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? Gan Lan people and modern people call it this way because its shape is very similar to the bamboo buildings where Dai people live. Diaojiaolou? . The diaojiao building of Buyi nationality is tall and big, because it is supported by cross bars and the columns don't fall to the ground. Generally 15 is used for erecting beams, and carpentry is also ok. The frame is stable with hidden doors, without supporting the wall, and the periphery is woven with phoenix bamboo. There is no fence at the bottom, and wood is used as a fence to raise livestock; The main living room on the second floor is the place where Buyi people entertain guests, eat and cook. Fire pits are mostly located at the side of the entrance door, and the ground is padded with soil to make a fire. On the left and right, there are looms that are indispensable to Buyi people, or they are separated into bedrooms; The wooden ladder leading to the third floor was cut into treads with a whole tree saw, and food and sundries were moved to the third floor for stacking. Bamboo is often used to build a large balcony on one side of the diaojiao building, and the floor paved with bamboo at the wind end can go straight to the balcony. The balcony can be used for people to eat, enjoy the cool, dry food and cloth, and has the functions of living room and yard.
Buyi people in Badahe River like to live by water, while Buyi water town has abundant rainfall and the temperature can be as high as 36℃. Living in this hot and humid place, the diaojiao building can prevent moisture, ventilation and heat dissipation, and living on the second floor can also defend against the invasion of wild things such as snakes and insects.
Buyi people have always pursued beautiful land to build houses, adapting to local conditions and using local materials. Bamboo and wood in Badahe area grows fast and easily, but it is easy to get insects. Therefore, Buyi people have to build houses two or three times in their lives to avoid bamboo rot threatening human and animal safety.
When building a house, Buyi people usually ask the local Mo Gong to look at the terrain, watch the door and set a date, praying for the elimination of disasters and evil spirits and the prosperity of six animals. In addition, there is a Longtan near the Buyi village, which takes both drinking water and sacrifices. In addition, it is necessary to identify a tree as a sacred tree as a sacrificial mountain to make Buyi villages appear. Nature and mountains are one? Looking from a distance, Diaojiaolou is hidden among big Toona sinensis, banana forest and bamboo grove, and the ancient forest is quiet and natural.
When the new house was completed, relatives and friends came to congratulate and sang "Good Morning" for a day and a night. The main idea of the lyrics is how to choose the site, which mountains to climb, which trees to cut, how to erect columns and how to build houses. When the host family moves into a new house, it will be rich and expensive, rich and blessed, and so on. When the host family toasted the guests, they sang a toast to welcome them. Unmarried young men and women took advantage of this festive day to meet at the intersection near the village and sing the love song "Song of the Whistle" to tell each other their love.
In addition to diaojiaolou, niujie is a mixed place. Buyi's house is a three-bedroom, one-courtyard, two-story tile house, with? Wall-mounted? Or? Incense case modeling? The house style and interior setting of the shrine are similar to those of the Han nationality. The biggest difference is that Buyi people are good at building walls with a kind of natural sand on the local river beach. This kind of gravel is scattered on the shallows and has a soft texture. It can be leveled with an axe, planed neatly and smoothly with a carpenter's push plane, and even leveled and trimmed with a hoe after building a wall. Strangely, this sandstone will become quite hard after weathering, similar to bluestone. To this end, in the early years, some well-off families in Luoping City built their houses without bricks or stones, and specially retrieved this kind of sandstone from Jiulong River as building materials.
With the development of economy and the improvement of living standards, some Buyi people's houses have been changed into brick-and-wood tile houses or flat-roofed houses with steel-concrete structures.