What are the characteristics of housing in southern and northern areas?

There are still great differences between the north and the south of China.

Southern folk houses are an important part of traditional folk houses in China. Jiangsu and Zhejiang water towns pay attention to the front street and back river. However, regardless of China people in the south or the north, their traditional residential buildings are characterized by sitting facing south and paying attention to internal lighting. Wood beam bearing, brick, stone, soil wall; Focusing on the main hall, he is good at carving beams and painting buildings, decorating roofs and cornices.

The overall layout of the southern dwellings is roughly the same as that of the northern quadrangles, but the layout is generally compact and the courtyard covers a small area to adapt to the characteristics of high population density and less cultivated land.

The wall thickness in the northern region is cold-resistant. The layout of houses in rural areas in the north is very good, almost all of them are supporting houses, yards and gates, and the design is horizontal, vertical and angular. Most square houses are brick structures with flat roofs, on which food can be dried.