Masonry building technology

New houses were built with the remaining masonry rubble of collapsed houses, and the creative Minnan people mixed them together for formal mixed masonry. Stones are placed vertically and bricks are piled horizontally. After building to a certain height, stones and bricks exchange with each other, so that their stress state is balanced. The front and rear bricks overlap, and the wall thickness is about 40cm. Glue with mud and lime, and add brown sugar water to shell ash. Bricks usually pop up slightly from the stone surface, forming a characteristic title of "brick into stone"

At the same time, according to the habits of craftsmen and the conditions of existing materials, there are many kinds of stones, such as point, strip and block. The proportion of stones in the "brick out of stone into" is that some are decorated with one or two stones, and some are covered with rows. The mortar joint treatment of "brick goes out and stone goes in" includes both concave joint and flat joint. The application parts of "brick in stone out" are the whole wall, the lower wall and the corner. The combination of points, surfaces and lines formed by the joint between stone and brick makes good use of the color and texture contrast formed by stone and brick, and white stone and red brick are interspersed together to form various irregular compositions. Whether it is the contrast of light and shade between stone and brick, or the harmony of their colors, and the artistic conception of relaxation and conflict expressed in it, it is the unique style of red brick culture. The Jimei school building built by 19 13 is an innovative work of overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng. He optimized the "brick-out-of-stone" method of red brick dwellings in southern Fujian to the extreme, using Xiamen's rich multi-color granite, using Minnan stone, wood, brick and soil as raw materials, and hired Minnan craftsmen to carry out construction, and brought the "brick-out-of-stone" technology to the extreme. The main body, facade and columns of the building also adopt colored granite patterns, which are original in color, elegant in shape, stable and harmonious, greatly increasing the overall aesthetic feeling and more distinctive in personality. Mr Chen Jiageng is the first person to innovate colorful building technology.

The former British Consulate in Xiamen was built around 1870, located at No.5 Zhangzhou Road, Gulangyu Island, Xiamen. It is a three-story red brick building with square and rigorous structure, floor-to-ceiling doors and windows, all equipped with shutters to adjust the sun and shield the wind and sand, and decorated with fireplaces, which embodies the perfect combination of traditional Minnan style and western-style architecture. Former Residence of Yang Amiao

Yang Amiao, a well-known overseas Chinese in the Philippines, was founded in the 20th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1894) and was completely completed in the year of Xinhai in Xuan Tong (191). It lasted 18, with three bedrooms and five bays, the roof suspended and guardrails on the east and west sides. The front of the house is surrounded by brick walls on three sides. There is a big yard in front of the main building, and two small yards are formed between the east and west tips and between the east and west wings on both sides, commonly known as "Meihuayuan".

The whole building looks elegant, spacious and bright. The walls, eaves, walls, columns, doors and windows inside and outside the house are decorated with exquisite wood carvings, brick carvings, Qi Diao, gray carvings, diabase and granite stone carvings. Through carving, relief and peaceful carving, a large number of rare birds and animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, landscape figures, stories of the Three Kingdoms, and Bo Gu patterns have been carved with calligraphy works by ancient painters and calligraphers such as Yan Zhenqing in Tang Dynasty, Su Shi in Song Dynasty, Zhang Ruitu in Ming Dynasty and Lu Wu in Qing Dynasty. The whole building is magnificent, which is rare in Minnan folk architecture.

Yang Amiao's former residence, its window lattice carving is a must, relief, empty carved birds, different postures, dynamic and static, lifelike. The walls, eaves, walls, columns, doors and windows inside and outside the house are decorated with exquisite wood carvings, brick carvings, Qi Diao, gray carvings, diabase and granite stone carvings. Through carving, relief and peaceful carving, a large number of rare birds and animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, landscape figures, stories of the Three Kingdoms, and Bo Gu patterns have been carved with calligraphy works by ancient painters and calligraphers such as Yan Zhenqing in Tang Dynasty, Su Shi in Song Dynasty, Zhang Ruitu in Ming Dynasty and Lu Wu in Qing Dynasty. The decoration and color matching of the lobby of the whole exhibition hall are harmonious and elegant, and it is an outstanding representative of "carving beams and painting buildings". However, due to the long-term influence of natural factors and human factors, many diseases have appeared at present, especially the most artistic painting on the building surface is very serious.