Qiang: stone towers

Qin Xian Gong Tu "three seedlings", Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty by the Qiang, Qiang people from the Hequ Cao Tan south of the Minjiang River, one after another, the historical lens launched the River Source Polar Forest of Qiang stone towers. Today, the face of these towers into the clouds, overlooking the stone wall of the mysterious building, we can still capture the year "Qiang tube ghostly frost all over the ground, the general white hair and tears of the conscripts," the scene.

Stone towers, Ran sailing language called Dengcang, Dang Xiang language called Kulang. Against the cold, defense against intrusion, as well as the inexhaustible stone of the Minshan peaks and valleys, so that those who wore cloud shoes, with the green Qiang people as well as their forefathers were uniquely placed to build in the land of China is different from other nationalities of the distinctive residence. The history of the Qiang people is summarized in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty (后汉书). Southwest barbarians biography" of a kind of history, living in the county Ranchi, Gogi these people and today's Qiang people have had a source of flow of relations between the ancestors and the then Xishan eighteen tribes are living in the stone towers, projected, said that the generation of these stone towers for more than 2,000 years is not too long. And "Huayang Guozhi" recorded these residents living in stone towers in the summer and fall how to Shu as a servant, playing wells and river weirs, selling peppers and apples agricultural products, winter and spring to return to their hometown to avoid the cold, stone towers, recorded Qiang people hard work, hard work, the history of simplicity, but also demonstrated their unique and superb architectural art, so that they have a unique in the history of China's architectural history. Most of the existing stone towers were built in the Qing Dynasty, built with unpolished stone blocks, high ten text more than ten zhang ranging from independent vertical, tapered to the high altitude development and extension, after thousands of years of wind and rain and earthquakes do not collapse not oblique. Viewed from afar, towers lined up, like an ancient fort adjoining, as if to tell visitors about its changes.

Qiangjia stone towers from the outside looking at octagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal or quadrangular. Wall with irregular stone and mud repair. The bottom of the wall is about one meter thick, the top of the sharp corner of the former standing. Internal five to eleven layers, each layer with a log for the beam, dense paved tree trunks, tree technology, fill soil tamping, and then laying wooden boards for the surface. Each floor has a wooden ladder up and down, the bottom of the circle of livestock, the second floor above the bedroom, storeroom, the top for the gods. No. layer open bucket frame-shaped shooting holes; also for windows. Construction of stone towers for the Qiang life in the event, choose a day, sacrifice to the gods, hospitality craftsmen have to set off firecrackers, set up banquets. Woo iron cannon, jumping pot, drink smack wine, singing and dancing.