The color tone of the residential houses in southern Anhui

1, building colors?

The color of folk houses in southern Anhui is fresh and light as the basic style. The building uses white walls, black tiles and gray bricks, and the corners of the walls are mostly piled with gray strips of green stones or cobblestones, and black, white and gray make up the main colors of the ancient residential buildings. Simple and simple white walls, black tile color, and the local scenery of the mountains and rivers, giving people a light and bright sense of beauty. This ink painting-like timeless mood, rendering the traditional houses in southern Anhui Province, the basic style of the very regional characteristics.

2. Architectural form?

The modeling of the houses in southern Anhui is quite distinctive, adopting the architectural shape of the horse-head hill wall, in which the hill walls at both ends of the houses are elevated above the roofs and ridges, and the eaves of the hill wall are closed with horizontal lines. In order to avoid the eaves of the mountain wall from the height of the roof is too large, the use of the direction of the eaves of the gradual decline in the form of both saving materials, but also make the mountain wall surface height, rich in change. This practice was originally for fire prevention, it is commonly known as "fire wall".

It breaks the monotony of the general wall, increasing the beauty of the building. Some large mansions by several, dozens of different orientation of the composition of the house, the horse head wall also appeared to be staggered in different directions. Coupled with the different widths and depths of the houses, and changes in the height of the terrain, the height of the horse-head wall varies, creating a richer spatial variation.

The basic form of residential houses in southern Anhui is the courtyard arrangement, in which the south-facing rooms are mainly located in the courtyard, supplemented by the east and west sides, with the longer east-west patio in the center, and the plane is composed of the zigzag shape of the mouth. There are also at the entrance into the hall of the mouth-shaped arrangement, as well as two courtyards before and after the repetition of the splicing of the day-shaped courtyard assemblage, etc.?

3, exquisite and beautiful carving decoration?

The art of architectural carving is one of the most important and prominent features of Huizhou houses. Almost every building material in Huizhou residential buildings can be used for carving, and every building component is carved to form a kind of elegant architectural art style. Carving is divided into several ways, such as brick carving, wood carving and stone carving. Among them, the main decoration of brick carving is the end of the door cover, door tower, eight walls and horse head wall. The contents and themes of the carvings are extremely rich, including fairy figures, pavilions, birds and animals, flowers and plants.

Expanded Information:

Ancient villages are generally composed of pagodas, houses, ancestral halls, water crossings, road pavilions, workshops, etc. Some villages are so large, such as Chengkan, which has 99 streets and alleys, that strangers often get lost when they go in. Many villages have a well-organized layout, and the water system of Hongcun is an example. Hongcun in the village at the head of the mountain dam, the village canal from both sides of the street into each household, converging on the village in the middle of the moon pond. And then diverted to the household, into the South Lake. Each household has a large and small canals, divided for washing and drinking water.

The layout of the residential houses is generally a triple or quadruple courtyard centered on a patio, with a two-story height. Medium-sized and large mansions use a combination of multiple courtyards, and the buildings are all whitewashed. In the old days, many architectural complexes of large families were huge in scale, decorated with Huizhou three carvings, with exquisite and staggered layouts. A piece of ancient architecture in southern Anhui set in the Huangshan Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain, Xin'an River in the vast expanse of famous mountains and beautiful water, heaven and earth, just like a world-class park without makeup.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Southern Anhui Folk Houses