Qiang people live, gone through many changes before the Warring States Period Home "Qionglu", that tent back home Tsuchiya, now Maoxian, Wenchuan, the Qiang people are still waiting to build walls for the house or building low walls habits. Walls mixed with cattle, wool, very fastness. After re-Qiang people "mountain door. Tired stone room, ten feet high to more than 10 persons, as Qiong cage" that the towers now do not build, then stone Xiangyan so far.
Most of the Qiang people live in stone houses built halfway up the mountain plateau high, near the spring, a few high mountain valley home, thirty-five seven or eight to gather together to live together, along mountain stone arrangement, or high or low, patchwork.
Walled fortress-shaped room to take all shape, wide base, and gradually up the contract, the highest point of a small square stone piles, flat, square in shape so the three-dimensional cone.
Estates columns, beams, rafters, stamped bamboo, mud holes and build the top branches. Is 2 layers or 3 layers, Ming Gu, "the world benefit sick gun book" Introduction: "Wei, Ran Mao-old Long, the base stone for the sculpture, the Home, such as the Budo number of heavy, wooden door to the upper and lower series, possession of goods on it, including human settlements and livestock on the next lap. "stocks are still the top, or you living room, the middle occupied. The lower the chicken and sheep shelter, tools, or ret manure pile. The roof of the laundry drying grain, Qiang room window is small, cold theft, house ventilation, lighting is poor, hard to smoke out. One tree between the building referred to as the ladder Kanqiao system. Middle middle main room, build fireplace heating cooking, it ends as a bedroom. Roof shrine worship. Subsequently the Ministry of corners or a corner is often the small tower built by piling up rocks, put an egg on top of Whitehead, commonly known as chicken hectoliter, meaning Whitehead God, every New Year for worship. |
