Ethnic Architecture

The Symbol of a Dong Village: the drum-tower A drum-tower is a unique building style of Dong, wide spread in Dong areas of Guizhou and Guangxi Provinces. A village...

Like most people in the southern regions, the De’angs live in bamboo houses with railings. The framework of the house is made of wood, but all the other parts,...

According to the legend, in ancient times, the Hanis lived in caves. Later when they immigrated into a place named “Reluo”, they found a vast field of mushrooms all...

Most of Lahu villages are located in ridges that are near to a water source in mountain areas. It is not unusual to see their village looming in bamboos...

“Building with hanging feet” at the foot of hills and beside streams In the past, there was a saying in Guizhou: “The miaos live in high mountains, the Dongs...

House with thousand of feet reaching the ground “The Nus lived at the top of mountains.” “They covered houses with bamboo and weave bamboo into wall.” These are description...

Mainstay & House piled up with logs Villages of the Pumis scatter over gentle slopes halfway up mountains, and they settle together with members of the same clan according...

Watchtowers, stone-piled house, chain bridge, plank roadway (built along perpendicular rock-faces by means of wooden brackets fixed into the cliff) and irrigation works are the most famous structures built...

Yi people mostly live in mountain region and most of their villages are located on slopes with gentle terrain. Their village is not big, and it is often composed...

Bamboo Houses in Green Trees On the level grounds beside rivers and lakes in Xishuangbanna, Dai bamboo houses, exquisite and unique, are half concealed and half revealed in the...