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Xiamen's architectural style?

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The Accumulation of Traditional Minnan Architectural Style —— Four Waterfalls and Dacuo

Before the opening of Xiamen, except for a few temples and ancestral halls, the permanent buildings on Gulangyu Island were mainly traditional quadrangle-style residential buildings with southern Fujian characteristics called "Red Brick Cuo". The red brick materials and techniques with marine cultural characteristics are different from the quadrangles in the Central Plains of China, which represent the scattered buildings.

Spread of Colonial Corridor Architecture —— Former Site of Japanese Consulate

/kloc-In the mid-9th century, foreigners entered Gulangyu, initially renting houses, and later began to build their own consulates, chapels, mansions, foreign firms, houses, schools, hospitals, etc. The buildings built by foreigners in this period were basically colonialist verandah-style buildings, except for Concorde Church and a few other places with functional verandah space.

The Japanese Consulate, which was built in 1897, is now numbered 24-28 Lujiao Road, just a stone's throw from the British Consulate, and its wing angle is expected. The building is surrounded by a multi-arch veranda, a double-column truss, a parapet on the roof, and a veranda guardrail, but it uses a locally fired red Tao Bao bottle-shaped hollow railing, which is a magnificent Gao Xuan of Victorian British architecture and a compromise between Chinese simplicity and elegance. 1928, the Japanese consulate built two more red brick buildings next to the building for the Japanese police station and its apartment, of which the 28th building was a typical modern Japanese building after the Meiji Restoration.

The typical characteristics of this kind of building are all decorated with clear water red bricks, thick walls, long and narrow windows and strong sealing. This design is obviously beneficial to keep warm and keep out the cold, and has become a unique type of oriental architecture in Gulangyu.

The Early Development of Overseas Chinese Architecture —— Fanpo Building

Fanpo Building, now No.36 Anhai Road, was built by Xu Jingquan, an overseas Chinese from the Philippines in Jinjiang, Fujian, in memory of his mother. Built in 1927. The children rushed to honor their mother and bought her gold and silver jewelry and high-grade clothes. She dressed like a "rich woman from Nanyang" and was called "Fanpo" by her neighbors, hence the name of this building.

This building is brightly colored and unique in shape. Some rococo features are harmoniously and skillfully combined with China traditional crafts, which is rare in Gulangyu villa.

Introduction of Multi-architectural Style —— Bagua Building

Bagua Building is located on a terrace in the northeast of Bijia Mountain, overlooking Xiamen Island across the Lujiang River, surrounded by low slopes and full of green. Now its number is 43 Gu Xin Road. The original owner was Lin Heshou, the second son of the three-bedroom forest in Banqiao, Taiwan Province, and the cousin of Lin Er's family, the owner of Liu Zhuang Garden.

The Bagua Building, built in 1907, is called "Bagua Building" because it is located on an octagonal platform with eight ridges on the red top and eight windows on the top, and its shape is elegant and generous. It is a representative of modern architecture in Xiamen. Drawing lessons from some classic architectural styles of Palestinian, Greek, Italian and China, this unique antique building is designed, which combines the eastern and western architectural cultures.

Artistic Features and Styles of Chinese and Western Architecture —— Sea Paradise Architecture

Sea paradise structure, now numbered 38-42 Fujian Road. Through the gatehouse, a huge atrium-style square and a large number of buildings around it appear impressively from near to far, which is very spectacular. There are five three-story buildings in Haitiangou Courtyard, which were built in 192 1, covering an area of about 6,500 square meters. The whole building complex is symmetrically distributed along the central axis: centering on the atrium of about 700 square meters on the central axis, the middle building is directly above it, with one floor on the left and right, and one floor on the left and right in front of the atrium; The buildings on the left and right sides are all western-style, and only the middle property market is antique and combines Chinese and western styles, forming the layout of the rear three, the front two and the atrium.

The five buildings have their own artistic features and Chinese and western architectural styles, which are very beautiful. However, from the middle position surrounded by the left and right, the middle building undoubtedly makes the viewpoint center become the focus of the building. And the building in the middle really lives up to its reputation. Huang Xiuxuan, the owner, gave everything he had to make it a perfect image representative of the "paradise on the sea" complex.

Gulangyu Overseas Chinese Architecture —— Xiamen Decoration Style

After the establishment of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the early 20th century, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, with a large number of rich gentry from Fujian and Taiwan and overseas Chinese businessmen settled in Gulangyu, the construction of Chinese foreign buildings in Gulangyu gradually increased.

In the construction of a large number of overseas Chinese houses, some new trends are reflected: on the one hand, the contrast between red brick walls and a small number of white lines on the facade has become a common practice, continuing the decorative tradition of red bricks and white stones in southern Fujian; On the other hand, decorative elements, represented by decorative art style, are gradually becoming popular, and they are combined with common traditional decorative themes and western classical decorative elements.

On the basis of the new fashion of overseas Chinese residence, a gorgeous architectural style developed from the previously localized verandah overseas Chinese residence, and formed a unique verandah architectural style-"Xiamen Decoration Style" which pays attention to modern decoration and combines ethnic and local decorative themes with western classical decorative elements, and quickly became popular in Gulangyu Overseas Chinese Residence.

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