The features of Huizhou architecture are mainly reflected in village houses, ancestral halls, archways and gardens. Its most distinctive style is a large number of traditional residential villages, which reflect Huizhou's mountain characteristics, geomantic will and regional beauty tendency from site selection, design, modeling, structure and layout to decoration and beautification. Huizhou ancient buildings are made of brick, wood and stone, with wooden frames as the main materials. The beam is made of huge materials and pays attention to decoration. The middle of its beam is slightly arched, so it is commonly known as "winter melon beam". Both ends are engraved with flat (Ming Dynasty) or round (Qing Dynasty) patterns, and the middle part is often engraved with various patterns, which makes the whole body look magnificent and magnificent. The material of the column is also quite thick, and the upper part is slightly thinner. The pillars of the Ming Dynasty were usually spindle-shaped. Liang Tuo, claw column, fork hand, Baquan, Queti (Ding Tou Arch in Ming Dynasty) and diagonal braces are engraved with patterns and lines. The ingenious combination and decoration of beam components make technology and artistic techniques integrate into one, and achieve a perfect and harmonious wonderful situation. Generally, the beam frame is painted with tung oil, without colored paint, which is particularly simple and elegant. Corners, patios, railings, lighting walls, leaking windows, etc. It is built by cutting bluestone, red sandstone or granite into stone strips and slabs, and the natural texture of the stone itself is often used to synthesize patterns. The walls are basically built with Xiaoqing bricks to the horse head wall.
Most villages in Huizhou are located in strict accordance with China's traditional geomantic rules, with beautiful mountains and rivers, pursuing ideal living environment and artistic conception of mountains and rivers, and are known as "villages in Chinese painting". Huizhou architecture format. The cloister around the courtyard of Huizhou residential houses uses wooden lattice windows to separate the space, which has the functions of lighting, ventilation, dust prevention, heat preservation and division of indoor and outdoor space. The lattice window consists of outer frame material, strip ring plate, skirt plate and lattice window core strip. The main forms are square (square, square, oblique square, mat pattern, etc. ), round (round mirror, crescent moon, ancient coins, sector, etc. ), glyph (cross, sub-word, Tian Zi, I-word, etc. ) and assorted flowers, animals, utensils, totems, etc. ). Grilled window patterns often use metaphors and homophones to express good luck. For example, "peace and happiness" is expressed by the homonym composed of vases and wishful patterns; "Longevity and longevity" is represented by longevity peach and Buddha hand print; "Four Seasons Peace" means putting Chinese rose flowers in vases; "Harvest of five grains" is a combination of ears of grain, bees and lanterns; "Fu Lushou" is represented by bats, deer and peaches. The lattice window also uses gauze, colored paper, bamboo curtain and other methods to increase indoor light transmission.