and decorations entered China. Modern railings come in a wider variety of materials and shapes.