On the Regional Culture Features of the Traditional Folk Housing Architecture of Huizhou Style
HOU Shu - fang, LI Dao - xian ,
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2006.06.006
Received June 05, 2006,Revised June 05, 2006, Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2006,Pages 24-
- Abstract
The traditional architecture of Huizhou style with its unique regional cultural features makes a well- developed genre of architecture in late ancient China. Especially, the traditional folk housing of Huizhou style is the most vivid embodiment of Huizhou culture, reflecting the social history and culture in Huizhou area. The location and setting of the traditional folk housing in ancient Huizhou is greatly influenced by the geomantic theory, a fact that can be best detected in the practice of building artificial landscapes at the accesses to villages. The internal structure of the traditional folk housing of Huizhou style vividly reveals the ideology and the system of the patriarchy in ancient Huizhou. Being traders but sticking to the identity and temperament of Confucian scholars, local merchants of ancient Huizhou fostered a unique culture, which has shaped an distinctive artistic charm found in the internal decoration and furnishings of the traditional folk housing in ancient Huizhou.