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What is the relationship between folklore and architecture?
Folk custom is a big concept compared with architecture. Among them, compared with the folk custom of architecture, it can be said that in the old days (before the fifties and sixties), it was a restriction on architectural design. If a building breaks the restrictions of folk customs, it will suffer from the saliva of more and more people. Because the folklore about architecture is a lesson accumulated and summarized by ancestors in hundreds of years of life. For example, the house needs lighting, but it needs to keep out the cold in winter and prevent heatstroke in summer, so the windows are not too big. Others compared houses to human heads, and windows were like human eyes. A person's eyes are too big. First, it is easy to get lost in windy and dusty days. Second, people with big eyes are morbid (thyroid diseases). It is very taboo for the existing French windows and bay windows. There are many folk customs that have evolved into the concept of Feng Shui. If the number of rooms in the house is even, it cannot be even. The height of the house in the west can't exceed the height of the house in the east. There should be no ponds, running water (dragons falling into the water) and so on on the right or east side of the house. Many of these folk customs are gradually broken by young designers in modern architecture. However, the room layout of many buildings is not good. For example, ancestors advocated that housing should be well-defined. Now the apartment with missing corners and irregular geometric figures have become the proud works of designers. This needs the life practice of several generations to verify whether the folk customs about architecture should be observed.