There are bamboo buildings with strong national style, and the materials are mostly bamboo. Bamboo building is ventilated, cool and moisture-proof, which is very suitable for living in hot and rainy climate. The bamboo building is covered with bright yellow bamboo mats, including bamboo stools, bamboo chopsticks tables, bamboo barrels, bamboo lunch boxes, bamboo washbasins, bamboo bowls, bamboo spoons and bamboo spinning wheels. Bamboo utensils abound, small and exquisite, antique. Bamboo weaving is a characteristic art of Dai people.
A bamboo building in the shape of Kongmingmao, with beams and columns made of dragon bamboo; The floor and fence are made of bamboo; Stairs are made of Dendrocalamus microphylla.
If you visit the Dai family, the host will first invite you to sit on a bamboo chair, fill a small bamboo tube with fragrant roasted tea and put it on the bamboo table for you to taste.
When you eat, you will see rice in bamboo baskets and pipes, and you will eat with bamboo chopsticks. Maybe you will meet a hospitable host and cook a "bamboo rice" for you.
In the evening, if you spend the night at Dai's house, the host must make you lie on the bamboo couch. At this time, the dragon and bamboo outside the bamboo building are swaying in the wind, making a slow-paced banging sound, which makes you fall asleep gradually.
The Dai people are closely related to bamboo. The Dai people not only grow and love bamboo, but also cannot do without it. Bamboo weaving is a unique folk handicraft of Dai nationality with a long history. Dai bamboo weaving not only has unique raw materials, but also has a group of skilled craftsmen. They inherited the traditional folk bamboo weaving technology and combined it with foreign bamboo weaving technology to compile many unique bamboo weaving appliances.
These bamboo handicrafts include: flat handkerchiefs, fish cages, dining tables, coffee tables, laundry lists and more than 30 varieties.
Dai bamboo weaving handicraft is an excellent art with excellent materials, ingenious conception and rigorous technology. In particular, the "Pingpa" tied to the waist of the Dai compatriots is beautiful in shape and small and exquisite, which is an essential boutique in the daily life of the Dai people.
Dai bamboo weaving has strong national characteristics, which fully demonstrates the wisdom and artistic talent of the Dai people.