What is the function of Dai bamboo building?

The main functions of Dai bamboo building are as follows:

1. There is no fence on the ground floor of the bamboo building, which is used for raising livestock and stacking sundries.

There is a hall and a bedroom upstairs. The hall is equipped with a fire pit, which is a place to make tea and get together with family.

There is an open front porch and terrace outside the upper floor of the bamboo building. The front porch is a place for daily work, eating, resting and receiving guests. The terrace is the place where the owner washes his hands, dries clothes, dries crops and stores water tanks.

4. The Dai people live in concentrated rainfall all year round, with frequent floods, overhead downstairs and many gaps in bamboo strips on the walls, which is conducive to flood passage.

Dai people live in tropical and subtropical areas, where plants and animals are abundant and poisonous. Ganlan Bamboo House can separate the residence from the ground and avoid the invasion of poisonous insects and beasts.

Extended data

Dai bamboo building is a kind of dry-column building, with bamboo as the main material, so it is called "bamboo building". Dai bamboo building is a typical Dai building.

The bamboo floor is about seven or eight feet high and there is no fence. Cattle and horses are tied to posts. There is a terrace upstairs near the ladder, which has become a long big room. The master bedroom is separated by a bamboo fence as an important place to store money, and the rest are large rooms. 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. Buildings are extremely easy, but they are also prone to decay and need maintenance after the rainy season every year.

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Baidu Bai ke Dai Zhu Lou