Always one room short: As for the high-rise apartment complexes which emphasize a central garden and courtyard and security walls around the outside being pushed by construction companies everywhere you look, are these modern versions of the ho-yuan, or just the old buildings pulled up a few more stories?
總是少一間？至於時下建商如雨後春筍般推出強調中庭花園、安全防衛的高樓住宅組群，是不是合院的現代變貌，還只是把樓層拉高了呢？