Chapter 29 Section 8 Stone House

my country's Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai and western Sichuan are rich in stone materials, and most of the local people use stone materials as the main building materials to build houses.Stone walls, flat roofs, small buildings with two to three floors, the ground floor is the livestock house, the second floor is the bedroom and kitchen, and the upper floor is the scripture hall.The better dwellings in the city are in the form of small enclosed courtyards, surrounded by two-story houses around a small central patio, with reception rooms, bedrooms and storerooms on the ground floor, and scripture halls on the second floor in addition to the reception rooms and bedrooms.Tibetan areas believe in Tibetan Buddhism and Lamaism, and almost every household recites scriptures and worships Buddha, so the scripture hall has become an indispensable part of the residence, and occupies an important position, and the interior decoration is also more particular.For the appearance of these Tibetan buildings, the lower part of the wall is made of rough stones. These rough stones are deep in color and rough in texture; Each window hole has a colorful cornice, which makes the overall shape neat and colorful, showing the rough and dignified style of Tibetan architecture (Figure 26).