What other ethnic minorities still live in triangular-shaped houses?

Oroqen "slanting Yanzhu"

The Oroqen people in the Great and Small Hinggan Mountains are one of the least populated ethnic groups in China, and they have been living by hunting and migrating frequently, which has led to the formation of a unique culture of living. Oroqen people live in two kinds of ways: sleeping in the open air and living in the house. In order to adapt to the life of living by wild animals, they formed the traditional dwelling "Shiaorenzhu", "Xianrenzhu", commonly known as "handful of Luozi". "Shiren", Oroqen language, meaning "tree trunk", "column" is the premises, "Shiren column" that is "tree trunk support up the house", "is built by twenty or thirty sticks, winter covered with animal skin, summer birch skin". (1"

"Slanting post" on the ground, the builders are mostly men, cutting tree trunks, build shelves, picking birch skin, cut reeds are men's affairs, women are only responsible for cooking birch skin, sewing elk skin enclosure and birch skin enclosure. With the cooperation of two or three people, a "Shirenju" can be built in about an hour. The first step is to build a frame, choosing thin, straight birch or willow poles for the support. The number and length of the poles depends on the size of the "Saganjinju", of which eight are used as the main poles, which are slightly thicker, with two branches at the top of each pole so that the other brackets can cross over each other on top. First of all, the eight main pole support into a conical shape, and then at the top of the set of wicker circles to be fixed. The second step is to cover the enclosure with birch bark in summer and roe deer skin in winter. A gap of more than ten centimeters is left at the top for ventilation, light and smoke. In the eastern Oroqen area, there is also the phenomenon of covering with artemisia grass in winter.

The door of "Shiaorenzhu" usually faces southeast or southwest. Inside, there are three sides for sleeping, and the center is a fireplace, where buckets and iron pots are placed to the left and right of the gate population, and birch buckets, leather clothes and saddles are stored behind the left and right bunks. The front bunk is called "Malu" and the idol of the god is hung on it. "Malu" is the male guests and the male owner of the unfinished business lives; the two sides of the bunk for other family members to live, the left side of the residence of the younger generation, the right side of the residence of the elders; unmarried women in the right side of the home by the door place to build another bunk. The "Malu" seat is the woman absolutely can not live

Each "oblique Yanzhu" is a family. The number of people in each family of Oroqen is generally less than seven, and the same "Shirenju" will not exceed three generations at most. There are about 20 clans in Oroqen, each clan is a settlement, with the development of population, the clan is divided into a number of sub-clans - "Wulileng". "Wulileng" means children and grandchildren, and a Wulileng is composed of a father's descendants and other relatives, including spouses, son-in-laws and adopted sons. The number of such a large family has a dozen, dozens of people ranging, living in a few "Shirenzhu".