What are the general dwellings in Tibet?

Tibetan folk dwellings are mainly two major types of bunkers and tents. The watchtower is the southwest China Tibetan Plateau and Inner Mongolia part of the common Tibetan people live in the form of building; tent is Naqu, Ali and other pastoral areas of the masses of the main form of residence. The tent is simple to make, flexible to dismantle and install, easy to transport, is the pastoral people to adapt to the water and grass and live in the mobility of the way of life adopted by a special form of construction.

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Tibetan residential walls under the thick on the thin, the shape of the lower big on the small, the architectural plane are relatively simple, generally more square plane, there are also curved plane. Because of the rolling hills of the Tibetan Plateau, the building occupies a large area will increase the construction difficulties, so the general construction plane on the ground area is smaller, and to the space development.

The shape of the residential houses in Nagchu, Tibet is square and slightly curved, with a small patio in the center. Inside the fine and timeless, external style and robust, the plateau of daylight is particularly strong, residential in a piece of silver, appearing particularly crystalline dazzling.

Tibetan dwellings are commonly known as towers, most of the three-story or higher building. The ground floor for the corral and miscellaneous, the second floor for the living room and bedroom, the third floor for the Buddha Hall and the sundeck. Surrounding the walls with woolen stone, few windows, internal stairs to pass up and down, easily defensible, similar to the bunker. The windows are mostly made of trapezoidal, and wipe out the black window cover, the window along the upper edge of the building out of the eaves.

Living in Aba, Sichuan and Ganzi Tibetan watchtower, its wooden decoration part is increased some. Tibetan living in southern Gansu is mostly used in the form of Qinghai Zhuang are, indicating that the regional conditions on the influence of residential even more than the influence of ethnic factors.

Sichuan Maowen area inhabited by the Qiang also used in the form of watchtower, its outer walls for the slice of stone masonry, building density is very high, and attached to the construction of a very high bunker and the street building, very strong defense. Yunnan Honghe Prefecture around the Hani residential known as the "earth palm house", for the earth walls, flat roof, exterior walls without windows of the two-story house, this system should be said to have a close relationship with the Tibetan watchtower origin.