What are the characteristics of Nanjing architectural style?

The traditional houses in Nanjing generally do not have a doorway, only the door cover, the outer eaves of the door cover extending forward is shorter than the Huizhou architecture; the door cover is generally only water-worn bricks, no tiles, and the two wings are slightly arched.

The second is the outer wall, Huizhou houses, Jiangsu and Zhejiang houses are powder wall tile lattice window, horse head wall, while the history of Nanjing houses are quite a lot of brick bucket wall, water wall, the workmanship is very fine, brick and brick water grinding, blocks of flat masonry, to the seam such as silk, the water a color, appear elegant and quiet. In addition, almost no windows on the outer walls of Nanjing houses, at most, there is a two-story "cat bow waist" of the windows.

Thirdly, most of the traditional houses in Nanjing have fire walls. Compared with the Huizhou houses, the eaves of the fire walls of Nanjing houses do not have corners, including the end of the roof ridge.

The fourth is that the patio of the northern houses is relatively narrow and long, and the patio of the southern courtyards is relatively flat and wide, whereas the Nanjing houses are generally in the form of quadrangular courtyards, with square patios and relatively deep depths.