By Xing Ruan
Bargains an architectural research of equipped varieties and development varieties of the minority teams in southern China and of the Dong nationality particularly.
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An opera performance attracts a mass gathering, which keeps Dong oral tradition alive. In the chapters that follow, the workings of architecture among the minority groups in southern China—in the case of the Dong the settlement pattern, public structures, and housing, as well as the transformation of their roles due to modernization—are framed in detail in a succession of movements between the analysis of the built habitat as spatial dispositions and that of their “social life” in the process of making and inhabiting.
In the Sui and Tang dynasties (581–907), the word Dong meant the administrative zone belonging to the local government Jimi Zhou. Since Chinese script is pictographic, however, the implication of such meanings is usually supported by the meaning of their radicals. After 1949, when the new Communist government produced its oYcial definition of minority nationalities, a new character, “侗,” was created. 4 The Dong call themselves Gaeml. Within the variety of local dialects they are also called Jaeml and Jeml.
4 The skyline dominated by the drum tower of Longtu village in the Congjiang region, Guizhou province. Source: Photograph by Xing Ruan, 1993. 5 The plan of Zhaoxin village in the Liping region, Guizhou province, showing the village built on flat land. The drawing also indicates that there are five drum towers and a number of wind-and-rain bridges scattered within the settlement. Source: Drawn by Xing Ruan. indd 44 10/2/06 12:54:19 PM Settlement Pattern A sketchy picture of Dong architectonics and settlement has been painted in Chapter 1 with a focus on the cultural activities that are staged by the built world.