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Geography of Wangmu County

Buyi footstools

The footstools with unique structure, exquisite modeling and strong national characteristics are one of the architectural cultures of the Buyi people's residence in Wangmu County. There are two types of footstools in the design of the houses, one is 12 meters long and 8 meters wide, and the area of the lowest floor is only 24 square meters due to the elevated slope, and the area of the second floor, which is widened by the side of the mountain, is 72 square meters, so that the total area of the houses reaches 96 square meters. This kind of building is divided into 4 rows of standing rooms. This type of building is divided into 4 rows of standing room, each row with 11 columns, of which the center column is 5.6 meters high. The other type is 12 meters long, 10 meters wide, building an area of 120 square meters, each row with 13 columns, the middle column is 5.93 meters high, whether it is 11 columns or 13 columns, its two sides of the arrangement of the head of the columns in order to reduce the 17 centimeters.

Buyi customs

Buyi people live in villages on flat dams or near river valleys, and both men and women like to wear blue, blue, black, white and other multi-colored cloth clothing. The young and strong men mostly wear head scarves, short clothes with lapels (or long shirts with big lapels) and long pants. Older people mostly wear short or long shirts with lapels. Women's costumes vary from place to place, some wear blue and black pleated long skirts, some like to embroider flowers on their clothes, and some like to wrap their heads with white towels. Buyei Salt-Water Surface

Buyei handmade salt-water surface produced in Wangmu County Shitun Township Baoshu Village and Paradise Township Qiaodai Village is not only a noodle specialty of the Buyei people but also a characteristic noodle rich in local culture, and the 20,000 kilograms of salt-water surface products produced here every year are sold to markets in various parts of the county and neighboring counties.

Buyi glutinous food

Buyi package of zongbao is unique, the first package of zongbao leaves washed and dried in the sun, and then a handful of glutinous cereal grass burned into ash into the glutinous rice, add an appropriate amount of salt and lard, hand mixing, and then a few kilograms of pork or fat cut into a long 10 centimeters, 5 centimeters wide, there are chopsticks thick, with salt and grass-fruit powder, or put the scent of Chinese flagstaff into a boiled rice beans. Each zongbao wrapped with two zongbao leaves, inside put on 2 two glutinous rice, in the middle of a piece of fat meat or rice beans, wrapped up with glutinous grain grass bundled 4 ways, each way spaced 15 cm, cut off the leaves on the long put, with a cauldron to cook can be eaten.