Traditional rural architecture in Shanghai

Shikumen house belongs to? A townhouse? A house style, and the door frame is made of stone, and the Shikumen houses are connected together to form? Ryan. Form a house. In fact, this kind of Shikumen house has a long history and appeared as early as19th century. At that time, because of the weakness of the Qing government and the influx of foreign powers, Shanghai became a concession. Since it is a concession, there must be foreigners living here. When the war broke out in the later period, the rich and powerful people also hid in the concession.

At that time, many poor people came to Shanghai to seek shelter and make a living. At first, they built some simple sheds to live in. Later, around the 1970s, the concession ordered the demolition of these sheds. But tearing down the shed can't make people have no place to live, so they chose some remote places and built houses for these poor people. Naturally, they don't have so much kindness to build a beautiful and spacious house. They are thinking about how to accommodate more people in the same area. Thus, Shikumen House was born.

With this history, we can know that the biggest characteristics of this Shikumen house should be narrow, narrow and poor lighting. The upstairs and downstairs are connected by a narrow and dangerous path. Although there is a balcony upstairs, standing on this balcony can actually see the indoor situation of the opposite family, which shows how narrow the spacing between these houses is. Shikumen houses are one after another, row after row, forming one alley after another.

At night, when the gate leading to the street is closed, it becomes something like a yard. Adults can sit here and chat, and children can play here. This may be the true nature of China people seeking happiness in pain. There are many people living in this kind of Shikumen house now, and because of urban construction, these houses are generally in prosperous areas, and the traffic is quite convenient.