Recently, I saw another new thing on Goodwill, is there any significance and story of the horse head wall in Hui style architecture?

Horse head wall, is a kind of wall construction for fire prevention purpose in traditional Chinese residential settlements.

Specifically, it refers to the wall that is higher than the roof of the two mountain walls, that is, the top part of the mountain wall, which is shaped like a horse's head, so it is called "Horse's Head Wall".

Some documents also write "wind and fire wall", is an important feature of the traditional Han residential architecture schools in the Gan school of architecture, Huizhou architecture (Huizhou architecture).

In ancient times, men in Huizhou left their hometowns at the age of twelve or thirteen and embarked on the business path, and the horse-head wall was a physical symbol of the family's expectation of returning home, and seeing this kind of staggered, black-and-white reflective horse-head wall would also make people get a kind of bright elegance and hierarchy

This is an important feature of the traditional Han Chinese residential architecture.