Characteristics of Dai bamboo house

1. The shape of the Dai bamboo building is a dry fence building with a herringbone roof. Xishuangbanna has a tropical rainforest climate with abundant rainfall. The herringbone roof is convenient for drainage and will not cause water accumulation.

2. Dai's bamboo building is generally a two-story high-rise building. High-rise buildings are designed to prevent the ground from getting wet. The ground floor of the bamboo building is generally uninhabited and is a place for raising poultry.

3. Upstairs is where people live. This floor is the center of the whole bamboo building. The interior layout is very simple. It is generally divided into two parts: a hall and a bedroom. The hall is located at the entrance of the wooden ladder, which is relatively open. There is a big bamboo mat in the middle, which is a place to entertain visitors and discuss things. There are balconies and corridors outside the hall. In the corridor of the balcony, there are Dai people's favorite tools for drawing water, such as bamboo tubes and water tanks. Here, too.

There is a fire pit in the general hall, and a triangular bracket is placed on the fire pit to place cookers such as pots and kettles, which is the place for cooking. Walking from the main room is a bedroom separated by bamboo fences or wooden boards, and the bedroom floor is also covered with bamboo mats, which is a place for one big and one small to rest.

5. The whole bamboo building is spacious, with a lot of space and few obstructions. The ground floor is empty all around. Every morning, when cattle and horses come out of the barn, the feces will be removed, so that people living upstairs will not be smoked by foul gas. Dai bamboo building is well ventilated, warm in winter and cool in summer. It is very suitable for the humid and rainy climate in Banna.

6. The skeleton of the house is made of thick bamboo, the walls are made of bamboo strips, the floors are made of bamboo strips, or boards are used, and the roof is covered with grass. There are 24 main columns. Therefore, the material of the invention is simple and the construction is convenient and quick.

Extended data

The Dai people are located in the subtropical zone. The villages are all by the water of Pingba, on both sides of the river by the stream and around the lake and marsh. There must be Dai villages surrounded by bamboo and wood everywhere. There are two or three hundred families living in the big Dai stockade, and there are only ten or twenty families in the small Dai stockade. Houses are single buildings, surrounded by open spaces, and each family has its own yard.

There are many earth-walled bungalows in western Yunnan, each with three rooms, which are divided into bedroom and living room. This is obviously influenced by the Han people, and it is no longer an inherent form of the Dai people. The southern part of Yunnan is completely a bamboo building and wooden frame, with people living above and livestock living below, and the style is similar to a big tent. Toast nobles' houses are mostly made of wood rather than bamboo, and the style is still like a bamboo building, but slightly higher. Instead of thatched roofs, the roofs are covered with tiles.

Dai bamboo building is a kind of dry-column building, with bamboo as the main material, so it is called "bamboo building". Most Dai people live in Pingba area, where it doesn't snow all year round and there is plenty of rainfall. The annual average temperature is 265,438 0℃, regardless of the four seasons. This environment is very suitable for building bamboo houses.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Daizhulou