Decoration of the Bai People's Houses

All buildings of the Bai people, including ordinary houses, are decorated with exquisite carvings and paintings.

Wood carvings are mostly used in the lattice door, horizontal pi, board train, playing head, hanging pillar and other parts of the building. The wood carvings of grass, flying dragons, bats, rabbits, and various animal and plant motifs are stylized in a variety of ways, and are used freely. There are a lot of symbolic meaning, such as the golden lion hanging hydrangea, unicorn looking at the banana, phoenix with pearl, autumn chrysanthemum peace and other interesting pattern works. Bai wood carvers are also particularly good at making exquisite three to five layers of transparent carving, multi-layered landscape figures, birds, flowers, insects and fish are expressed vividly.

Painted walls are also a major feature of the architectural decoration of the Bai people. Brick columns and bricks of the wall are brushed grey hook joints, the heart of the wall whitewash, the eaves painted with different widths, decorated with colorful decorative bands. With a variety of geometric shapes arranged in the flower space for birds, flowers, landscapes, calligraphy and other literati paintings, showing a fresh and elegant mood.

Decorative gatehouse can illustrate a comprehensive performance of the Bai architectural patterns. Generally use the temple modeling, flying eaves and corners, and then clay, wood carvings, paintings, stone carvings, marble screen, convex flower bricks and other combinations of colorful three-dimensional patterns, appearing to be rich and magnificent, without losing the overall style of simple and generous.

The Bai people emphasize the elegance and cleanliness of the residential environment. Most people's patios are generally built with flower beds, planted with a few camellia, katsura, danggui, pomegranate, rafters and other trees and fruit trees. Orchids and other potted flowers are placed along the edges of the flower beds or in the eaves. Planting flowers and loving flowers is a traditional virtue of the Bai people.