Ancient Chinese Houses for Kids - what did people make their houses of? Did they sleep on beds? Did they sit at tables?

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Chinese houses. pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Any of several chiefly Californian plants of the genus Collinsia, especially C. heterophylla, which has several widely spaced ...

Overseas Chinese Houses Eclectic Architecture in Southeast Asia and Southeast China Text by Ronald G. Knapp and Photographs by A. Chester Ong Tuttle Publishing Winter 2009

Chinese houses pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Any of several chiefly Californian plants of the genus Collinsia, especially C

Chinese houses almost always consist of an odd number of bays; an even number of bays is considered unlucky. Therefore, three- or five- bay houses are common.

Collinsia heterophylla (syn. C. bicolor) is a flowering plant native to California and Baja California. It is known as Purple Chinese Houses or Innocence.

A fact sheet on Chinese Houses,Collinsia heterophylla including a detailed description of the plant, its growing conditions, history, folklore, medicinal uses, etc.