What are the national characteristics of Hani folk houses? What are the location requirements?

The housing construction of Hani nationality is carried out according to the tradition and the trajectory handed down by ancestors. A whole set of procedures, such as finding foundation, preparing materials, breaking ground, waste rock, columns, door position, indoor layout and decoration, have formed a unique residential and architectural style. The location of Hani villages is very particular, requiring dense forests and sufficient water.

The village is built on a mountain, with mountains behind it and water and terraces around it. There are thatched cottages, mushroom houses, bank houses, earth palm houses, dry fence houses and other forms. The roofs of tile houses are suspended mountains, and the roofs of grass houses have two slopes and four slopes. Influenced by the natural geographical environment, the Hani architecture is the northern map, and the southern Gan Lan.

Mushroom room is a traditional building of Hani nationality, which looks like mushrooms. Red River, Yuanyang, Lvchun and other places in Yunnan are mostly supported by earth walls and grass tops and wooden frames. The roof has four slopes, covered with thatch and tiles. The building is divided into upper, middle and lower floors, the lower floor is for raising livestock, the middle floor is for people, and the upper floor is for storing sundries. If it is a two-story building, the second floor is generally uninhabited and used to store food and sundries.

Hani folk houses in different areas have different styles. The flat-topped earth palm houses of Hani people in Honghe and Mojiang are common, which preserve the life characteristics of large families. You need to choose an auspicious day for divination before building a house. When you break ground, you should also choose a sunny auspicious day, and your relatives and friends will come to help. The house is supported by high-quality wood, with soil or adobe as the wall and covered with clay at the top, with a thickness of about 0.3 meters. The house is divided into three rooms, the middle hall is dedicated to ancestors, the parents live in the big house on the right, and the younger generation lives in the small room on the left.

Although the housing types of Hani people vary from place to place, they all show different characteristics between men and women. The beds in the living room are divided into male beds and female beds. The male bed must be on the side of the central axis, and the female bed can press the central axis. When his father died, the eldest son had to sleep in his father's bed, which reflected the principle of male inheritance. The dining table in the main hall only allows men to eat, and women can only eat in the wing.