About an expository essay writing about Hainan architecture

The folk house in Qionghai is not the only representative of the traditional folk house in Hainan, but it is the most common style of the folk house in Hainan. In the vernacular villages of Qionghai, the residential house is the outward expression of a family's dignity, and the residential house is very much connected with the folk culture from the beginning of the site selection to the family life in the future, and they almost melt and cast all their values and love of life into it.

The site of a residence can only be chosen in one's own ancestral land, and one cannot occupy someone else's ancestral land. Ancestral land is either bought or pioneered by previous generations and has a permanent right of inheritance. Families attach great importance to the creation of their homes. Before building a house, the Feng Shui master is invited to see the Feng Shui and determine the yin and yang, and the Feng Shui master determines the direction of the house according to the type of house and the location of the Feng Shui to determine the direction of the house, and then chooses a good time and auspicious day, sacrifices to the land master, sacrifices to the ancestors, and then starts to build the ground. At this time, men and women of the same clan come to help, even the daughters married off also bring their children back with them. This kind of folk rituals with superstitious colors has been accompanied by a family's prosperity to the decline of the whole process. In the self-sufficient natural economy of agricultural society, the "ritual" of people's behavioral constraints are also reflected in the type of people's homes.

The pattern of traditional Hainanese houses is generally an independent courtyard of brick houses, with the main hall being the center of the family. Next to the left side of the hall is two small rooms, the kitchen against the wall, the other for the kitchen, the room, the room put food or tools. Some of the rooms also have beds, and the girls of the family with many children often live in them. Against the kitchen is the small courtyard door, which is also built as a tiled room, where things can be piled up or cooled in the sun on rainy days. Immediately next to the courtyard door and against the courtyard wall is the firewood room, which is also a toilet, used to place farming tools or a chicken coop. Some also have a backyard, the backyard is very wide, the chicken coop will be placed there, and some also build a small room there, used to live. Fruit trees are usually planted in the backyard. Small backyard is usually just used to dry things. However, the general residential compound wall are planted next to the fruit trees, so that both play a beautiful, green role, but also more shade, Hainan's hot days longer, fruit trees blossom and fruit season, there are always refreshing fragrance of flowers with the wind into the night with the inhabitants of dreamland.

The hall is the main body of the house, it is taller than other houses are spacious, especially prominent in the compound. The hall is divided into two parts, with the living room in the center, which houses the three halls for the gods of the ancestors. In the year under the festival, the birth anniversary, are here to set up sacrifices and perform rituals; wedding and funeral ceremonies are also held here; ordinary if there is a guest, also here to receive. Married daughter to return to her mother's home must pass through the main courtyard door and then enter the hall to see her parents. This shows that the hall is a symbol of the patriarchal family, is the family's ritual center, the center of indoctrination.

Local custom is that only the son can inherit the house, and if there are many brothers, only the eldest son can inherit the house. If the brothers are separated, the new house must have a hall to be considered a real new home. Marriage marriage, the woman is most concerned about the object has its own hall.

The traditional closed independent courtyard houses in Hainan reflect the natural economy of the farmers' conservative thinking and narrow-mindedness, at the same time, this courtyard building system also reflects the continuation of the culture of the Central Plains in Hainan.