Abstract:Based on the results of Field Work, this paper discusses in detail the 10 existing “Pai Lou”, or “Pai Lou”, in the villages and towns of the Tongdao Dong Autonomous County of Dong people in the Qing Dynasty. First of all, according to the craftsmen to its construction and appearance of the image of the expression, clarify its Han, Dong language appellation. According to its construction logic, the three assembly sequences of “Dougong” and its mortise-and-tenon method, as well as the three organization modes of the plane layer and the resultant lapping relations between the components and the side columns or high arches are summarized. On the basis of summarizing the practice of Dougong in Tongdao county during the Qing Dynasty, this paper discusses the changes of Dougong in the contemporary construction simplification and standardization of components, and the problems of contemporary inheritance of the traditional practice.