What are the cultural characteristics of the Zhuang people's residence?100 Words

The Zhuang mainly live in Guangxi, and are also found in Wenshan of Yunnan, Lianshan of Guangdong, Congjiang of Guizhou and Jianghua of Hunan. As they basically live in the southern subtropical climate of humid and warm mountains and hills, in order to adapt to the natural environment, they have created extremely distinctive Zhuang dwellings.

The Zhuang people mostly live along the water, and their villages are built at the foot of the mountains in a sunny and well-ventilated place. Trees are planted in the back of the mountains and along the edge of the village, and there are village rules and regulations forbidding indiscriminate cutting and logging in order to maintain a good environment in the village. The Zhuang living near the town, their houses are mostly brick and wood bungalows (now has become the main form of Zhuang housing). The bungalows are generally three-roomed, with whitewashed exterior walls and decorative patterns painted on the eaves. Living in remote mountainous areas of the Zhuang, their village houses are mostly adobe wooden structure of wooden buildings and tiled houses of the dry bar type of construction.

The "dry rail" is also known as high rail, attic rail, hemp rail, the style generally have a full rail, half rail type two kinds.

The whole dry rail house is a full floor of the residence type, the upper floor to live, the lower floor of the livestock and storage of farm equipment; half dry rail house to a room for the building, the upper floor to live, downstairs off the cows and sheep, put farm equipment, and so on, and another for the bungalow. Dry bar type building are wooden structure, generally first up the ground floor, on the roof frame (called two sections of the Zhuang family column), the two ends of the partial building, the roof for the herringbone, covered with ceramic tiles, cedar bark or thatched grass, the room has three five rooms. People live upstairs, and the bottom floor is used to keep livestock and poultry, put agricultural tools, and set up pounding pestle and mill, etc. The staircase is on one side of the house. The staircase is on one side of the house, and there is a spacious corridor in front of the upper floor, which is surrounded by a railing or a half board wall and is well lighted, so that one can meet guests, enjoy the coolness and weave here. Entering the main door is the hall, with a fire pit on one side, and the back and side rooms are the bedrooms. Granaries are mostly set up next to the housing, in front of the house erected a row of ten-foot-high shelves, commonly known as the Harvest Gallery, so that after the fall harvest to dry the harvest, after drying piled up into the granary. The building is generally made of wood, bamboo materials for piles, floor and upper walls, the lower floor is not covered, the walls are also useful for masonry and earth from the ground up.

Qingtang Zhuang Township Zhuang minority choose the mountain and live, most live in the hilly valley area, such as Qingtang, Beijia, Li Jia and other places. Residents generally to the same family name to build villages and villages, the Zhuang language called "class". Now some villages are also called "Lao Ban", "old turtle class", etc., with the development of the population, the village appeared after the "ground arch". There are many of them in the village. The "Di Gong" is called "Gate Tower" in Chinese. The main purpose of the Zhuang people to establish the "ground arch" is to reflect the branches of the same family name, is the public **** in and out of the place. If there are celebrities (or big names) in this branch of the family name will be the name of the gold plaque, placed in front of the doorway. "The arch" of the head of the door, there must be a "eyes" (made of eight tiles), the shed placed in the old man's life wood, downstairs on both sides of the benches or trees, for the idle to sit down to rest and children play, such as Beijia Village Zhuang Village of the large gatehouse is so. Zhuang Tusi Yamen is white walls and green tiles, round arches, the top of the door made into an ancient scholar's hat-like, symmetrical green tiles on both sides to cover the shoulders, such as the Qingtang Zhuang Township People's Government gate is built using this style. There are stone carvings on the walls of some gates, recording the origin of the ancestors of the clan or placing the tablets recording the major historical events of the clan, such as Qingtang Guanyinshan Village, "the old land arch" is placed in the relevant departments of the clan over the years on the judgment of the Dragon Mountain that is, "villages after the Dragon Mountain Judgment Tablet". Each family name builds a clan shrine with a shrine for the ancestors for the worship of the descendants, and there are a front hall, a middle hall and a back hall in the clan shrine, which are spaced out by a patio, and the halls are communal, so that they are used to hold activities for weddings, funerals and weddings.

The Zhuang people live in houses affected by the architectural style of the nearby non-Strong areas and the local ethnic economic development, and the ancient Zhuang village houses generally exist in the form of quadrangle, which is divided into front and rear halls, compartments, and a patio, etc. The patio is an open-air concave pool, which is used as a base for the worship of the people. The patio is an open-air concave pool, which is made of stone slats and slabs, and there are stone carvings such as geckos and carp on the slabs. The patio divides the house into two, with the front of the patio behind the gate as the front house and the back of the patio as the back house. The left and right sides of the front hall are generally uninhabited, and are used as a kitchen, for keeping livestock, and for stacking fuel, etc. The halls on both sides of the back hall are the owner's residential area. In the eaves and other carvings into the green fish, carp decoration, fish scales carved quite exquisite. The Zhuang people regard the building of a house as a major event in their lives, and have high requirements for building a house. Moreover, the Zhuang people in a village have the habit of helping each other to build a house and taking turns to build a house. Practicing mud printing bricks, laying foundations and walls, making doors and windows, covering tiles and other building projects, all by relatives and neighbors to help each other out. They only spend money to buy some fire bricks and tiles. In the design of the open door of the house, the Zhuang people seldom open the back door. In recent years, with the development of the local economy, the Zhuang residential housing pattern has changed a lot, most of the people in Qingtang Zhuang Township have been living in a brick structure of the new house, mostly building-based.