Li Jie was the Song dynasty official who compiled the Yingzao Fashi, the empire's standard technical manual for building construction, completing it around 1100 and seeing it published by imperial order in 1103. His work set down the inherited practices of craftsmen and architects passed down by word of mouth, including the grading and joinery of dougong bracket sets, in what survives as the earliest complete Chinese technical building manual. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionCompiling the Yingzao Fashi, the earliest complete Chinese technical building manual to survive, standardizing bracket-set (dougong) joinery and an eight-rank timber grading system. 1 Connections
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Li Jie standardized and documented dougong joinery; the bracket system itself long predates him.
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