The pit courtyard or sunken courtyard (地坑院dikengyuan), traditional Chinese courtyard on the Loess Plateau.
Cnetizen showing the interior of a dikengyuan—renovated for nowadays living (cr住在森林深处的小精灵)
This absolutely should have been a town in Avatar, almost certainly the Earth Kingdom.
@atlaculture
I agree!
Fun Fact: One of Mexico's historic Chinatowns, La Chinesca, used to have a labyrinth of subterranean businesses and homes, due to Mexico's scorching summers.
An underground world: Discover Mexico’s once largest Chinatown a century ago | South China Morning Post





















