How China Built Earthquake-proof Palaces

I was fascinated by this video, it makes sense to me, having studied a lot of this type of thing. Basically it's a structure built of slightly flexible joints that can't come apart easily, held up without being attached to the ground that is moving.
Really a neat video.

A lot of traditional Japanese temples were built with similar techniques. They were designed to wiggle and sway, but not collapse. People were trained to run to the temple if they felt a quake. Many homes had at least some of the concepts incorporated as well, but there are limits - you building can't sway if the walls don't allow it, but for actually living day to day, walls are useful! Many Japanese walls were shoji screens which could slide, but that depended on the climate - hard to remember but Japan is a very narrow, but long country north to south, so the yearly weather patterns differ a lot.