What are the construction characteristics of Fujian residential buildings?

Fujian residential building characteristics and the local natural environment are as follows.

One, Fujian residential building characteristics

Traditional residential buildings in Fujian have the traditional architectural forms of the Central Plains such as triplex and quadrangle, as well as the architectural forms rich in local characteristics such as row houses, earth buildings, earth fortresses, etc. But no matter how the form and style of residential buildings evolve, they still maintain the symmetry of the central axis and the local natural environment. But no matter how the forms and styles of residential buildings evolve, they still maintain the symmetry of the central axis, the combination of courtyards, the wooden load-bearing system and sloping roofs, and other characteristics of the traditional Han residential buildings **** the same.

Fujian traditional architecture of the vernacular not only in the spatial layout and local folk customs and habits of the same, more prominent also manifested in the local materials, soil, wood, stone and other local materials skillfully applied. Fujian is a mountainous region with red and yellow soil, which is ideal for building materials.

Except for some dwellings in the coastal areas that use stone walls due to the lack of good clay, most traditional dwellings in Fujian use earth and wood structures. The use of rammed earth walls as a load-bearing structure for the construction of square and round earth buildings with a diameter of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 10 meters is one of the best in Fujian, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2008. The combination of local materials with folk customs, artisan system, construction technology, and decorative techniques has resulted in the formation of unique wood, stone, and brick carvings and other decorative arts in Fujian.

Second, the local natural environment of Fujian

Fujian terrain shows the northwest high, southeast low characteristics. The area of hills and mountains in Fujian Province accounted for about ninety percent of the land area of Fujian Province, the province has two large mountain belt in western Fujian and central Fujian roughly balanced, western Fujian mountain belt to Wuyi Mountain Range is dominated by the slanting across the two provinces of Fujian and Jiangxi, about 530 kilometers long, the average speed dial height of 1 kilometer.

Fujian climate regional differences, is a subtropical monsoon climate, warm winters, hot summers, the frost-free period inland in three hundred days or so, the southeast coast of Fujian in three hundred and forty days or so, can be three cooked a year, suitable for Ganshu and other high-temperature-loving crops and sub-tropical plant growth.