Folk Houses with Different Characteristics Main Content

I. Flat-roofed houses

Flat-roofed houses are the dwellings of Uyghur peasants in Xinjiang, where the walls are built with earth, three or four feet thick, and poplar and paulownia wood is placed horizontally on top of them, and then reeds are put on top, and the mud is laid on top of them, and the houses are built. One or two skylights are opened on the roof to let in light. The roof is flat, people can walk around on it, drying food and fruits and vegetables on it. This kind of residential wall thick roof light, not afraid of vibration, coupled with the local dry climate, no leakage worry.

Second, half of the building

Half of the building Buyei residence by the water, the use of tilted terrain to build. The front half of the low terrain, so built buildings; back half of the high terrain, so built bungalows, commonly known as "half of the building".

Three, kelp grass room

Kelp grass room is Shandong coastal Han fishermen a very characteristic grass room. Shandong coast of the sea is rich in slender kelp grass, after drying strands of tough. Fishermen build houses, the roof is built very steep, the ridge is built into a rolled shed type, covered with thousands of pounds of kelp grass, from a distance like a big fish spine, commonly known as the "kelp grass room", it is a peculiar shape, and can be anticorrosive, anti-heat, anti-cold, forty to fifty years and does not collapse.

Four, kiln

Kiln is the northern Shaanxi Loess Plateau, a special dwelling, it is the use of loess areas of deep soil, low water table, loess is not easy to collapse the characteristics of the loess upright, digging into the soil into the top of the semicircular arches, brick and stone masonry, assembling doors and windows for the residence, does not take up arable land, cheap, warm in winter and cool in summer and other advantages.

Fifth, the bamboo building

Bamboo building for the "dry rail" building, generally supported by dozens of bamboo, on the support of a building, columns, beams, walls, ladders, floors, all made of bamboo, suitable for the local hot and humid climate. Bamboo building surrounded by bamboo, coconut groves, banana cover, a typical tropical scenery.

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