Architectural style and frontal photos of Guanzhong residential buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties

In the Qing Dynasty, poor tenants had no place to live. They often live in the landlord's house or rented house. Even if several rooms can be built, they are very simple, mostly simple single-row houses, or double-row houses composed of single-row houses and single-row buildings, single-row houses and street-facing houses with kitchen storage functions. Every two people can live in one room at most (about seven or eight square meters per person), and the room in the middle is usually a hall, which is dedicated to ancestral memorial tablets or for receiving visitors. Most of the houses are rammed earth houses, and some live in caves near cliffs. Ordinary yeomen or small landlords with rich peasants often use three-way courtyards, that is, three-way courtyards with main rooms and left and right wings, or four-way houses-main rooms, left and right wings and street houses. ?

In the Qing Dynasty, the houses of big landlords and wealthy businessmen were beautifully carved and painted, and door and window carvings prevailed. The overall planning and layout is also made up of courtyards, and the horizontal layout is relatively extensive. The functions of buildings are generally equipped with living room, dining room, servant room, garage and so on. In addition, a relatively large landlord's house in Guanzhong often uses a series of multiple courtyards to increase the use function of the courtyard, that is, the gatehouse and street house are in front, the guest rooms are on both sides, the hall and family room are inside, and the kitchen is in the side yard or backyard. The patio (courtyard) of the hall joint courtyard becomes a temporary living room for entertaining guests at weddings and funerals.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the residents of Guanzhong greatly reflected the various living needs, etiquette system and customs of traditional folk houses in Guanzhong area, and all aspects of feudal families were concentrated in the architectural forms of folk houses.