What are the characteristics of Hunan architecture? What are the living customs in Hunan?

First, the architectural features of Hunan

"Diaojiaolou" is the most typical and unique architectural style in Xiangxi, Hunan. Generally, it is built on hillsides or river banks, mainly because there is not much flat land in these places, in order to expand the building site and expand the use area. Whether it is mountains or water, it can be seen everywhere.

"Diaojiaolou" is a representative building of Miao and Tujia folk houses, among which the Diaojiaolou in Fenghuang Ancient City in Xiangxi, Hunan Province is the most typical. The diaojiao building in Fenghuang Ancient City makes full use of the space above the water surface to build houses outside the river bank, which are supported by large wooden frames to form hanging feet, and some of them have stone steps leading to the waterfront, which has great regional characteristics.

Second, Hunan life customs

1, eating customs

Hunan people like to eat bacon. They start to kill pigs on the solstice in winter. Except for some fresh food, most of them are made into bacon for long-term consumption. Hunan people marinate pork or beef, chicken, duck, goose, fish and rabbit with salt or mixed spiced and star anise powder for four or five days. After drying in the sun, it is smoked and roasted with sawn wood, chaff, peanut shell, orange peel and grapefruit peel, or hung on a firewood stove and smoked and roasted with cold air, which is called "winter bacon".

2. Spring Festival customs

The old custom of the Spring Festival usually lasts from the first day of the first month to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. When the rooster crows on the first day of Xinzheng, firecrackers are set off in front of the hall, which is called "opening the door" and "opening the door". Light candles to worship heaven and earth and ancestors, and then go out to worship the five parties, which is called "going out" or "going out"

Festivals are colorful, and the most lively one is playing with dragon lanterns. There are many kinds of dragon lanterns, including long dragon, old dragon, young dragon, ao dragon and grass dragon. Playing dragon lanterns is usually the fifth day, the fifth day and the fifteenth day. It parades in the streets and fields, and dances when there are many people.

Extended data

Xiang opera culture;

There are 19 local operas in Hunan province, and there are nearly 100 art performance groups, among which Hunan Huagu Opera has the greatest influence. The ancient painting opera "Old Table Anecdote" was selected as the key funded repertoire of the national stage art quality project in 2007-2008, which achieved a breakthrough in the selection of national quality repertoire.

In addition, music, dance, fine arts, calligraphy, photography and other artistic forms have also achieved fruitful results, and famous Hunan singers such as He Jiguang, Li Guyi, Song Zu Ying, Zhang Ye, Chen Sisi, Tang Can, Jia Lei and Wang Lida have emerged.