What is the role of bamboo in Xishuangbanna, A Dai Township?
Xishuangbanna is a place with extremely rich products and beautiful scenery. There are ingenious Dai people living there, and there are exquisite and unique bamboo houses and green bamboo forests. Bamboo is not only decorated with green mountains and green waters in Xishuangbanna, Dai township, but also has many uses! \x0d\ In rainy and humid summer and autumn, fresh and tender bamboo shoots have mushroomed, which is the best delicious vegetable for the Dai people. Hemp bamboo, sweet bamboo and wild dragon bamboo, fresh fried, delicious and sweet; Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys edulis and Phyllostachys pubescens. People make these bamboo shoots into shredded bamboo shoots, sour bamboo shoots and sour bamboo shoots to cook fish. Listening to this name is already very attractive! \x0d\ Dai people can't eat without bamboo. They put glutinous rice in a bamboo tube and soak it in water! One hour, plug the nozzle with bamboo leaves, and then put the bamboo tube into the ashes. After a certain period of time, split the bamboo tube. The glutinous rice wrapped in white bamboo chips is rich in aroma, soft and delicious. \x0d\ What can bamboo do? Don't forget the Dai bamboo house. Paya Sammuti is an ancestor in Dai mythology. Dai people say that the bamboo house is the house where Paya Samuti lives. The two-story bamboo building can prevent the invasion of moisture and wild animals. Large bamboos, such as Dragon Bamboo and Dragon Bamboo, are all good materials for building bamboo buildings. During the festival, Dai people will put on fire lanterns at night, which are woven from soaked bamboo and diabolo and buried on the ground, giving off a "spark" of strong flame. They are also made of big bamboo tubes filled with gunpowder. \x0d\ Yunnan is a place where good tea is produced. In Xishuangbanna, people dried the newly picked tea leaves, blocked the nozzle with bamboo leaves, left them upside down for two or three months, and then split the bamboo tube. Tea becomes a tube, which is the top grade of Dai tea-bamboo tube tea.