What is a folk house?

Residential buildings in various parts of China, also known as residential buildings. Residential building is the most basic type of building, with the earliest appearance, the widest distribution and the largest number. Due to the different natural environment and cultural conditions in different regions of China, the local houses also present diversified characteristics.

Folk houses are folk houses, which are the living environment extended from folk houses.

Because China has a vast territory, many nationalities, different geographical and climatic conditions and lifestyles, people live in different styles and styles of houses.

Folk houses in China are distributed all over the country. Due to the differences in national historical traditions, living customs, humanistic conditions and aesthetic concepts, as well as the differences in natural conditions and geographical environment, the plane layout, structural mode, modeling and detailed features of residential buildings are also different, showing their own characteristics of primitive simplicity and nature. Especially in folk houses, people of all ethnic groups often reflect their wishes, beliefs and aesthetic concepts, their most desired and favorite things, in a realistic or symbolic way, into the decoration, patterns, colors and styles of folk houses, such as cranes, deer, bats, magpies, plums, bamboos, lilies, Ganoderma lucidum, Wan Ziwen, Yunnan Bai palindromes and so on. In this way, the folk houses of all ethnic groups in various regions present rich and colorful national characteristics.

Among the dwellings in China, the most distinctive ones are quadrangles in Beijing, caves in the Loess Plateau in northwest China, ancient dwellings in Anhui, Hakka earth buildings in Fujian and Guangdong, and Mongolian yurts.