What is the horse head wall? What do you mean?

Horsehead wall, also known as wind-fire wall, firewall and stacking wall, is an important feature of Jiangxi architecture and Huizhou architecture (Huizhou architecture) in the traditional residential architecture school of Han nationality.

In particular, the wall that is higher than the roof of two gables, that is, the top of the gables, is called "horse head wall" because its shape resembles a horse head.

Horsehead wall is a kind of traditional residential buildings of Han nationality in Jiangxi and Huizhou schools. Its roof is divided into two slopes with the middle transverse ridge as the boundary, and the left and right gables are either flush with or higher than the roof. When using the horse's head wall, the gables on both sides are higher than the roof, and overlap in a horizontal step according to the slope of the roof, unlike the gables that are generally seen, which are isosceles triangles on the top and rectangles on the bottom.

It is an important feature of Jiangxi architecture and Huizhou architecture.

In densely populated villages, the density of residential buildings is high, which is not conducive to fire prevention. The high horse head wall can cut off the fire source in the case of fire in the adjacent residential building, so the horse head wall is also called the accumulation wall.

Horsehead walls are strewn at random, usually two or three folds. Because of the front and back halls, the number of overlapping Horsehead Walls can reach as many as five, commonly known as "Five Mountains".

The horse head wall is strewn at random, and its appearance is quite stylish. Therefore, it is not only one of the common forms of architecture of Jiangxi School and Huizhou School in the south of the Yangtze River, but also has the saying of "small tile-headed wall and cloister hanging lattice window", which is used to summarize the architectural styles of Jiangxi School and Huizhou School in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Generally speaking, beautiful horsehead walls are common in rural areas, but in bustling cities, horsehead walls are extremely rare and precious.