Ordinary pens cover an area of 8 mu, 10 mu, and large pens cover an area of more than 30 mu. It often takes 5 years, 65,438+00 years or even longer to build a complete enclosure house.
The overall layout of the enclosure is a big circle, and in the overall shape, the enclosure is a Taiji diagram.
Regardless of the size of the enclosure, the first half is a half moon lake and the second half is a half moon building. The joint of the two halves is separated by a rectangular open space, which is compacted and paved with concrete. It is called "Peace" or "Tang Di", and it is a place for residents to exercise or dry their clothes.
At the junction of "Heping" and the pond, a high or low stone wall is built with lime and pebbles. The short one is called "Wall Ridge" and the tall one is called "Zhao Qiang". Half Moon Lake is mainly used for stocking fish and shrimp, watering vegetable fields, storing water for drought prevention and fire prevention. It is not only a natural fertilizer warehouse, but also a natural sewage purification pool.
There are three halls in the gate, the upper hall, the middle hall and the lower hall. The left and right compartments are divided into two compartments or four compartments, commonly known as horizontal compartments, which extend backward. At both ends of the left and right horizontal rooms, houses with walls are built to surround the main room. There are more than a dozen small halls and twenty halls, and the middle one is called "Dragon Hall", hence the name "Dragon Surrounding Room". There are generally only one or two dragon circles in the small dragon circle, and there are four or five or even six dragon circles in the big dragon circle. There is a six-circle dragon circle in Wuluo, Hualuodun, Xingning.
Opposite the Dragon Hall is the ancestral hall in Shangtang, which is a storage hall for public goods. There is a half-moon space between the enclosure and the purlin, which is called "flower head" or "melting tire" The "tire-melting" slope is used for planting flowers and trees or paving with gravel and pebbles, rather than paving with stones or concrete, which means that the dragon god is not blocked but turned into a tire, and it is a land of feng shui.
Between the main house and the tires, a deep ditch is opened as the boundary between the enclosed house and the main house, which is mainly used to facilitate drainage and prevent the main house from getting wet. On the central axis are the upper, middle and lower halls, facing the central axis gate. Shangtang is mainly a place of worship; The nave is a place for discussion and banquet; The next hall is the seats for musicians and bearers in wedding and funeral etiquette.
The left and right halls between Shangtang and nave, and between nave and Xiatang are the North-South Hall, also known as the "cross-hall", which is the public reception room. The rooms on both sides of the upper, middle and lower halls side by side are the main rooms; The rooms on both sides of nave and Xiasantang are the main rooms; The main room next to nave and Xiatang houses is a flower house, where children of this ethnic group study, with small patios, rockeries, flower beds and so on.