欲说九井十八厅

闽粤赣边客家地区的基本型民居，是一种被称作“九井十八厅”或“九厅十八井”单元组合式大宅子。它是从最小建筑单元——“一明两暗”发展起来。文章比较了这类民居在闽粤赣边地区的异同。分析了它们的特征，指出了其建筑文化的精髓来自古代中原，并认为“九井十八厅”是概言其多之意，不必拘泥其准确的“井”或“厅”数。

On nine wells and eighteen halls

The basic style residence of Hakkas at the edge of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Province, is large composed house called Nine Wells and Eighteen Halls or Nine Halls and Eighteen Wells. This article illustrates the large composed house comes from the smallest architecture section, that is One Brightness and Two Darkness. Simultaneously, this article compares the differences of the large composed house with the other house at the edge of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi province, explains their characteristics and feature, points out that the marrow of its architecture culture comes from that of Zhong Yuan Ancient Times, and considers that Nine Wells and Eighteen Halls represent the multiplicity of the houses, don't mean the definite number of wells or halls.