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You guys know the difference between a house in the south and a house in the north! Why different!

The characteristics of southern architecture: some small towns in Jiangnan, mostly a small river flows through, both sides of the river are small green-gray houses, a water of horse-head walls, green and gray tiles, peace and quiet. The general residential are from the door into the doorway, is a patio, next to a stone sink, that is the place to wash clothes and vegetables, forward is a kitchen, very large, even the dining room are included, to the left, is a wooden staircase, go upstairs, where there are several bedrooms. From upstairs you could look down on the downstairs patio, paved with bluestone slabs, which could be full of flowers in the summer, and in the winter was a great place for children to have snowball fights. Of course, this is just a model, and each family will put together a design for their house based on their own characteristics.

In the south, the courtyard of the house is very small, and the surrounding houses are connected as one, and the houses in the south are mostly of the pierced-double-double structure, which makes the combination of the houses more flexible.

In the south, the wall of the house is shaped like a horse's head, the southern building more pink walls and tiles, the color is elegant.

Southern water resources are more abundant, water flows from the front of the house, water is also a kind of scenery. Rich people like housing connected to the garden, which is the garden, southern gardens do not need a lot of land, but can create a wonderland. Which is nothing more than a veranda, leaky windows, but can create the opposite view, borrowing the realm and other hall of fame.

The characteristics of northern architecture: northern residential mainly courtyard-based, the layout is basically courtyard layout. Beijing courtyard, for example, is basically divided into the gate, shadow wall, hanging flower gate, courtyard, the main room (sitting north to south), the back room, the main room on the east and west sides of the room is the room, the main room and the room has a room, just enter the gate of the first courtyard inverted seat room (sitting south to north), which is the standard three courtyards in Beijing courtyard of the general layout of the northern homes are basically courtyard architecture, only because of the geographic location of different places, the performance of different places is also different, and the layout of the courtyard is also different. The northern dwellings are basically quadrangle buildings, but because of the different geographical locations, the performance in different places is also different.

The architecture of the South does not require much orientation, and many houses in the North are oriented to the South and North, so Northerners have a stronger sense of orientation than Southerners!