What is the orientation of residential buildings in China?

Because the sun usually rises from the east to the south and sets in the west. In winter, the height angle of the sun is small, and the doors and windows of the house face south, which can let more oblique sunlight into the room, thus increasing the indoor temperature.

It is also to avoid the north wind, because the topography of China determines that its air is seasonal. There is a Siberian cold current in winter, a Pacific cool wind in summer, and the monsoon direction changes all year round.

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As early as the primitive society, China ancestors built village houses facing south. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, measuring direction was the first step in choosing environment. In ancient times, it was cloudy in the north and sunny in the south.

Residential sitting orientation is the saying of ancient traditional architecture. Most houses in China are built in the form of quadrangles, and the orientation of each house represents the position of the house. The following methods are used to judge the orientation of the house.

In the house, facing the door, the direction of the house is the direction it faces at this time. This is called "Xiang" and the location of the house is called "Sit". Then the house facing south is the house facing north and the door facing south.