[Explanation] With the Hainan tropical rainforest and the traditional settlements of the Li nationality being included in the preliminary list of world heritage, the villages and traditional houses of the Li nationality are attracting more attention.

Recently, the reporter walked into Baicha Village, Jiangbian Township, Dongfang City, Hainan Province, to visit the "living fossil" of the traditional Li nationality dwelling - the boat-shaped house.

  [Explanation] Walking into Baicha Village, which is covered with coconut groves, the low houses covered with thatch are like inverted boats, conveying an ancient atmosphere.

The boat-shaped house is the oldest dwelling of the Li nationality.

The reporter saw that the boat-shaped house in Baicha Village is shaped like a boat awning.

  [Explanation] Baicha Village is currently the best-preserved and largest Li traditional village in China. There are 81 Li boat-shaped houses and 6 barns.

In 2008, the craftsmanship of Li boat-shaped houses was listed as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects.

In 2012, Baicha Old Village was listed as a traditional ancient village in China.

  [Explanation] Today, due to the renovation of private houses, the villagers who originally lived in the traditional boat-shaped houses of the Li nationality have been relocated to Baichaxin Village as a whole.

The old village has been plagued by "hollowing" for many years, and the lack of popularity has led to the risk of rotting and dilapidated houses.

  [Concurrent] Chen Rongchuan, curator of Dongfang City Cultural Center, Hainan Province

  This boat-shaped house should be someone living in it. With the smoke and smoke of the fireworks, it is good for the continuous preservation of the boat-shaped house, not after the smoked and roasted without fireworks, as long as it encounters wind and rain, it is this thatch. The house will have thatch moldy, easy to rot (rot), and the walls will be damp and (easy) to fall off.

  [Explanation] Chen Rongchuan said that the boat-shaped house of the Li nationality carries the architectural wisdom of the ancestors of the Li nationality, and also represents the spiritual home of the residents of the Li nationality for generations. It has profound cultural and historical value and needs to be well preserved.

  [Concurrent] Chen Rongchuan, curator of Dongfang City Cultural Center, Hainan Province

  One that embodies this architectural wisdom of our Li residents.

Second, it is also a function of embodying the imprints and symbols of our Li people's life.

In fact, these things exist for our compatriots of the Li nationality. When they come back here after a few years, they will have a way of saying to see what kind of environment our ancestors lived in before, and he will easily find the kind of The feeling of a spiritual home, so this is the fundamental reason why we want to save this boat house.

  [Explanation] In this regard, the local government and relevant departments have repeatedly invested funds for the repair and protection of Baicha Village.

  [Same period] Fu Dayin, the inheritor of the boat-shaped house construction skills of the Li nationality in Dongfang City

  When (I) was in my teens, I started to understand how to build this boat-shaped house, that is, (using) these rattan and thatch (making raw materials), I learned from the older generation, and now I am the inheritor.

If no one passes it on, all these skills will be lost.

  [Explanation] Baicha Village, known as "the last spiritual home of the Li nationality", has long attracted painters, photographers, experts and scholars, and tourists from all over the country to visit.

  [Concurrent] Tourist Li Hong

  These ancient villages in China are very distinctive and need our next generation to maintain, protect and inherit them.

  [Explanation] The local government plans to introduce cultural tourism companies in the next step to create a cultural tourism business card with the characteristics of the Li nationality in accordance with the principle of "development in protection and protection in development".

  Reporter Huang Yilin Shijie Hainan Oriental reports

Responsible editor: [Ye Pan]