Han Architecture What is the difference between different regions of the Han residence

Han architecture in addition to residential, there are palaces, altars and temples, official offices, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, bridges, pagodas . Gardens and so on. The layout of Han architecture is generally characterized by flat and to the depth of the development, divided into upper and lower rooms, the main room side rooms, the inner courtyard outside the courtyard, the highest building but two floors, often forming a strictly symmetrical left and right, courtyards and buildings into one, closed and independent residential complexes Han architecture is unique, a major achievement is the classical garden architecture. The national form of Han housing construction for the arch of the wooden structure, commonly known as the "big roof". This national form of housing construction, the earliest sprouted in the Hanpo site of grass mud wood column network structure and Hemudu site of dry rail mortise and tenon structure of the house. The Western Han Dynasty formed a complete architectural structure system with "Qin brick and Han tile" and wooden structure, which was called "the work of earth and wood" in history. This arch not only plays a mechanical role in supporting, but also has a decorative artistic effect, reflecting the strong national style of Han housing construction. In the historical development, this big roof of the national form and divided into glazed tiles, carved beams and paintings of the palace form and green brick and black tile, simple and simple form of residential. Nowadays, although many high-rise housing buildings have appeared in the cities, important buildings often adopt the traditional Han ethnic architectural forms, such as the ten major buildings in Beijing, which have retained a strong ethnic style. New building materials have appeared and commonly used, but a large number of basic or "Qin brick Han tile" brick structure or mud and wood structure of the house.

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The Han people, due to the distribution of the vast area, its traditional housing due to different regions and have different styles. Han people living in the North China Plain, its traditional housing for the brick structure of the bungalows, courtyards for the courtyard type, represented by the Beijing courtyard; living in the Northeast Han, its traditional housing and North China is basically similar to the difference in the walls and roofs, where the housing is generally very thick, mainly for warmth; living in the north of Shaanxi Province of Han, according to the Loess Plateau, the characteristics of the thick soil, the low water table digging kiln for the Housing, the kiln is not only warm in winter and cool in summer, and does not take up the arable land area; living in the south of the Han, its traditional housing to wooden houses, pay attention to the eaves and heavy pavilion structure. Due to the different customs and natural conditions in the south, there are differences in the layout of housing buildings. Such as hilly mountain buildings built on the mountain, Jiangsu and Zhejiang water towns focus on the front street and the river, Fujian's earth building is huge and beautiful, Suzhou's pavilion is small and beautiful. Courtyard is the main house, east and west rooms around the center of the courtyard to form a plan layout of the traditional residential collectively. The courtyard has the longest history and the widest distribution among Chinese dwellings, and it is the typical form of Han Chinese dwellings. It has a history of more than 3,000 years, and the form took shape during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The courtyard houses in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Beijing and Hebei are the most representative. In the big and small hutongs of Beijing, there are many courtyard-style houses surrounded by houses in the east, south, west and north, which are called siheyuan. Whether southern or northern Han, its traditional residential *** with the same characteristics are sitting north to south, focusing on internal lighting; wooden beams bearing, brick, stone, earth retaining walls; to the center of the hall, to carve beams and decorative roofs, gables and gables are long.