Recently people found that in Anhui Province, a plane view of a boat-shaped housing complex was a symbol for letter "Gui" , symbolic of family prosperity. "Gui" is a vertical philosophy symbol as reaching the sky. It is very rare to use a vertical symbol in place of a horizontal symbol in Chinese residential architecture.
From the north to the south, Chinese wood carving window frame for residential house vary a great deal. However, its theme remains the same at all time. In Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui and northern Shanxi, folk artists created a variety of decorative animal figures and folk stories in wood carving window frames, with superb craftsmanship, which, coupled with a wide range of brick carving and stone carving art works, forms a complete folk fine art series in residential architecture.
