"Eight Classics" of China Traditional Architecture

Sign 1: Horsehead wall is an important feature of Huizhou architecture. It can cut off the fire source, so the horse head wall is also called the accumulation wall.

Sign 2: Enclosed courtyards and courtyards have been the main architectural forms in China for thousands of years. A closed building not only refers to physical protection, but also refers to something that establishes the relationship between people. The closed building forms an independent and complete local space and feels a sense of security and belonging.

Sign 3: The hollowed-out flower windows and vermilion doors will give people a sense of oppression, so the carved windows are often hollowed out on the fence. The design is often a magpie climbing plum blossoms, which symbolizes the good news of the cold spring. It is not only a yearning for the wife and children at home, but also a blessing to the outside family.

Logo: Wood carving, stone carving and brick carving are the "three sculptures" of ancient Huizhou architecture. Huizhou woodcarving, stone carving and brick carving are good at handling the primary colors of raw materials and can blend into the whole building, which is as fresh and elegant as ink painting, especially woodcarving, which is the icing on the cake for antique buildings.

Sign 5: sloping roof. In China, the sloping roof is almost synonymous with traditional architecture, which occupies a decisive position in today's traditional architecture. Traditional sloping roof design will make palaces, temples and other palace buildings have a unique rhythm of vigorous, straight, lofty, flying and elegant, and will also make residential buildings feel cordial, natural and warm.

Sign 6: cornice, a unique architectural structure in China, is a special treatment and creation of cornice of ancient buildings in China. It is often used at the corner of the roof of pavilions, buildings, pavilions, palaces and temples.

Sign 7: The planning and layout of quadrangle buildings is characterized by the symmetrical arrangement of north and south longitudinal axes, and the courtyard is closed and independent. Form a social network system with family courtyard as the center, neighborhood as the trunk line and community area as the plane. At the same time, it has also formed a rich qq space to fit people's psychology and maintain a harmonious living environment between traditional culture and neighborhood relations.

Signs: blue bricks, tiles or white walls. "White wall and black tile" is white wall and black tile, which is used to describe a house. In terms of architectural color, the houses in Jiangnan are all blue bricks and white tiles, forming an ancient and elegant style. The blue tiles on the roof, the blue bricks on the exterior wall, the roof, the eaves, the hollow walls, the Guanyin bucket ridge or the horse head wall, the white tiles and the courtyard form a patchwork rhythm and a profound architectural group style.