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 o...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 materialized symbol of Tujia culture. For thousands of years, Tujia people have taken materials from the local area and built buildings in the mountains, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature. They have also integrated their pray for happiness and peace, yearning for a good life, and customary rituals of praying for happiness into the construction process of the stilted buildings. Thus, unique building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality are formed. Under the impact of modern industrial civilization, the inheritance of building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality has gradually entered an embarrassing situation. Therefore, they have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage and become the object of protection. In the context of the protection of intangible cultural heritage, re-recognizing the building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality plays an important role in protecting and promoting the national traditional culture and has an unignorable reference value for the design of modern 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 materialized symbol of Tujia culture. For thousands of years, Tujia people have taken materials from the local area and built buildings in the mountains, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature. They have also integrated their pray for happiness and peace, yearning for a good life, and customary rituals of praying for happiness into the construction process of the stilted buildings. Thus, unique building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality are formed. Under the impact of modern industrial civilization, the inheritance of building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality has gradually entered an embarrassing situation. Therefore, they have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage and become the object of protection. In the context of the protection of intangible cultural heritage, re-recognizing the building skills of stilted buildings of Tujia nationality plays an important role in protecting and promoting the national traditional culture and has an unignorable reference value for the design of modern residential landscapes.
