Nu Nationality's Characteristic Dwellings: Thousand Foot Landing Houses

Nu culture is a wonderful flower in China national culture. Why thousands of feet? The reason is that their house is mainly made of bamboo rafts, so-called thousands of feet pole head. As you can imagine, the architectural skills of Nu people are amazing. This characteristic building has gradually become the cultural heritage of Nu people.

"Angry people live on the top of the mountain" and "bamboo is the house and bamboo is the wall", which is the description of the living life of the Nu people by the ancients. Nu people's houses are dry-fence-style, mostly built on mountains, mainly divided into wooden houses and bamboo houses. Fugong Nu people all live in bamboo houses. This kind of house is relatively short, mostly made of bamboo rafts as external walls and partitions, and covered with wooden boards or slates. The floor is made of wooden boards or bamboo mats, which can be laid on many stakes on the sloping ground. These stakes and columns, like thousands of feet, support the whole house. Therefore, people often call this kind of house "the house where thousands of feet landed".

Nu people's houses are dry-fence-style, and most of them are built on the mountain. There are mainly two kinds of wooden houses and bamboo houses. Most Nu people in Gongshan area live in wooden houses or semi-wooden houses with half earth walls. This kind of house is relatively spacious, generally with piles of logs as walls and thin slate roofs. The slate is about 0.5 meters square and is paved by eaves. The first one is flat, the second one is pressed on the first one, and the third one is pressed on the second one to cover the roof.

The Nu people in Fugong and Lushui areas live in bamboo houses. This kind of house is relatively short, mostly with bamboo rafts as external walls and partitions, covered with wooden boards or slates. The general pattern of these two houses is two rooms, the outside is for guests to live in, and there is a fire pit. An iron tripod is placed on the fire pit to cook, and there is a master bedroom and a grain depot. The floor is made of wooden boards or bamboo mats and laid on many wooden stakes on the sloping ground. These stakes and columns support the whole house like thousands of feet. Therefore, people call it "a house where thousands of feet fall to the ground."

In areas with a majority of slopes, it is not necessary to find flat land to build this kind of dry fence bamboo building. The local wood and bamboo are abundant, and the bamboo is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is very suitable for the local natural characteristics. Nowadays, with the rapid development of social economy and national culture in Nu areas, the living forms of Nu people are also developing towards diversification and modernization.