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In the past, the stilted building was generally covered with thatch or cedar bark, and there were also those covered with stone slabs, and the stilted building was mostly covered with mud tiles, and because of the exquisite location, the construction of the Tujia stilted building was a major event in the life of the Tujia people.

First of all, we must prepare all the wood, the Tujia people call it "cutting Qingshan", generally choose the Tsubaki tree or the wood catalpa tree (black tree), because the homonym of "Tsubaki" and "Zi" is "spring" and "son", which means auspicious, which means that spring often arrives, and the descendants are prosperous;

The second step is to process the girder and column material, the Tujia people call it "frame size", and they also have to draw patterns such as gossip, Tai Chi, lotus and lotus seeds on the beam;

The third process is called "row fan", which is to connect the processed beams and columns to the tenon and arrange them into wooden fans;

The fourth step is the "Standing House Column", which is a very important step. The owner wants to choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, ask the neighbors to help, before the beam to sacrifice the beam, and then everyone works together to erect rows of wooden fans, at this time, firecrackers sound in unison, and the neighbors send gifts to congratulate. After the pillars of the standing house are nailed rafters, tiles, and slab walls.

Wealthy families also decorate the eaves on the roof, and carve dragons and phoenixes under the porch holes.

Because it is suspended on three sides, all are called "stilted buildings".

The most basic feature is that the main house is built on the ground, except for one side of the wing house that is connected to the main house by the ground, the other three sides are suspended and supported by pillars. Hanging feet.

Stilted building - Chinese painting Tan Hongjing works (5 photos) The floor has many benefits, the high hanging ground is not only ventilated and dry, but also can prevent poisonous snakes and beasts, and sundries can also be placed under the floor slab. The stilted building also has distinctive national characteristics, and the elegant "silk eaves" and the wide "walking railing" make the stilted building unique. This kind of stilted building is more successful in getting rid of primitiveness than "Liangan", and has a higher cultural level, and is called the "living fossil" of Bachu culture.

It is a traditional mountain building with typical ecological adaptability characteristics built in combination with the ecological characteristics of the local mountains, such as steep mountains, more wood and less soil, humid and rainy, hot summer and cold winter, and it is also the specific physical carrier of various cultural orientations such as Tujia folk customs and artistic aesthetics. It is hidden in the mountains of Xuan'en County, Enshi Prefecture, Western Hubei Province.

Taking the stilted buildings in Pengjiazhai in western Hubei Province as an example, on the basis of building field surveying and mapping, this paper describes the unique and beautiful traditional architectural form of Tujia stilted buildings from the perspectives of building site selection, spatial layout, construction technology and cultural inheritance.

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