Yunnan, a low-key village full of mud houses, is known as "a living fossil in the history of architecture"

Although productivity was low in ancient times, many amazing buildings were created, which is a great wisdom. The Great Wall of Wan Li and the Forbidden City are among the best. At present, the most complete preserved ancient buildings are residential buildings. In Yunnan, there is a village called Chengzi Ancient Village, which is called a "living fossil" in the history of architectural technology development. It's unique, but not many people know it.

Chengzi ancient village is located between Honghe Prefecture and Wenshan Prefecture in Yunnan Province, at the junction of Luxi, Maitreya and Qiubei counties. Its original name is Baishao Village, which is located on the Fengfei slope more than 200 meters high, surrounded by mountains, and a stream flows slowly from the village. According to historical records, in the Ming Dynasty, the local county magistrate built his own Tusi House in the ancient village and changed Baishui Village to Yong 'an House because of this.

Ang Tusi Prefecture also indirectly promoted the development of Tuzhangfang, forming the present pattern of government city. Zhang Fang is a unique residential building of Yi people, which has been passed down for thousands of years. It is said that once upon a time, there was a young man named Ajie who racked his brains for three days and nights on the slope of Feifeng, building walls with mud and strengthening houses with wood. As a result, a series of earth Zhang Fang were born, and Yi people no longer had to live in caves and branches.

These earth buildings are built on the mountain and are generally divided into upper and lower floors. The upper floor is a place to live, and the lower floor is a place to raise livestock. As far as architectural style is concerned, tulou has absorbed the architectural features of Han quadrangles in the central region, such as Chinese doorways and bucket arches. From the appearance, one doesn't have much decoration, and the other has a vinegar bath on the surface, which seems to be unable to withstand the erosion of wind and rain, but it is quite durable. Before building an earthen palm house, it is necessary to repeatedly hit and compact the local soil to build a wall, and live in it, which is warm in winter and cool in summer.

This 1 000 adobe house is divided into three areas: Xiaolongshu, Zhongying and Xiaoying. They all have a strange feature. As long as you enter one of them, you can go to any one in the village. Each house is connected from top to bottom, with steps between the left and right. Perhaps the roof of the last house is the yard of the next house, and the adobe houses in the village are piled together, forming a platform tens of meters or even hundreds of meters long. You can easily jump from the clothes drying table in this house to the clothes drying table in the next house.

Interestingly, the picture house also keeps pace with the times. Although the "Ang Tusi Mansion" in the Ming Dynasty and "General Dike" in the Qing Dynasty are still Yi people in terms of architectural structure, they have doorways, arches, skylights and sculptures. It is full of Chinese styles in different periods, which makes Tufu known as a "living fossil" in the history of architectural technology development. The oldest earthen palm house was built by 20 families in Xiaolongshu, which was built in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 200 years. It was built by 24 families at that time. It was the most primitive earthen palm house with no windows, and the guardrail of the house was rammed with mud.

Chengzi Ancient Village is 25 kilometers away from Luxi County. It is one of the most distinctive ancient villages in Yunnan Province. The whole village is a unique combination of Yi and Han. Moreover, the village is almost undefended, and every household has contact. Simple folk customs. This rare earth palm house not only retains an ancient architectural complex, but also retains the simplicity in people's hearts, such as the beautiful Taoyuan world described by Tao Yuanming. If you are interested, you may wish to visit.