Residential Buildings In South China

Residential Buildings in South China is one important part of Chinese traditional residential buildings. Their features are facing south, focusing lighting, the wooden structure, the brick and stone walls, painting, etc. Meanwhile, their architectural characteristics are corridor, second storey, white wall and grey clay roof tiles, horse head wall.

Why residential buildings have these features? There are some reasons.

1, The climate in South China is hot and humid. So people make the second storey building to prevent humidity and ventilation.

2, In some villages with dense houses, people build the horse head walls to prevent the fire. And these well arranged walls can be good decoration of the houses.

3, Each house is not big, it can link other houses. The house combination is flexible, which is very suitable for the local topography.

The roofs of the houses are installed by grey clay roof tiles, which are also one important feature. Seen from far, these houses have grey roofs and white walls, which like an gorgeous Chinese painting.