Abstract:Traditional dwellings in Lishui have the advantages of being large in number and well-preserved. However, the current academic researches on the traditional dwellings in Lishui are mostly focused on the fields of rural revitalization, the activation of ancient villages and the reconstruction of old buildings, and there are few research achievements on the plane of the hall of dwellings. As one of the most important aspects of the design system of regionalization and pedigree research timber frame in the south of the Yangtze river, this paper taking the hall of traditional dwellings as the main research object, discusses the function, shape, composition, width and depth of the hall through field investigation, historical data textual research, typology, qualitative and quantitative analysis and other research methods, and summarizes the formal characteristics of the plane of traditional residential halls in Lishui.