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The layout of a simple courtyard represents traditional Chinese morality and Confucian ethics. In Beijing , four buildings in a single courtyard receive different amounts of sunlight. The northern main building receives the most, thus serving as the living room and bedroom of the owner or head of the family.
Siheyuan courtyard houses originated in Beijing and is the most prevalent type of traditional Chinese courtyard residence. Due to their high density in Beijing, the term "Siheyuan" is typically synonymous with the Beijing style. Siheyuan, along with Hutong, have become the most representative traditional architectural feature of Beijing.
Hutong (simplified Chinese: 胡同; traditional Chinese: 衚衕 or 胡同; pinyin: hútòng) are a type of narrow street or alley commonly associated with northern Chinese cities, especially Beijing. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. [1]
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 ...
The traditional Chinese courtyard house, (e.g. siheyuan), is an arrangement of several individual houses around a square. Each house belongs to a different family member, and additional houses are created behind this arrangement to accommodate additional family members as needed.
The architecture of the mosques and gongbei tomb shrines of Chinese Muslims often combines traditional Chinese styles with Middle Eastern influences. The royal and nonroyal tombs found in the third through sixth centuries traced back to Han construction. Some tombs were considered two-chamber spaces, where the focal point was the central pagoda ...
Lusongyuan Hotel is a 3-star traditional courtyard hotel in Beijing, China. The Hotel lies in the central district of Beijing, in an old-styled Hutong in the eastern part of the city. It is surrounded by many historical buildings built from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties that are still preserved today.
A yaodong (窰 in native Jin Chinese, [1] or 窰洞 [jɑʊ tʊŋ] yáodòng in Beijing Mandarin) is a particular form of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China's north. They are generally carved out of a hillside or excavated horizontally from a central "sunken courtyard". [2] [3]