The stilted building is an all-wooden structure, so the art of wood carving can be fully utilized. Traditional techniques such as hidden carving, relief carving, through carving, inlay carving, and appliqué carving are skillfully integrated and beautiful. The pattern is vivid and concise, the layout is cleverly conceived, and the layers are rich and clear, reflecting a simple and elegant beauty. It has rich cultural connotations, distinctive artistic personality, and strong local artistic characteristics. To sum up, the decoration of Diaojiaolou in western Hunan mainly has the following four types:
1. Type of characters: Chinese characters in various artistic styles, such as blessing, ten thousand characters, longevity, etc. You can see auspicious patterns such as "Hui", "Xi" and "Ya" carved on the wooden railings everywhere.
2. Graphics: such as dragons and phoenixes showing auspiciousness, phoenixes perched on peonies, magpies ascending plum blossoms and other patterns.
3. Brocade type: Brocade pattern refers to patterns composed of various patterns, with Huiwen brocade and Guaizi brocade being the most commonly used.
4 Meaningful Category: Use the homophones of Chinese characters to form auspicious words to express auspicious wishes, such as using bat, qing, and the sound of "Fuqing", using bottle and quail to harmonize the sound of "peace", and Lotus and fish form "more than enough year after year" and so on.