Longsheng Wooden Farm Houses

Suspending buildings (also called Diaojiaolou) are unique dwellings in Longji minority villages. All of the architecture here is wooden and bamboo houses.

Passing by 40 miles of mountain road, many bamboo houses will jump into your eyes. Some of them are built by the rivers, some by mountains. Some of the buildings are separated and stand-alone, and some are built together to form groups.

Longsheng Wooden Farm Houses

Most of the wooden farmhouses are built by the river, located to the north, facing the south, or the east, facing the west. Looking from a long distance, the Longji terrace and bamboo dwellings combine a beautiful picture. You may feel the minority lifestyle here is simple and peaceful. Limpid spring water can be drunk at their own houses.

Go inside the bamboo dwellings, and you can see the bottom floor is usually for livestock and dead stock. The second floor is for people to live. It is also divided into two parts - the front one and the back one. The former is used for rest and manual labor, while the latter is the kitchen. The reason to do that is: firstly, for resistance, since there were lots of wild animals in the old days; the next one is for the residents' health, as the climate on the hill is very humid, the people will become ill if they stay on the first floor for a long time.

The wooden houses and terraces are built halfway up the mountain; one old stone road is the only pass for the village people to go outside of the world. Minority people here before, such as Zhuang, Yao, and Miao, also communicated with external by this road.

There is an underlying regulation: every village should repair or rebuild it each year, and each family should do 3 free works for it, hence, it is still in good condition.

Go to Longji, you will feel you have gone into a world quite different from the modern city. It is full of history and a minority style that you won't forget.

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