This book is one of the books from the ten-book series— Traditional Chinese Architectural Craftsmanship, it selects the Miao people's Stilted Buildings and tells about its history and distribution, the social and natural environment and their influences, its structure and function, its style, its bulding techniques, the material and tools used, its cultural and customs, its value, the current situation and the problems, its protection, etc. The style of architecture is intangible national cultural heritage.