Chinese architecture was known as three major construction systems in the world, together with European architecture and Islamic architecture. The residential buildings distributed in China was called residential folk house and it's the basic building types with earliest appeared, widest distributed and largest numbers. As the difference of various regions of natural environment and culture situation, folk house in different place show the diversity.
Principal Room and Hakka Style Castle
The house in southern China is compact and rich in buildings. Principal room, rectangle and with the small patio as the center, is the typical residential house. The appearance of the house is square and style in plain and simple, which widely distributed in the southern provinces.
The local raw soil, gravel and wood formed the single house, which united into big house, and then big house storing against and castle-like building, it's called Hakka style castle.
Minority Residential Building
The residential buildings in minority areas have many kinds. Such as: the flat-topped of Xinjiang Uygur Ethnic; “Tibetan stone room” of Tibetan ethnic; Mongolian yurts of Mongolian ethnic; Bamboo house of Dai ethnic; Diaojiao building of Tujia ethnic.
Northern Caves and Ancient Residential Areas
In the area of Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and Shanxi, the local residents construct the cave by excavated cave wall in the natural soil, and connected holes, brick stone in the cave.
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