The stilted houses of Tujia people have different ethnic characteristics. They are built by mountains and rivers in accordance with the situation, and their unique stilted houses show more ethnic customs. It integrates architecture, sculpture and painting, and is an outstanding representative of Tujia architecture with the following characteristics:

Chic form and style give a person a kind of extremely strong aesthetic feeling. Stilted buildings, as aesthetic objects of architecture, not only reflect the aesthetic personality of general art, but also have unique formal beauty and colorful aesthetic personality. The shapes of Gongtan Tujia stilted buildings are diverse, including single hanging, double hanging, two-storey hanging and other forms. Thousands of stilted buildings are different from each other and compete with each other. Because of the different internal space treatment of stilted buildings, almost all stilted buildings of the same type have their own characteristics, unique style and unique advantages.

The flowing visual effects give people a romantic mood. The winding ups and downs of the mountain often make people appreciate the artistic conception of "there is no road after heavy mountains and rivers, and the flowers are bright and the village is bright", so as to obtain the changing visual effect, which is similar to the method of "borrowing scenery" in Chinese garden architecture.

A simple example of the combination of architectural technology and artistic beauty. It is mainly reflected in practicality, regional and technical aspects. In terms of practicality, Tujia stilted buildings, as a symbol of national material culture, not only fully meet the needs of people's material and cultural life, but also meet the needs of people's spiritual and cultural life; From the regional point of view, the Tujia stilted house always embellishes the natural environment beauty with its unique and beautiful form and artistic characteristics, which not only plays the role of finishing point, but also sublimates the scenery of the whole Tujia Shanzhai to the realm of beauty by setting off, setting off and taking care of each other. Tujia diaojiao building digg wooden buildings in our country, in the technical, the well type, ChuanDouShi lifting beam, etc., and with a beautiful, strong, practical at an organic whole, the whole frame, all are connected by tenon wear bases, without pin bolt, and from the conception, design to the completion of every working procedure, no drawings, its form and hundreds of pillar of melon liang fang length and the size of the open frame for the part of the tenon, As well as the complex mechanical estimation and other data, are confident, show the unearthed craftsmen exquisite construction technology and ingenuity of the creative spirit, to achieve the effective combination of technical performance and aesthetic performance. Because of this, the position of Tujia stilted buildings in the national form of Chinese architecture is worth looking at with new eyes.