gānlán
Nota de aplicación
Ganlan is a type of wooden or bamboo building raised above the ground on piles. The first known occurrence of the term is in the >Liao zhuan 獠傳 (Biography of Liao) in the Wei shu (Book of Wei) (Wei 1974, 2248). In this text, the term ganlan was considered to be a transliteration of a Southern Man (Nanman 南蠻) term for a house into Chinese characters. The house type was characterized by an elevated platform (Dai 1948, 7).