Xizhou

Xizhou’s courtyard buildings combine screen walls, galleries and small light courts. Merchant-house histories and nearby village textile work reveal different forms of local material culture.

Bai architecture in Zhoucheng, photographed in 2007.

Xizhou

How Bai Courtyards Organize Everyday Life

Xizhou’s courtyard houses use wings, screen walls and small light courts to shape movement, shade and shared domestic space.

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Bai tie-dye in the Dali region; the display at Xixiufang is in Xizhou and the second dyeing view is identified as Dali town.

Zhoucheng and Xizhou: Two Views of Local Bai Culture

Zhoucheng’s tied cloth and Xizhou’s painted courtyards belong to connected places. Looking at their different materials makes local cultural history more precise.

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Market Streets and Courtyard Forms in Xizhou

Sifang Street and Xizhou’s courtyard compounds connect a town’s caravan trade with the spaces of household life.

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Photo credits and rights

Bai architecture in Zhoucheng, photographed in 2007.G41rn8 · 2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
Bai tie-dye in the Dali region; the display at Xixiufang is in Xizhou and the second dyeing view is identified as Dali town.Richard Weil · 2008-09-24 04:58:14 · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
The townscape of Xizhou, Dali.Luca Casartelli · 15 August 2015, 14:21:23 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.