Bamboo House is the traditional residence of which ethnic group in China

Bamboo House is the traditional residence of the Dai ethnic group in China.

Bamboo building, as the name suggests, is built with bamboo buildings, can be understood as, with bamboo as the main building materials, built for people to live in the life of the premises, a local residents, accustomed to using bamboo building premises, unlike other places usually use brick and tile building premises.

Determining factors: the local bamboo is particularly large, easy to pick and easy to buy, easy to process, and the cost is very low, otherwise we would not choose this material, the local temperature is not too low all year round, because the bamboo building will not be too insulated, if a certain period of time the temperature is too low, then, unsuitable for human habitation, the local rainfall is more than the ground is humid, the bamboo building is built on the upper and lower floors, the upper layer of human habitation, the lower floor The bamboo buildings were built with two floors, the upper floor for people to live on and the lower floor for raising livestock and stacking furniture, with a clear division of labor, each used in its own way.

Classification of Bamboo Buildings

Government Bamboo Buildings: Government Bamboo Buildings: Government Bamboo Buildings are spacious and tall, square, with triangular conical roofs, quite similar to the Western "Gothic" architecture, with wooden pieces of the roof. The whole building is supported by twenty to twenty-four thick wooden pillars, which are built on stone piers, and some of the beams are carved with patterns in the shape of ù or bow, which is the result of the influence of Buddhist culture, especially the Maenam Temple and the pavilion have such concave patterns. Inside the house, the beams are pierced through the pillars and the structure is simple.

People's bamboo buildings: people's bamboo buildings and official bamboo buildings, only more narrow, thatched roof, wooden columns are not allowed to use the stone pier foot, also not allowed to use beams through the columns, are not allowed to carve patterns. Why do Dai people love to live in bamboo buildings do not want to live in the cottage? Yuan dynasty Li Jing in the "Yunnan Zhiliu" has made a reply, the book said: "gold teeth Baiyi ...... wind soil under the wet on the hot, more than up bamboo buildings, living on the river, a day ten bath."