Each distinctive dwellings Writing Features

The most representative dwelling of the Tibetan people is the watchtower. Watchtower mostly stone and wood structure, the appearance of solemn and solid, simple and rugged style; the outer wall upward contraction, built on the mountain, the inner slope is still vertical. Watchtower room is generally divided into two layers, to calculate the number of rooms in the column. The ground floor for animal husbandry and storerooms, low height; the second floor for the living layer, large room for the hall, bedroom, kitchen, small room for storage or stairwell. If there is a third floor, it is mostly used as a scripture hall and sunbed.

The bunker has a solid and stable, tightly structured, the corner of the building neatly characterized, not only for wind and cold, but also to facilitate the protection of the enemy and burglary.

Tent room and the room is very different, it is the pastoral Tibetan people in order to adapt to the mobility of living by water and grass lifestyle and the use of a special form of construction. Ordinary tent is generally relatively small, the plane is square or rectangular, with wooden sticks to support the framework of about 2 meters high; covered with black yak felt, leaving a wide 15 centimeters in the middle of a gap of about 1.5 meters long, for ventilation and lighting; around the yak rope traction, fixed to the ground; tent around the interior of the grass with mud, adobe, or pebbles into a high of about 50 centimeters high short wall, above the pile of barley, ghee bags and dry cow dung (for fuel), simple furnishings in the tent, slightly outside the center of the stove, stove for Buddha, around the ground with sheepskin, for sitting and lying down to rest. The tent has a simple structure, bracket easy, flexible, easy to relocate and other characteristics.

Tibetan is a love of beauty is also good at showing the beauty of the nation, and thus for the residence of the decoration is also very concerned about the common indoor wall painted with auspicious patterns, the living room of the inner wall is painted blue, green, red three ribbons, in order to symbolize the blue sky, the land and the sea. Rikaze homes in the door or painted the sun, moon and auspicious clouds, or hanging wind horse flag, while Chamdo Mangkang homes are trying to render the exterior walls and doors and windows, rich in colorful decorations, extraordinary.

The strong religious color is the most obvious sign that Tibetan houses are different from those of other nations.

The indoor and outdoor furnishings of the dwellings show the lofty status of God and Buddha. Whether it is the farmers and herdsmen's residence, or the upper class residence of the nobles, there are all the facilities for the Buddha. Even the simplest of them had an offering table to honor the Buddha.

Religious significance of the decoration is the most eye-catching Tibetan residential signs, the outer walls of the windows and doors on the pick out of the small eaves hanging red, blue and white strips of cloth mantle, around the window cover for the black, the roof of the daughter wall of the foot of the wall and its corners are red, white, blue, yellow, green five-color cloth to form the "block". In the Tibetan religious view of color, the five colors respectively signify fire, clouds, sky, earth, water, as a way to express the desire for good luck.

There are also wall decorations to express the Tibetan Buddhist sect. Such as the Sakya residential wall painted with white strips, in the strips and then painted with the same width of the earth red and dark blue-gray color band, the hollow is white, in the main body of the building or the courtyard wall right-angled corner of the turning place and the wider wall, but also from top to bottom with the earth red and white painted with outstanding band, to identify the beliefs in the region is the Sakya school.

The most representative way of settlement in Tibet is religious settlement. The formation and development of religious settlements add to the charm of Tibetan dwellings, such as Barkhor Street in Lhasa, which was developed around the Dazhao Monastery and is a typical representative of religious settlements in towns and cities. The formation of residential communities in the agricultural and pastoral areas is centered on monasteries, which are freely arranged and misplaced, forming a pattern that is not associated with each other.

Tibetan dwellings, while paying attention to cold, wind and earthquake prevention, also used to open wind doors, set up patios, skylights and other methods to better solve the climate, geography and other adverse factors of the natural environment on the impact of production and life, to achieve the effect of ventilation, heating.

Before the democratic reform in 1959, most of the residents of Tibet lived in low shacks, and the homeless and poor people could only live under the eaves and by the side of the road. After the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the government invested large sums of money to improve residents' housing, and by 1994, the per capita housing area in cities had reached 12.24 square meters, and in rural areas 20.36 square meters. Due to the slow economic development in old Tibet, the building materials were only limited to blocks of stone and clay, but nowadays the residential houses have made full use of all kinds of modern building materials, and many high-rise buildings have been built, so that the Tibetan architectural style has been put into better play. The indoor facilities of the vast majority of people in old Tibet were extremely simple, but now TVs, recorders, and complete sets of Tibetan furniture have entered the homes of ordinary Tibetans. The reform and opening up of the Chinese people has made more money available to the Tibetan residents, who have decorated their houses beautifully and characteristically.1. Brief description of the text.

Chinese houses have an ancient and unique charm and are a valuable heritage of Chinese civilization, reflecting the wisdom of the nation and its deep cultural heritage. This text is an illustration of China's local houses, introducing the distinctive Hakka houses and Daijia bamboo buildings.

The Hakka Residence

The Hakka Residence is an architectural marvel in the mountainous region of southern China, and its unique style has attracted many Chinese and foreign scholars, tourists and even American military experts.

The article begins with an overview of the characteristics of Hakka dwellings, their location and environment, and their place in the world's folk dwellings: their style is "round huts or earthen buildings", and their "dotted" location suggests that they are in remote mountainous areas, and that they are "a wonder of the world's folk dwellings". The phrase "a wonder of the world's folk dwellings" is used as a metaphor and comparison to illustrate the status of Hakka dwellings in the world's folk dwellings. Then, the text describes in detail the outstanding features of Hakka houses: the camp-style houses and the reasons and functions of such construction. The author uses examples, data and analogies to vividly illustrate the building materials, appearance and overall layout of the barracks-style houses. Immediately after writing the round house according to the gossip layout arrangement and its symbolism. Finally, the internal structure of the round house features and embodies the characteristics of folk culture.

The Dai Family Bamboo Building

The bamboo building is a special form of residence created by the Dai people according to the local conditions, which has the advantages of economical building materials, warm in winter and cool in summer, waterproof and waterproof, and shockproof.

The first paragraph of the article summarizes the architectural environment of the Dai bamboo buildings: a bamboo building is covered in the thick green of the phoenix-tailed bamboo and oil palm forest. The second paragraph of the Dai family "more bamboo buildings, living by the water" traditional customs and reasons: the Dai are located in the subtropical, bamboo buildings have the function of preventing heat and humidity. The third paragraph talks about the Dai village and the appearance of bamboo buildings. The fourth paragraph says that the internal structure of bamboo buildings is simple, spacious, chic and so on. The fifth paragraph writes about the traditional customs and cultural connotations of the Dai family when building bamboo buildings. The custom that the whole village helps when a family builds a house reflects the national psychology and cultural tradition of the Dai people who are united and harmonious and willing to help others.

The language is concise and accurate, plain and simple and vivid, which is the ****same feature of the two short articles in the expression of the text. The author uses examples, figures, comparisons, analogies and other illustrative methods to explain the characteristics of Hakka houses and Daijia bamboo buildings in a popular, vivid and accurate way, which is intellectual, scientific and interesting.

The intention of the selection of this text is to let students understand the characteristics of Hakka houses and Daijia bamboo buildings and folk customs, and to stimulate interest in the exploration of folk culture; the second is to experience the illustrative methods of the text and language expression characteristics, and learn to apply to their own work.