Bai Folk Dwellings

Bai Folk Dwellings

The bai people live in the houses with tile roofs of civil structures. Its layout adopts the forms of "three fangand one side wall", and the country is spacious and sunny.

For the main building direction, many residential house in Dali are not north to south but east.

The "Fang" refers to the front room and wing room on the three sides of the courtyard. The main entrance is in one side. And in the leaky angle place of two side of main room. We often build smaller ear rooms to be kitchen, guest room or store room.

The wall is usually decorated with graceful and elegant decoration and literati poetry which is original a practical wall to keep out the sun and wind, but today it become one of the important symbols of the Bai culture.

Bai Folk Dwellings
Bai Folk Dwellings

Most of the family also have a flower bed , the cultivation of camellia, pomegranate，orchid. The environment is beautiful and comfortable. The walls were painted in white ash and were inscribed By famous people, inscriptions such as "all be purple and red ", " sunrise in the east" or "fu", "longevity" and other symbol of good luck and good fortune. The gables around are also painted with various landscapes, flowers, birds, insects and fish patterns. The decoration in each corner is exquisite, giving people a vivid, symmetrical, harmonious and beautiful feeling.

Bai Folk Dwellings Bai Folk Dwellings

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