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Modern Jiangnan water town residential characteristics

Modern water town

Jiangnan water town traditional brick small tiled house cover is higher, the doors and windows open bigger, easy to ventilate the heat. The roof slope is large, easy to rainfall. In summer, people like to sleep on cool mats, pillow bamboo pillow. At night, people are also accustomed to lying on the bamboo bed, in front of the house to cool off.

Nowadays, people living in the Jiangnan water township, gradually rich. Villages have set up factories, and many people have entered factories. Some people are working as farmers and laborers at the same time. There are fewer people who simply work as farmers. They have been living a well-off life, with incomes and living standards higher than those of the average city dweller. The affluent townships have a wide road and modern factory buildings. Farmers live in chic and imposing small buildings, which are countless and inexhaustible. Many small farm buildings are covered with wooden floors, and their homes not only have color TVs, air conditioners and refrigerators, but also have running water and liquefied gas stoves. The dream of "upstairs and downstairs, electric light and telephone" has become a reality. The original messy and dilapidated villages have been transformed into neat and tidy living quarters. People have also raised funds to build schools, apartments for the elderly, parks, cultural centers, social welfare centers, theaters, and so on. Leisure, people love to enjoy the Yueju Opera, Shanghai Opera, Tin Opera, Kunqu Opera and Suzhou commentary.

Many villages in the water town of Jiangnan are different from ordinary rural communities, and these communities do not look very different from urban communities.