I read it started from my travel in mid-north of China, and still reading when I strolling around in BeiJing. Temples, ancient building, forbidden city, especially the beautiful old names of the part of old building like XuanYu悬鱼(reversely hanging fish). The book give me a clear line of history of my country, which links the transfer of different dynansty. Especially the sketching do charm me a lot .
When I was in LongXing Temple of city ZhenDing with my friends, where Liang SiCheng and Lin Huiyin inspected, I found the dairy he wrote during their inspecting time,Old time reappear.
If some readers feel this book read a little bit boring, I may recommend 华夏意匠 wrote by Li YunHe李允鉌, who was a companion worked with Liang and Lin。These two books may be like partners , one may be more theoretical, the other may be more amiable^^