What are the national characteristics of Wa folk architecture?

The Wa folk houses are Wa folk buildings. The form of the houses varies from place to place. Generally, most of them are grass and wood buildings, with the upper house housing people and the lower floor housing animals. Inside the house, there are three fire pits: the main fire pit, the guest fire pit and the ghost fire pit. The main fire pit is used for cooking, the guest fire pit is used to make fodder for livestock and poultry, and the ghost fire pit is used exclusively for sacrifices. Some people hang a lot of cow skulls with horns on the wall to show off their wealth, forming a special indoor decorative custom.

The southern part of the Lancang River and the Nushan Mountain Range, where the Wa people live, is characterized by mountain ranges and is known as the A Wa Mountainous Region. It is within the Tropic of Cancer and has a subtropical climate with abundant rainfall. The Wa ancestors migrated and settled here more than 600 years ago and prospered.

The housing of the Wa is different in each region. In areas where the Han influence is strong, there are usually grass and wood houses with four walls on the ground, as well as grass houses with earth walls and individual tile houses. In most Wa areas, the structure and shape of the houses are similar to those of the Dai, and the building materials are bamboo (bamboo canes, bamboo poles, bamboo sheets, bamboo gimlets, etc.) and grass (thatch, rafters, spine sandals, wooden boards, etc.). The top of the wooden columns to retain the branches of the tree, used to support the beams, beams on the support of some thin bamboo, and then covered with thatch, built into a hollow "bamboo building.

The villagers of Wengding Village in Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, are all of Wa ethnicity, and the village is built on a gentle hilltop in the mountains. The houses are built according to the topography of the mountain, distributed randomly, without consistent orientation, and the thorn bushes formed by years of natural growth have become the fence of the village. At the intersection of the village, there is a bamboo gate, and near the village, there are dense bamboo forests and sufficient water sources, as well as well-protected forests for worshiping gods and goddesses. Inside the fortress are the traditional Wa dwellings, the "four-walled floor-to-ceiling houses", in which three logs with long branches are used as post and beams, and straight thin wooden strips are used as rafters, which are covered with pre-woven rows of thatched grasses and secured with rattan ties. The four walls were made of bamboo gabions and a door was opened to the east. The roof of the house to the eaves of the slope is large, the eaves of the house is less than 1 meter from the ground, almost see the wall, to the tiger window (a kind of skylight on the roof) light, and set up a small sundeck, the local people imaginatively referred to as the "chicken cage cover room".

The room is generally divided into two rooms, the inner room is small, dark, is the master's bedroom, only put a double bed and a small part of the daily necessities. The outer room is wide and is a place for cooking, gathering and entertaining guests, and for children to sleep.