Courtyard cellar

Courtyard cellar

Tianjingjiaoyuan is located in some villages of Shaanxi county, Hubin District of Sanmenxia City and Mianchi County in the west of Henan Province. Up to now, about one third of the people in Miaoshang village, Xizhang Town, Shaanxi county still live in this kind of cave dwelling.

Introduction to scenic spots

Cave dwelling is a kind of unique dwellings in the Loess Plateau, and it is also the witness of the development and evolution of human cave dwelling. The courtyard type cave, commonly known as "dikengyuan", is a square pit with a depth of 6 to 7 meters dug on the flat ground, and then 8 to 12 holes dug on the four walls of the pit to live in. Some kilns also have small Guai kilns for storing firewood, vegetables and other sundries to increase the use area. In the kiln, adobe is often used to build a fire Kang for people to rest. The exit is a ramp cut from the cave in the corner of the kiln yard, leading to the ground, which is a stepped passage for residents to enter and leave. A well is dug beside the passage for human and animal use. There is a sweet potato cellar 3 to 4 meters away from the wellhead, which can store sweet potatoes. Because the well water can maintain a certain temperature and humidity, the sweet potatoes are very fresh and durable. There are one or two seepage wells in the middle of the yard, which are the same as the depth of the kiln yard. The diameter is one meter, and the bottom layer is paved with slag about 50 cm, for storing rainwater. Courtyard kiln courtyard is generally a single courtyard, there are also two into the courtyard, three into the courtyard, that is, a number of courtyard joint. When you enter the village, you can only hear people talking and laughing, chickens crowing and dogs barking, but you can't see the houses in the village. This is the true portrayal of the village. Some people call it "underground Beijing Quadrangle". In the past, villagers attached great importance to the construction of kiln courtyard. Before the construction, they would ask Mr. Yin and yang to look at it. According to the terrain and area of the homestead, they decided to build that kind of courtyard according to the eight trigrams of the book of changes. Cave building has the characteristics of strong and durable, saving money, warm in winter and cool in summer, wind and sound insulation, earthquake resistance and earthquake resistance. The temperature in the kiln is above 10 ℃ in winter and about 20 ℃ in summer. People call it a "natural air-conditioning, constant temperature residence".

address

Sanmenxia City, Henan Province 472000

Address: Hubin District, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province

Longitude: 111.21236640296

Latitude: 34.613258748927