Most Miao folk houses are diaojiao buildings. Why?

The hut lives in a diaojiao building. Most Miao people live in mountainous areas, and the mountains are high and steep, so it is extremely difficult to dig the foundation. In addition, the weather is rainy, humid and foggy, and the bottom of the brick house is very heavy, which is not suitable for living. Therefore, the Miao people have been building dry wooden buildings with good ventilation, which are called "Diaojiaolou".

Miao people's diaojiao buildings are generally built on slopes, divided into two or three floors. The top floor is very short, and only food can't live in people. Stack sundries downstairs or make a barn. Two floors without a top floor. Generally, bamboo paste is used as the wall, and the top is covered with grass. Now it has been changed into a tile roof.

In Kaili Miao Caotang, most people live in diaojiao buildings. Most Miao people live in mountainous areas with high mountains and steep slopes. It is extremely difficult to level and dig the foundation. In addition, the weather is rainy and changeable, wet and foggy, and the bottom floor of brick houses is not suitable for living. Therefore, the Miao people have been building dry wooden buildings with good ventilation, which are called "Diaojiaolou".

Miao Diaojiaolou [1]? Built on a slope, the ground is cut into a "factory"-shaped earth platform supported by long wooden columns. According to the height of the earth platform, a beam and a beam are installed at one section of it, and the beam is parallel to the earth platform. Diaojiaolou is seven or eight meters low and thirteen or fourteen meters high, covering an area of twelve or thirteen square meters. Except for a few Chinese fir skins, the roof is mostly covered with blue tiles, which are smooth and compact, generous and tidy.

Diaojiao building is generally built with four rows and three rooms, and some have built one or two "slant buildings" in addition to the main building. Each row of wooden columns is generally 9, that is, five columns and four melons. Each wooden building is generally divided into three floors, the upper floor stores food, the middle floor houses people, and the lower floor has fences for stacking sundries or raising livestock.

On the first floor where people live, there are wooden ladders next to the upper and lower floors, and this floor is equipped with a corridor with a width of about 1 m. The hall is a welcoming room, and the rooms on both sides are divided into two or three small rooms as bedrooms or kitchens. The room is spacious and bright, with symmetrical doors and windows. Some Miao families also have fire pits, and they burn fires to keep warm in winter.

There is a gate in front of the nave. There are two doors and a window on each side. Nave has a backrest railing under the front eaves, which is called "beauty leaning".

Diaojiaolou is a traditional Miao architecture and a unique ancient architectural form in southern China. It is considered by modern architects to be the best form of ecological architecture, with people living upstairs and overhead downstairs. Diaojiaolou is a unique building in Miao township. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is layered.