Hundreds of families are connected to each other in this Chengzi village in Yunnan. The roof of your house and my courtyard are the original scenery of my hometown.

Chengzi Ancient Village, located in Yongning Township, Luxi County, was built on the mountain, and I couldn't help but be amazed when I saw it at first sight. There are more than 1,000 tuzhang houses in the whole village, which are connected to each other layer by layer. The houses are connected up and down, and left and right. Your roof and my courtyard are the biggest characteristics of Chengzi Ancient Village.

It is currently the largest Tuzhangfang building complex of the Yi nationality in Southwest China. It is known as the "living fossil" of Chinese residential buildings. It is amazing for its large scale and well-preserved condition. However, many people have never heard of this place. Compared with Dali and Lijiang, Chengzi Ancient Village is "raised in a boudoir that no one knows".

The modern reinforced concrete and the bustling buildings on the streets always make people feel lost for no reason, without the warm and friendly hometown flavor; if you are tired of seeing people in a hurry in the city and with indifferent expressions, you might as well go to Chengzi Ancient Village for a walk.

If you want to say what is the most special part of Chengzi Ancient Village, it must be the residential buildings. Chengzi Ancient Village is famous for its unique soil palm houses. The well-proportioned earth palm houses are built along the mountain, and the earth-built houses, with earth-like tones, are embedded on the mountain bag, so appropriate and pleasing to the eye.

Outside the village is a large field, winter and summer alternate, crops change, and the beauty is indeed enduring. The roads in the fields are full of wild flowers that still cannot be named. Although they are not the focus of attention of the villagers, they are still blooming vigorously and enjoying themselves.

According to legend, a long time ago, the ancestors of the Yi nationality chose this place to build 24 earth palm houses with the branches of a tree, settled here, and lived endlessly. Later, the Han people moved in, and during the Ming Dynasty, the Tuzhang House continued to expand, and the layout of the whole village was like a castle.

In many ancient towns and villages, the alleys are a very worthwhile place to visit, because in the alleys, you will meet the real life of the locals, and the alleys of Chengzi Ancient Village are no exception. Walking into the narrow stone-paved alleyway in the village, the footsteps naturally slowed down. Against the background of the loess walls covered with golden baguettes on both sides, the alleyway looks remote and quiet.

According to the size of the population, this kind of soil palm house can be large or small. The large ones have patios and courtyards, forming courtyards. The upstairs face is open. If it is a Tuzhangfang village built on the mountain, it is adjacent to each other and has layers of peaks. From a distance, it looks like a majestic five- or six-story building.

The Tuzhang houses in Chengzi Ancient Village have as many as 17 floors, and as few as 10 floors. The wall is built with adobe, and wood is laid horizontally on the wall, wooden sticks and thatch are densely paved, and then a layer of soil is spread, sprinkled with water, and then rammed with stones layer by layer to form a platform roof that does not leak rainwater. In this way, the drying yard was built into the Tuzhangfang.

The houses are built on the mountain, and go up layer by layer, forming a level of steps. Each house is connected up and down, left and right, and stacked on top of each other. The roof of the lower house is the courtyard of the upper house. patio. As long as you enter one, you can enter another from the platform until you pass through.

Young and middle-aged people working, groups of old people chatting leisurely, children chasing and playing, they can talk about homework anytime and anywhere, and the roof has replaced the road in the village. It is no exaggeration to say that the people in the village live a year 365 days on the roof.

The "Sister Wall" is the largest stone wall in the village, but if you look carefully, you will find that many walls in the village are built of stones. The shadows bonded by mortar are very closely connected, and they will not collapse for hundreds of years.

Autumn is the most beautiful season in Chengzi Ancient Village, when the harvest is abundant. Every family strings up the fruits and hangs them in front of and behind the house. Good colors, smoke curling up from the kitchen, smelling like chickens and dogs.

The villagers who have lived here for generations help each other and live in harmony like a family. The whole village helps each other in case of family problems, and gathers together for meals during festivals and festivals. The simple and friendly folk customs are a rare heritage here. This has to be changed in the city. If others pass through the house through their own roof, it should be too early to call the police.

Some people say that Chengzi Ancient Village is an out-of-print city, and people’s hearts are like an undefended village. No wonder the villagers have an inseparable love for Tuzhangfang from generation to generation. It conveys the ancient rhyme, with grand momentum and vitality, I feel the taste of life... If you are tired, come to Chengzi Ancient Village.