Inner Mongolia residential architectural features and the local natural environment is:

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Is there any relationship between the architectural features of Inner Mongolian dwellings and the local natural environment:

I. The architectural features of Inner Mongolian dwellings

1. Traditional Mongolian housing. Anciently known as the dome, also known as felt tents, tents, felt bags and so on. Mongolian language called ger, Manchu for yurt or Mongolia Bo. Nomadic people to adapt to the nomadic life and the creation of such dwellings, easy to dismantle, easy to nomadic. Since the Xiongnu era has appeared, has been used until now.

2, yurt is round, around the side walls into several pieces, each piece of 130 - 160 cm high, 230 cm long or so, with strips of wood woven into a net , several connected, surrounded by a round, conical dome, and the side walls connected. The roof of the tent and the four walls are covered or surrounded by felt, fixed with ropes.

3. A wooden frame is left on the south-west wall for installing the door board, and a round skylight is left on the roof of the tent for light, ventilation and smoke emission, and it is covered with felt at night or in rainy, windy or snowy days. The smallest yurt is more than 300 centimeters in diameter, and the big ones can accommodate hundreds of people. Mongolian Khanate era Khan and the kings of the tent can accommodate 2000 people, yurts are divided into two types of fixed and traveling.

4, half-farming and half-pastoral areas built more fixed, around the earth wall, on the reed grass cover; nomadic areas are more mobile. The nomadic type is divided into detachable and non-detachable two kinds, the former to animal transportation, the latter to oxcart or horse-drawn carriage. People's Republic of China **** and the establishment of the State, the Mongolian settlers increased, only in the nomadic areas still retain the yurt. In addition to the Mongols, Kazakhs, Tajiks and other nomadic herders also live in yurts.

Second, the local natural environment of Inner Mongolia

1, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is located in the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the terrain is flat, is a temperate continental climate, the annual precipitation from the east of 400mm down to the west of the 50mm below, belong to the semi-arid, arid areas.

2. The four seasons are distinct, with a windy spring, and the situation of sandstorms and dust storms has been alleviated by a large number of tree plantations in recent years; the air humidity is low, with a maximum temperature of about 37° in summer, and winter temperatures are mostly below zero and cold. Trees are dominated by cold-hardy plants such as poplar and pine.