Why are there so many drying racks in the old community of Shanghai? Is this kind of clothes rack unique to Shanghai?

There are so many clothes hangers in the old residential area of Shanghai, which was inherited from the habit of penny drying clothes in the alley in 198s and 199s. Arrived and now the community has changed from the previous penny drying rack to the current gantry. But this kind of clothes rack is unique to Shanghai, because it brings great convenience to the people of Shanghai, so people like to hang clothes with gantry.

The climate in the south is humid, and the lanes are long and narrow, the living environment is very crowded, and the air humidity is very high, so drying clothes is a big problem, so people try to use long bamboo poles to develop space to dry clothes. In order to improve the city appearance of the citizens, Shanghai changed this bamboo pole clothes drying rack into a unified gantry, which is convenient for the citizens to dry clothes and will not affect the city appearance because of drying clothes. For Shanghainese, it is not really drying clothes if they are not completely exposed to the air and the sun. So when they are drying clothes, they usually put them on with bamboo poles, and then put the dressed bamboo poles on the gantry outside the balcony. In this way, after the clothes are put on by bamboo poles, the contact area between the clothes and the air is increased, so that the water on the clothes can evaporate quickly, the clothes will dry very quickly, and the bacteria can be killed. This is the gantry drying clothes in Shanghai.

Then why are Shanghainese so keen on drying clothes with a gantry? Besides drying clothes quickly and killing bacteria, it is also related to the wind in Shanghai. Once, a netizen just moved to Shanghai, and he was not very clear about the wind in Shanghai. He used our usual way to hang clothes directly on the clothes rack, and then put the clothes rack on the gantry to dry clothes, but when he came home from work to find clothes, he found that many clothes were missing. I went downstairs to look for a T-shirt, but I only found one. The aunt downstairs reminded him that the wind in Shanghai is very strong, and it must be spread with bamboo poles and then hung on the gantry, otherwise the clothes will still be blown away.