What are strong winds and traditional houses?

Both Japan and China are countries with the most frequent typhoons in the world. In order to fight against typhoons, working people have found many ways in long-term practice. For example, many residents of Hainan Island in China have chiseled thick stone walls, which are both wind-resistant and sunshade in summer. Kochi Prefecture, Japan, coincides with the typhoon heading north. The height of the two-story building is about 68 cm lower than that of the neighboring county, and the roof is relatively flat, reducing the wind area; Many houses in the fishing village are covered with fishing nets or pinned down with big stones; Tiles are smoothed with mortar, even made of thick square battens, and covered with a whole sheet of tinplate to make a "single-piece" solid roof to prevent the wind from lifting the roof and tiles. In addition, in places where typhoons do great harm, most houses are protected by windbreaks (walls), and the height of stone walls is flush with the eaves, so the windbreak effect is good, almost every family does, which has become a major feature of local farmhouses. Ishigaki Town on Miyako Island in Okinawa, Japan is named after this. Coconut Americans, located on Lan Yu Island, 70km southeast of Taiwan Province Province, China, built a semi-underground two-story building with huge stones on the seashore to avoid typhoons and strong winds.

In China, Japan and other East Asian monsoon regions, there are typhoons from the south in summer and cold waves from the north in winter. In the middle and low latitudes, the strong north wind is very cold, so avoiding the wind means avoiding the cold, so the houses in these areas face south to north to avoid the wind and sun. In order to avoid the cold wind, the north wall generally does not open windows. In the northern cities of our country, all houses facing north and west are equipped with "warm pavilions" (doorways) to make the doors face east or south to avoid cold air from entering the room directly. Windbreak trees are planted in the northwest of rural houses on the west coast of Japan. The west coast of Nengden Peninsula, which extends northward into the Sea of Japan, is often accompanied by northwest wind and heavy snow, so every family has snow fence equipment.