Quadrangle Dwellings English

Quadrangle dwellings English: quadrangle dwellings.

Quadrangle dwellings are introduced as follows:

Quadrangle dwellings, also known as quadrangle houses, are a type of traditional Chinese compound architecture, with a pattern of houses built on all four sides of a courtyard, and the courtyard is enclosed in the middle from all sides. The courtyard is surrounded by houses on all four sides, hence the name "siheyuan".

The quadrangle is the front of the triad plus the gatehouse of the house to close. If the "mouth" is known as a courtyard; "day" is known as two courtyards; "eye" is known as three courtyards.

Generally speaking, the mansion, the first into the door of the house, the second into the hall, the third into the third or the back into the private room or boudoir, is the activities of the women or dependents of the space, the general public shall not be allowed to enter, no wonder that the ancients have a poem: "the courtyard deep deep several". The deeper the courtyard, the more shall not peep its hall.

The courtyard has a history of at least 3,000 years, and there are many different types of courtyards throughout China, with the Beijing courtyard as the typical one. They are usually inhabited by large families, and are characterized by a warm winter and cool summer environment, which creates a private living environment. Their architecture and layout reflect the traditional Chinese hierarchical thinking of superiority and inferiority, as well as the yin-yang and five elements doctrine.

In modern times, the livability of the traditional courtyard house has been challenged by changes in family structure and social attitudes. And in the process of urban planning, traditional siheyuan also faces the contradiction between preservation and development, with some siheyuan being listed as cultural relics protection units, while some have been demolished.

Quadrangles have a long history, with complete quadrangles appearing as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty in China more than 3,000 years ago. The remains of a two-entry courtyard building unearthed at the Zhouyuan Ruins in Fengshi Village, Qishan, Shaanxi Province, are the earliest and tightest known example of a siheyuan in China.

The Han Dynasty saw a newer development of courtyard architecture, which was influenced by the doctrine of feng shui, and a whole set of yin and yang and five elements were used in the quadrangles, from the selection of the site to the layout. The Tang Dynasty quadrangle inherited from the two Han dynasties and started from the Song and Yuan dynasties, and its pattern is narrow in the front and square in the back.

However, the prevalent courtyard in ancient times was a corridor courtyard, that is, the center axis of the courtyard was the main building, surrounded by corridor links, or left and right with houses, rather than building houses on all sides. In the late Tang Dynasty, the courtyard with a corridor hipped, gradually replaced the corridor courtyard, after the Song Dynasty, the corridor courtyard gradually reduced, to the Ming and Qing dynasties gradually extinct.