The Nung and Tu Si houses with traditional baked clay roof tiles
These wood-frame houses have become very rare.
The roof tiles are made of clay, baked at high temperature in wood
kilns buried in the ground. After 5 days of baking, the still hot tiles
are sprinkled with water. Those that do not break will protect the
houses for a century at least. This technique, known as "rakou" tends
to disappear because the hundreds of kilos of wood necessary to bake
the tiles are hard to find. King Hoang A Tuong's palace in
Bac Ha is
covered in traditional clay tiles. Some can still be seen in the north
of the Muong Khuong, Si Ma Cai and Bac Ha districts.
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Some vestiges of colonial architecture (01/15/2008)
The rotproof wood Hmong houses (01/15/2008)
See also
The Tay stilt houses(01/15/2008)
