Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Bamboo House is the traditional residence of which nationality in China?

Bamboo House is the traditional residence of which nationality in China?

Bamboo House is a traditional residence of Dai people in China.

Dai bamboo building is a typical Dai building. The lower floor is about seven or eight feet high, and you can see everything in all directions. Cattle and horses are tied to posts. There is a terrace on the upper floor near the ladder, which becomes a long big room, separated from the master bedroom by a bamboo fence as an important place to store money; The rest is a large bay with a low roof, sloping sides, eaves, floors and generally no windows.

If the eaves are slightly higher, there are small windows on both sides and doors at the back. In the center of the building is a fire pit that burns day and night. The roof is covered with thatch and the floors of beams, columns, doors and windows are all made of bamboo.

Bamboo is abundant in Dai area, and many houses are built with bamboo, with thick bamboo as the skeleton, bamboo strips as the wall, bamboo strips as the floor, and wood and grass as the roof, with a total of 24 main columns.

Bamboo architectural features:

The bamboo building of the Dai nationality is empty on all sides. Every morning, when cattle and horses are out of the barn, remove the feces, so that people living upstairs will not be smoked by wisdom. Dai bamboo building is well ventilated, warm in winter and cool in summer. The furniture at home is very simple, and most of it is made of bamboo. All the tables, chairs, beds, boxes, cages and baskets are made of bamboo.

Every family has simple quilts and tents, and occasionally there are blankets, lead iron and other utensils imported from Myanmar. Only one set of farm tools and pot knives is used, and there are few redundancies. Pottery utensils are also very common, and the patterns of water tanks are all local. Dai bamboo houses are mostly 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 hidden in the shade.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dailou