Chinese Vernacular Dwelling - Shan Deqi

China has a vast territory and an extremely long history with the natural and cultural environment differing from region to region. Therefore the diversification of Chinese vernacular dwelling is rarely seen in the architectural history of the world. This book has chosen some settlements which are representative and widely spread to introduce basing on the interaction of theliving customs, action characteristics and the space mode of people who inhabit the traditional vernacular dwellings. Chinese vernacular dwelling is various and colorful. Both the profound and steady northern vernacular dwellings and the elegant and pretty southernvernacular dwellings contain the philosophy that "human beings should be inharmony with nature" and the ethic views such as superiority and inferiority in social life, the order of elders and the young, the different treatment towardsmen and women, the differentiation between people in and out of a clan. This book has described the origin, architectural characteristics and the passing-down value of the Chinese traditional vernacular dwellings in a popular waybut with the professional accuracy. This book is dotted with related historicallegends and folklores. Thus, a vivid scroll of Chinese vernacular dwelling wasclearly drawn.