Patio of Huizhou Ancient Houses

All Huizhou houses are equipped with patios, the largest of which are often "36 patios, 72 sills and windows, and more than 100 courtyards", which serve the function of ventilation and light penetration. Hongcun Chengzhi Hall, located in the upper canal, is a Huizhou merchant Wang precious 1855 construction, covers an area of 2,100 square meters, the main hall and the back of the hall are corridor type. Different from the relationship between the main hall and the patio of other people's homes, its second floor by the eaves of the arc-shaped bow up. At that time, I guessed that it was not mechanically bowed up to withstand less pressure; see across the second floor parapet with "bureaucratic lookout hole", and guessed that it was for the convenience of the Miss Blind Date, are not exactly right. Originally the second floor lived in the women's families, there are guests, this side of the main hall is chatting, the woman upstairs at the top of the head to walk around, how unsightly, so a bow, all avoided. Of course, the design of the patio also has a layer of deep meaning. Business people, always afraid of the flow of financial resources, to build a patio, so that the front ridge of the rain does not flow to the outside of the house, and Shunshan into the patio, the name is: "four water to the hall." Figure a good luck.