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East five-profaned Before visiting the control house, we’d better stop to look at Yangzhou fire-proof lane. A fire-proof lane is a narrow passageway in the residence of the rich. According to need a fire-proof lane may separate one house from another or connect one with another and it is also five-proof or guards against robbery. It is also required of by feudal morality, social status and personal communications. For example, if servants female dependents and guests wanted to go to back garden, they had to pass through fire-proof lane and were not permitted to pass through chambers in the hall. The Huang’s fire-proof lane is wider than that of common people’s house. On its two sides stand high wall and big house in picturesque disorder. It is built with grey bricks unadorned put is looks simple and has an air of great antiquity with marked local feature and is different from that in south. In south, fire-proof lane is thin and is white washed or black-ash washed. It is named as an exit lane. Yangzhou‘s fire-proof lane has a better ventilation and lighting with movable cover where as the fire-proof lane in south is relatively narrow with dark because the upper cover is almost tight.
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