In China,Beijing¡¯s courtyard has a long history,.According to available data , the courtyard building .has been existed from two thousand years ago

 

In the course of historical development,  Chinese are particularly fond of  the courtyard, the courtyard is not onle used by the palaces, temples and government, but is also widely used by the resident

 

 The structure of  Beijing¡¯s courtyard is very typical in a variety of courtyards

 First of all, in the view of two dimensions, the center garden of Beijing¡¯s courtyard is basically a square, but,some houses in other parts is not the same.

 

  Second, the room of the Beijing courtyard in the East, West, North and South is separate from each other. East and West wing  rooms are with  not connected to the principal room,and all rooms, are only one floor,with no buildings,the connecting between these houses is only  the veranda in the corner.

 

In this case ,if you see from the sky,Beijing's courtyard likes a courtyard enclosure. Consisted of four small boxes.

 

Beijing's courtyard is a veritable homes, spacious and open, sunny, and with abroad vision, but the courtyard in the south is surrounded by houses, mostly buildings, and the houses in four corner are linked. House in the East , West, North,South is not existed independently, so southerners call the courtyard as  "patio."

In feudal society, the residet distribution of Beijing¡¯s courtyard was very strict, he older generation, and his wife must live in the principal room.

 

 The middle of three northern homes are the door out, called the TANGWU and both sides¡¯     door is opened to the TANGWU to form a suite, which composes a pattern of dark and light. TANGWU is the place where  relatives live and can used to hold amemorial ceremony for set up for the ancestors of the place, both sides are used to be bedrooms.

 

East and west sides of the bedroom is not the same, in polygamous system, the east is respective, where wife lived

the ear home in the east and west  can have  a  door  interlinked to the principal room, and can be generally used as a bedroom or  for study. The of East and West of the side rooms were lived by younger generation , side rooms is also a light and two dark, the middle one for the living room, on both sides for the bedroom.

The south side can also be  splited out to be the kitchen or restaurant. HOU ZHAO FANG - more than medium-sized courtyard   often built  military room floor cover, mainly  lived by unmarried woman or  maids.