An optional destination for Yunnan travel - Luxi Chengzi Ancient Village

Situated on 2 200 meter-long mountain slop, Chengzi Ancient Village is composed of nearly 1,000 Yi minority's households. With a history of more than 500 years, the village houses are of typical Yi minority's Tuzhang house.

Yi People's Tuzhuang house is a flat roof house builg with soil and wood at the foot of a hill. The structure is: wooden poles are errected as posts, and walls of the four sides are rammed by earth, or are piled with slab stones or adobe. Slab stone is laid as eaves around the roof, which is 2-3 centimeters thick. This makes the house warm in winter and cool in summer, and has very strong function of resisting fire. So it is also called "fire banking house". People live in the house. While the flat roof functions as a good place for drying crops and for enjoying the cool in summer. 
 

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