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The traditional building techniques of Li architecture are embodied in the thatched houses, and the thatched houses in the village are the boat-shaped houses which are very typical of Li dwellings. Nowadays, there are not many thatched houses in the entire Li area, and Bai Cha is the most well-preserved village. Boat-shaped houses Boat-shaped houses are the crystallization of thousands of years of construction of the Li people, simple materials, but very sophisticated, incorporating the many architectural wisdom of the Li people. The overall appearance of the house is like an upside-down boat. The thatched roof is a boat-shaped house, long and wide, with low eaves, which is good for wind and rain protection. The house is divided into front and back two sections, the door to the two ends, thatched roof in the middle of the three tall pillars, Li called "Gogu", "Gogu" symbolizes the man, the two sides of the six short pillars, Li called "Goding "The six short pillars on either side of the house are called "Goding" in Li, which symbolizes a woman, i.e. a house is composed of a man and a woman. Inside the house is a mud floor, the villagers dug back clay from outside, paved the ground, poured water on it, stepped on the ground with both feet, dried the ground in the sun or dried the ground, and so on for many times, the ground is very flat and hard. The boat-shaped houses of the Li ethnic group are like the hanging footstools of the Miao family and the bamboo buildings of the Dai ethnic group in Yunnan, all of which are traditional buildings of ethnic minorities. Southeast of the village, is the village centralized barn, barn to the base of the foundation stone, hanging on the ground, used for moisture, rodent-proof, in the foundation stone above the vertical and horizontal frame square wood, laying wooden boards for the barn floor. At the top, a round beam is set up, and the roof is made of bamboo and wood, and thatched for rain protection. Inside and outside the barn with clay and mud burnt a layer, floor burnt a layer of 4 cm of mud, all play a role in sealing. Fire prevention is the key to thatched roof, in the village, adults go out with water or grass ash, put out the fire. Once the fire, immediately hit the gong, hear the gong, someone nearby if you do not come back to put out the fire, in accordance with the village rules and regulations of the people punished three hundred, that is, one hundred pounds of rice, one hundred pounds of wine, one hundred pounds of meat. This seems to be a kind of village rules and regulations of Bai Cha village, but in fact, it is a kind of culture of ethnic minorities. In Bai Cha village, the traditional Li culture has been inherited. In the village, you can see old women weaving Li brocade, which is a rarely seen weaving method nowadays - tie-dyeing, in which the threads are tied up and then dyed. You can also see women making Shanlan rice wine, which has been preserved here as a tradition of growing and brewing its own orchids. There are also Li water crossing gourds, a form of transportation that is very rare. It is said that when people cross the river, they take off their clothes and put them into the gourd, and then seal the mouth, while the people carry the gourd across the river. The origin of Baicha Village: According to legend, the ancestors of seven villages in Jiangbian Township, such as Baicha, Guojie, Tiantou, Nanlong, Ocha, Gangou, and Nawen, originally lived in the area of Tianchi on the Jianfengling Mountain, and more than 100 years ago, there was a kind of flying insect called "Baifengcrackle" in Li language which stung a lot of people to death, and they migrated to Gong'ai Township of Dongfang City, and then a part of the people moved to Baicha Village to reside. Later, some of them moved to live in Baicha Village. Baicha Village is called "Beiqiao" in Mei Foo dialect, and the word "Bei" in Li language is a muddy field with water, and the word "Beiqiao" is a thick-barked tree, and at that time, there was a muddy field with water beside the village, and a lot of thick-barked trees were growing in the vicinity of this field, so they started a new name. At that time, there was a watery mud field near the village and there were many thick-barked trees growing near the mud field, so they named the village "Bie Qiao", which means thick-barked trees near the mud field, and "Bai Cha" is the phonetic translation of the Li language.

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