Architecture of Jiangxi

Traditional residences in Liukeng village of Le'an County, in Jiangxi Province.

Architecture of Jiangxi refers to the traditional masonry houses, residential compounds, monuments, and academies built in Jiangxi Province of East China.

Residential architecture

Jiangxi residential architecture is renowned for its exterior and interior design, relating to the surrounding context and settings by using Fengshui principles.

The traditional houses still preserved in Jiangxi were mostly built during the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty. These buildings are characterized by gables of dark bricks, with white lines under eaves, covered by black tiles. They are often elaborately decorated by wood, stone and brick carvings, ink painting, clay sculpture, and sometimes Nuoxi elements.

Historical monuments

Important historical monuments built in Jiangxi in the traditional styles include ancestral shrines, Shuyuan (Confucian) academies, and paifang (memorial arches).

Ancestral halls and shrines

Pavilion

City Wall

Others

See also

References

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