From long ago, Chinese houses kept the space was called "Ting" . This space was a living-room, a dining-room, a guest-room, or a main-hall. But after the revolution, "Ting" died out from the urban houses because the space was useless. At the end of the 1950s, "Ting" reappeared, at the time several families lived in a single house. Then,"Ting" was a pte hall. At the end of the 1970s, the function of the ting changed to the subspace of the public-space. The subspace was used for entrance-hall,living-room, dining-room, guest-room, or sub-bedroom.
