All those who have been in China and participated in various tours of the country, the simple question of how the Chinese called home are unlikely to give a definite answer.The reason is that in China, as in the multi-ethnic state, there are different types of structures.They are created in accordance with the building traditions of a people living in China.Each of these types is called in a special way.It basically depends on the material from which they are constructed dwelling, or from areas where they are located.For example, some of the names of houses translated as "clay", "wooden", "bamboo", "Fasteners", "excavation", and so on. D.
What are the Chinese at home?
1. "Beijing courtyard". This home is the most popular type of Chinese homes.It is combined from several buildings that form a rectangle.The facade of each of them is looking into the court.Beijing courtyard residence for several generations of one family.In most cases, it consists of four plants.This apartment complex is in Chinese is pronounced "SIHEYUAN", that is the Chinese home.How do you call each of the four rooms - is unknown.All sources are discussed under the title "courtyard".The large main room and living elders.This building stands on the north side, and its facade faces south.The side homes located youth.According to the system SIHEYUAN often built manor.Closed rectangular building located in the center, and around it were the economic and technical areas.
2. Fanza. It sounds like that the Chinese name of Chinese homes with brick or adobe walls.This structure usually is a one-story and has a gable roof of straw or reed.It has a rectangular shape and consists of two, up to three rooms.These homes were built in China about VII-X centuries.
3. Tulou .What are the Chinese house serf type of clay, probably everyone knows.Tulou were distributed in the province of Guangdong and Fujian.They have either a square or circular shape.These facilities are closed
kind of fortress.They were built so that they could defend themselves from external enemies.Round Tulou had a diameter of 70 meters and more.The thickness of the smooth walls reached two meters.Instead, small windows were cut narrow slits.
4. Yaodun. So called farmer caves that were dug in the small hills.Their walls, ceiling and floor are made of rammed earth.That is for the construction of the owners of these houses had only priladit door and make small windows.These dugouts were comfortable both in terms of cost and in terms of comfort temperature, as summer in these houses-cave was cool and in the winter - heat.For their construction needed a minimum of building materials.The ceiling in the home, of course, was arched, as it was located at the very top of the hill.
5. Pile construction on the water or on the slopes remember each at the mention of Chinese villages, but not all will be able to remember exactly what the Chinese called the house of this type. Diao Jiao low - that's what they slozhnoproiznosimoe name.They are often built in the south of the country.
6. And ke yin .Another view of the house east of the Chinese press.They are mainly to be found in Yunnan.
