Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - South Anhui, yurts, Tujia hammock where respectively

South Anhui, yurts, Tujia hammock where respectively

South Anhui: South Anhui, including Huizhou, Ningguo, Chizhou, Taiping, Guangdezhou, refers to the area south of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, covering an area of about 36,500 square kilometers, with a population of about 9.97 million.

Yurt: The yurt is a kind of house where Mongolian herders live, suitable for pastoral production and nomadic life. The yurt is spacious and comfortable, and is made of special wooden frame as "hana" (fence support of the yurt), surrounded by two to three layers of woolen felt, and then tied with horsehair or camel's hair twisted into a rope, and the top of it is made of "uunai" as a support and covered with "bulehs". The top is supported by the "Unai" and covered with "Bules" to give it the shape of a canopy. Its rounded spire with a skylight "Tao brain", covered with a quadrilateral piece of wool felt "Uri Ho", ventilation, light, easy to build, but also easy to dismantle and move, suitable for rotating pasture to go to the field to live.

Tujia hammock: most of the Tujia people live in the steep mountain slopes, due to the relationship between this terrain, housing, more than the form of hammock. At both ends of the residence, four wooden pillars, along the hillside of the direction of the wooden frame, in the height of the ground level with the main house on the cross-wood, covered with wooden planks, three sides of the board wall or wooden corridor installed half-loading platform to grass or cedar bark for the canopy, downstairs on all sides are empty, can be used as a pile of fertilizers, but also can be used as temporary tethering of livestock, the upstairs is generally a girl's children to do shoes, embroidery, or a place to cool off. Mostly in: Guibei, western Hunan, western Hubei, and southeastern Guizhou.