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projectinformation: HOUSES IN CHINA: "There were really two kinds of houses in ancient China - poor people's houses (which is most of them) and rich people's houses (not ver..."

HOUSES IN CHINA

There were really two kinds of houses in ancient China - poor people's houses (which is most of them) and rich people's houses (not very many). just one room, made of rammed earth (like mudbrick). The roof was usually made of thatch. These houses were a lot like poor people's houses in West Asia or Egypt or Greece or Africa.

Homes all over China in pre-modern times had a lot in common. The way of laying out a house was similar among the rich and poor, both in earlier and later times. Certain materials and techniques, such as pounded earth foundations, timber framing, and use of bricks and tile were present throughout the country. Nevertheless, houses were by no means identical in all parts of China. If we look at houses in different regions we can see much that differed from place to place.