Ethnic minority dwellings, ethnic minority houses

The Qiang nationality is an ancient ethnic group in China's national family, with a population of more than 200,000, living in the upper reaches of the Min River, concentrated in Wenchuan County, Li County, Mao County and other places in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan. Their customs, clothing, architecture, etc., all have distinct ethnic and regional colors. In particular, the houses with stone as the main building material are unique.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, we set off from Dujiangyan. The car drove down the winding road and took us into Wenchuan County.

The car drove out of the county seat to the north for more than 30 kilometers, and after crossing a suspension bridge, we entered the Qiang people's village.

The walls made of stones, the wooden houses on the walls, and the paths paved with small stones form a world of stones, which makes me, the people who come from the yellow earth, feel new and interesting.

The Qiang people like to build villages in river valleys or halfway up mountains with water sources. The buildings of the Qiang people used to be stone watchtowers, like blockhouses. Nowadays, the Qiang people's houses are village houses, with two floors, the upper floor stores grain, and the lower floor lives people.

Stepping on the cobblestone path, entering the village, watching the lively villagers tightly surround, looking at these people with "long guns and short cannons" with curious eyes. Our camera is aimed at the stone house, and also at the hospitable Qiang girl who is the owner of the stone house.

The stone wooden houses, the stone paths, the Qiang girls dressed in gorgeous national costumes, the orange-red pumpkins stacked on the skylight soil platform, and the yellow and clear buns hanging all over the roof, constitute a beautiful scenery of the Qiang village.

At lunchtime, we were guests of the Qiang family. Although the stone houses were dimly lit, the hospitality of the Qiang people made us forget all the discomfort. After a while, the hostess actually made eight dishes for us and brought out mellow barley wine.

Every Qiang family has the habit of drinking, they go into the city to buy more than 100 catties of barley wine at a time, fill a huge plastic bucket, add rock sugar and wolfberry to the wine, and drink two or three cups at each meal. Drinking the barley wine of the Qiang family, we deeply felt the enthusiasm and sincerity of the Qiang people.

Although the Qiangzhai Spring Bridge is remote, backward and hard, it is not desolate; The stone house, although simple and monotonous, is not cold. Because there is a sincere interaction between people here.

I am from the Zhuang tribe, and our Zhuang houses are all made of wood. Roof cover tiles. It is divided into three layers, the upper middle and the lower layer, the lower layer raises poultry, the middle lives people, and the top puts things.

The houses of the Dong people are similar to those of the Zhuang people. Since the south is humid and hot, people live as far away from the ground as possible, so we live on the second floor. The Dai people's houses are one-storey, but they also elevate their houses away from the ground, and their houses are mostly made of bamboo, which are relatively small, and the roofs are covered with straw or coconut leaves.

The Buyi people live in bai

According to the distribution area of the DU, there are several types of houses in the form of the Buyi people. Generally, there are two-storey buildings, but there are also grass houses or tiled houses, half-floor houses and bungalows with double slope roofs. A small number of villages in Badake in Luoping County today still retain the architectural form of the three-storey buildings of the Buyi people in the past, that is, the ground floor raises livestock, the middle floor houses people, and the upper floor stores things.

Most of the half-buildings are built on the slope of the mountain, some of the back half are bungalows, and the first half is a building; Some are bungalows on the right half and buildings on the left. Some areas also retain balconies for drying crops or clothes on the south or front and back sides of houses with local specialty wind-tailed bamboo, which is very similar to the Dai area. The building materials are obtained from the nearest source, and the local thatch, bamboo, fir and pine wood are generally used to build the cover.

The Buyi residences of the Hong and Yide brigades in Niujie Commune use more natural sand and stone by the river to cut into rectangular large stone brick walls, which are not only labor-saving and material-saving, but also beautiful and applicable. Before liberation, most of the working people of the Buyi nationality lived in simple thatched houses, and only a very small number of wealthy families built tiled houses. After the liberation, almost all the Buyi people in this area built new tiled houses, and the livestock pens were also rebuilt near the houses, changing the unhygienic conditions of mixed living of people and animals.

The characteristic houses of the Dai people in Zhulou are built of wood.

The Miao dwellings in the Miaoling Mountains have unique interior decoration. On the second floor of the stilted building, the hall is usually empty. In the two rooms, at the junction of the ground and the floor, the front and back rooms are separated by wood.

Some have ancestral shrines on the east wall of the hall or on the board wall of the east room. Many people's homes, on the wall of the board with the white paper cut into the sun, the moon and a number of small mountain god patterns, people call it "Bao Ye", the god is the spiritual object of the disaster.