What are the architectural features of Dai bamboo building?

1. The whole building structure of the traditional Dai bamboo house is made of bamboo, the walls are also made of bamboo sticks (thin bamboo chips), and the roof is covered with straw, so the overall weight of the bamboo house is very light.

2. The houses built on the column underframe are called dry column buildings, which have a history of more than 6,543,800 years. Nowadays, bamboo buildings are mostly made of wood as column beams, and two-story buildings are built with local materials.

3. On the ground floor of Dai bamboo building, there are only pillars supporting houses, and the space formed can be used for raising livestock and stacking sundries. The upper floor is the space where people live, which is divided into four parts: front porch, hall, bedroom and balcony.

There is no courtyard in this small building, which occupies a small area, but it has a large usable area. In addition, the cost of local materials is low, and the building itself has good water permeability, which conforms to the local climate and topography. Therefore, this ancient residential form of more than 654.38 million years ago has been preserved to this day.

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Taboo of Dai bamboo building;

1, Dai people believe in Buddhism, and there are many superstitions and taboos. Almost every village has Buddhist temples. It is stipulated that bamboo buildings are not allowed to be built on the opposite and side of Buddhist temples; The height of the bamboo building shall not exceed the countertop of the Buddhist temple.

2. Due to the economic gap, the villagers made many regulations about building bamboo buildings. For example, the houses of working people cannot be built with bamboo buildings, and carving and decoration are not allowed. Without three porches, even the stairs are not allowed to be divided into two sections. The pillars upstairs and downstairs can't be made of a long piece of wood.

Chinese national geography-Dai Bamboo House