What are the characteristics of Bai folk houses?

Bai people's houses have three rooms and one screen, and the building is square. A wall similar to a screen is built at the main entrance, which is the screen. There is a main room opposite the zhaobi as the living room, and there are two houses on each side of the living room. There is a patio between the zhaobi and the main room and the houses on both sides of the main room. This is "three rooms, one wall, four entrances and five patios".

Most of the doors of Bai folk houses are open in the northeast corner, so they can't go straight to the yard. They must be blocked by a wall, which usually says "Fu". All Bai buildings, including ordinary houses, have exquisite carvings and paintings. Wood carving is mostly used for lattice doors, boards and signs of buildings. Hanging pillars, etc. Various animal and plant patterns, such as rolling grass, flying dragons, bats and jade rabbits, are rich and varied and can be used freely. Bai woodcarving craftsmen are also particularly good at making exquisite three-to-five-story "through carvings", and multi-level landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish are all flexible and vivid.

"Painting with white walls" is also a major feature of Bai architectural decoration. Brick columns and tiles on the wall are painted with mortar for jointing, the wall core is self-contained, cornices are painted with different widths and colors, and decorative belts are painted alternately. With all kinds of geometric figures, calligraphy and other literati calligraphy and painting, it shows a fresh and elegant artistic conception.