The characteristics of quadrangles and their customs.

1. Fencing: Fencing in the east, west, north and south to form a square yard, which can block the cold wind in the north in winter. You can also plant flowers and trees in the yard for greening, set up a grape trellis to enjoy the cool, and raise goldfish in a vat, which means lush vegetation and a treasure trove of feng shui. Family members get together in the yard every day, and keep in touch even if they are separated, which fully embodies the "home and everything" advocated by China in ancient times.

4 beams and 8 pillars, a front porch and a high sloping roof. The wall is a two-layer sandwich wall, filled with broken bricks, rotten tiles and mud, which makes the courtyard bungalow which is not very closed warm in winter and cool in summer. Exquisite quadrangles are also built with water mill gray bricks.

3. The houses in the quadrangle are not deep, the beams and columns between the small rooms are independent, and the tenon-mortise structure of the rafters with dense roofs can completely resist the general earthquake. Even if the earthquake causes the house to collapse, the wooden structure and tiles on the roof will not cause too many casualties.

Characteristics and customs of quadrangles;

1, quadrilateral is square and symmetrical. People in China have always been square and symmetrical, which can be illustrated by the construction of the Forbidden City and the establishment of the Beijing Central Axis. In addition, Yin and Yang gossip also pays attention to roundness.

2. The distribution of quadrangles pays attention to the order of young and old, and there are differences in generations. Elders should live in the most spacious north house (sitting facing south, warm in winter and south in summer, well ventilated); The sons live in Westinghouse, arranged from north to south according to their age (Westinghouse can also bask in most of the winter sun, and the back wall of the room can also block the northwest wind); The East Room is an unmarried daughter's room. The guest room, dining room, kitchen and south room are generally used for storage, and some are used as servants' rooms (there is a saying: if you have money, you can't live in the southeast room, which is not warm in winter and not cool in summer). Because the east room basks in the sun for half a day in summer, and the northwest wind directly pours into the doors and windows in winter. In the old society, men always advocated "men are superior to women". Besides, when my daughter marries her husband's family as an adult, she is allowed to live in the East Room, which is neither warm in winter nor cool in summer, and the servant lives in the South Room.