What are the architectural characteristics of Guangxi Guangdong houses?

Mud-brick houses are the unique architectural mud-brick houses of Guangxi Guangdong in the two regions.

The mud-brick house has a thousand-year history of its system from the Tang Dynasty to the present. In the Lingnan region, the Baiyue people said goodbye to the dry bar nesting house, it is mainly this kind of building. The Song Dynasty, Zhou to the non-Lingwai answer to the house room, said: whether or not the base of the earth for the wall and the frame of the building on it, the whole does not apply to the columns. No trestle boards, only tile in the rafters, the four walls are not coated with mud. It is the two regions of Guangxi and Guangdong's unique building mud brick house.

Mud brick house production is introduced:

Field mud mixed with about one-third of the sand, plus straw crushed, mixed with water into a paste mud, and then with the specifications of the wooden mold imprinted into a block, drying is very strong, can be built into the house wall. It is no problem to use it for more than a hundred years. When the household found that the mud brick has loose rot phenomenon, it will be removed, into a very valuable soil fertilizer.

So farmers like to use mud brick house. Some of the mud-brick houses are built with pebbles at the foot of the wall, and some are built with bricks, which are used to waterproof the house from flooding. This kind of house is built only one layer, about 4 meters high, rarely more than two layers, for fear of building too high and unstable. These houses are made of rectangular bricks stacked with mud, very simple and generous.

Some of the mud-brick houses are still intact today. Mud brick houses directly on the wall beams, beams directly vertical nails rafters (lattice), with small burnt green tiles, yin and yang cover, above the pressure of a few pieces of stone or brick bars.