Ancient skill of cooling warehouses in Datang village (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)


by Tom Ber • www.tomber.de, May 26, 2009 | Destinations: China
Schlachttag (Datang, Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Schlachttag (Datang, Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Schlachttag (Datang, Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)
Drying the crop (Datang, Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)
The village of Datang and its special  storage houses (Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)
The water-cooled warehouses of Datang (Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

A smart technique is used to cool the warehouses in Datang village (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province). They are build on stilts above little artifical lakes to utilize the principle of evaporation chill. Besides this, it is difficult for rodents to enter the warehouse...:)

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