(yáo dòng) - cave dwelling, yaodong (a home dug into a loess hillside) in Mandarin

yáodòng

Traditional: 窯洞

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Translation

cave dwelling, yaodong (a home dug into a loess hillside)

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陕shǎn。

Many people in northern Shaanxi used to live in cave dwellings.

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Cave homes are warm in winter and not hot in summer.

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Red paper-cuts decorate the windows of Grandma's cave home.

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Some cave dwellings have now become guesthouses.

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This cave home is a hundred years old.

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