What are the characteristics of the northern folk dwellings

Characteristics of Northern Folk Houses

1. Typical Layout of Northern Courtyard: Jinan is located in the north of China, and the layout of the residential houses adopts the layout of the northern courtyard, which is a simple layout of a courtyard due to the fact that most of the residents are common people. The traditional houses in Jinan are influenced by the idea of yangzhai kanji, and there are very few changes in the organization of the plan. However, a few of the dwellings are richly evolved due to the topography or the time of construction.

2. The type of street-front residence with a store in front and a house at the back: Furong Street is a typical example of this type. Furong Street along the building is more than a hundred years up and down the two-storey storefront stores of the old house of the old house, the upper owner or store things, the lower floor is tall and spacious, for business, is a typical front store after the house nature of the residence. This kind of residential building in front of the brick house with a small shed, store with a bull's-eye-shaped curved arch eaves out of the building, saving the store's corridor columns, do not impede the traffic on narrow roads.

3, residential color: color, Jinan courtyard different from the color of the Beijing courtyard bright, Jinan residential due to the use of gray bricks, small tiles and other local materials, so the overall color is gray, there are more white lines outlining the corners of the window frames are dark red, with green tile, the overall color is more plain, calm, highlighting the tranquility of the residence, the characteristics of serenity, rich in life. The color is plain and calm, highlighting the tranquility and peacefulness of the residence and the richness of the living atmosphere.

4, carving: Jinan residential carvings are mainly brick, stone, wood carving three parts, of which the stone carving method is diverse and the content is also the most abundant. Jinan residential brick and stone wood carving commonly used carving techniques are relief, translucent carving, line carving, etc., in Jinan residential often a variety of carving techniques used together, the artistic effect is very rich.

Development history

Chinese wooden frame system of housing sprouted in the late Neolithic period. The Hemudu culture site in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, in the fifth millennium B.C. reflects the level of wood frame technology at that time. Cave houses were also traditional dwellings.

The Yangshao culture ruins in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and Jiangzhai, Lintong, in west-central China in the fifth millennium B.C.E. show the layout of villages and buildings at that time, indicating that the layout of Chinese buildings on a north-south axis, surrounded by houses to form courtyards, had already sprung up. Pre-Qin (221 BC) era, "emperor residence" or "people's houses" are called "palace"; from the Qin and Han, "palace "refers exclusively to the residence of the emperor, while the" first house "refers exclusively to the residence of the nobility.

The Han Dynasty, the provisions of the Marquis and the Secretary of the 10,000 households, the door when the Avenue of the residence is called "the first", less than 10,000 households of the 10,000 households, in and out of the door is called "house". In recent times, the palace, government offices outside the residential buildings collectively referred to as residential.