The color of residential buildings in southern Anhui is fresh and elegant. The building uses white powder walls, black tiles and gray-blue bricks, and the corners are mostly gray striped bluestones or pebbles. Black, white and gray constitute the main colors of ancient residential buildings. Simple white walls and black tiles blend with the quiet beauty of local mountains and rivers, giving people an elegant and lively aesthetic feeling. This artistic conception, which is as meaningful as ink painting, renders the basic features of traditional houses in southern Anhui with regional characteristics. ?
2. Architectural form?
The architectural style of residential buildings in southern Anhui is quite distinctive. The architectural style of Matou gable is adopted. The gable at both ends of the house is higher than the roof and roof ridge, and the roof is closed with horizontal gable eaves. In order to avoid the height of gable cornice from the roof being too high, the form of gradually descending to the cornice is adopted, which not only saves materials, but also makes the height of gable patchwork and changeable. This practice was originally for fire prevention, so it is commonly known as "building a wall".
It breaks the monotony of general walls and increases the aesthetic feeling of buildings. Some large-scale houses are composed of several buildings and dozens of houses with different orientations, and the horse head wall has also staggered in different orientations. In addition, the width and depth of the house are different, and the terrain changes, so the height of the horse head wall is different, forming a richer spatial change. ?
The basic form of folk houses in southern Anhui is courtyard layout, with rooms facing south, supplemented by east and west sides, and a long courtyard in the middle, forming a mouth shape on the plane. There is also a mouth-shaped layout with a hall at the entrance, as well as a Japanese courtyard combination in which the front and rear courtyards are repeatedly spliced. ?
3. Exquisite and beautiful carving decoration?
Architectural sculpture is one of the most important and prominent features of Huizhou folk houses. Almost every building material in Huizhou residential buildings can be used for carving, and every building component has been carved, forming a beautiful and elegant architectural art style. Sculpture can be divided into brick carving, wood carving and stone carving. Among them, the main decorative parts of brick carving are the door cover, the gatehouse, the splayed wall and the end of the horse head wall. Its carving content and theme are extremely rich, including immortal figures, pavilions, houses, birds and animals, flowers, still life and so on.
Extended data:
Ancient villages are generally composed of memorial archways, houses, ancestral halls, water inlets, road pavilions and workshops. Some villages are very large, for example, there are 99 streets and lanes in Chengkan, and strangers often get lost when they go in. Many villages are well organized, and the water system in Hongcun is an example. Hongcun dammed the mountain at the head of the village, and the canals in the village entered every household from both sides of the street and merged into the Moon Pond in the middle of the village. Then it is diverted to households and flows into South Lake. Every household has large and small canals for washing clothes and drinking water.
The layout of residential buildings is generally a courtyard centered on the courtyard, with a height of two floors. Large and medium-sized houses adopt multi-courtyard combination, and the buildings are all white walls and tiles. In the old days, the buildings of many large families were large in scale, decorated with three sculptures in Huizhou, with exquisite layout and patchwork. Pieces of ancient buildings in southern Anhui are embedded in the vast mountains and beautiful waters of Huangshan Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain and Xin 'anjiang River. It is a world-class park without makeup.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Southern Anhui Dwellings