The Main Forms of Traditional Dwellings in China

The Main Forms of Traditional Dwellings in China

Wooden quadrangles are the most important form of traditional houses in China, which are numerous and widely distributed. Most people of Han, Manchu, Bai and other ethnic minorities use wooden quadrangles.

A yard consists of two compartments.

Wooden frame courtyard consists of front and back parts, commonly known as "quadrangle" and "three-in-one courtyard". The elders live in the main room, the younger generation lives in the wing, the women live in the inner court, and the visitors and footmen live in the outer court. This distribution conforms to the etiquette requirements of China feudal society to distinguish between generations, generations and inside and outside.

Deeply influenced by traditional philosophy and painting.

Traditional courtyard planning in China is deeply influenced by traditional philosophy and painting. There is even a theory that painting is the mother of gardening, and the most meaningful one is the private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Aesthetic characteristics of "being close to nature"

The representative works of private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River in Ming and Qing Dynasties can be summarized as Wuxi Chicken Farm Garden, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden and Yangzhou Cinema, and their aesthetic characteristics are "being close to nature". The main body of the landscape is natural scenery, with scattered pavilions as a foil. Here, the garden owner's thoughts of indifference, world-weariness and transcendence are entrusted, and a rich spiritual world is hidden in the material environment. Desolation, simplicity and simplicity are its beautiful characteristics.