Characteristics of Daning Folk Houses in Linfen, Shanxi Province

All live in groups, facing south, paying attention to internal lighting and bearing with wooden beams.

The common characteristics of Shanxi folk houses and other Han traditional folk houses are: sharing, sitting north facing south, paying attention to internal lighting, bearing the load with wooden beams, protecting the wall with bricks, stones and soil, centering on the hall, carving beams and painting buildings, and decorating the roof.