Structural characteristics of traditional houses in the Yangtze River basin

halfway up the mountain

Orientation; In today's banpo village, Xi City, Shaanxi Province, it is located in the arid and semi-arid area in the northwest, and it is an arid cultivated land.

Architectural features; There are round, square and rectangular buildings, some are semi-crypt buildings, and some are ground buildings. There is a threshold filled with mud between the door of each house and the living room. There is a circular or ladle-shaped pit in the center of the house, and there are 1 ~ 6 column holes around it. Living surfaces and walls are coated with grass mixed with soil and baked with fire to make them strong and moisture-proof. Round houses are generally 4 ~ 6 meters in diameter, and the walls are made of dense columns, with fences and grass mixed with soil (houses are divided into round, square semi-crypt and ground frame wood structures)

Banpo millet

Hemudu

Located in Hemudu Town, Yuyao City, about 20 kilometers away from Ningbo City, it belongs to the southern region.

Hemudu site was built on the basis of large and small wooden stakes, on which large and small beams were erected, floors were laid, and the pedestal was made higher than the ground. Then, erect columns, build a herringbone roof and complete the roof truss. Finally, the fence facilities are made of reed mats or bark. Among them, the column method may also be tied with piles and wood to stand up from the ground. This kind of longhouse building with a long corridor overhead, which was called Ganlan building in ancient times, adapted to the humid and rainy geographical environment in southern China.