What are the distinctive traditional houses in China? Why do floors get higher and higher?

China people's living culture has experienced a long period of precipitation. Now the housing forms are diversified, and houses with national characteristics have been formed. These houses have various forms under the influence of different geographical conditions, climatic conditions, different lifestyles, economy and culture. Let's take a look at China's traditional folk houses, China. Why are the floors of buildings being built higher and higher now?

What are the distinctive traditional houses in China?

Beijing quadrangle 1

Siheyuan, also known as Siheyuan, is a traditional quadrangle-style building in China. Its pattern is a courtyard surrounded by houses, which usually consists of a main room, an east-west wing and an inverted room. The courtyard is surrounded in the middle from all sides, hence the name quadrangle.

2. Cave dwellings in northern Shaanxi

Cave dwelling is an ancient living form for the residents of the Loess Plateau in northwest China. The history of this cave can be traced back to more than 4000 years ago. Cave dwellings are widely distributed in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces on the Loess Plateau. In the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region of China, the loess layer is very thick, some of which are tens of kilometers thick. The people of China creatively used the favorable terrain of the plateau to dig holes to live, and created cave buildings called green buildings.

3. Fujian Hakka Tulou

Hakka earth buildings, also known as Fujian earth buildings, are one of the three categories of Hakka dwellings (Hakka enclosed houses, Hakka row houses and Hakka earth buildings), among which the earth buildings in Yongding, Longyan, Fujian and Nanjing, Zhangzhou are the most famous. Among the traditional buildings in China, Hakka earth buildings are unique, with more than 8,000 square, round, octagonal and oval earth buildings, which are large in scale, beautiful in appearance, scientific and practical.

Why are the floors getting higher and higher?

The financial mechanism of land transfer implemented in China makes local governments monopolize residential land, starve to supply and push up prices, while developers build the most houses with the least land in order to maximize profits. So the house has developed from the original bungalow to the lower floor and then built higher and higher floors. If these distorted systems and forces are not reformed and controlled, it is very likely that houses with floors above 100 will appear in the future.

What are the distinctive traditional houses in China now? Why are the floors getting higher and higher? I believe everyone has a clear understanding of these two issues. Houses are being built higher and higher, but house prices have not become cheaper because more houses can be built. Now the prices of houses in the city are getting more and more expensive. Some people like to live in tall buildings, while others like to live in bungalows.