"This house was demolished this year, and the government subsidized 100,000 yuan per household to build it." Seeing that I was photographing the old house, my brother-in-law said.
This courtyard house was built in the 1980s, 40 years ago, civil structure, there is a porch in front of the house, the house is load-bearing by wooden beams and wooden columns (four beams and eight columns), the roof is double-sloped, the beams are nailed with wooden rafters, paved with grass mats, and the grass mats are covered with a layer of soil and then a layer of mud, and the conditions will be covered with tiles to prevent rain; the wall is adobe masonry, commonly known as "adobe house".
My brother-in-law's house is 40 years old and is still inhabited
Adobe houses and courtyards are common in the Great Northwest. The wood used to build the house is mostly local poplar or pine, the roof mat is woven with mustard grass, and the adobe is poured by itself with a mold, which is very economical to build this kind of house. Ancestors have basically built this way, the technology is very mature, and it basically does not need drawings to build. Because the heat transfer performance of soil is much lower than that of brick and concrete, adobe houses do not need to be insulated to have the natural advantage of warm in winter and cool in summer.
Courtyards of such adobe houses are common in the northwest
Now the houses are all reinforced concrete structures. Living conditions are getting better and better, coupled with the acceleration of the urbanization process and the advancement of the government's construction of new rural areas, people no longer build adobe houses.
In recent years, the new countryside has required centralized construction, and the construction is a row or back-to-back two-story small building, with a construction area of about 80 to 120 square meters, and the land saved has become an increased arable land.
The government gave my brother-in-law a new rural house planned and designed by their village, a two-family building with a construction area of about 100 square meters
I came out of the countryside, and now I live in the provincial city, living on the ninth floor; the day before yesterday, the child was playing jump rope in the living room, and the bald neighbor on the seventh floor came up, according to his description, "the whole building is shaking", and "invited" me to go down and feel it. [Nose picking]
I still miss the courtyard where I once lived.
In the past, the courtyard was relatively large. When I was a child, my family's front yard and backyard had 2 acres of land, covering an area of about 1300 square meters; when it was rebuilt in the 1990s, the village approved three points of the front yard and two points of the back yard, covering an area of more than 330 square meters, and the courtyard was still built. Coupled with the open space in the front and back of the courtyard, there are 500 square meters.
Schematic diagram of the courtyard
This generous courtyard house, sitting north to south, open to the mountain is Qilian Mountain, neither worry about light and ventilation, but also grounded, but also do not hinder others. Plant flowers in the courtyard, plant fruit trees in front of the courtyard, plant vegetables in the back of the yard, there are eggplant, spicy seeds, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, leeks...
The almond tree in front of my aunt's house is at least half a century old
Look at us now, lazily living in high-rise cages stacked in reinforced concrete, helplessly bearing the harm of vegetables, fruits and grains soaked with pesticides, and being ridiculed by vegetable farmers: "The people in the city are terrible, and they can't die!" I only took the medicine in the morning. ”
High-rise cage stacked in reinforced concrete
Of course, the current courtyard in the countryside is not something you can build if you want to. 1.8 billion arable land is the red line, and the average person is three points per mu is the bottom line.
Young people still like to live in the city, after all, it is easy to find a job, easy to find a partner, and convenient to shop.
City "Back-to-back Villas"
City "Townhouses"
Everyone wants to live in a villa, live in a courtyard, today's city has long been unable to accommodate a courtyard, only a very few people can afford to live back-to-back or row of "villas". With the process of urbanization and the concentrated construction of small villas in new rural areas, in another 20 to 30 years, the courtyards in rural areas may become a scarce resource.
I think it's not that there are too many people, it's that the earth is a little smaller and more crowded.