Detailed information of the hall room

The hall is a ceremonial space in traditional Chinese houses, usually designed in the middle of the house, also known as the "guest room". It is also known as the "guest room", because it is usually open to the public, and in some areas, it is also called the "bright room" (the bedroom is called the "dark room").

The hall is used for honoring ancestors and gods, worshipping heaven and earth, celebrating weddings and funerals, and avoiding ghosts and evil spirits.

The hall is different from the living room in modern houses.

Basic introduction Chinese name ：堂屋 Foreign name ：main hall of a building 注音 ：ㄊ ㄤˊ ㄨ 词性 ：名词 拼音 ：táng wū 释义 ：正屋? Basic Interpretation, Architectural Style, Function, Stone Storehouse, Basic Interpretation This meaning is widely used to refer to the main hall of a building. A representative residential hall house in Qiandongnan, Guizhou e.g. "What are you doing in the hall house?" "When was your house built?" [Jinshu - Art Biography - Chunyu Zhi] : "The family both gathered, the hall house five rooms pulled yet collapsed." [Tang] Gu Feixiong's poem "Sending a High Mountain Man After Going Down": "In front of my family's hall house, I look up to the top of a large thatched roof." Ba Jin's Autumn: "As soon as her sedan chair arrived at the door of the hall, the sisters Qin and Shuhua, as well as Qixia and Cuihuan, all stood there to greet her." The middle room of the main house The middle room of the main house is usually larger than the rooms on either side. However, in modern rural areas, the center room is designed to be the same size as the rooms on either side, which is more aesthetically pleasing. Some areas also refer to shrine and other public ****ing places as tanya (doubtful). The meaning of the word "hall" has never been documented, and needs to be further verified. Architectural style In the courtyard of the residence, the location is in the center, sitting north to south, so also known as the main room, and the compartment opposite. The old family ancestral hall of the hall hall than the room to be tall and grand, generally designed as an odd number of rooms, to 3 or 5 most common. The roof, but also placed on the unicorn, stone lions and other symbols of auspiciousness or more ferocious animal models (brick or ceramic). In a courtyard, there can be no compartments, but there must be a hall. Newer residential buildings are more different from the traditional hall, usually called "living room", or simply "hall". There are also some antique buildings that still use the hall pattern. Modern new buildings do not have a classical hall, according to the function of the living room for the living room, living room, dining room, entrance and so on. Functions The living room is generally a place for family living and meeting guests. It is also used as a dining room by common people. In the past, there were shrines and ancestral shrines in the center of the hall. The walls were often decorated with paintings of the center hall, and there were couplets on both sides of the hall. Therefore, it was also a place for family rituals and important ceremonies. Larger courtyards with multiple houses are called "jin". In addition to the inner courtyard, each hall is connected to the front and back, and is called a "through-house". Shikufang is commonly known as the "stone storehouse", and is the residential style of the downtown area of Shanghai. The house is generally a two-story brick structure, built in the 1870s, with each doorway being an independent living unit. Inside the house, there is a small open yard, called the patio, about 10 square meters. Inside the patio is a living room of about 15-20 square meters. At the back of the living room is a room of 10-15 square meters called the back living room. On the left and right sides of the living room are two rectangular rooms of about 25 square meters each, called the east and west compartments. After the rooms, there is a stove room with a back door, which is connected to the back parlor. By the escalator at the end of the corridor in the back parlor, one goes up the stairs. There is a small room on top of the stove room, about 10 square meters, commonly known as the pavilion room. Upstairs, the main house is the parlor floor, also known as the front floor, and the two sides of the compartments have the same structure and size as the ground floor. Further up, there is an open-air sundeck. Shanghai Shikumen houses have a deep imprint of the times