Representative Buildings of Ethnic Minorities

The Potala Palace of the Tibetans, the bamboo buildings of the Dai, the hammocks of the Zhuang, the mushroom houses of the Hani, the earth palm houses of the Yi, the Lijiang Ancient City of the Naxi, the stone houses of the Gelao, the Tusi Manor of the Yi, the hermetically roofed thatched roofs of the Yao, the big boat corridors, the wooden drum houses, the copper drum pings, the Lusheng Halls, the sister huts, the flower jumping fields of the Miao, the drum towers, the flower bridges, the playhouses, and the grandmothers' halls of the Dong, and the pavilions and the singing platforms of the Bouyi.

1. Potala Palace (Tibetan: ? , Tibetan pinyin: bo da la, wili: po ta la), located in the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in Lhasa city northwest of the Maburi Hill, is the world's highest altitude, set of palaces, castles and monasteries in one of the magnificent buildings, but also Tibet's most large, most complete ancient palace and fortress complex.

The Potala Palace is built on the mountain, overlapping buildings, is an outstanding representative of the ancient Tibetan architecture, is the fifth set of RMB 50 yuan banknote back of the landscape pattern. The main building is divided into two parts: the White Palace and the Red Palace. Palace is more than 200 meters high, the appearance of 13 layers, within the 9 layers. Potala Palace in front of the Potala Palace Square, is the world's highest city square. Baidu encyclopedia "Potala Palace"

2. The Dai bamboo building is another type of dry-landing type of housing. Xishuangbanna, Yunnan is a Dai settlement area, where the topography varies greatly, with mountainous terrain in the north, highlands in the east, and plains in the west. The climate of the region is also a big difference, the mountain elevation of 1700 meters, is a temperate climate; plains 750-900 meters above sea level, is a subtropical climate; some of the valley plains, the elevation of only 500 meters, already belongs to the tropical climate.

The Dai people mostly live in the flat dam area, no snow all year round, abundant rainfall, the average annual temperature of 21 ℃, there is no distinction between the four seasons. So here, dry-fence architecture is a very suitable form.

Because of the abundance of bamboo materials in the region, many dwellings are built with bamboo, called bamboo buildings. The plane of the bamboo building is square, the bottom floor of the elevated more without walls, for raising livestock and stacking sundries, upstairs has a hall and bedroom, the hall set up a fire pit, is a place to burn tea and cooking and family reunion; outside the open front porch and sundeck, the front porch is the daytime master work, dinner, rest and reception of guests, both bright and ventilated. Baidu Encyclopedia "Dai Bamboo House"

3. Hanging footstools, also known as "hanging buildings", for the Miao (Chongqing, Guizhou, etc.), Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Shui, Tujia and other ethnic groups of the traditional folk dwellings in the southeastern part of Chongqing and the northern part of Gui, western Hunan, western Hubei, southeastern Guizhou region is particularly large. In the southeast of Chongqing and north of Guilin, west of Hunan, west of Hubei and southeast of Qiandong, there are especially a lot of hanging houses.

The footstools are built on the mountains and rivers, in the shape of a tiger sitting on the ground, with "the left blue dragon, the right white tiger, the front vermilion bird, and the back Xuanwu" as the best house, and later on, they pay attention to the direction of the house, or sit west to east, or sit east to west. Hanging-footed buildings belong to the dry-rail type of construction, but with the general reference to the dry-rail is different. The dry rail should be all overhanging, so the footstools are called semi-dry rail buildings. The construction of footstools is a major event in the life of the Tujia people. Baidu Encyclopedia "Hanging Footstools"