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Question1: What are the typical Chinese houses?

Answer:

1. "Li" means neighborhoods, "Long" means lanes. These two words combine to describe an urban housing form which characterizes the city of Shanghai. Indissociable from the growth of Shanghai from 1840s to 1949, lilong settlements still comprise the majority of housing stock in the city center today.

2. A yaodong is a dugout used as an abode or shelter in China. Yaodongs are common in north China, especially on the Loess Plateau (黄土高原). The history of yaodongs goes back centuries, and they continue to be used.

3. A tulou or “earthen building”, is a traditional communal residence in the Fujian province of southern China, usually of a circular configuration (构造) surrounding a central shrine. These vernacular (本地的) structures were occupied by clan groups.