Summary of Traditional Dwellings and Climate in Inner Mongolia

Mongolian yurts are also called "felt bags". Mongolian traditional houses. Popular in pastoral areas such as Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A house with a round raised roof made of thick wool felt. There are two kinds: mobile and fixed. More mobile buildings are built in pastoral areas. Usually about 2.5 meters high and 4 meters in diameter. There is a round sky above the bag, which is ventilated with smoke. The door is small and faces south or southeast. It has the characteristics of simple manufacture, convenient handling, cold resistance and suitability for nomadism. It is a typical nomadic house in northern China, which can be demolished. It has the characteristics of simple manufacture, easy assembly and cold resistance.

Although this kind of building is only two or three stories high, it is not easy to "hang" on the water and hillside, like a castle in the air. There are feet in a building. The so-called "feet" are actually a few thick wooden stakes supporting the building. The diaojiao building, built near the water, has two long front "feet" sticking out and deeply inserted into the river, supporting the building together with the wall foundation on the other side of the river bank; On the mountainside, the first two "feet" of the diaojiao building stand firmly on the low side, supporting and balancing the building with the wall foundation on the other side. There are also some diaojiao buildings built on the flat ground, supported from the ground by several equal-length wooden stakes. Miao people's diaojiao buildings are generally built on slopes, divided into two or three floors. The top floor is very short, and only food can't live in people. Stack sundries downstairs or make a barn. Two floors without a top floor. Generally, bamboo paste is used as the wall, and the top is covered with grass. According to Hunan local chronicles, this structure of Diaojiaolou was originally designed to avoid the intrusion of poisonous snakes and beasts.