Representative Buildings of Ancient Chinese Dwellings

    The monotonous reinforced concrete buildings in big cities, which are hard to see all day long, have been living for a long time, making people more and more envious of the picturesque pastoral life. Fortunately, China has retained many large-scale, exquisite and unique ancient folk houses. The ancient builders have been busy for a whole year, repairing cultural relics and repairing ancient houses, in order to retain the nostalgia of Chinese people and the traces of thousands of years of life.
    The hometown of the Chinese people, there are houses and halls, high theaters, long flagstone roads, red lanterns in festivals, bridges and flowing water, eaves of rain. Chinese folk houses scattered around the country are exquisite, colorful and distinctive, which are the accumulation and memory of thousands of years of life of Chinese people. It is also an inexhaustible treasure house for contemporary architects.

                                  

    The five types of Chinese folk houses with different styles contain the charm of all inclusive Chinese folk architecture and art.

East · Hui Style Folk House

     Huizhou has been an important port connecting the north and the south since ancient times. The rich and exquisite Huizhou culture, which has been cultivated and passed down from generation to generation, has created a superb Hui style architecture where people live together. "Pink walls and black tiles" is the main feature of Anhui architecture, which looks like a delicate and elegant ink painting from a distance. The well arranged horsehead wall not only has the beauty of shape, but also is a firewall, which can block the spread of fire. Huizhou villages are also ingenious in site selection, layout and architectural form, strictly following the geomantic omen theory of the Book of Changes, and reflecting the Chinese philosophical spirit of the unity of nature and man.

                                                

South·The Stotied Building of Fujian

  The stotied building of Fujian is a treasure of traditional Chinese dwellings, which is based on the mountain and local materials, absorbs the "feng shui" concept of traditional Chinese architecture, and adapts to the life of ethnic groups and the requirements of defense against foreign enemies. This type of building, represented by Hakka earth buildings, was built at the time of China's turmoil and the migration of Hakka ethnic groups from the Central Plains to the south. For thousands of years, the earth buildings, large and small, and the residents who live in them, have witnessed the great migration of Chinese nationalities.

                                 

West·Terraced Households

    Xinjiang, known as the Western Regions in ancient times, has been a part of China's territory since ancient times, and is quite different from other parts of China. There is a saying in Xinjiang: "If you have never been to Kashgar, you have never been to Xinjiang." Kashgar is the place where the western region culture is epitomized, and the Gaotai folk house located in Kashgar is also a pearl on the crown of the western region culture. Gaotai Folk House is a Uighur ethnic residential area built on a loess cliff with a height of more than 40 meters and a length of more than 800 meters at the northeast end of the old city of Kashi, Xinjiang. It has a history of 600 years. It is a major landscape in Kashi to show the ancient Uighur residential buildings and folk customs. The Uyghur people here have lived together for generations. The houses are built along the cliffs. As the family population has increased for a generation, they have built a floor on the house of their ancestors. For generations, the houses and buildings are stacked one after another. Gaotai folk houses are not restricted by the Central Plains culture. They have long been characterized by the freedom, flexibility and boldness of modernist architecture. They are living fossils of the study of western region folk house culture.

                              

North·Shanxi Folk House

    Shanxi folk house is an important school of Chinese traditional folk house architecture. Among Chinese dwellings, Shanxi dwellings are as famous as southern Anhui dwellings. There has always been a saying that "northern Shanxi, southern Anhui". Shanxi has preserved more ancient buildings because there were fewer wars in previous dynasties. Among Shanxi folk houses, the most magnificent and representative ones are Pingyao and Qixian.

                            

Middle·Xiangxi stilted House

    The stilted building is a very ancient residential building form. It is built along the mountain and faces west to east or east to west. The stilted building belongs to a semi dry railing type wooden building, which is generally divided into upper and lower floors. The upper floor is ventilated, dry and damp proof as a living room; The lower layer is a pig and cattle pen or used for stacking debris.