Dai traditional religious architecture

The relationship between Dai architectural form and local environment: Dai architects learn from nature, blend in with nature, conform to nature and express nature.

Dai people have lived for generations, and the beautiful roof is legendary as "Zhuge Liang's hat". Dai bamboo houses are dam-shaped. Because of the hot and humid weather, most bamboo houses are surrounded by mountains and waters. Outside the village, banyan trees cover the sky and the air roots hang low; There are rows of bamboo buildings in the village, surrounded by bamboo fences and shaded by trees; Manwell field Village and Ganlan Dam in Jinghong County are the standard types of Dai bamboo buildings in the dam area.

In the Dai areas where the climate changes greatly, the flat dams are few and there are many mountains, and they live by the mountains and rivers, and they are replaced by thick and solid flat-topped earth palm houses. Earth account room is a civil structure, generally two floors. People live on the first floor, food and sundries are piled up on the second floor, and livestock are built separately. The earth wall has two layers and is three feet thick, which plays a unique role in preventing heat, cooling, cold and keeping warm.

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Dai bamboo houses in Xishuangbanna and Dehong Ruili have unique styles. The building is nearly square, with two floors. People live on the upper floor, about 7 feet from the ground, and there is no wall on the lower floor, which is used for raising livestock and stacking things. The top is double oblique and covered with woven "grass rafts".

Climb the stairs, there is a corridor, there is a drying platform, you can dry things, you can also enjoy the cool. Dai people in most areas of Dehong live in bungalows, with bamboo as the wall or adobe as the wall, covered with thatch and mostly quadrangles.

Different from folk houses, Dai Buddhist temples have a lot of decorations on roofs, walls, beams and columns. Decorative materials are extremely diverse, including tiles, iron, glass and various paints. Decoration methods include component decoration and color painting decoration.

Temples and pagodas are the cohesion centers of villages, which are often arranged on the high slopes of villages or at the main entrance of stockades, and some are arranged in the central and western parts of villages. Most Buddhist temples are built by folk craftsmen, so Buddhist temples have the beauty of simplicity.

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