Dry-fence buildings characterize Dai dwellings. The bamboo buildings of the Dai around Xishuangbanna and Ruili in Dehong have a unique style. The building is nearly square, up and down two floors, the upper floor of the people, about 7 feet from the ground, the lower floor without walls, used to raise livestock and stacked goods, the top of the double sloping, more covered with woven "grass row".
Pick up the stairs, there are corridors, drying platform, you can dry things, cool. The Dai in most areas of Dehong live in cottages, dissected bamboo for the wall or adobe for the wall, covered with thatch, more for the courtyard.
Chuxiong Yi mountains in the Dai bamboo building, the roof is relatively wide and gentle, the main function is to ventilate the sun cool, rain secondary; housing overhead, people live upstairs, can avoid the ground hot summer heat and moisture, to prevent insects and vermin infestation;
Beams and columns inside and outside of the interspersed connection, all in one, very solid, can prevent the earthquake; downstairs only a few columns, in the case of river flooding, in general, can keep the bamboo building unscathed. In the Yi Shan Dai area, the bamboo building can be guaranteed to be safe. In the Yishan Dai area, families have built bamboo buildings, and more for the Dai people's main residence.
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The Dai are the ethnic group that makes and uses the most black pottery. Xishuangbanna and Pu'er Zhenyuan are the main production areas of black pottery. Since black pottery has good air permeability, thus in the hot Dai countryside, long time using it to store water not only will not deteriorate, but also can keep the water cool feeling.
Another use is used as a water dripper to pray for good luck. There is usually a small hole at the foot of the pillar in the Dai temple, which is used for divination according to the situation of water dripping, and if there is any inauspiciousness, it is necessary to ask the Buddha to chant for the lifting of the scripture. The raw material of black pottery is a kind of black soil unique to the Dai countryside, after mixing with certain sand and dip soil composted through the pounding and smashing kneading and pressing system.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Dai People