How were ancient houses built?

In the absence of steel bars and concrete, the ancients used glutinous rice, lime slurry, soil, wood and other materials to build houses through mortise and tenon technology.

The ancient buildings in China are a brilliant stroke in the history of architecture. The ancients took materials from the objects around them, and perfectly integrated soil and wood, so that the building had its own soul.

1. As early as the Paleolithic, people had not mastered the skills of architecture. The most effective way to build a residence is to find a cave.

2. In the Neolithic Age, people used local materials and gradually built their own houses.

3. Dry film buildings are mostly used to dehumidify and repel mosquitoes in the south, and cave buildings are mostly used in the north.

The ancients used their intelligence and wisdom. They tried their best to make the house stronger when building it, so they found other ways to make it stronger even without steel bars and concrete.

First, the first method is to use lime mortar. Early on, the ancients knew that lime mortar could be used to strengthen buildings. In fact, lime mortar is a mixture of lime, sand and water, and its manufacturing technology and cost are very low.

Although it can be used to strengthen buildings, it still has a big weakness, that is, the strength is not very good, it is difficult to build those very high buildings, and this kind of thing can not be used in humid environment, and water is their biggest natural enemy.

Another method is to build it with glutinous rice mortar, which is a mixture of glutinous rice and lime slurry. Its manufacturing method is to pour cooked glutinous rice into lime water, and then the combination of the two will produce very strong adhesion.

And it is much better than the first method. The wall built with it will be very strong, just like the Great Wall we see now. In this way, even in ancient times without reinforced concrete, the house can still be built very firmly without worrying about its collapse.

There is another method, that is, the method of rammed earth construction, which is also a building material often used by the ancients. How is it made? In fact, he just has red mud, coarse sand and lime blocks, which are mixed together and then seen by gravity to form a solid substance.

With the proof of archaeologists, we will find that you have rammed earth a long time ago. Although there were no bricks at that time, they used their intelligence to find a very strong material to build buildings. Then they invented another new material by mixing stones with other soil materials, and rammed soil came out.

Extended data:

Mortise and tenon: A unique invention of ancient carpenters in China who did not use nails when building houses and furniture.

Mortise and tenon is the main structural mode of ancient buildings, furniture and other appliances in China, and it is the connection mode of concave-convex combination of two components. The protruding part is called tenon (or tenon); The concave part is called mortise (or mortise).

Wooden building frames in China generally include columns, beams, fang, mats, sandalwood, bucket arches, rafters, kanban and other basic components. These components are independent of each other and need to be connected in a certain way to form a house.

The "tenon-mortise" connection mode of all parts of China furniture is the main structural mode of furniture modeling. Various tenons and mortises have different practices and different scope of application, but they have the function of "joint" in every piece of furniture.

If tenons and mortises are used properly, the two wood structures can be tightly fixed together to achieve a "seamless" degree. It is a basic skill that ancient carpenters must have, and the level of craftsmanship can be clearly reflected through the tenon-mortise structure.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ancient Buildings