The Cultural Interpretation Of Traditional Courtyard Cave-Houses In North Shaanxi

The courtyard cave-houses are important traditional architectural forms in northern shaanxi,meanwhile,this kind of residence is based on the cave of the loess Plateau and borrowed surrounded courtyard modelling of the Plain's quadrangle dwellings.which perfectly combines the natural advantages of the cave with the rules of the courtyard.Therefore,it constitutes the unique local-style building he unique local-style cave-houses building and form the rare local architectural culture.Jiang's manor--located in Mizhi county,Yulin region is representative style of the courtyard type cave dwelling buildings,which not only shows the high level planning and designing of the construction,also focus on the folk build wisdom accumulated over time,according to northern shaanxi traditional architectural culture:Jiang's manor has a strong defense system for defense,which constituted the heavy line by battlements wall,a deep well bunker and triple gate,and reserved many emergency exits;meanwhile,jiang's planning layout of the upper and lower three floors and the pattern decoration on brick,wood,stone carvings,which reveals the ethical orders "there should be affection between fathers and sons,order between seniors and juniors,distinction between husbands and wifes",and embodies the ethical characteristics of buildings.The manor is rooted in the local natural environment,and according to the layout of the mountain,to select the building materials in local place,which creates the living environment of the winter is warm and cool in summer and create a noise--proof living environment.The Manor learn to the form of the wall in the process of building,and also draws on the layout of the courtyard,it is called “thebroad masses of the people,the integration of the quartet”,it also made a successful demonstration for different regional architectural culture exchange.Culturally,the build wisdom of Jiang's estate is not only helps us to understand the historical evolution of the northern shaanxi traditional architectural,and also helps us to understand the great spirit of the traditional builds' wisdom,meanwhile,through the construction of the external form to understand the cultural connotation,so that we will have more cultural basis and more national self-confidence in thinking about the construction of urbanization.