What is the connection between the Dai traditional inhabitants and the local natural environment?

The Dai settlement mainly belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, the climate is humid and hot, and the local residents live in bamboo buildings ventilated on all sides

The Dai Residence - Characteristics

In the Dai area, which is characterized by large climate changes, fewer flat dams and more mountainous terrain, and living in the foothills of the mountains, the Dai Residence is replaced by the thick and sturdy flat-topped earth palms houses. The earth palm house is an earth and wood structure, generally two floors, the first floor to live, the second floor of the pile of food and sundries, livestock separate pens. Earthen walls have two layers, up to three feet thick, to prevent heat and cold play a unique effect. The earth and wood rammed flat roof is five to ten inches thick, so you can cool off on the flat roof on summer nights, and then turn the grains on the top during the fall harvest, making effective use of the space.

Buddhist temple architecture is a major feature of the Dai regional architecture of the belief in Buddhism of the Hinayana, with floor to ceiling heavy eaves multi-slope flat tile building. It consists of a main hall, a monk's house and a drum room, and the central Buddhist temple plus a preceptor's hall, a scripture collection building and a pagoda. The appearance of the main hall is generally a single-eaved or heavy eaves hysterical roof, or overhanging mountain-style roof, multi-angle or Yazhong heavy eaves hysterical roof. Slope for one or two falls after two or upper middle and lower three layers of single-side slope or three-side slope, five-side slope, the number of slopes and the level of the Buddhist temple related. The roof is divided into two sections or three sections or five sections according to the longitudinal direction, with the highest in the middle, so that the huge and majestic roof presents a beautiful undulating curve.

The Dai people live in a dry-rail type of building, usually with bamboo art as the material, timber for the frame, bamboo for purlin, puisne, floor, wall, ladder, railing, etc., each part of the connection with mortise and tenon and bamboo scissors tied to a single building, each family into its own courtyard, the mansion has a pathway to each other. The roofs of the houses are made of grass rows or hanging tiles. The bamboo building is one of the most important features of the Dai ancestors of the Baiyue ethnic group. The bamboo buildings of the Dai people have two major advantages: one is to prevent mosquitoes and insects, moisture and wild animals; the other is to build bamboo buildings with convenient materials, locally sourced materials, which is more economical and environmentally friendly. From ancient times to the present, the Dai people have been using the bamboo buildings as their traditional residence. A unique form of bamboo buildings hidden in the bamboo and banana forests, in that flowery Dai village, painted a mesmerizing scene.