The strangest thing about Daoyun Building is that its architecture is a gossip layout: the building is Tai Chi, and two public wells around the building symbolize "two instruments" (commonly known as "yin and yang fish"); The house is surrounded by three sides, picturesque; Cheng and the ditch in the house contain the combination of yin and yang. Other structures are often multiples of 8, such as 16 skylight, 32 wells, 72 rooms, 1 12 ladder. No matter from which angle, Daoyun Building is quite beautiful. First, it has a large and regular overall beauty; Second, it has the beauty of symmetrical structure; Third, there is a uniform beauty in the corridor of the circular building; The other is the beauty of carved beams and painted buildings: there are murals, gray carvings, pebbles and the doorsteps inscribed in gold by calligraphers of Nanjing Ritual Department in Ming Dynasty. Especially in the whole building, buildings, bungalows, patios, halls, ventilation, lighting, water collection, planting flowers and grass are unified and orderly. * * * isomorphism has become the beauty of the living environment. Daoyun Building is well preserved. After 400 years of wind and rain, it benefits from its solid and reasonable architectural structure and many scientific and reasonable buildings, which has some enlightenment for modern architectural construction.
It is understood that the wall foundation of Daoyun Building is only paved with two layers of blue bricks on the ground, and the wall is compacted with raw soil. It will last for hundreds of years, and its durability is better than today's cement sand. A major earthquake occurred in Chaoshan 80 years ago, and countless buildings nearby collapsed. Only a few houses in the building are inclined and cracked, which shows the structural cohesion and cohesive force of raw soil; Using bamboo nails instead of iron nails, so far no beams have been eaten by insects; Although the households are opposite, the doors are not opposite; The eight corners of the building point to the gap between the mountain and the peak; There are four private wells under the boundary wall of two families, half of which can draw water; Yin-yang sulcus has been unobstructed for hundreds of years. Functionally, there is a water injection culvert at the top of the building door to prevent the door from burning (the ancient city door may not have this facility), and there are gun holes on the wall. Therefore, it has the overall "eight defenses" function of preventing animal harm, bandits, soldiers and earthquakes.
In addition to other earth buildings, the layout of Daoyun Building has primary and secondary points on the central axis, and in the second half of the building, that is, the ring roads on both sides in front of the ancestral temple, it is rising step by step, forming a top-ranking pattern, further strengthening the distinction between honor and inferiority; Many large buildings in China face south, and this one faces north. The doors of the earth building enclosure are mostly inward (towards the building), and this one is outward. As a historical, cultural and folk tourist attraction, it attracts many experts, scholars and tourists.