Ancient China Topic: Housing
Wealthier people had elaborately carved tables and storage chests.
Chinese people made houses from wood, bamboo, brick, and tile.
The courtyard of the farm house was needed to thresh and dry grain and vegetables.
They used stilts to protect dampness and rats from their food.
Several farming families lived in a large shareable house and worked in the fields together.
Chinese people make roofs with tiles because they knew that evil spirits go in a straight line and the curved tile roofs kept them away.
Some of the non-wealthy people lived in one room huts.
Decorated screens, beautiful fabric wall hangings, and woolen carpets were found in large homes.
Barns and a buncha other buildings surrounded a farmhouse. Storage rooms were made on stilts.
People either sat or knelt on mats or the carpets. There were no chairs.
In the cities, poorer families lived in crowded conditions with a shop on the ground floor.
Adults and children usually slept on mats from rushes or padded material with wooden headrests rather than pillows.
Wealthy families had large and comfortable houses with rooms and fireplaces and a wall around it.
