Cantonese people deliberately pursue Lingnan characteristics in every artistic creation, and so do architectural creation. They pursue artistic conception and put their thoughts first, which embodies China's Lingnan sentiment and charm everywhere.

For example, Baiyun Mountain Villa is poetic and picturesque, which can arouse the homesickness of overseas travelers.

Step 2 merge with the Lord of the Rings

Lingnan architecture attaches importance to site selection, integrates with the environment and inherits the essence of traditional architecture. Hotel buildings such as baiyun hotel, Shuangxi Villa and White Swan are among the best.

3. Group layout

Lingnan architecture, combined with climate characteristics, makes the building have modern landscape characteristics, and only arranges garden flowers and trees in the lobby, atrium, lounge, restaurant, walkway and bedroom, giving the environment natural interest.

The most representative work is Oriental Hotel Garden, which combines the spirit of China gardens with the style of modern architecture.

4. The architectural image is fresh and lively.

Lingnan architecture is good at making use of the frame characteristics of reinforced concrete, creating transparent space and virtual body, shaping a fresh and lively architectural image, and drawing lessons from the prototypes of ancient pavilions to make new buildings colorful.

5. The interior design is rich and colorful.

Lingnan architecture uses traditional techniques in interior design, such as gray carving, pottery sculpture, brick carving, wood carving, cave doors and windows, empty flower Bo Gu, landing, painted glass, mosaic murals, some bonsai, characteristic furniture, inscribed couplets, etc., which makes the interior landscape dazzling and beautiful.

6. Have a garden background

Lingnan architecture absorbs and draws lessons from China's ancient garden space techniques to the maximum extent, and transplants them into architecture and urban design, thus producing distinctive features. For example, Baiyun Mountain, Yuexiu Mountain, Liuhua Lake Park, Lanpu, Martyrs Cemetery, Land Rover Lake and Dongshan Lake Park.

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Lingnan architecture classification:

Lingnan architecture is mainly divided into Guangfu architecture, Chaoshan architecture and Hakka architecture.

The representative of Guangfu dwellings is Yong Er Zhai, which is mostly made of blue bricks, stone pillars and slate, and the external walls are decorated with flowers and birds. Because its mountain shape is like a bell, it is called "Bell House". Hakka in northern Guangdong and other places is called "Cloud Wall" or "Teapot Circle". Iron pot is a kind of cauldron in ancient times, so it is also called "iron pot ear house".

It is said that bell-shaped buildings have good fire prevention and ventilation performance: once a fire breaks out, towering gables can prevent the fire from spreading and invading; When the breeze blows, the gables can meander into the roadway and then flow into the house through the doors and windows. Yong 'er House is a typical representative of traditional houses in Lingnan, with Guangfu-style houses as the main representative. It is named after the construction of two wind walls similar to Yonger on both sides of the house.

In the houses recovered in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is generally the villages with high officials and rich people who are qualified to erect a bell-shaped volcanic wall on the roof. The bell house symbolizes the two ears of the official hat, which means "the best". Only prestigious gentry can adopt it, which is also a symbol of a well-off family. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, as long as villagers made a fortune, they would build clock houses to show their wealth and style.

Xiguan big house, a traditional residence with Lingnan cultural characteristics, was built by wealthy businessmen in Xiguanjiao (now Liwan District) in western Guangzhou in the late Qing Dynasty, and was called "xiguan big house". Xiguan big house is mostly a brick-wood structure, with green masonry feet and granite embedded in the front door. Its plane layout is basically developed in the depth direction according to the traditional main hall form of the Central Plains.

Its typical plane is three rooms and two corridors; Symmetrical left and right, with the main hall in the center. The entrance of xiguan big house is decorated with three doors, namely, low hanging door (also called foot door), tripping door and hard wooden door. The hall is the main building of the big house, with the largest area and the highest roof.

The traditional courtyard houses in Chaoshan are the basic layout, and the most basic forms are called "Shang Lu Gen" and "Si Fen Jin". Small-sized residential buildings in cities and towns have a long and narrow "bamboo pole" layout.

Large-scale residential buildings expand horizontally or vertically on the basis of four cents, which are called "three halls series", "eight halls opposite", "four-horse trailer" and "Baifeng Chaoyang", and their external contours remain very regular squares or rectangles. Large-scale collective housing is called "village", which is the product of militarization of rural residents in Chaoshan area in Qing Dynasty.

From the plane, it can be divided into scheme and village construction, and from the peripheral way, it can be divided into fence and enclosure. Building materials in Chaoshan area are adapted to local conditions, and local materials are used, and shell ash and stones are widely used. Shell ash has been fired at the latest in the Northern Song Dynasty, and concrete masonry with shell ash as the main raw material is very popular, not only for building houses and towers, but also for strengthening dikes.

Stone materials are not only used in building components such as doorframes, railings, drum stones, steps, column bases, well circles and beams, but also in large-scale buildings such as Shipai Bridge, Stone Pagoda and Stone Bridge. In Chaozhou, there are 47 stone archways on Taiping Road alone. Chaozhou Xiangzi Bridge, with huge stone pier, was built from Southern Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty. It is a national key cultural relics protection unit and is known as one of the four ancient bridges in China.

The representative of Hakka architecture is the Hakka dragon enclosure. Historically, the cultural and psychological qualities of Hakkas are reflected in two aspects. First, the improvement of ancestral temple facilities and the continuous compilation of genealogy. In villages where people live together, all ethnic groups attach importance to the construction of ancestral temples. Ancestral hall houses pay attention to geomantic omen and the sound of hall numbers.

Hakka wai house Tang Hao, or straight home, or plain characters, these naming habits in Tang Hao are related to the ancient customs in Tang and Song Dynasties. Then, in terms of folk houses, Dali Dragon House appeared, which is a combination of super-large earth buildings and buildings. Earth buildings are mostly rammed earth or adobe bricks, and gradually develop into granite and big green bricks, which are very strong and huge in scale.

The existing tulou can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. From the early years of Qing Emperor Kangxi to the 1970s, many tulou buildings were built. According to the plane layout, the paddock is roughly divided into circular and square shapes. The large circular enclosure is as high as 4 ~ 6 stories, more than 20 meters, and as many as 4 laps.

Daweilou, Mantang Village, Aizi Town, Shixing County, built in Qing Dynasty, is a national key cultural relics protection unit, covering an area of 10800 square meters. Every Dragon House pays special attention to Feng Shui. In modern times, Hakka hometown of overseas Chinese with traditional residential layout and western-style facade decoration also appeared.