page_title: Hui Style architecture
section_title: Horse-Head Wall
hierarchical_section_title: Hui Style architecture / Architecture features / Horse-Head Wall
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context_page_description: Huizhou architecture is one of the traditional Chinese architecture styles, which prevailed mostly in the historical Huizhou prefecture of Anhui, China as a critical element of Huizhou culture. The architecture uses bricks, woods and stone as raw materials, timber frames as significant structures. The bearing structure is a wooden beam, and parapet walls are made of bricks, rocks, and soils. The central room is decorated with painted beams, sculpted roof, and carved eaves with skylights. The technical features and style of Hui-style architecture majorly occur in residential houses, ancestral temples, joss houses, archways, memorial gates, and gardens. The architecture reflects mountainous features of the area and a geomantic omen of traditional Chinese religions.
context_section_description: Horse-head wall referred to the wall which was between and higher than the two gable roof walls. Since its appearance was like a galloping horse, the wall was called horse-head wall. One of the main features of the Hui-style architectures was the broad range adoption of hose-like wall among the Hui-style architectures. Brick and wood were the main features of Hui-style architecture; while the main failure features of these architectures were the poor fire-proof performance. In ancient times, the firefighting was undeveloped. Once a building fired, it was straightforward that the nearby building burned. To prevent the spreading of fire, the ancient Huizhou residents created the Horse-like wall which could cut off fire effectively; just because of this, the horse-like wall was also known as fire seal wall.
  The height of the horse-head wall varied from high to low, and typically, it had the two-lap wall or three-lap wall. The horse-head wall had various types, such as the ‘Magpie Tail Type,’ the ‘Print Bucket Type,’ the ‘Sit Kiss Type’ and others. The ‘Magpie Tail Type’ referred to using the magpie tail shaped bricks as the corner of the horse-head wall. The ‘Print Bucket Type’ referred to using the bucket type bricks as the corner of the horse-head wall. Those bucket type bricks were fired from kiln printed with “卐.” The ‘Sit Kiss Type’ referred to using zoomorphic ornaments as the corner of the horse-head wall. All of these beautiful horse-head walls well symbolized the wisdom of ancient Huizhou people, as well as the characteristic feature of Hui-style architecture.
caption: Horse-like Wall
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