The stilted buildings of Tujia nationality spread over the adjacent mountain areas of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing belong to the typical pile-dwelling architecture in southern China. Stilted buildings are not ...The stilted buildings of Tujia nationality spread over the adjacent mountain areas of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing belong to the typical pile-dwelling architecture in southern China. Stilted buildings are not only a typical residential building style of the Tujia people, and they are also a matetialized symbol of Tujia ciilture. For thousands of years, Tujia people have taken materials from the local areaand built buildings in the mountains, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature. They have also integrated their ptay for happiness and peace, yearning for a good life, and customafy rituals of prayingfor happiness into the construction process of the stilted buildings. Thus, unique building skills of stilted, buildings of Tujia natiomity af e formed. Under the impact of modem industrial civilization, tiie inheritance of building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality has gradually entered an embamssing situation. Therefore, they have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage and become the object ofprotection. In the context of the protection of intangible cultural heritagCj rc-recognizing the building skillsof stilted buildings of Tujia nationality plays an important role in protecting and promoting the national traditional culture and has an unignorable teference value for the design of modem residential landscapes.展开更多
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文摘The stilted buildings of Tujia nationality spread over the adjacent mountain areas of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing belong to the typical pile-dwelling architecture in southern China. Stilted buildings are not only a typical residential building style of the Tujia people, and they are also a matetialized symbol of Tujia ciilture. For thousands of years, Tujia people have taken materials from the local areaand built buildings in the mountains, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature. They have also integrated their ptay for happiness and peace, yearning for a good life, and customafy rituals of prayingfor happiness into the construction process of the stilted buildings. Thus, unique building skills of stilted, buildings of Tujia natiomity af e formed. Under the impact of modem industrial civilization, tiie inheritance of building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality has gradually entered an embamssing situation. Therefore, they have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage and become the object ofprotection. In the context of the protection of intangible cultural heritagCj rc-recognizing the building skillsof stilted buildings of Tujia nationality plays an important role in protecting and promoting the national traditional culture and has an unignorable teference value for the design of modem residential landscapes.
