What is the architectural form of the Bai people's homes?

The courtyard wall opposite the main house of the Bai people's houses should be made into a wall. The scale of the wall is well-proportioned, the appearance is very beautiful. The form of the main one-legged wall and "three drops of water" wall two. One-legged wall, also known as a word flat wall, wall height, not segmented, hipped wall roof, for the family of eunuchs to choose. "Three drops of water" wall system will be horizontal long and flat mural straight into three sections, the left and right sections of the size of the symmetrical, shaped like a plaque, the middle section of the wider high. This form is commonly used for residential houses, its width is equal to the width of the courtyard; the height of the middle section is about equal to the height of the eaves on the room, the height of the left and right sections are equal to the eaves with the room under the heavy eaves between the "fire wall" and so on.

The height of the wall itself the proportion of each section, with the width of the courtyard and change, giving a person the proportion of the shape of proportionality, the body of the beautiful feeling of solid. In addition to pay attention to the shape of the wall, but also attaches great importance to decoration, in the wall of the gable is a band of a variety of colorful paintings, in the wall of the white wall or painted with a variety of styles of landscape paintings, with celebrity poems, or inscriptions just powerful words, so that the wall looks more elegant and beautiful. Wall inscriptions pay attention to the content, generally a four-word sentence, poetic and picturesque.

The content of the inscription with the prestige of the head of household and family name and there are differences, such as the family of officials and eunuchs more inscription book "Kejia Lianfang". "the world of books", etc., Zhao general inscription "qinhe family style", Yang inscription 'white family', Zhang inscription "Zhang Gong hundred patience ", the Li family name inscription "Qinglian legacy", the Wang family name inscription "three locusts and the first", the He family name inscription "water department family sound", the Dong family name inscription The name of the family of Dong is "Nanzhao Zaifu" and so on.

Some people according to the orientation of the wall inscription, such as the courtyard of the east of the wall inscription "purple east", the south side of the wall inscription "color cloud south now", the back of the mountain by the sea of the inscription "Cang'er Yuxiu "and so on. In front of the wall there are flower platform accompanied by flower platform with colorful marble or carved brick, planted flowers and trees, next to the rail also placed a variety of potted flowers, bonsai, a variety of flowers due to the seasonal interplay of open, fragrant, beautiful environment.