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What climate does Dai bamboo house in Xishuangbanna adapt to?

Dai bamboo building in Xishuangbanna adapts to (hot and humid) climate.

Xishuangbanna, located in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, belongs to the north tropical climate type (tropical monsoon climate), and the seasonal climate characteristics of dry (hot) and wet (rainy) in a year are obvious. Living in this climatic environment, the Dai people conform to nature and adapt to the environment, stand by and live by the mountain, choose water, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and build a dry-column building-bamboo building that adapts to the environment.

Dai's bamboo building is a high-rise building with two floors. The ground floor of the bamboo building is generally used for stacking sundries and stocking livestock, and the upper floor is a place for people to live. The place where people live is spacious, with large space, few obstructions and excellent ventilation conditions. It has effectively played the role of heat insulation, ventilation, sunshade, moisture prevention, flood control and prevention of the invasion of wild animals and pests, and at the same time effectively avoided the hot, humid and sunny tropical climate, which is very suitable for the humid and rainy climate conditions in Xishuangbanna.