What types of residential buildings in China include tent?

China's residential buildings are mainly tent-style, dry-fence-style and upper-cover and lower-cover-style.

(1) Tent type: Tent is an ancient living form of many ethnic groups in China, which is characterized by easy removal.

Tents come in many shapes. The tents of Hezhe, Oroqen, Ewenki and other ethnic groups in Northeast China are all conical. Mongols and Kazakhs live in circular tents.

(2) Dry-bar style: Dry-bar style living room is an overhead building, which is popular in ethnic minority areas in southern China.

Dry fence buildings can prevent moisture, heat and ventilation, and avoid insect and animal invasion and flood impact. There are two main types of ganlan buildings, one is pure wood structure, and the bamboo building of Dai nationality in Xishuangbanna is the most typical. The other is civil structures, which are mostly built in mountainous areas. Buyi people in Ceheng area of Guizhou live in this kind of dry fence house.

(3) Upstairs and Downstairs: Upstairs and Downstairs are the common living forms of all ethnic groups in the north and south.

Its structural features are generally compacted foundation, with vertical wood as column, beam connected with column, formwork on the beam, rafters, thatch or roof tiles along the formwork, adobe or masonry for gables and wood for window lintels. This kind of building has various forms, including quadrangles in Beijing, caves in Shaanxi, Henan, seals in Yunnan and blockhouses in Tibet.

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Hakka enclosed houses, together with quadrangles in Beijing, caves in Shaanxi, railings in Guangxi and seals in Yunnan, are called the five traditional residential buildings with the most local flavor in China, and are called one of the five characteristics of China residential buildings by Chinese and foreign architectural circles.

Siheyuan is an ancient and traditional cultural symbol of China. The four sides of "Four", east, west, north and south, are "connected" to form the shape of a mouth, which is the basic feature of quadrangles.

Courtyard houses are elegant in architecture, exquisite in structure and numerous in number, and Beijing is the most popular. Beijing's quadrangles, large and small, are dotted around, either in downtown areas or in quiet deep alleys; The big one covers a few acres, and the small one is only a few feet; Or an exclusive single-family family, or several families or more than a dozen families live together, forming a living environment that conforms to human psychology, maintains traditional culture, and has harmonious neighborhood relations.

Its layout is characterized by an axis symmetry between north and south and a closed independent courtyard. According to its size, there is the simplest one, two or three yards, four yards or five yards along the longitudinal axis.

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