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Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilized in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand-year-long period, significant innovations and variations of homes existed, but house design generally ...
A large kang shared by the guests of a one-room inn in a then-wild area east of Tonghua, Jilin, as seen by Henry E.M. James in 1887. The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan, Kazakh: кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold.
The old buildings of Pingyao ancient city and numerous family compounds of Shanxi merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties are representative of the architecture styles of vernacular architecture in North China. Religious temples in Mount Wutai and Yungang Grottoes in Datong exemplify the sacred buddhist architecture in China.
These houses, sometimes called tulou 土楼, were often round in shape and internally divided into many compartments for food storage, living quarters, ancestral temple, armoury etc. The largest houses covered over 40,000 m 2 (430,000 sq ft) and it is not unusual to find surviving houses of over 10,000 m 2 (110,000 sq ft).
Since wars were frequent in northern China, many people moved to southern China. The building method of a courtyard house was adapted to southern China. The village of Tungyuan in Fujian Province is a good example of a planned settlement that shows the feng shui elements – psychological self-defense and building structure – in the form of ...
The powerful blast occurred just before 8 a.m. at a ground-floor restaurant in a residential area of Sanhe city, Hebei province, east of the capital Beijing, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Architects consider it to be one of the finest remaining examples of imposing private residences in northern China. [citation needed] It has been converted into a museum and has many period furnishings. It is the chief location in the Zhang Yimou film Raise the Red Lantern. A 2006 Chinese television series, Qiao's Grand Courtyard, was also shot ...
The building positioned to the north and facing the south is considered the main house (正房, zhèngfáng). The buildings adjoining the main house and facing east and west are called side houses (廂房, xiāngfáng). The northern, eastern and western buildings are connected by beautifully decorated pathways (抄手游廊, chāoshǒu ...