In farmers' hometown, there are many open ditches not only around new houses, but also near old houses. It can be said that the open ditch is an indispensable "supporting facility" around every household. In the past, the farmer's hometown was a tile house, and an open ditch was carefully built around it. There is usually no water, but in some heavy rains, ditches will work.

Just dripping for the eaves. It has two functions. Houses in this country usually have no rainwater pipes. Rain dripped from the eaves. Over time, a small hole will fall down, so people usually leave a little ground in front of the house, and then dig out the roots of the house with mud and broken bricks, so that the house will not get wet. When there is a neighborhood conflict, people will not let your roof fall into other people's homes. What can you do? You can't always follow the basin. Of course, houses in rural areas now generally have rainwater pipes.

But the tradition of being out of water still exists. To be clear, the construction planning of rural and mountain farmers in plain areas is different. In rural areas in plain areas, because of the large land area and flat terrain, most villagers build houses in rows, which are uniform and adjacent to each other. In addition to roads, there is no gap between the front and the back, and there is no idle land. The courtyard is separated by courtyard walls.

In remote mountainous rural areas, most villages are built on hillsides because there is almost no land. In addition, because most houses, land, slopes and other non-arable land belong to wasteland, the benchmark area of homestead is larger and it also occupies a more practical area. Instead of building farm houses in plain areas, we stand together. There is no adjacent free zone between neighbors. Depending on the terrain, there are less open spaces and more open spaces.

In remote mountainous rural areas, because of uneven land, villagers generally choose their own location and land to build houses, and then apply for approval to build houses. Moreover, most villagers build houses in wasteland, and the standard of residential area on sloping land is relatively large, which is intended to expand the actual use area. For example, if the application area is 3 points, the actual occupied area can reach 3.5 points or 4 points. The single-family houses around the house are very big, surrounded by deserts, and there is no collective use. So families basically have the freedom to use it. For example, it doesn't matter if cowshed, pigsty, henhouse and open-air vegetable field are built outside the homestead. Village cadres don't care about other villagers.