Huizhou residential architecture features include

Huizhou residential architectural features include:

Huizhou, abbreviated as "Huizhou", the historical and geographical name, the ancient name of Shexian, Xin'an. Huizhou a government six counties, namely shexian, partner county, huning, qimen, jixi, wuyuan, the government in the present shexian huicheng, the first four counties now belong to huangshan city, anhui province, jixi county now belongs to xuancheng city, anhui province, wuyuan county now belongs to shangrao city, jiangxi province.

Huizhou is 1667 (kangxi six years) jiangnan province after the partition of anhui "huizhou" source, "jiangnan left" take anqing province, huizhou province of the first word, called anhui province.

Ancient dwellings in Huizhou, Huizhou (now Huangshan City, Anhui Province, Jixi County and Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province) area is unique in the deep regional characteristics, condensed with the characteristics of Huizhou culture of the ancient dwellings, to the patio, high walls, openwork stone windows and other elements of Xidi, Hongcun, Chengkan and other ancient towns of Huizhou as a representative.

And it is carried forward within the regional environment formed by the commercial ties of Huizhou merchants in ancient times along the Xin'an River and Qiantang River Basin. It is worth noting that the horse-head wall is not unique to Huizhou dwellings, and it is not possible to judge whether it is a Huizhou dwelling by whether it has a horse-head wall or not.

As courtyard houses, Huizhou houses are square in shape and orderly. The layout is based on the basic unit of "in", with the entrance door as the front hall, the patio in the middle, and the hall and compartments in the back, extending along the longitudinal axis. Huizhou houses are more common in two, and the larger ones are three, four or even more.

The people of Huizhou pay attention to the traditional family ethics, and the allocation of space in the houses reflects the principle of differentiation between men and women, and the order of elders and children. In general, Huizhou houses are a combination of courtyards with patios as the core and flexible layout according to scale, topography and function.

1. Horse-head wall is an important feature of Huizhou architecture. The high horse-head wall can isolate the fire source in case of fire in the neighboring houses, so the horse-head wall is also called the fire sealing wall.

2. Enclosed courtyards and courtyards. Courtyard is the main form of expression of Chinese architecture for thousands of years, enclosure, not only refers to the physical protection, but to establish the relationship between people, enclosure to form an independent and complete local space and feel a sense of security and a sense of belonging.

3, vermilion door, hollowed out windows. Vermilion, also known as Chinese red, vermilion indicates nobility and authority, vermilion door symbolizes solemnity. Hollow window is through the carving techniques to achieve different styles of symbolic patterns, play a role in decorative beautification, but also has the function of lighting and ventilation, dust, and division of space.

4, stone carving, wood carving, brick carving. Huizhou wood carving, stone carving, brick carving art is good at dealing with the raw material color, can dissolve in the building as a whole, but also like ink painting, fresh and elegant, especially wood carving art, more antique buildings to add flowers.

5, sloping roof. In China, the sloping roof is almost synonymous with traditional architecture, in traditional architecture occupies a pivotal position.

6, flying eaves. China's unique architectural structure, it is an ancient Chinese architecture in the eaves of a special treatment and creation, commonly used in pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, palaces, temples at the corner of the roof. Courtyard. The planning and layout of the courtyard building is characterized by the symmetrical arrangement of the north-south longitudinal axis and the closed and independent courtyards as the basic features.

7, brick, Daiwa or pink wall. "Powder wall Daiwa" that is, snow-white walls, green and black tiles, used to describe the house. Architectural color, Jiangnan residential brick, pink walls, Daiwa, the formation of rustic, elegant style, the roof is green tile, brick exterior walls, roofs, eaves, empty bucket wall, Guanyin Dui ridge or horse head wall, forming a high and low staggered rhythm of the shape and the pink walls, courtyard deep architectural group style.