What are the most representative Chinese residential buildings?

Folk houses are distributed all over the country, due to the different historical traditions, living customs, humanistic conditions and aesthetic concepts of the ethnic groups, as well as due to the different natural conditions and geographic environments of each place, thus, the layout, structural methods, modeling and detailed features of folk houses are also different, presenting simple and natural, yet with their own characteristics. Especially in the folk dwellings, the people of all ethnic groups often put their own wishes, beliefs and aesthetic concepts, their own most hopeful and favorite things, with realistic or symbolic techniques, reflected in the decorations, patterns, colors and styles of folk dwellings and other structures. Such as cranes, deer, bats, magpies, plums, bamboo, lilies, Ganoderma lucidum, ten thousand characters pattern, back to the pattern, etc., the lotus flower of the Bai people in Yunnan, the Dai people's elephants, peacocks, betel nut tree patterns. In this way, to, resulting in various regions and ethnic groups of the residence presents a colorful and colorful and a hundred flowers competing national characteristics.

China's residential types can be said to be countless. Beijing's courtyard houses, Mongolian yurts, kilns in Shaanxi and Henan, Fujian's earth buildings and so on. Tang and Tulou

Ethnic Minority Residential Buildings

The residential buildings of China's ethnic minority regions are also very diverse, such as the Uyghur in northwestern Xinjiang, where most of the dwellings are flat-roofed, earth-walled, one- to three-storey buildings, with courtyards around the outside; and the typical Tibetan dwellings, "Diaobang," where the outer walls are built of stone masonry, and the interior is a wooden structure with a flat roof; Mongolians usually live in movable yurts; and the southwest of the ethnic minorities often rely on the mountains and water to build wooden structure of dry-fence type buildings, downstairs spacious, upstairs living, of which the Yunnan Dai's bamboo building is the most distinctive. Southwest China's residential areas to the Miao, Tujia footstools most characteristic. Hanging-footed buildings are usually built on slopes, no foundation, to support the building with pillars, the building is divided into two or three layers, the top layer is very short, only put food does not live in the people, downstairs piling up miscellaneous goods or livestock enclosure.

Northern kiln caves and ancient city dwellings Sichuan and Chongqing ancient villagers' houses Lingnan ancient villagers' houses Xiangqian Dian ancient towns and houses Xiangqian Dian ancient architectural clusters are relatively dense, towns and cities in the large clusters (large homes, guild halls, stores, temples, ancestral halls, etc.) is more, and with the building; small buildings (general housing, stores) free and flexible. The roofs have steep slopes and high corners, and the decoration is exquisite and rich, with a lot of carvings and colorful paintings. The style is characterized by a clear and elegant style. Such as:

Hunan Furong Town Hunan Xiangxi Fenghuang Ancient City Hunan Xiangxi Xiangxi Xiangxi hammock Hubei Jingzhou Ancient Town Guizhou Zhenyuan Ancient Town Guizhou Guiyang Qingyan Ancient Town Guizhou Dong Tribe Folk Dwellings Yunnan Jianshui Ancient City Yunnan Lijiang Ancient City

Daijia Bamboo House in the Chinese residence, the most characteristic is the Beijing courtyard, the Northwest Loess Plateau of the kiln, the Ancient Dwelling House of Anhui, and Fujian, Guangdong, etc. Hakka Tulou. The Hakka Tulou in Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

Beijing Courtyard

In the big and small hutongs of Beijing, there are many courtyard houses surrounded by houses in the east, south, west and north, which are called courtyard houses.

Kiln Cave The middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River in China are the world-famous Loess Plateau. The people living on the Loess Plateau have made use of the deep and thick layers of loess with excellent three-dimensional properties to build a unique kind of housing - kiln caves

Anhui Ancient Folk Houses In the southern part of Anhui Province, there are a lot of ancient dwellings preserved. Most of these ancient houses are made of brick and wood, and are surrounded by tall walls. The houses within the enclosure are generally small two-story buildings with three or five rooms. The larger houses have two, three or more courtyards; there are pools in the courtyards, flowers and plants are planted in front of and behind the houses, and the beams and balustrades are carved with exquisite patterns. The small buildings and deep courtyards are like a world of art. Architects have praised it as "the treasure house of ancient residential architecture".

Hakka Tulou Tulou is the residence of Hakka people in Guangdong and Fujian. The ancestors of the Hakka people were Han Chinese who migrated to the south from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River more than 1,900 years ago. In order to guard against harassment and protect their families, the Hakka people created these massive dwellings, the Tulou.

The Yurt Bamboo House Shanghai Folk House Shanghai has been known as the "universal architectural exposition" of the reputation. The Bund on the side of the road, a block of Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque and other Chinese and Western, very different styles of the towering buildings show the elegance of architectural art. Similarly, Shanghai's modern residential architecture can also be described as oceanic, colorful. When it comes to Shanghai's residential buildings, Shikumen naturally comes to mind, which is the most characteristic residential building in Shanghai. Shikumen is the most distinctive residential building in Shanghai. The pattern of Shanghai's residential buildings in the 23rd group of Chinese ordinary stamps, "Chinese Residences", is Shikumen architecture. Shikumen dwellings are derived from the traditional Chinese courtyard.