Bai housing form, dam area is mostly "long three rooms", lined with kitchens, stables and thatched houses with yards, or "a positive two ears", "three sides of a wall", "four and five patio" of the tile house, bedroom, kitchen, stables are separated. Mountainous areas are mostly up downstairs stables of grass, "flash" room, gabion room or "wood pallet room", cooking and sleeping places are often linked together.
The Bai people advocate the white color, and their building facades are dominated by white. From the layout of the courtyard, building structure and internal and external decoration and other basic styles, the Bai people live with the Central Plains residential architecture has a traditional inheritance. Because of the natural environment, aesthetic interest in the differences, the Bai people's homes and have their own obvious national style and local characteristics.
Baiyuan and Beijing courtyard house as an example for general comparison, first of all, from the orientation of the main room, the main room of the Beijing courtyard house to sit in the north to face the south for the noble; while the main room of the Bai folk house is generally sit in the west to the east, which is located in the north to the south of the Hengchuan Mountains, the Hengchuan Mountains, broom-shaped mountain system formed by the characteristics of the valley dams related to the mountains, the inevitable sit in the west to the east.
Secondly, most of the housing in Beijing's courtyards are one-story bungalows, while the Bai dwellings are basically two-story.
The layout and combination of the Bai dwellings are generally "a positive two ears", "two rooms and one ear", "three houses and one wall", "four five patios", "six contract spring" and "walking horse corner building" and so on. What form,
By the owner of the economic conditions and the size of the family, the population decided. Most of the doors of Bai dwellings open on the northeast corner, the door can not go straight to the yard, must be covered with a wall, covering the wall is generally written on the word "Fu".
Expanded Information
The Bai are China's 15th largest ethnic minority group, mainly in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and other provinces, with the largest population of Bai in Yunnan Province, mainly in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. In addition, they are also found in Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality.
The Bai have their own language, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Chinese language has been commonly used by the Bai people since ancient times. The Bai people are unique in art, and their architecture, carving and painting art are famous both in ancient and modern times. In the process of formation and development, they interacted with the neighboring ethnic groups and created a splendid economic culture.
The Bai are an ethnic group with a high degree of cohesion, and there are three major branches, the Minjia, the Lemo and the Nama, which are y influenced by Han culture.
Cultural Customs
The Bai people are hospitable, and it is the etiquette of the Bai people to treat their guests first. When guests come home, they are treated with wine and tea. The famous "three ways of tea" is the Bai hospitality. But the Bai people pour tea generally only half a cup, pouring wine is required to full cup, they believe that wine full of people, tea full of people. By the Bai people's hospitality, you should say Noiwei you (thank you) to express your thanks and gratitude.
Respect for elders is a traditional virtue of the Bai people. Seeing the elderly should take the initiative to greet, greetings, make way, seat, tea, hand cigarettes. The first cup of morning tea after getting up should be honored to the elderly first. When you eat, you should let the elderly sit on the table and move the chopsticks first. In front of the elderly do not swear, are not allowed to stilt legs. Some mountainous areas of the Bai people, family members have a relatively fixed seat, the general male elders sit on the upper left,
female elders sit on the upper right, guests and seniors sit down on the side and above. The fire pit of the Bai people's home is a sacred place, it is taboo to spit into the fire pit, and it is forbidden to cross over the fire pit. The threshold of the White family is also taboo to sit. The tools used by men, women are forbidden to cross from above. It is forbidden to enter a family wearing a mourning paw, which is considered to bring uncleanness to the family.
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