Architectural style and characteristics of Yi nationality in Yunnan

Yi is a nation engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, and the distribution and location of villages have their own unique inheritance. Most villages of the Yi nationality are located in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas with an altitude of 2,000-3,000 meters, and live together along ethnic groups. Generally choose to build along the sunny foothills, mostly on hillsides and ridges, with fewer foothills and valleys. "Yuanyang County Records" records: "Yi people mostly live in mountainous areas with magnificent mountains and rivers and rich resources. The village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, surrounded by terraced fields, grazing in the mountains behind the village, farming in front of the village, and most villages have a ditch. "

Yi people are widely distributed. Therefore, the types of folk houses are complicated to adapt to the natural geographical environment and climatic conditions in different regions, or influenced by other ethnic groups, but Yi folk houses are widely representative among all ethnic groups.

Its life form is closely related to the natural conditions of the living environment. Long-term life practice has enabled the Yi people to create a variety of distinctive houses in the process of adapting to nature and rationally transforming nature. Board house, blank house, earth palm house, three rooms and one wall, dry fence house, etc. , is a typical representative of Yi rich residential buildings.

Earth tent workshop-a unique residential building of the Yi people: The earth tent workshop of the Yi people is very similar to the Tibetan stone building, with the same flat roof and the same thickness. The difference is that its wall is made of soil, which is fixed with plywood during construction. The soil wall is formed by tamping and heightening the soil layer by layer. The flat roof is also similar to the stone building, and it also has the function of threshing floor. Zhang Fang is distributed in the middle and southeast of Yunnan. The excellent soil and moderate dry and wet conditions in this area provide a lot of convenient and accessible materials and conditions for the construction of earth palm houses.