Examples are given to illustrate how traditional residential buildings embody national traditional concepts.

The characteristics of folk houses mainly refer to the characteristics that reflect the most essential and representative things in ethnic areas in historical practice, especially those closely related to the lives, production methods, customs and aesthetic concepts of people of all ethnic groups. Ethnic experience mainly refers to the experience of how to meet the needs of life and production and fight against the natural environment under the social conditions at that time, such as the experience of combining terrain, adapting to the climate, using local materials and adapting to the environment. , which is commonly referred to as adapting to local conditions and adapting to material experience.

Houses 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 methods, modeling and detailed features of residential buildings are also different, which are simple and natural, but also have their own characteristics. Especially in folk houses, people of all ethnic groups often reflect their wishes, beliefs, aesthetic concepts, and their most desired and favorite things into the decoration, patterns, colors and styles of folk houses through realistic or symbolic means. Such as cranes, deer, bats, magpies, plums, bamboos, lilies, Ganoderma lucidum, Wan Ziwen, Han palindromes, Yunnan Bai lotus, Dai elephant, peacock and betel nut. In this way, the folk houses of all ethnic groups in various regions present rich and colorful national characteristics.

The mainstream of traditional folk houses in China Han nationality area is regular folk houses, with Beijing quadrangle as a typical representative and symmetrical layout. Beijing quadrangles are divided into front and rear rooms, and the main house system in the middle is the most respected. It is a place to hold family etiquette and receive distinguished guests. Each house faces the courtyard and is connected by a balcony. Although Beijing Siheyuan is a concrete embodiment of patriarchal clan system in feudal society of China, it is an ideal outdoor living space with wide courtyard, appropriate scale, quiet and friendly, and orderly flowers and trees. Most houses in northeast China are such spacious quadrangles. Unlike official buildings, residential buildings do not have a set of procedural rules and regulations and practices. They can build houses according to local natural conditions, their own economic level and the characteristics of building materials. It can freely give full play to the greatest wisdom of the working people and build according to its own needs and the inherent laws of architecture. Therefore, it can fully reflect the characteristics of practical and reasonable function, flexible design, economical material structure and simple appearance in residential buildings. In particular, the builders and users of the vast number of houses are the same, designing, building and using by themselves, so the practice of houses is more people-oriented, economical and practical, and can best reflect the national and local characteristics.