Yi housing mostly for civil engineering structures, at the top of a double slope, covered with small pieces of wood, with rocks to suppress, commonly known as "tile board room." Interior takes place every three rooms, and dug a fireplace in the house. Around the corner fireplace planted three Shicheng Ding, set the pot on it, in Chinese known as "pot village." Pond lights the fire, both lesions, but also cold weather warm place. Guozhuang next to the seats covered with contempt, is the center of family activity, many Yi still stands tall housing one end of the construction of the towers, for beautiful, durable, the Yi people, a traditional architecture. In Yi's living room, boiler room and Yi Zhuang is the dividing line between culture and customs, the Yi Zhuang three pot into the room "in the United States" "sip-based," "Los sip" three large pieces. The "in the United States" in the fireplace by the parents bedroom place, "in the United States" is further divided into the "hot" "in the United States' two-bedroom," the fever "and father living room," where the United States "as the" mother room, "next" in the United States, "the room called the" Sea library "," sea library "generally" women's room ", if not married the son of the separation of the daughter on the set of the room. Base in the bottom of the fireplace sipping, women who cook or woman into the place to sit. "Sip Luo" in the top of the fireplace, which can be divided into "sip Sea", "sip & P" and several other parts, the guests into the reception guests a place to sit or。

　　 Many Yi son often set in the upstairs bedroom, peripheral shed in the house, the room for the guests. Yi is quite particular about the room on the customs, especially women's room is not offensive to the sacred land. Who's who enter the room, there are strict boundaries. Such as mother-in-law can not break into the room, father daughter can not break into the room, brother sister can not break into the room, not into mother's bedroom son, daughter-father can not break into the room, uncle, niece can not break into the room, Goddess nephew can not break into the room. The room etiquette and customs of the formation of the Yi people's morality, ethics.